This is a question to people who at some point discovered Bitcoin, but only became Bitcoin enthusiasts later - what was your experience?
I'll start with my story - I have first learned about Bitcoin in 2012 when I was looking for payment options for one online deal. In the end I used some other payment options, and Bitcoin didn't catch my interest, although I did claim a 0.005 BTC faucet once.
Then in 2014 I have learned about Dogecoin, and I still have vague understanding of cryptocurrency, I traded my BTC for DOGE and even tried to mine DOGE on my GPU. Then I quickly forgot about crypto again.
After that Bitcoin caught my attention in 2016 and I finally became a bitcoiner.
Looking back at all this, I wonder why it took me so long to became more involved in Bitcoin. What if millions of other people know about Bitcoin, but don't consider it as payment option or investment or store of value - how can we catch their attention?
and this is my story, I first said the word bitcoin earlier in 2016 from someone who first learned bitcoin. and I at that time still lacked confidence in bitcoin, I assumed that bitcoin was like forex, and even worse I considered bitcoin to be a pyramid system because I had not yet studied deeply about bitcoin. but over time I was able to understand bitcoin correctly, because my friend never got bored giving me understanding. I myself realize that it took me a long time to get involved in bitcoin. but if it's now, I don't think it will take as long as before. for example, if you have succeeded because of bitcoin, maybe indirectly the people around you will be enthusiastic to understand everything about bitcoin because they would want to be like you too.