A friend told me about bitcointalk in year 2010, but I didn't join the forum ...
I got involved in several "Crypto" projects in 2018. It was when I joined the forum.
We may have the same experience and I have heard about bitcointalk and bitcoin itself though articles and websites but I didn't dig down deep to it. so maybe if I started earlier too then I might have invested something big here. Then a friend and a classmate of mine in 2016 finally discussed everything about it and I took a heads up to go in this forum.