I started playing around with bitcoin pretty early, but not as early as I could have. I did some work online back in 2010/2011 for some people, and they proposed payment in bitcoin. I am not going to lie, but I thought they were trying to scam me by offering me a payment method no one knew about and very few people used. Had I been smarter back then, I would have had thousands of bitcoin to my name. Of course, there are no guarantees I wouldn't have sold some or most of them, but I still rejected the idea at the time. Thinking back now, those dudes were early adopters, and perhaps even miners.