I asked my friends when they first heard about Bitcoin. They said 2008 or 2009. Sometimes I wonder if I hadn’t been so paranoid, maybe I would have mined Bitcoin early, when it was worthless, and would have become extraordinarily wealthy.
If you had heard about Bitcoin back in 2008-2009, you would have never gotten into it because back then nobody was talking about getting "wealthy" of it, instead it was only an experiment to create a system that helps people reach financial sovereignty. So it would have never interested you.