For instance my first impression of bitcoin is that it is more about personal responsibility than anything else. If you loose your keys, you loose your coins and that feels different from banks. For those who have been in the game longer, what was your first impression when you realized how it actually works?
The first impression I learnt about Bitcoin decentralized nature is that, it support the statement "Be your own bank" that statement gives me the confidence that I am responsible for my actions in my own wallet, nobody is tracking my progress, no instructions is giving me the instructions how to spend my token, just me alone and my world, every positive and negative effects on my coin is caused by ne, no entity else.