Late last year I was having my morning coffee and browsing the Internet when I stumbled over an article about the guy who remembered he had mined some bitcoins ages ago and bought an apartment with the profits. I think that must have been the second or third time I had heard of it because I later found some text files with links to Bitcoin related websites for further research, including a spreadsheet with some quick figures for what my profit would be if BTC went to $150 (lol) but I couldn't remember much more than that so this was the first time I had really looked into it.

I had some money set aside for an interesting speculative asset, and Bitcoin was utterly fascinating the more I read into it. In fact I think I lost an entire weekend reading every article I could find and watching every video on YouTube about cold storage and hot wallets I could find. I had trouble sleeping. The implications were (are) just too big. I'm totally hooked.