I did NOT take any for the team.  I had been intending to look at bitcoin in October and November 2013, and I did NOT get around to it until mid to late November.  By the time I figured out how to invest and to get started, I went through Local Bitcoins for my first purchase.  I realized that prices had been going up, so I decided to invest $30k into bitcoin over the first 6 months, and to start out with a $1,500 purchase.  I had seen that bitcoin prices had gone up by 8x in the previous month and I had seen that BTC prices had gone up by more than 20x over the previous year, so I was fairly skeptical of its ability to continue to go up from $1200; however, I wanted to have a little bit of skin in the game, just in case BTC prices went up further.. which was NOT out of the question.  Accordingly, I figured that I could continue to study bitcoin while I had some skin in the game.