I'm not technical but like technology, was floating around Hacker News back in day. Watched early videos of what must have been CPU mining. Intrigued but couldn't understand what was going on. Ignore it.

Saw a tweet from software engineer I respected say 'don't buy bitcoin, it's going to boil the oceans!'. Scared of it.

Watched 2017 but didn't understand what was going on. Just remember telling my son while pointing to price chart 'if you see a market like this, this is a mania. Don't buy here.'

Laughed at bitconnect guy but didnt pay too much attention. Thought something is going on, have to keep an eye on it when cools off.

Started paying attention when noticed some talk on twitter about halvening. Curiosity got better of me and started reading. Bought some on Conbase to have skin in game. Keep reading.

Some point realise that whatever price we first buy at, that's our reference. So if price falls below, it seems cheap and people will likely buy more. This will repeat forever, there will always be buyer.

Received small inheritance, so went all in. Why not, didn't have that money yesterday. Now I was really invested.

Somehow found Marty and Odell podcasts. All signal.

Then came 2020 and my politics inverted and my inheritance was worth a bunch more. Now I wanted to learn everything I could about bitcoin because nothing else was making sense. Over course of year totally orange pilled.

Laugh all the way down from highs knowing I'm holding my own keys. No counterparty risk is just not priced in. Unbelievable.

Now I'm here in 2023 looking forward to our next halvening. Feeling blessed.

So, somehow always bitcoin-only.

Will say, once bought first sats on Bisq though, was totally hooked. Thats when whitepaper really clicked for me. Peer to peer, no middle man.

Privacy tools, open source software, peer to peer networks, this is the way. Now Nostr getting me pumped too. LFG!