I read a book about Anonymous hacker group in 2016/2017 and it mentioned they got couple thousand BTC donated to them in 2013. Next touch was in summer 2017, when youtube recommended me a video. I started gobling up information. I did some school projects with cryptography before so hashing, cryptography, private/public keys - all these terms where easy to grasp for me.

Bitcoin ofc is much more than tech, which I only learned throughout years "drinking from a firehose" of information. I was reading white papers of every "interesting project", had coinbase, bittrex, binance accounts (all closed now). Started at "balanced portfolio" of 50% BTC, rest shitcoins. Now Im at 95% (fiat incl) BTC and happy I managed to dump my shitcoins at more or less break-even (some losses, some gains).

Started working out more, carnivory, improved my english greatly, now learned spanish, escaped from socialist EU, avoided being fucked by covid-hysteria. If not for bitcoin I would probably be without savings, double vaccinated and in debt now.

I stopped dreaming of a new car. Started freelance. Travelling solo.

Having rock-solid savings gives me huge deal of mental stability no matter what people or world around me does. Im deeply confident I can move my ass and all my wealth whenever, wherever. Im as optimistic about my future as Im pesimistic about the society as a whole.