Well, it really took me even longer. I was an active libertarian and first became exposed to pgp email encryption in the 1990's. I heard of bitcoin fairly early on through libertarian friends (maybe 2012 or 2013), but thought of it as a scam. I regret that, but you know the old saying: "You buy bitcoin at the price you deserve."

It's not a rare thing, it take a lot of will power and curiosity to start digging into deep topics like when you dig into bitcoin. It took me a while since my first bitcoin purchase to actually go down the rabbit hole and ask me "why bitcoin"