Knew about Bitcoin since 2013 but in 2016 the government of India demonetized like 80% of the circulating currency with a intent to clear out the black economy [who knows!]. The next few weeks, indians stood in mile long queues around countries to exchange their own money for newly minted notes which were of higher denominations that could not be used due to non availability of change. It was a complete shitshow as even the credit card payments failed due to higher than usual usage.

While standing in those queues in the bank, the genius of satoshi offering us a bearer asset without trusted 3rd parties clicked . Never looked back since. Bought some initially on localbitcoins and then just started doing that every time the paycheque hit and also attended the meetups as the block wars were happening. Now Bitcoin is basically my savings account, a sovereign one too.