Initially, I viewed Bitcoin as a toy or a way to gamble. It was only after 7 years of getting burnt shitcoining and deciding that "Bitcoin was dead" that I was shocked to see the price at $40k, and was forced to go down the rabbit hole.

For me, it was it was the quest for knowledge that finally let me understand Bitcoin. I didn't think I had a problem that it could solve until I did enough research to finally understand the problems with money in our society.

I cover much of this in detail in my orange-pill story "Paw Prints to the Time chain": https://bitcoinbarks.com/Barks/paw-prints-to-the-timechain/#wbb1

I also go deeper into the intersection of Bitcoin and Psychology in my article "Maslow's Apex": https://bitcoinbarks.com/Barks/maslows-apex/#wbb1