I Knew about bitcoin since 2009 or so, but thought it was mostly a another internet fad.
During the first year of the pandemic I got into "crypto" and build a small eth mining rig. I didn't fully understand why it was so profitable, so I went in search of answers online.
In every eth forum I participated there was this unwritten rule that you should not listen to the "bitcoin maximalists". Since I'm very curious I thought why not and went after those maximalists. In a mater of weeks I was orange pilled and sold my eth mining rig while GPU prices were still insanely high and bought btc. Haven't looked back since.
Yeah, one of my blackpilling of shitcoins experiences was being trolled by the infamous berniesanders on Steem. I burned my keys and hilariously there was some 5000 euro worth of STEEM in it at the time. I was that pissed off... I shot myself in the foot.
That led me out towards the Cosmos eco and because of Go I landed in a bitcoin fork project called Parallelcoin, which gave me a huge opportunity to master programming the chain clients in Go and the best Go client being btcd of course. I did look at gocoin, but it was much more esoteric design.
Now I am working on replacing Tor as the go-to choice for anonymising Bitcoin traffic.
If I remember correctly this was on the r/ethermining reddit. Come to think of it, I'm kinda ashamed for even taking reddit seriously in the first place. :o
I got into bitcoin via the darkweb in 2013 but what orange pilled me was realising after 6 separate, independent shitcoin projects I worked in or volunteered for, every. last. one... cultish mentality, full of get rich quick, ponzi scammers.
The last one that took the cake was a Nexo related crypto lending platform for a loan shark company where the team lead refused to let me write a debugging framework for their testnet.
Right as I was having this issue with the contract celsius blew up.
I dunno if it's correct to say I was "orange pilled" because I always felt kinda excluded from contributing to Bitcoin but wanted to program these systems. These experiences blackpilled me on shitcoins and then I was there on Twitter, enjoyed the attitude of GFY in the bitcoin community, and I suppose that was my orange pill. Cory Klippsten in particular, I loved his take no prisoners approach.
Kinda funny now, Swan better do something about their connection to Prime Holdings or they are gonna lose their most loyal possible customer base.
Mine was a combination it was Andreas being my first touch point and my second was a job interview for a bitcoin exchange back in 2015 that's when I started falling down the rabbit hole, but it took me till 2019 before it really clicked for me and cleaned up my act
I started getting into Bitcoin in 2016 after joining a scam project. I lost some money but it never deterred me from learning more about the crypto space. It's a good thing I continued learning because this space changed my life for the better. I still haven't made it big but I'm hopeful my luck will improve, eventually.
A friend sent me some information about crypto with his opinion on BTC/ETH..I did not read at that time,
A few month later i bought some BTC/ETH cause of the hype....but i still not digged what it was,
A few month later i had time to watch/read on Crypto . I started to read/watch everything until i understood that i had to read/watch more on BTC, and only BTC.
And this is where everything started (read Mastering BTC, did a course only on BTC, start to be interested on Austrian economist, CypherPunk, AnarcoPunk.....)....
I think "Orange-Pilling" isn't something that happens to everyone that is now into Bitcoin.
I had always known about Bitcoin, but never cared for it's price / valuation, until it hit around $16k in 2020. I remember thinking.. What.. wait a minute... wasn't that like $200 just a few years ago?
Naturally, I had to do some research.. The rest is history. I guess I "orange-pilled" myself? Or you could say the news of the price jump helped orange pilled me?
Personally, I think it was just luck - being in the right place at the right time, and having an open mind helps.
First heard about it from WikiLeaks when they started accepting it, then heard about it from Max Keiser when he started talking about it, I watched his show cause I was into silver at the time. Also, my friend was buying E online with it.
I didn't buy any, thought it would be shut down. When it was still around in 2017, and going back up, I got into it then. If I could send myself in the past any message, it would be to buy Bitcoin earlier.
I keep going back and listening to their old podcasts, each time I realise there is some thing that I didn't fully grasp the depth of the first time round.
I binge watched every Andreas Antonopoulos video on YouTube in early 2019 when the price was around 3-4K, and I realized it was the opportunity of a lifetime at that price.
I'd already tried to invent Bitcoin in highschool and failed. When I found out about Bitcoin, my reaction was "Damn it, I should have thought of that!"
I'd say it was btc miami 21 Mr.G and also Toshimoto I was already into the numbers and everything bitcoin touches. Those 3 or 4 days out there everyone had awesome energy, and Toshi introducing me to the lightning network is what did it once I saw instant and final settlement I was hooked
btcdof course. I did look at gocoin, but it was much more esoteric design.