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My journey was almost the opposite of yours. I first heard of bitcoin back in 2011 or so when a coworker (at the company I worked in, not in crypto industry at all) was excited about it and wouldn't stop talking about it. I thought it was like a joke.

Years later in the 2017 bubble I took it a lot more seriously, but still not serious enough to put real money in it. I put a very small amount into it and also played with ethereum/solidity coding. I didn't find myself enjoying the coding part of it and I just left the scene after the bubble popped.

Come early 2021 I found the few hundred dollars I did put into btc/eth went up a very decent amount by then, and by this year the industry is a lot more mature and it doesn't feel like it was going to collapse any minute. I put in a lot more money into it (but still keeping it under 10% of my liquid assets) and feel pretty good about the diversity of my liquid investments (i.e. money outside of real estate). I don't think it's right to put 100% (or even 50%) of your money in crypto like the crypto-twitter or wsb crowd always do, but keeping a small percentage (under 10%) seems reasonable as a hedge for my own portfolio. Also I don't take the decentralization/untraceability of bitcoin/crypto very seriously. I just own my crypto through coinbase (a very centralized way to do so) which I'm sure is a disagreeable position for the real crypto proponents.