for me it wasn't the price chart or some podcast. it was watching my savings quietly lose buying power year over year while the number in the bank stayed basically the same. that slow leak bugged me way more than any crash ever did.
so I started embarrassingly small. a few sats a week, then a real stack, then my own keys. the moment it really landed was a lightning payment that settled before I could second guess it. nothing dramatic, just conviction that compounded over months.
curious what the trigger was for everyone else. a moment, a person, or a slow realization like mine
Wanting to support free speech alternatives to the Big Tech platforms.
That lead me into sites that used tokenized rewards models, which eventually landed me in the bitcoin-only space.