What actually got you into crypto in the first place

[Panther21]

Could be a specific article, a friend's recommendation, or just watching the price charts at the wrong or right moment. Share the origin story and whether your reasons for holding have changed since then.

[Erin82]

A friend sent me a Bitcoin whitepaper link years ago and said, basically, read this before buying anything. That was probably the best introduction I could have had because it made me curious about the underlying system before I started staring at prices.

The part that hooked me was the idea of a payment network that did not require a central operator to maintain the ledger. Whether someone ultimately agrees with the economic arguments or not, the technical design is interesting enough to study on its own. The price came later for me.