In December of 2015 I purchased our first $20 in Bitcoin (BTC). I bought Bitcoin and was hooked.

A Facebook friend from High School had been purchasing it for a few years. I’ll never know for sure how many or how much he had. He would post the benefits of Bitcoin to his Facebook Wall. Over the course of these years, it was spreading. I saw more friends from High School replying about their own cryptocurrency adventures. You could tell the exposure to Bitcoin was growing. At the time, my interest was because of the hype around the potential for huge investment gains. This is long before I began contemplating our journey to FIRE.