My first touchpoint was a friend back around 2010, he was a network engineer at a server farm in San Jose, he told me people at his work were mining it on their laptops. I thought it sounded like a goofy computer nerd thing. He has a fancy google job now but im pretty sure he never actually bought any. My 2nd touchpoint was a different friend in 2013, dude fancied himself a kind of Hunter S Thompson drug collector. He was a Silk Road guy. Years later he actually got raided by the DEA. He never kept any of the bitcoin he used to buy drugs. Crazy