2008 gave me the understanding of business cycles. It cost me an arm and a leg. I profited from this knowledge five years later and was able to become income independent in 2017. I'm grateful for that lesson, even though the hardship could have been spared. Learning about #bitcoin came late for me, but when I first read about it, it immediately clicked. Ignoring bitcoin was easy for me because nobody told me about it, and I was focused on something else. Now I'm searching for that person who is like me, who is interested but lacks the source, of whom I've found many. I will keep searching.