We travelled a similar path. It was just before the Cyprus banking crisis that bitcoin came onto my radar screen. In fact I really heard about it from some mystic on a 2012 end of the world scenario website that a new currency and technology would come into being that would change the financial world forever. So when I began to study Satoshi's white paper on bitcoin it really rung a bell. Perhaps the blockchain and bitcoin were that new killer app on this innovative distributed, decentralized ledger blockchain. And now here we are with another exciting morph of the technology into the blockchain driven social media called Steemit!