Easy: I got the shit kicked out of me and had all my money stolen at a pivotal time in life. I was maybe 12 or 13. I had $300 saved up and it was my intention to use savings to get out of a shitty situation and make it to college.
Losing that money was a tough pill to swallow. Fast forward 20+ years and I read a slashdot article on Bitcoin. And then immediately I read the white paper, which is rather informal and easy to read compared to my undergrad training in astrophysics and math. I was running Bitcoin software within minutes. Only learned I had to select generate from a menu like a day or so later (the burden of being busy is that stupid things happen frequently). …