You ' re right , how could I forget . Something something dickbutt . <| sep |> neither does this sub as it seems to be drowning in people posting in bad faith , one of Jill ' s core principles was that elections need to be fair and accurate <| sep |> For me , it was a lucky coincidence . I sometimes have a quick look on tech related websites just to pass time . So one day I opened Slashdot and saw the headline saying something like the digital currency bitcoin reaches parity with dollar . Had no idea what it was . My first thought was that it was a currency of some MMORPG or something like that . Would have just scrolled past it , if it wasn ' t for the parity with dollar thing . Previously any online currency I had come in contact with was game money , and they would usually be estimated to be very cheap per unit . Hundreds to trillions of game units per dollar . That or they were artificially pegged to a real currency . The headline saying reaches parity told me it was worth less before , so I thought there must be something more than just someone setting an arbitrary price and it probably wouldn ' t have made it to Slashdot if that was the case I started reading about it , bought 5 bitcoins for $ 5 , read more , started to understand it , got obsessed . The rest is history .