I bought my first bitcoin seven years ago, and I have been completely obsessed for at least five of those years. As I’m sure others can relate, I experienced annoyed glances and snide remarks from my wife about all the time I spent either on Stacker News, watching some podcast, or reading another bitcoin book. I would fight back by complaining about the television always being tuned to HGTV, Maine Cabin Masters, or King Of Queens reruns.

Then one day, everything changed. I was watching some What Is Money podcast when my wife looked up from her ipad. “Who’s that guy?”, she asked innocently. I told her he’s a bitcoin podcaster. She put down her ipad and started to pay attention. “Does he work out?”, she asked. Now how the hell am I supposed to know if Robert Breedlove works out? “It looks like he does”, I said. “Sure does”, she responded, staring at the screen and not even looking over at her old, fat husband. After the podcast was over, she wanted to watch another episode.

This went on for over a year, but now my wife is on her way to knowing more about bitcoin than me. She was a software engineer, so she already has a head start on me when it comes to the technical stuff. I’m taking her to her first meetup this weekend. Breedlove had better not be there.