Personally, I came from a PM background so had a healthy hatred of that fiat trash already. I also had recently read Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, a monumental work of historical fiction that deals with the nature of money and cryptrography that I would strongly recommend hodlers to read. So my response to discovering Bitcoin was more like "OMFG... ... ...an IMPLEMENTATION!!!"
Personal favorite. Short and sweet.
http://www.electricinca.com/56/stephenson/simoleon.pdf“We’ve been doing E-money for e-ons, ever since automated-teller machines.” Joe says, with just the right edge of scorn. “Nowadays we can use it to go shopping in the Metaverse. But it’s still in U.S. dollars. Smart people are looking for something better.”