Earlier last year (shortly before BTC broke $1 USD I believe) an online friend told me about it. I thought the mining concept sounded pretty interesting and I had a powerful ATI GPU so I decided to dive in. While I only came out somewhere around breaking even from the bubble, I did come away with some pretty nice hardware which I use for smaller LAN parties with friends too.

I've been lurking here so long that when I finally went to make an account so I could post a reply to something, I was confused when I couldn't find the option to actually post. lol