content: I bought 200 bucks of bitcoin in early 2012. I spent them on computer parts. Mouse, keyboard, and a good mouse pad. Had maybe 15-20 bucks of that left over. 200 bucks worked out to something like 42 BTC at the time, which 14 months later would have been ~$50,000 bucks. I spent nearly $45K potential value of bitcoin. On computer parts.  So after that, trying my hand at playing the stock market seemed pretty low-stress to me. It was a great learning experience.