I only heard of bit coin due to a few friends on fb who live in the UK have mentioned it, when I was told about steemit here there was no mention of any type of coin base currency just that one could potentially make money from commenting as well as blogging/vlogging so it was a bit of a shock to see so many crypto outputs :) my problem now is finding somebody who I can understand (one who can dumb the info down some) and then follow.