How did Bitcoin gain popularity?

So how did Bitcoin gain popularity?

[Hint: Sounds very similar to what is happening with Monero, History does not repeat itself but rhymes]

• The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) built the TOR network (1995 opened to the public in 2000). Well, Satoshi Nakamoto (maybe Nick Szabo?) made bitcoin and the white paper it is based on (2008).
• -This has created very difficult to regulate sites on the Deep Web. There are regular websites indexed by Google say, then there are unindexed, which would be the Deep Web.
• -The "dark net" will be the bottom of the black hole. Each request pulls from someone else on the TOR network. Created for spies and journalists because it is anonymous.
• -Present Dread Pirate Roberts (DPR), aka Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the Silk Road. He just graduated from Stanford and tried online book sales in Austin, Texas because he lived in Georgetown, Texas.
• -It lit the spark that gave Bitcoin everything it needed to succeed. Demand, publicity and value.
• -In 2010, the year before the Silk Road, BTC was $0.10/per person. In 2013. Silk Road was conquered (the first one). In that 3-year gap alone, the price rose to almost $1k/BTC. Today people brag about x10 multiplier gains, that's a x9k multiplier.
• -Govt. seized 173,991 bitcoins, which is $10.9 billion. Since then, they have taken over about 50 dark web markets. If they confiscate the same one every time, that makes $68.375 billion a year as of 2013 in confiscations alone
  (547 billion dollars).