It's amazing to believe that my journey into cryptocurrency started just five years ago from this exact date. I had heard about it before, but like many people (then and now), I blew if off as something that wasn't for me or wasn't going to amount to anything.
Then at Thanksgiving dinner with 
Fast forward a week or so later and I had created a Coinbase account and started to purchase cryptocurrency of my very own. At the time, BTC was just about where it is now, so unit bias forced me to look at some of the smaller coins like ETH and LTC.
About another week later, I started poking around looking into that "STEEM" thing he had mentioned. I signed up to get an account, but when I didn't get a reply right away, I figured it was broken and gave up on it.
On Christmas Eve 2017, I spent some more time with my wife's cousin. We talked about crypto at length and he even gifted us our first BTC. I still hold that BTC in a cold wallet.
I asked him for some more info on that "STEEM" thing he was talking about before. I told him that I tried to signup, but I didn't get anything back. He said oh, no, you need to use our faucet. I will send you the address. You will even get some free powered up STEEM for using the faucet.
I was so intimidated at first.
He had explained STEEM as a place where high quality technical content was published and curated. While that may have originally been the case, by the time I joined, STEEM had devolved into the bidbot era and all kinds of content was getting astronomical rewards. Except for mine.
All of this to say, I wish I had asked/joined sooner, and I wish I hadn't have been so intimidated. My fears really ended up being to my disadvantage.
With the current bear market, I have been reflecting a lot on my time in crypto over the past five years. It's easy to point out all of the hits and misses you have had along the way. I'm still kicking myself for thinking $17 per token was way too expensive to buy BNB since it has just been $12 a week ago.
Looking at my bags right now, it's easy to highlight the things that I did wrong. The moves I should have made that I didn't, projects I stayed in way longer than necessary, gains I didn't take when I should have.
It's easy to look at my accounts and think about how royally I have screwed up on this journey.
Then I think about a year ago. That magical run where Hive hit over $3 and suddenly my account value was in the six figure range. I am quickly reminded that it only takes one token to turn things around. Once pump by the Koreans, one twist of fate, one token that you choose to have diamond hands with.
With all of the development that is happening with crypto right now and specifically Hive, it isn't hard to believe that $3 isn't that far away again. Even though we are sitting at $.35 right now, I feel like the distance from $.35 to $3 is much shorter than the distance between $.35 to $.15.
Think about that for a second. I know literally it doesn't make sense, but when you think about Hive and all there is to offer here, I think it will click for you.
It's quite fitting that my crypto journey started on Thanksgiving 2017. During this season where we find ourselves in humble reflection, I can't think of many things I am more thankful for than being involved in crypto.
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