For me it was very similar, I remember my steemit wallet had gone from $500 to 10k in a couple of months, then I waited hoping for something crazy and everything went back down :). But at the time I was desperate, I didn't know what had happened, instead it was normal.

The speech on great empires is very interesting, I will go into it further, because it is very fascinating to me. Have a nice day ;). !PGM