Hi I'm Brian! It is 2:47 am in Arizona and I am super excited about this platform and want to thank the community and the developers for working on this.
My crypto journey started in 2013 when I first found out about Bitcoin. Somehow even though I have a love for computers I hadn't heard about Bitcoin before that. It was around August and it hadn't quite went totally super nova yet. I was doing my research and was looking into the mining aspect. I found that very fascinating. I started mining Quark on a couple laptops to learn about it. Quark shot into the stratosphere and the $40 worth that I mined became $750. I was like HELL YEAH! Boom-shakalacka!
I constantly was looking at the prices and researching more and more about the technology. I eventually went full force into GPU mining and was loving it for awhile.
Once the Scrypt ASICS entered the picture I jumped to mining Monero. I was one of the first Monero miners. Eventually the price sag on all crypto was like entering NUCLEAR WINTER.
I couldn't continue to run the equipment and eventually had to sell out of all the mining equipment which was very sad for me. I eventually got washed out of my remaining BTC and even though I knew eventually the halving would happen and crypto would eventually surge again I had too many other obligations to be invested. :-( It was terrible.
I even banned myself from looking at Coindesk and CoinTelegraph to avoid depression. I would allow myself to look at CoinMarketCap once a week.
THAT IS WHEN I SAW STEEM!
It was bypassing a MOON shot and heading straight for MARS!!!!!
I still feel that #Bitcoin and #Monero have big futures ahead but #Steem and #Steemit have brought back the excitement of crypto for me!
I just want to thank everyone who reads this post and as a community we can learn the technology together!