Let me tell you a bit about myself and some of my lifestory. I first heard of Bitcoin around 2008 - 2009. A student colleague of mine said...hey check out this new coin...Bitcoin...I didn't think much of it...I opened the website...thought to myself...hey what is this bullshit...and left...I could have bought it at cents...how stupid I was.
A few years later I heard of Bitcoin again in the mainstream news...it had risen to 20$....I thought to myself "Should i buy or mine them" Me and a friend got together and decided to buy the mining gear of butterfly labs...Probably the worst investment I ever made...I should have just bought bitcoins back then. Most of you will know the story of what happened to BFL. I was there when Bitcoin went up to US$1216.73...and yet i didn't have many of them...maybe half a bitcoin...what a pity.
After that I moved into GPU mining to cut losses and mined all sorts of script coins...mostly DOGE and Solarcoins....after that...silence for a year...no crypto...I was fed up....I thought this is a gamble..stay away from it...until I heard about Ethereum by a friend....I had a look it and thought it might be a good project to invest in. I had a look at my online portfolios to see what have been left from my mining journey...I had a good bunch of Solar which I used to buy Ether on Kraken Exchange...Probably a good decision...At some point i saw that Ether price on Cryptsy was quite high, much higher compared to other exchanges...I thought that this might be a good arbitrage opportunity...Where was the catch???...well I only found out days later when I sold off my eth to btc and tried to withdraw my BTC...of course there were delays...At some point...the Cryptsy website shut down...I lost a good amount of ether back then..Furious about my loss I bought Ether again when I saw it rising...probably the best decision ever made to rebuy....and here i am almost 12 months later...with a good portfolio...I made good gains and have grown more mature in making investing decisions....I have made a lot of mistakes and lost a lot because I wanted a quick buck....I don't regret...you lose and win...you live and learn:) I might invest in Steem now..looks like a good investment. Ask me anything you want !!!! Maybe some of you can relate to my story.