Hello, everyone who might be coming here.
I liked cryptocurrencies from the early days of Bitcoin, I've read the whitepapers and even dug into some code, yet I never actually used them much.
Not long ago I found myself in need to accept payments in BTC, and convert them to fiat. Here in Russia it proved to be somewhat difficult. The spreads are high, the bots are thriving, and if one needs to actually pay the bills using BTC(or any other crypto), he is almost certain to lose a lot of original value in the process due to various exchange fees. I found some temporary solutions, but while looking for it, I end up in Monaco forum. I heard about the project around the time of it's ICO, but I didn't have any crypto on hand nor time to deal with it back then, so I was really surprised to find out token price didn't skyrocket(due to various delays and a bit disappointing asset contract state). While I didn't get a card, and can't hope to get it anywhere soon(Russia rollout doesn't even have approximate scheduled date yet), this time I had some crypto in my hands and it didn't took me long to buy some tokens.
As it turns out, the tokens/coins market is highly volatile, and while I was watching token price changes together with Monaco community, I couldn't help but make a few bets in the market. Due to my belief in the project, it wasn't hard, because I see the value in the tokens beyond current market price. The bets were right, so my amount of tokens grew a bit, without additional investments. I looked at crypto trading for some time already, but never actually tried it, yet here I was making bets on MCO/BTC pair.
In the same Monaco forum I met 
So, starting of December 1st, me and
We hope to report the progress daily, along with our experiences.
P.S.
Registering steemit account took longer than I expected, so this post is late.
P.P.S.
Due to my completely broken sleep cycle I currently struggle to be awake at 00:00 GMT, but I hope to fix it in a couple of days.