I feel so far behind reading this. I am an accountant in the so-called real world but have not got a lot of finance experience. All of this market playing and conjecturing reminds me of the stock market and the people who play it. Not that there is anything wrong with that.

Assuming I figure out how to get any steemit money out of here (!) I plan to make small buys in a few of these alt coins and follow all of you smart people to see what happens. I can do the laddering trick without emotion I think. I've been learning from haejin (no at sign in self-protection) for months but it turns out he is controversial now lol.

I'm using @maarnio's daily crypto contests to try to get up to speed on alt-coins and I have learned they are very diverse! Today, I'm watching a movie on his daily post which is an interview with the guy who started ethereum.

This interview is worth watching for many reasons, including the set design and clothing choice. This guy is not wasting money on the finer things of life unless his crazy sweater came from a designer and just looks like a thrift store buy! I'm completely bemused about where he is sitting and wondering if the chair he sitting is on is going to collapse.

Once I got over the visual - his every sentence is a blast of info I could spend a lot of time to try to understand. I like his analogy of crypto to programming languages. The people who create them - create them. It is up to others to find the use for them.

But I'm really trying to keep focused and just keep posting :)

I came over to thank you for the referral to steemfollower. I had signed up long ago and never used it. Going over and figuring it out was my best move of the last days and I will write a post soon. What a great addition to my steemit time and I am very happy with the votes I'm getting and the choices of what I get to vote for. So far, I like it in every way.

Merry Christmas and here's to a wonderful 2018.