This is great. No matter how it turns out, you've taken the bull by the horns, made the decision, acted boldly, and now own the decision. You will learn lots of good things either way if you don't get too affected by either success or failure and keep an open mind to learn as much as you can.

Your article makes me think I should check out Bitshares. I've been ignoring it up to this point.

Another coin you should take a look at is NEM. It's also a block chain that allows for other tokens to be issued on it, like Ecobit. I've owned it since the beginning and it's grown a lot. I do buy it here and there on dips, but would have a bit of concern about putting too much into it at this stage, so definitely do your homework on it, but I wouldn't want you to miss at least knowing about it.

But don't let me tell you what to do LOL :) Just passing along a tip.

Other coins: DNotes, Diamond. totally undervalued in my opinion. There are so many I don't even know about.