Nice read man. I tried brave rewards as well I started in November 8 but I only got like $0.43 as of the moment. $2.5 aint that bad man I wish I could earn the same.

The problem is as soon as you start telling most people about private keys, staking Crypto and the like you begin to get those funny looks.

This is true. People who have no idea or have some idea but haven't really tried crypto will probably have a hard time understanding things such as keys. First time I tried hive I was the same but just went with it.