I had a similar thing happen to me with Monero. I was mining hard back in 2014 and mined right under 1000 of them. I was forced to sell at $0.55 because of unforeseen circumstances. I was pretty much washed out of crypto and then when Steem surged last year I looked at it and saw I could earn blogging so I hit it pretty hard but I never got consistent payouts and I had spend so much time I needed the money. Unfortunately my expenses are really high over here but I almost have this property paid off but until it is paid off so much money goes towards it each month.