Great to read you could turn things around last year, and all worked out pretty well with your PC, and I suppose also with your medical and tax bills :)
You being in crypto since 2011, must have brought you great successes before the last boom with BTC values much lower in 2011 than in 2016? Sure, a tremendous boom happened in crypto earlier this year, but I also remembered back in 2013 when I was looking at BTC just before the jump from low to more than 1.200$, crypto was already in good shape and building value. Only at that time I didn't see that, and my mind wandered other directions, so I missed all of that and jumped on Steemit only early this year and than in crypto trading only a couple of months ago, just when the boom happened/finished. So, that is kinda bad luck! Hope all my time I now spending in cyrptospace will somehow returned to me in some way or form, as you said "You'll get what you deserve when you make the requisite sacrifices." My sacrifices are the reduction of me social life in the real world, and to be honest, a lower focus on other work to generate income to pay my bills. BUT, I'm loving it to be in cryptospace :)
I sold all my btc from 2011 for very little. One the biggest mistakes of my life! When I bought back in, it was after the mtgox collapse. So I got to sit thru the crypto dark ages, with no profits and a lot of gloom, until sometime last year!
It wasn’t all bad, though. I had fun trading the first big alt wave. Like a bunch of counterparty coins. Somehow, that path led me to Steemit this year.
Cryptospace is like a rollercoaster, at least that is how I experience it. And for those who like some adventure; Rollercoaster are great rides! :)
Always interesting how roads takes us, Steemit is my first ever experience with blogging, and almost the first ever experience with the cryptoworld and it got me hooked to understanding of this special world, how creating a digital community works and it got me even in trading. And I was so sceptic when I was told about Steemit last October, thinking it cannot be anything else than a scam. Therefor it took another 3 months before I even looked at Steemit...well, also found time since I started a vacation :)
I hope many of my friends take the same path. First, get into Steemit, then learn about crypto. Being able to trade and manage coins is such an important skill. It will be commonplace in the future.
You might be right! But it'll for sure take many years before the mass get into crypto. But only time will tell. By then I actually think the whole cryptospace became easier, similar to what people are used to today with the old financial world; Since when it doesnt get to that simplicity level, the mass will not adopt Crypto. Time will tell though :)
The big issue is securing private keys. Steemit has an amazing solution for that. I hope in the future I can (easily) select my own family members for account recovery.