Stories we have to share... different paths. You did very well by Bitcoin.
It was maybe 5-6 years ago that my sister-in-law stood in our kitchen and said "You're into computers-- you know about this thing called Bitcoin? You can make money with your computer... seems like it could be a really big thing."
At the time, I didn't. But I dutifully went to Google and looked at it... seemed interesting and yet incredibly complicated with miners and hashes and ledgers and all kinds of stuff... and besides, I didn't have a couple of thousand spare $$$ lying around to buy (what seemed like) a couple of screaming gaming machines to run this stuff.
So, silly me, dismissed it in the "looks cool, requires a huge investment, might be cool and generate a few hundred dollars... not worth it." As I said, silly me.
But at least I am here now... "It's never too late to have a happy childhood."
I lost almost all of my early adoption advantage through some ramifications of the mt.gox fiasco. But I'm back.....and looking forward to some even more exiting times ahead!
These days, I'm trying to find "value" in a market that seems driven more by speculation and rumor than reality... keep looking at Bitshares and trying to figure out if there's some deeper reason it hasn't taken off; seems like it would be a good play, based on something real rather than just "it has the word blockchain in the white paper." Seems to me like a good place to park a few $$ as a long term play.
I am constantly adding to my position in bitshares. It is the Sleeping Giant, and the crypto world will tremble when it wakes :-)
Sounds right to me... think I'll start funneling part of my Steemit rewards in that direction, a bit at a time... besides, it also feels like a supportive vote for decentralized exchanges.