Howdy there, dear @barnesc2350 ! Nice to read about your experience, in a nutshell. I have been following crypto since 2010 but didn't start investing big-time until 2014 (Yep, the year ETH was born 🙃)... and that changed my life, for better 😎 (made big bucks, 90% of the times) as well as worse (I fell in hatred with the whole banking system, because of reasons outside the scope of this comment).
Anyways, I have been shying away from most ICOs until recently, as I put some extra 100 bucks in bitcoin growth fund (still not sure how legit it is) and then the Dimcoins... a few other hand-picked ICOs. I have done my research on DIMCOIN and even bought "a fair amount" of their tokens. I still kinda regret that I never collected NEMs (they were giving, and still are giving 10% extra I guess, if you buy using XEM). Please feel free to share more about your experience with Dimcoins, as that would truly give me more of a perspective. I guess, we all start as rookies somewhere. Oh by the way, when it comes to steemit, I am still fresher than the harvest 😉
And yea, by the way... I will be looking forward to more of your posts about ICOs, the good, the bad as well as the ugly ones. Have a great week ahead 👍