Looking back on the last 5 years

As I'm cleaning out my garage today, I see all my crypto mining equipment sitting there, quiet (except the ones I have turned on for heat), collecting dust. It made me pause for a minute and think about my crypto journey over the last five years.

The wild day trading in 2020 & 2021, making and losing retirement level money in Safemoon, 10,000% staking returns on shit coins, nft mania, playing Pancake Protectors on Pancakeswap, expanding into mining and building & renovations to the garage. Making it a legit business so I could expense & capitalize stuff. Watching endless youtube videos on the best gpu builds. My first wooden gpu frame (still have it), buying the 12 bay octominers, buying bitcoin miners, upgrading my electrical panel to run them. Buying Kaspa miners (my by far largest crypto loss) And now… dusty used equipment that I've been meaning to clean up and sell for ages but never quite seem to have enough time to get around to doing.

Nowadays I have automatic dca set up for Bitcoin and Eth again. Lol, like the old days but a lot more convenient. (Who else remembers buying Bitcoin on Ebay way way way back? #regrets for losing that wallet key).

I look back at it, the hours spent, the interactions with the crytpo community, the profit (of course) , and I smile. It was a really good time in my life. Things change and times moves on, but that cycle will always have a special place in my heart.

All but one of my shitcoins are gone now (most gone to zero or lost on Tradeogre and Xeggex). Lol, the sole survivor shitcoin – TCG World. I checked in on their Telegram recently. Looks like their crypto based game is close the being a closed alpha? Beta? I'll give them this , they had a vision and are sticking with it. Maybe if I hold it for another 4 years I'll break even on it 😀

Did I get rich off crypto? Nope. It's going to sound super cliche, but the real reward was the journey and friends made along the way. (And yes, money, not "I'm rich" money, but "make life easier" money, you know what I mean).

No regrets, would do it all again in a heartbeat.