Last year I got sick and had to take time off work (like a week). During this time Bitcoin was hitting 20k and such, so I finally told myself:

Wow crypto is finally happening.

While I was sick I researched crypto all day everyday. I even gave myself a migraine and had to sit in a pitch black room for 12 hours at the end of the week.

Google sent me to Steemit several times. I saw the payouts and thought it was really weird that these unprofessional blog posts were somehow being paid money. I had no idea Steem was even a blockchain.

I think one day I saw "Steem" in Coinmarketcap and I was like.... WHHHAAAATTTTT? How did I miss this?

A cryptocurrency that explains cryptocurrency?! How meta.

I was hooked.

It's been a year and I probably have around 1000 hours of research under my belt now. Not too shabby.