With Dan he really had me fooled or maybe he was legit. I go back and forth on it in my mind. Seemed like his dad and him were these Libertarian minded guys who were into tech and my dealings with him go way back to 2013. I mined Protoshares which then ultimately got converted into BitShares and I more looked at him as a guy on the forefront of blockchain governance and game theory and obviously seemed to understand cryptography enough to do these key paring structures.

The fallout with BitShares I never really blamed him for I guess I believed that he wanted to make a free speech social platform that was crypto based when STEEM really hit. When he left Steemit INC I still didn't fully blame him because I figured he saw the limitation with STEEM in the fact that it wasn't a smart contract platform and felt he had to use his implementation for a shot at being potentially #1 or at least overtaking Ethereum.

I still felt like they could have overtaken it with EOS if they would have allocated those resources to it but it ended up unfortunately being another money grab. I was lucky that in 2020 I saw the writing on the wall and when we went up in 2021 I rotated out of it primarily and jumped to DOT actually for a bit and that pumped and I rotated out of that into BNB and CAKE when the DeFi stuff really hit.

In some ways I'm overly invested mentally into crypto to not be a billionaire but maybe that keeps me hungry.

I still believe in the Ethos that it is true freedom and can help with freedom of speech, the unbanked, and all that.

Obviously all of us realize this at this point but the weird thing about it is we would all be stupid rich if we just would have never talked about crypto, not tried to mine, or be involved in other aspects of it, not got involved in the drama and just pounded out hours and just stacked BTC and maybe a couple other things.

Such a weird way for things to play out. It's like the iPhone 1 or the NES still being the most popular devices today.

Some of these chains have been punished for having better tech.