Everybody has a unique personal and financial situation. I have been in many of them. You seem like a good guy trying to do the right thing here, and you contribute to the best of your ability as do many people. I'd probably be better off leaving the money in BTC to be honest as a pure investment. But this is a little more than that. I like it here and I want to see it succeed, if I'm going to invest my time, I might as well invest some money too. One of the ways I am able to do that is buy some steem and power it up, and find ways to support hard working people like yourself and protect the reward pool. I fully acknowledge that this is a ultra-speculative investment and all the disclaimers that come with that.
I'm about to hit my target of about 50k, and after that I am probably done buying because I want to build other stuff in this ecosystem, unless it goes subpenny or something but I think it can recover. Then maybe instawhale!
That's crazy we joined on the same day! My account was dormant for a long while until I followed 
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