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After a couple of "heavy" articles, today I wanted to address something a little lighter.

Although I bought my first fraction of bitcoin back in january 2017, I really became part of this "cryptoworld" around october when I started watching Coin Market Cap on a daily basis, opened accounts in a bunch of exchanges and actually bought my first altcoins.

Since then it has been a wild ride. At first I just wanted to keep my BTC and watch the price go up. Then, I realized that I could watch the price go up while also gain some additional BTC by trading.

So I started chasing pumps. I know, pretty bad idea. Actually I got really lucky and although I lost a couple of trades, after almost a month doing this I ended up gaining around 60% (in BTC). But I also realized how lucky I was and how one or two really bad moves could make me lose everything I gained and then some.

At this point, my curiosity helped me find some sources of knowledge and great information. Twitter (although full of misinformation, wannabes and fake "crypto gurus") became the best way for me to find valuable advice coming from some down to earth and totally unselfish people (I can recommend @venturecoinist, @cryptorand and of course @vincentbriatore).

I started "investing"on coins instead of just trading them (as of now I hold some ETH, EOS, BND and STRAT among others), opened an steemit account and invested some money on it and I'm currently thinking about (maybe) mining too.

So, I would really like to know how your experience has been

Any (good) advice will be welcome