Theycallmedan's How has Crypto and Blockchain Technology Impacted your Personal Finance?

@TheyCallMeDan is doing an initiative to teach Hivers about LeoFinance and get them involved in LEO. I only hold about 1200 LEO. To my dismay I left HIVE about 7 months ago and sold off about 500 LEO. I am slowly trying to build up my stack as we all have made mistakes with crypto before.

I see a bright future with the token because let's face it; there aren't a ton of projects built on HIVE that are golden tickets. Sure there are some great dAPPS and tribes, but we hopefully are slowly growing.

So the post is about: How has Crypto and Blockchain Technology Impacted your Personal Finance?

Crypto has always intrigued me as I went down the Rabbit hole in 2008. I starting learning about all the shenanigans on wall street; and how the "To Big To Fail" meant main-street is too small to help. Funny how I never learned anything about this in 'school'.

I learned about QE and the devaluation of money. I heavily bought into precious metals and started to learn a little bit more about Bitcoin. I had read somewhere how to download a wallet and I started playing those mine games to earn BTC. Clicking furiously, I worked my way up to about 0.5 BTC! I didn't know how to buy it, I didn't know about exchanges, or even how to sell it. Unfortunately my personal life took a dive and I got divorced. Life was pretty pathetic being alone back in my parents house. I had lost my home and my kids with bills I couldn't pay. With all the extra time I had, I took another gander to try to get one solid BTC Coin and BOOM. I lost it all (virtually). At least I didn't sell 100K BTC for pizzas. Yes.. complete physical and virtual loser.

Crypto still kept me intrigued. I recently had written how a youtuber brought me over to STEEM in May 2017. I began posting on Steem 4 times daily and collected enough dust votes to work myself up. I went from 500-1000 and 2000-3500. I didn't know about Discord; had I did I would have made a lot more connections and STEEM.

Having no money I did what any person would have done.. I sold in 2018. I left myself just a bit more of STEEM to get started again (after the bull market). Since I am garnished half my wages and endless court battles I did the only thing I could and that was to get some precious metals from a precious digital asset. I might not have been smart enough to buy BTC (because I had no cash), but at least I could transform it into some kind of wealth that wouldn't be confiscated again. I also wanted to see if I could actually gain in the physical world!

So here I am now on a breakaway chain called Hive. LEO, PAL, NEOXIAN etc.. they all popped up and helped me feel like I was earning something that was mine again. Perhaps I won't get rich or be able to stand on my own two feet from crypto; but at least blogging and earning something that is mine is somewhat empowering. Of course Covid has come around and it blunted my ability to even blog. Happily I got over that depressing hump and I'm back in it! So how has crypto and Blockchain Technology impacted my Personal Finance? Well for one it hasn't made me rich like some, but it has created invaluable roads to friendship, wisdom in finance, and perhaps some hard metals!

What can it do for me in the future? I have absolutely no idea. I just blog hoping for happier days for us all.

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