How has Crypto and Blockchain impacted my personal finances.

My story started in a basement in 2013. It's almost a cliche for the internet. Only instead of a pimple faced teenager i was a 40ish year old man living in his aunts basement.

After a screwed up marriage followed by a failed romance - it was either a basement or a tent.

I was in a state of depression and bouncing around between odd labor jobs and sellin vacuum cleaners door-to-door ( i actually did fairly well for a bit - but that's a whole story of it's own)

I was lucky enough to have some tech skills and did some freelance programming here and there (mostly data mining)

I stumbled into this 'bitcoin' thing and found some faucet sites - you fill out a captcha and get a little bit of bitcoin / ethereum / doge.

I had just found a couple cheap used servers on craigslist and managed to make a working machine from 2 - woot woot - go good ol 32 bit windows server.

I think gpu mining was taking over and cpu mining was coming to an end - but i had to work with what i had - i think i mined like .11 btc over a month or 2.

Then 1 day i got a phone call - my son had been hit by a car and was being transported to the hospital with major head trauma(1hr drive because it was too foggy for life-flight).

So here i was in Nebraska and the rest of the family was in Washington - and i had no money to get to them.

The evil sister-in-law ran a go fund me and kept the $1600 (i think she was in texas - and not a lot of laws about how illegal that shit should be)

Luckily the wife's ex-husband from 20 years ago had more of a heart and bought me a ticket.

Well, I should shorten this up a bit here.

Skip a whole bunch of more horrible shit beyond our control. (If i wrote about most of this stuff you'd be here for days)

In 2016 / 2017 I was lucky enough to hit the faucets a little more and did a side job here and there for some magic internet beans.

I was playing with some little $10 and $20 trades here and there - and the markets just kept going up and up and you could buy just about anything and make a profit.

I was really lucky to get a couple ICO's that did ok - I was just immediately dumping and taking profits in $btc.

By this time I had dumped just about everything I had into $xrp - then BANG - my little $30 to $300 turned into $3000 and all time high it hit like $45k - talk about being on cloud 9.

I hurt my back soon after that and everything went to shit - I couldn't work as maintence man but the shitty apartments always had something broken and if i didn't stop everything my wifes bosses would have fired her 2 years sooner.

Right into more horrible shit - COVID hits, wife loses her job as apartment manager (because the slum lords wanted to hire someone else for cheaper).

We get 'asked to leave' from the managers apartment in the middle of a pandemic - we got lucky and scraped up enough money for a crappy 26' trailer and found some nice people to let us park on their property.

My sons GF magicly turns into the bitch from hell and kicks him out.

So we got 3 of us living in this tiny cold trailer with a leaky roof in Washington winter / rain season.

Basically for the last 3 years I haven't done shit really - between my wife who is disabled and me who is disabled - i can't believe we were able to last as long as we did really.

Now i get to start from square zero for like the 100th time again.

It will work out OK - I have some $hive that i make penny post on here and there - and I got some $leo that I make penny post on here and there - and I got an $800 deck on splinterlands LOL

I figure we can tough out this homeless trailer shit for a little longer - maybe 2021 will be the year everything takes off again.

My wife got us approved for some housing help and next week we get to go check on some apartments - it would be nice to be able to sit down and think and write code again - it's just too hard when you're totally mentally drained all the time.

So Happy Turkey Day from us in the states - and just keep plugging away at whatever it is your doing - things will work themselves out ;)

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