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This is my entry for the contest #leowritingcontest

Many know that depending on the country in which they are, there will be more or less alternatives to acquire certain items or services. For example, it is unlikely that you will find many places to buy a lunch or make the purchase of the month using digital currencies if the local government has strong restrictions against cryptocurrencies. On the contrary, if regulators have established slightly more flexible standards, there are greater possibilities of finding these places.

1. I use crypto in different spaces, they are much more versatile than many payment processors, for example with respect to paypal, it is very fast and commissions are low. The vast majority of wallets and exchanges that have wallets offer exchanges between users without commission, imagine that, here with each shipment between paypal users we pay a good% to the paypal owners.

2. I have a certain amount of crypto in my wallet to use as a means of payment, as another currency. I still have my first ethereum intact, I will exchange it for money only when I need it.

3. Supporting the previous point, because it is adapting as a means of payment on several websites and physical sites, in addition to that it can increase its value and earn a good part if I invest in cryptos.

4. I invested and I continue to invest in Stellar (XLM). This currency is backed by IBM and between these two organizations they have released a new service called: IBM World Wire. The truth is that I took it at a low price and I saw it approaching the dollar but I did not sell. Today it is worth more than when I bought it but it is very far from the dollar that one day it almost reached.

5. Participate in 3 ICO: Naga (NGC), Cashaa (CAS) and WePower (WPR) .All Ethereum Tokens and all three are worth less than the price I bought. But I have the positive story with Smartlands (SLT) that I saw it grow very positively since its inception.

6. I also have Raven (RVN) and Basic Attention Token (BAT), both cases the results are positive, but not spectacular. My gain has been that I have encouraged myself to participate even with little money and it has not gone wrong.

7. I have tried different exchange houses, purses, types of Cryptoactive, I have been wrong several times but I have succeeded some more.

8. A few days ago I used a small part of crypto that I earn in this space to exchange it for Fiat in localcryptos (for those who do not know the platform, it works in the same way as localbitcoins but unlike it also accepts etherum in its exchange)

I have invested and I still do it since 2017. I tell you that if it is profitable many people believe that Cryptocurrencies is not something big and they are actually in error. This market has huge opportunities, it cannot be that millions of people are wasting their time in this for nothing, don't you think? But it's like everything in life you need to learn in order to win.

In conclusion I can mention that among the gains and losses, coupled with the fact that I am not an investor of large amounts of money, I am far from being one of those cases of film success.