Funny post.  Yeah well I guess I fell for the crypto mining prompt and got a funny story instead.  But yeah I remember oh idk a year or so ago, maybe a couple, when I purchased two Radeon 7850's, and attached them to my Intel compatible motherboard, paired it with an Intel i3-2120 and a small amount of RAM and started creating batch files, lurked the forums and got myself up to 700+hps (Mhps?).   I ran it pretty much everyday for a good two months going between mining litecoin then switching to dogecoin where I got over a million coins.  Remember when everyone thought those dogecoins were the second coming of Bitcoin based on a single sale?  Yeah that was me.  I was so happy I got in on a good coin.  I jumped around basically daily to mine different cryptocurrencies seeing as this increased the chances of possibly hitting a good one that stuck.  These were the pump and dump days.  I had upwards of, and still do, around fifty or so wallets.  But none of those had what we have here in STEEMIT.  I the pain.  I try to post and wrestle with is this worth my time, is this going to pan out in a year or so?  But I do.  I do because this is a social network of well...us.  It is for those who can't catch the trending coin and transfer it to Bitcoin.  It's for those who purchased hard to find efficient GPU's and trying to keep them cool and quiet.  It is for those of us who know what this stuff even is.  What crypto means, if I even do...I'm not sure.  But this can, I believe, be somewhere that is unique for those who game on PC's, build PC's, know the intricacies of creating .bat's, try, fail and keep going because we deep down believe in a concept.  That countries currencies are debt notes.  That we are increasingly becoming P2P.  Realizing globalization is happening and are concerned that we may have no stability in dollars or Euro's or things that are not silver or gold, food or ammo.  It is paper and its unlimited.  Coins are not.  We can do what we want and the more we believe and convince one person to join we are creating our own destiny.  No currency exchanges.  Future proof encrypted and content rich.  This is us.  This is what we are aspiring to do.  To be.  To change the world one post and upvote at a time.  So despite the rough times at least we can come here and commiserate.  But let's do it everyday.  Buy coins when you can spare a few bucks.  Power up.  Don't dash to cash a couple dollars.  This is how we make it work.  Together.  Good laughs, making connections and bonds, giving poems, stories, commenting, being active...and yes, hating it the whole time.  But hey, at least we can hope together.