Back in November of 2017 I was looking for ways to hustle and earn some extra income. I did not have a lot of capital to put forward but I really wanted to find a way to start building passive income. I had heard of bitcoin and cryptocurrency but had not really dived into learning anything about it. I had the thought of at least looking into it and see if I could maybe mine some or something. I really had no idea what I was getting into then. The more I learned the more excited I got and my head was full of the possibilities for the future of the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency!

After scouring youTube, I started setting up NiceHash on two computers and began making small amount of BTC. It was not much but it lit a fire inside me that, has wavered here and there but, has not gone out. In my excitement I decided to try the dreaded ***Connect. I made a couple $100 loans and watched my payments come in. Then I put some money into cloud mining with Hashflare. And about this time I also put $30 in a site called Hexabot.

For a time, all was good. I was so optimistic. The money was flowing in, albeit a trickle flow. Then Hexabot went down and seemingly exit'ed. Was not to concerned as I had only put in $30 but it was a loss and I was disappointed. But then, NiceHash got hacked and luckily I only had $10 that I was not able to withdrawal and had to take a loss. It was Mid-December by this point, if I recall correctly, and the crypto market was beginning to dip. I started researching trading and technical analysis. I joined a Discord server and started learning from other and helping others learn.

Started trading on Binance and was doing okay for a while making some small gains. Then I got stuck in TRX as it topped off and ended up riding it down all the way thinking it was going to bounce. Then the but ***Connect shutdown happened. All I had put in there was now gone. I was going to hold and hope for something to happened but finally tried to send it to HitBTC. I attempted to trade my way out but that failed. So I just took the loss, sold at about $30 and put it into a mini cloud mining package on CCG Mining.

So all in all I've lost about 3/4th of my portfolio so far. It's hard not to be a little discouraged but being here on Steemit now, I am beginning to feel that excitement building again. Although writing this all out and processing through it right now is making me feel pretty heavy. But I know I just need to stick with it and keep fine tuning my plan.

So Now what?

Be Well,
Old Jobobo