Very similar situation for me. I had a passing interest in Bitcoin for quite some time. I first heard about it when it was trading at 30 cents from a friend of mine (@libertyrocks) who was mining it in the early days using his PC. At the time I had $1500 in a brokerage account making at best 10-15% in the stock market. If I had invested all of that in BTC at 30 cents I would have had almost $100 million worth when it was at its $20k high. Like you, in late 2016 I finally decided to invest in crypto thanks to Steemit. I set up all my accounts to see if Steemit was a scam, so it was my gateway, literally. Half went into BTC and half went into Steem. It was only $300 total, so $150 in Steem. I got quite a healthy return on my BTC, even now with the pullback, but I pulled a horseshoe out of my ass and bought Steem when it was a around 10 cents, so the majority of my account value you see in my Steem Power is from that initial $150. The other bit of money I had moved out of BTC into BCH (lost my butt on that trade), then into Steem (made it back and then some), that's most of the remaining amount in my Steem wallet. I've just recently started putting money into other cryptos because of the recent pullback. I don't want to miss the boat this time. I think anyone investing now will do quite well in the next few years.