How has your personal use of crypto evolved since you first bought? I only feel I really adopted crypto in the past 12 months despite being around for a while.

I've been around since about 2016 when my friend first mentioned Bitcoin to me. My younger brother was around for longer and bought a tonne of Doge when it became popular on 4Chan, but he never talked to me about crypto.

I've held Bitcoin in varying amounts since then, have been through a few exchange hacks, mining trojans and seed losses. But I'd say it's only been the last 24 months that I've really started to adopt crypto outside of speculative investment and that I've actually started learning the ecosystem.

I got my first cold storage around late 2017, but I was purely using CEXs for my transactions. I joined a couple of ICOs (the days of yeeting ETH into the void hoping to receive some Korean haircut token that your cousin said is going to 1 mil), but other than that it was just buy and ruin my relationships with my peers by getting them into crypto.

In 2020 I finally started using cryptocurrency in ways it was intended, I'd get coffees from my friends at work for NANO, and started selling steam cosmetics and stuff for ETH or LTC. I even accepted ETH for random shit I'd sell on Gumtree (like the Australian craigslist).

I used my first swap in 2021 after my first MOONs distribution (not understanding karma multipliers at all), but it wasn't until Reddit NFTs that I really consider myself having adopted crypto. This made me install metamask and learn how networks worked and how easy DEXes and swaps actually are. It's also been this year that I first began staking, and this week that I learned how to provide to liquidity pools thanks to Moons.

What's been your journey? What phase of this are you at, and what parts of the ecosystem that you enjoy have I not discovered yet?