I am not a pro so don't expect 100% accurate info, Just trying to share my experience with Blockchain tech, when I first came across bitcoin, it was around 1k, it was on some options trading platform and I was shocked to see the percentage it grew so I tried to check out about bitcoin but nothing I could understand so I went back to trying to learn our normal tradindtional market and trying to learn technical indicators and how to trade, few other things which I never used or remember, so time went by and a few months later I came across bitcoin again it was 2k I was shocked because what I was learning was traditional currency pairs which were moving just 1 to 3% up and down, and bitcoin was going like 1000% plus, so I went back to check more details about bitcoin I could hardly understand anything it took a while few months to understand about the crypto ecosystem, I was trying all kinds of faucets, airdrops and mining lost lot with scam minning company but learn about wallets, trancation, blockchains and still trying to learn and understand since I was waste my time doing multiple things and i had no cash to invest in bitcoin and i was worried to invest when it was all time highs but again i had an idea bitcion 2k was also not in its high but for short time i might have not invested all my money on it, i was kind of sure i may lose money as newbie to the crypto market becuse of the volatility, new market, amauter/newbie, finance, stupidy bit of greed and emotions many reasons and i was losing in my currency pairs also mainly becuse trump and kim were playing hide and seek with bomb are some shit like that was happening, so the market was going down so i was scared to invest in bitcion so i was trying to find the next bitcion like coins and trying to accumalate some coins like ether, doge, litecion few others and in short span before i could accumalate more or decent amount, bitcion pumped to 20k and the coins went crazy high, ether went 1200$ i guess that time, so left the faucet and other things and tried to invest by borrowing money and that time ico were famous so invested in one ico which went 3x and i was happy that my first invest went from 20000rs went to 50plus but i fucked it up by trusting the company and thought it will go higher so waited for week it dumped 50% from its all time high then i wanted to trade some but i could spend for transactions fees and other transaction fee were are all high that time india did not have any exchange also i guess before i could with draw that company cions got hacked so they forked some other shit coin and the value went in minus with the left over money i tried mining and trading, and market was going red bitcoin went from 20k to 14k market was going red fast and lost what ever i had, and lost what ever i had and no matter what i invested and traded went in minus so left again i went back to my regular things like art and learning about 3d art apps like blender of the best tool for bd and much more for free. and a few other things and a few months later markets was swinging for some time and I got some confidence and borrowed and invested in multiple coins around $400$ I guess and came across a steam blog and started to using blockchain real use case compaines which had real transcations usecase tokens and games were emerging and on steam blockchain new game relesed called steemmonsters which is now called splinterlands, and i liked them from the start and i started from 10$ and strated investing more time and money not much compared to what i gained and i gave lot of time and it was one of the best investment on blockchain which had real use case for general public and the ecosystem was also built in such a way it was supposed to thrive with th ecosystem, the idea and team and hard work all wa just in goldie lock zone according to me and it was a start up new format in block chain, there were so many companies and i could not manage to invest nor i can invest in all the company so got stuck to steemmonster and steem platform had some change hive got forked out of steem i started using hive and splinterland regularly, and was learning more about blockchain and invested in gods unchained, very few time and money and that time it was new and nothing much to do, and came defi and staking lost lot on defi which was built on tron it was breeding ground for scammers, so only splinterland i was playing in blockchain, did not care about any other brands nor about the price, splinterland is being my regular income for sometime and god unchained also turned out good now i use gods and splinterland and once a while i check other game like star atlas and waiting for other game in future hopefully. simple logic is. invest in things which you use and general ppl can use, who are not a techie I meant by general ppl. so technically I have been in crypto for a decent time and have seen different kinds of cycles, scams, and trends, nothing can emotionally fool me like before so crypto is for a long time and try to see the cycle, don't try to ride the waves if your not a pro surfer or for easier example snake and ladder game you should very lucky to make money in the short term, you will not know which killers whales eats which one you, won't know. the power of cryptocurrencies is because of the tech blockchain, and the internet needs its own money because the internet is global and it needs its own currencies for global use and now it is web 3 I still don't know what it is in-depth but it means web 3 will give data back to the user who can be part of internet without 3rd party interference. in blockchain, there will be many trends and investment opportunities like now its NFTs and metaverse and games which has a lot of potential for general use and a lot of other things are also will be built and should be built like many FMCG also needed a code which you should scan which will provide its authenticity spl on cigarettes, liqueur or any other harmful products, just because its harmful products few ppl make even harmful, so many products should move to the blockchain, Nfts are now validating artists work the same way many products also should come on the blockchain. i still feel like amature in this ecosystem i was trying to understand crypto currencies they came up defi and before i could understand fully about defi so many other things are coming up, so understanding all basics is always better, i was always instersted in having my own trading platform and other useful things but i could not give my 100% only to blockchain ecosystem nor i can, spl for the mindset, situation iam in now, nothing i can manage alone cannot understand is internet is my extension or iam internets extension, i try to learn and understand other things also like blender, art, family, humans, and playing games, trying to stream games and trading when ever i feel 80% confidence i trade but still not learned, now if bitcoin goes to 10k also i will not be shcoked or worried nor i will stop using blockchain i even created my own coin on solana network so if any one have solana wallet addrs leave it in the comments will send you 1000 artcreator tokens, can keep it for fun sake may be after if i supply 1 mil il put up for tranding. so don't worry about the red if your long-term investors. many YouTubers use to tell, I never could keep up or invest in those projects or I might have made mils easily, but it's not the same for all so listen to pro-investor and educators who are in the market for long, like Ivan, datadash, suppoman, and many others, I don't follow many I am always in n out of one ecosystem so I don't know much about now, control emotions, follow the trend, and stay for long term. internet/blockchain does not have spacetime so the time in crypto will be more illusional than real and can make you delusional.