Just curious, how long had you been in crypto/bitcoin before steem?
I actually saw Bitcoin when it was $0.005/coin but my family and I were poor. I thought "Damn this is a cool idea", yet I also thought it likely the government would intervene and kill it. So $20 would feed my family. Yes I am kicking myself.
I decided to try mining a couple of times off and on, but I was way too late to that game too so it wasn't worth it.
I actually have a friend @kaptainkrayola who makes steemshovel.com and he was talking to me about Ethereum Mining and telling me some places to go.
So I was working on setting up an ETH miner and had just setup my bittrex.com account and I happened to sort % growth column and STEEM was at the top at 120%.
I said what the hell is that? Wandered over to steemit, created an account, realized it was another bitcoin type situation. I could grasp the potential right away but I didn't grasp the potential of the blockchain and being able to build many things on top of it for about a week. I told @kaptainkrayola about it and he was into crypto and was kicking himself for not knowing about it before me. Pretty much got half the people on our little private slack to join up.
So I'd say I've never been very active in crypto other than as a lurker until Steem.