How I got started with crypto's

Well I recall maybe Nov of 2011 or so I read an article on Bitcoin. At the time I had an XFX Radeon 5770 so my mining power would have been quite significant. I had downloaded the miner and tried to mine, but had not read all the details and just gave it up. Then a couple years went by and in June or July of 2013 I got back in it, I convinced my friend we could make some money. So as fools do we purchased some miners and mined coins, we looked at altcoins for the most value, especially new ones. Hot off the press, the pump and dump opportunity then the big bubble happened and we made a decent amount. We were hooked. I fell to some scam sites as I would say about 90% of Bitcoin users probably have had a few encounters such as this as well. I formed a plan and put it into action, unfortunately my base of customers I was aiming for was part of the same scam I was in, BTCLend. So I got a very slow start, we have hit a couple of bumps along the way, but we are still in operations however we have slowed down and stopped all new deposits until we can pay back who have invested so far. If the scam sites I have been a part of had taken this route they might have survived. Well thats all for now, I am a user, and provider of Bitcoin and Bitcoin type services and I am glad to be a part of this project.