First of all let me introduce myself, my name is Nick and I am 16 years old. I live in the US. I started this journey about three months ago and finished my miner a couple weeks ago. It all started with a youtube video I watched, I was super interested and got in deeper. Once you get in you can't get out. All of a sudden I bought into genesis mining and then the Ethereum boom hit. Now I am addicted. :)
I wanted to be a part of the Ethereum boom so I cashed my life savings and built a 4 gpu mining rig. I was very short on cash and just bought my last card to complete my miner last week. I mined Ethereum until the difficulty got too high and then I switched to ETC and then to DNR. Since I cannot directly buy cryptocurrency because of my age I had to improvise and build a miner. It has actually worked better then I thought it would.
Now it was summer, I had a lot of free time and I finally had some cryptocurrency so I started trading. After the whole ChainCoin mess I decided to join Suppoman's cryptocurrency group and that was a great thing for me. It taught me how to become a successful trader and I took to it well. Now I have been trading for the last month and I have already paid off my miner. That's the power of this industry, it makes and it breaks people.
I get fantastic grades in school and will be graduating in three years, I have no money for college right now.
There was a netflix documentary I watched called Banking On Bitcoin. Now that I think about that title I realize that it describes my situation perfectly. I truly am "Banking on Bitcoin". I just hope that I can make something of myself before this industry breaks me.
Wish me luck, Nick
Welcome Nick! We've all been touched by the cryptocurrency bug. I see this as the future of digital money and so much more. You got into this at a good time, with your whole life ahead of you. Stay positive, the best is yet to come!
Thank you. I totally agree, this has lots of potential.
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