That was a good result in the end. It can be helpful to have a email address that is likely to persist. I bought my own domain some years ago that should last plus I have Gmail as a backup. Google have shut down other services, but I'd hope they will keep that one. I do actually pay them something for storage.
At some point in the Hive fork my Steemit account got censored for criticising them. I was still able to get all my funds out and convert to $HIVE, so I did well from that. I just hope it will recover some of the former value.
I think everyone who has dabbled in crypto will have some stories to tell. I've invested some funds, but have not lost anything substantial yet.
I have a Gmail account too.
Why don't you tell your crypto story?
It would mostly be about joining this chain. I don't think I bought any crypto before that. I just played with some faucets, but those never pay much. I'm sure I posted about the fun of the fork.