You definitely have a great understanding of crypto. The wife and have been invested since April and though we are still learning, we hold the most in Steemit. We too think it will grow and grow, along with a few other alt coins. Are you invested in any others?
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Thanks! I picked up LTC and ETH once it was offered on Coinbase beside BTC of course. The split of BTC gave me free BCH as well because I didn't hold my coins on an exchange. This is extremely important - never hold your coins on an exchange long term. If you don't have a 12 -24 word seed, then they aren't technically your coins and you can be goxxed (Google MtGox). If you hold bitcoin in November outside of an exchange, you will probably end up with another split coin (bitcoin gold).
The down side of holding Steem here seems to be that you aren't really holding your own coins. I haven't read the Steem white paper yet so I don't know for sure and I know of no hardware wallet that supports Steem as of yet. So while I have invested in Steem, I kind of regard it as a potential tax write off in the form of advertising revenue (that's the essence of Steem power). Whether the IRS will see it that way or not is uncertain. They're already far behind on understanding this tech and are making the mistake of equating change of address = transaction. Wallets can have over 2 billion addresses and all of them belong to the same individual and sometimes you have to change addresses because of forks like Segwit. The ethics of taxing a necessary change of address to the same individual is highly questionable.
I recommend a hardware wallet like Ledger S Nano or Trezor and if you can, memorize your seed. There will probably be a point when the governments of the world will attempt to confiscate crypto and if that happens, exchanges will go first. See Andreas Antonopoulos on this issue:
Zoidsoft - can you recommend a good solid book on cryptcurrency? You can figure I'm pretty technical, but need some orienting in order to think about investing.
http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1234000001802/ch01.html
Thanks Boss!