After reading your story, now i begin to think that all of us have the same story. Of course not 100% same but almost events are same. Like in my story i started mining (virtual) on websites but i never invested or used any of my money. Because i had this rule that, in online work, you must not give or spend money first. Always be professional. So i just spent my time on all the airdrops, mining apps, then i left it in 2018.
Hardly you can find anyone doing crypto that don't have a story to tell about his naivety start up with the currency maybe just a pretty small number would say they never had to blindly employ the wrongful route in their bid to invest in cryptocurrency due to their privilege of a guide from an already experienced entity. In your own case you didn't spend money in your bid, I could remember spending lots of cash from one virtual mining sites and platforms to another thinking it was going to fetch me returns after a stipulated number of weeks as given but it turned out all lies they were mainly virtual figures that were just reading. I lost both time and money.
But thanks to the BTT forum my enlightenment on crypto projects has been one I can't compare to sometime ago, and if it were today I won't have falling to such shits like I did.
haha, I really respect your words. i laughed because I just replied on a
topic in which OP asked us to share our review about this forum like how did it changes our views and make as more mature and knowledgeable about crypto. I thought your answer better suits there.
Because this forum also, (as I mentioned before) helped me to understand the basic structure of Crypto and new projects whether they are Defi, NFTs or metaverse, etc. my interest was built just because of this forum. Well, yeah I did not invest my money in such a virtual mining platform because I had this mindset that tell me.
Why invest money or give money first hand, while we can test things out? So, I still had doubts in my mind at that time, that these platforms might scam me. So, I should stick to only free resources. And in that journey. i only made a few cents $ just because of a browser that allow us to mine and was giving money too. But the money was lesser than my time and the cost I was bearing of the internet. So I left the whole crypto sphere in 2018.