I knew you'd at least have more than STEEM to work with. I basically punted because I only had STEEM, and only because I'm here. That's pretty interesting that you still hold onto a coin even though you're glad you didn't get involved with it more. Cool that you did some mining, though.
I think you milked the prune juice bit quite well, both in the body of the post and in the disclaimer. Now, since you play a doctor on TV, I'm guessing you must be a bio-crypto doctor, so I would like to know just what the effects of prune juice are supposed to be on Bitcoin? Something supposed to get moving?
It's more that I'm glad that I didn't buy their ASIC miner. I would have taken a huge loss. If I had gotten a Bitmain miner, I could have made more money on it. However, it became too complicated, so I just bowed out. With the ASICs running it's not profitable to mine with GPU anymore.
I AM a bio-crypto doctor. It's a special school that you have to go to, but it's totally worth it because you get to wear special scrubs. And yes, the prune juice should get Bitcoin moving. :D
One day crypto will be easier to invest in and you won't have to have separate wallets for everything. When that happens, it will be much easier to get invested in many different coins without much trouble. I foresee being able to invest in crypto straight from your IRA if you want to. It will just take some time.
What's in the way of it being easier to do now? Regulations? Lack thereof? The fact it's all decentralized doing it's own thing? It's not globally accepted as currency, but rather an asset?
Okay, so Bitcoin is constipated. Got it.
It's still new. Everyone has their own protocols. Because they're different technologies, you can store your tokens from one in another's wallet. It's like trying to plug a micro-USB charger into an iPhone. It doesn't work. Eventually, hopefully they'll all switch to the crypto-equivalent of micro-USB so you can use one charger for anything. Although, that would decrease profitability for Apple. Or it would make it so you could easily get out of the lower-quality cryptos, so maybe they wouldn't want that.
There are probably other issues at work and I'm not claiming to be an expert on it. I have heard there are some solutions that allow you to hold multiple currencies in one spot, but I haven't used them. I'm still running the separate wallet deal. It's super fun to keep track of all those passwords. The joke is on them, I use the same password for all of them. abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890. No one will see that coming. ;) LOL
Bitcoin is backed up. It's a thing that has been a thing for quite a while. Transactions take a long time.