Got too crazy between big players, now everything has to move rattle or roll to capture eyeballs, very tedious and expensive adding extra strain to small business.
Early days were fun, setting up laptop to 'mine' (when we still had electricity, reasonable internet connection), lost some, gained some, invested lost again, it was a great learning curve, things changed. Both guys I mentioned were on Steemit for a short period of time in the beginning.
Rinse, repeat carry on in life, I was one eager to see finance sector upgrade, not so sure anymore with the greed factor, big whales pushing folk out or simply having to watch your back all the time.