I begin my journey back to the UK RIGHT HERE!

Hello,

My name is Josh Igoe. Who are you?

I found cryptocurrencies while playing poker. Some other poker players (online poker players include some of the most interesting and intelligent people on earth) were talking about it and seemed like it was a good thing. It had all the properties of real money, without the downsides of government inflation or centralization (I'd mentioned my distrust of government earlier with their ability to ban, and overnight stop my ability to earn a living from, online poker). There was a problem with crypto for me though. I was broke. I had no money to invest. I started saving my paycheck and investing a little bit here and there in Bitcoin. Later on, a friend introduced me to altcoins. Altcoins? isn't that just copying? yeah, pretty much. Most altcoins are just clones with no innovation. Hence the nickname: shitcoins. However, some have truly interesting applications in the real world (STEEM being one of them). Some coins, like Ethereum, have added smart contracts, changed the way they work, and added new innovative ways of doing things which make them unique and appealing with more applications in the real world.

I've been buying crypto for about 1 year now. I started small, and my meager beginnings have been blessed so far with a good start and good timing; something which you can't beat: luck! Also, the facts are as of right now, the world economy is up shit creek. The central bankers (another good thing about crypto is that it is DE-centralized) have printed so much money Keynes would be proud, but apparently, the world owes trillions upon trillions of dollars, pounds, yen and euros to itself with no mathematically sound way of paying itself back. Sounds awesome. That's probably, therefore, the greatest thing about crypto: it can't be manipulated. It's not debt based. It is hyper-inflation proof by virtue of the fact it isn't controlled by some people in a little back room. There is the resilience it has built into it. It can't be tampered with by central bankers. It can't be printed. It is the future.

Anyway, that's my first little blog on here.

Thanks for reading.