There is no intrinsic value with crypto. That it has the illusion of being out of the governments reach, but nothing is really out of the government's reach. It appears now, that the government allowed it to flourish because they wanted the cover of crypto for their own nefarious reason, to launder their graft & corruption.
I do kind of regret not getting into the scam early though, but I would have gotten out of it when I had amassed my first 10s of millions, because I always felt it would end badly. Not knowing when that end would come, was probably the reason I never took the step to actually enter. My timing with investments has always been poorly timed, and it always seem to come when one of these great investments was nearing the peak of its ascent, and its descent was a quick one with no return to its peak. In other words, I always lost. 😋
I've never understood the concept of crypto mining. What does it produce? Even if I understood it, I wouldn't be able to mine squat on my 10 year old Mac Mini. I'd also be nervous as hell storing supposed substantial crypto purchases on the computer.
Giving someone you DO KNOW KNOW control over something YOU OWN and expecting them to take good care of it comes to a bad end.
Reminds me of the ads for ‘a CERTIFICATE’ for the GOLD you own.
A single gold bar can have 5,000 “CERTIFICATES” out in the wind. YOU ONLY OWN A SHEET OF PAPER-—about 1 cent worth of paper.