You and me both, brother.
You win the FR-Innerweb award of the day. I have a couple friends brag about, a ton of people on line claiming they are killin it, I can't wrap my head around it and unless you can point me to some self paced training on it, it is right up their in wierdness as Trust the Plan/Q. Look I get it, it's a hedge against a fiat currency but it's a limited edition store of wealth and G-d forbid you loose your login key. I have enough troubles already with passwords.
You and me both, brother.
I'm not sure I worthy of that. I trade currency for a living by the way. Been stuck in a CADJPY trade all day and it ain't moving anywhere, have to wait until Tokyo wakes up. At least my occupation allows me to be on FR a lot.
When it comes to Bitcoin, I am semi knowledgeable technology-wise. I was in IT for 35 years and did some systems programming/security work. I am getting to know cryptocurrencies to trade - developing strategies and writing some robots to trade. They are different than normal fiat currencies and require a different strategy, but in the end it is just another financial instrument to trade. I do not view cryptocurrencies as a hedge against inflation or devalued dollar (and the USD is plenty devalued right now). Hard commodities provide that.