I bought crypto and still own it, but over time I have come to the opinion that until stores and malls accept crypto, they will never grow betond being a commodity like gold. This is the highest price I've ever seen gold. That has me concerned of how volatile people's finances are. The cost of living was a huge amount cheaper when gold was 65 to 70% cheaper than now.

If bitcoin ever hits $400,000, I see implosion and collapse being imminent. Crypto will never be worthlesss, at least crypto that casual observers have heard of before, but there's no huge profit to be made from it without engaging in financial criminal activity.

So if you want to get into crypto, do definitely protect your identity at all cost before purchasing whichever currency, but also know for what principal you got it to it. If it is to get wealthy, you wasted your money. If it's to hold on to something of value that you can trade for if economy falls off, then that could prove to be a wise decision in the future.

There's more I could say, this might already be blah blah blah, but I hope that you understand my overall premise. I genuinelly don't now why individual stores don't accept crypto and then sell it almost in real time. If crypto stablized, a few people would take their pay in crypto instead of bank deposit, and just that would take money away from the elite global class if staff got paid in crypto to do their shopping.