One Road Led To Steemit, the Other...?

Hi there Steemit - This is my first post here and I'd like to introduce myself:

1. I'm 37 and live in London. It snowed here yesterday so I attempted to snap the snow on my terrace...
   

2. I have worked in Banking Regulation for the past decade - I'm still working on my exit strategy and believe if I invest smartly during this wave of technological disruption, it might just be my escape route!

Clearly I'm a big fan of the blockchain and decentralised projects so finding and joining this community is brilliant for many reasons:

• Steemit is a real-life social content sharing platform using the blockchain and I love the project!
• I love trying the applications out to see how it all works and understand the functionality. I got into Cryptokitty last week and experienced first hand how the Ethereum network basically ground to a halt (I'm heavily invested in Ethereum btw so this is not a dig!). So I'm very interested in following the scalability resolution... another post topic perhaps.
• Steemit appears to have attracted many people who are interested in blockchain and cryptocurrencies - it's great to be surrounded by early adopters!

It's hard to explain how excited I am about this current moment in history, although I suspect most people here feel the same: the decentralisation movement via blockchain is going to change the world in a big way.

I know it's not really the very beginning, but it's the awakening of the mainstream where the biggest opportunities lie as the developments over the last 7 years morph into real life use cases and projects begin to evolve and deliver... in Fintech, Energy, Banking, Transport, Smart Technologies, Consumer Market - our entire world will be different in 10 years.

Oddly most people I talk to in my everyday life don't seem to know much about blockchain (they've usually heard of bitcoin though) so it's exciting to share the use case for things like ethereum, iota, steem etc etc - of course my explanations are rather layman's terms as I'm not a programmer - although I attempt to understand the whitepapers!

It's the mind blowing possibilities that blockchain makes possible that fascinates me - my family and friends have had lengthy monologues on this topic!

As an investor I feel like a child in a candy store, and as a human I feel like I've just swallowed the red pill (or was it blue?)

Things that interest me and I'll likely be posting about are new projects I research, motivation and personal development, trading psychology and market manipulation (how to protect yourself)as well as general random things of interest which means I'm looking forward to following many of your own posts here on Steemit.

I'll leave you now with my golden dog (there really is no reason) and thanks for reading!