Welcome to the forum McToots, have you read the forum rules already?

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I like to see that your excited being in the forum, you have a good educational background, I'm sure if you spend time you'll be able to learn more and be an educator here in the forum someday. You are in one of the most popular crypto forum, so I'm sure you'll have fun here as discussions and information here are always updated.