Not as much as people think. I've been doing crypto for several years, and a lot of people assume that because I've been talking about crypto for several years that I'd be filthy rich, when in fact I now earn a steady income doing crypto things, but I'm not extraordinarily wealthy, and it turns out that I'm much less wealthy than I'd be if I just kept working at in iit Company

Part of it is that I just made a lot of “wrong” decisions. It took me about a year to figure out the bitcoin wasn't a bogus scam, and then a lot of time to learn how not to trade bitcoin. I only started to make money trading bitcoin when I ran out of ways to not lose money trading bitcoin, and I honestly would have made tons more money if I just bought a whole bunch of Bitcoin and forgot about it.

But some if it psychological. It turns out that I really don't (want) to win the lottery and retire to some beach. My dream is to live a nice middle class life in which I run my own business doing technical things that are spiritually worthwhile, and to get a steady paycheck so that I don't have to worry about starving, and that I can work on things that I think are interesting and useful.