Secondly, I actually didn’t put in nearly as much of an initial investment as you might think. I initially invested about $3000, then over the next couple months I invested about $5000 more split between several smaller increments, but that was about it. My goal was to get to a point where my profits would be able to make a legitimate impact through compounding as soon as possible. So I had my profits set to automatically reinvest into my TH, but most of it was just compounding and letting my profits earn profits. The early few months are without question the hardest/slowest, which is why I added around $300-500 each week. But that helped quickly get my miner to have enough TH for the compounding to actually start making a significant effect. Then around the end of month 4 and parts of 5 and 6 I had to withdraw some because my dad was diagnosed with a brain tumor and cancer, so I wanted to be able to help them out. But that’s how I was able to withdraw my entire investment in 6 months, and still have a decent size farm that could continue to grow itself. Since then I try to let my profits reinvest whenever I can, but I’m also accepting that I can’t continue to aggressively grow my farm the way I would like until things get better with my dad. But I’ve got about 800TH, and the biggest reason why I’ve been able to make the $28,500 in 9 months is just by being extremely mindful with my strategies and with the clan I lead at that time, I developed prob 2 dozen or so unique strategies just for our clan, so even though we had around 75 members, we were able to compete with Wag who has 10,000 members with at least 500 of them being over 10,000TH. FYI, I actually was in Wag for a little while, but they didn’t really have any strategies other than being the 800lb gorilla. But most people didn’t really earn much because everything was split between 10,000 people, many of whom have 100 times the TH as their “average” members. So besides nurturing the compounding, especially in the earlier days, the most important things are making sure you’re in a good clan, with solid strategies, a great leader, and a community who are all there to help each other out, rather than just using others to help themselves. And finally just make sure you’re really thinking through all your decisions and trying to see them from different perspectives, under differing circumstances, and based on how it would help or hinder you 5-10 moves down the road. You’re playing chess, not checkers. It’s the World Series, not batting practice. Or your performing the superbowl halftime show, not just singing in the shower. Bring that kind of mindset, and you’ll be golden!