Yeah, one of my blackpilling of shitcoins experiences was being trolled by the infamous berniesanders on Steem. I burned my keys and hilariously there was some 5000 euro worth of STEEM in it at the time. I was that pissed off... I shot myself in the foot.
That led me out towards the Cosmos eco and because of Go I landed in a bitcoin fork project called Parallelcoin, which gave me a huge opportunity to master programming the chain clients in Go and the best Go client being btcd of course. I did look at gocoin, but it was much more esoteric design.
Now I am working on replacing Tor as the go-to choice for anonymising Bitcoin traffic.