Discussion time... I want to know what your first alt coin buy was...and why?! To me crypto seems too complex for the average person to just fall into, so what made you jump in initially?
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When I Bought My First Token I Had No Idea What it Was....
Lets say that you really love the show Game of Thrones (seriously, who doesn't love GOT, lol.) You LOVE it, you watch it, you study all the intricacies of the Seven Kingdoms and you know each character's background since before the show started. Then you find out that your friend has never seen Game of Thrones. What do you do?
You tell your friend to watch Game of Thrones! That they'll love it, that they'll never watch a better show. They are reluctant so you keep bothering them about it. You beg. You invite them over and casually put the first episode on and force them to watch it... (yea, I've done that before.)
That is how I learned about crypto. My friend Alex, who happens to be my Sister's Fiance, casually mentioned crypto one day and explained that he was going to buy a token and that I should too. I barely listened to him the first couple times, I wasn't even interested in crypto and I thought it was a scam. But Alex didn't let up, he kept sending me videos about this token, mentioning that who knows how much money could be made if they were successful. That is the thing that caught my attention finally. Money. Greed. Moon. Lambo.
The token he was talking about was Pillar (Plr) and it was brand new, barely out of its ICO. I had no idea what this token was. In fact, I had no idea that there was a difference between crypto currencies. I didn't know that they all held a different purpose. I thought they were all like Bitcoin.
I looked at the Pillar website and I didn't understand what I was reading. Atomic Ownership? Crypto wallet? ERC-20 Tokens? What the hell is that?! What made me put up the money buying this unknown asset was the enthusiasm from my friend, and I trusted his judgement. It was also FOMO. I thought "How would I feel if I don't end up buying this, and then they end up making a ton of money from it? I'll feel like an idiot and regret it forever!" I decided that I was going to buy some just for the heck of it, so I went over to my sister's house and Alex helped me buy Ethereum first, and send it over to Ether Delta to buy Plr with it. It all seemed too difficult for me to handle on my own. The process seemed so complex to me, he might as well have been sending rockets into space at NASA.
One and Done..or So I Thought!
After the Plr Tokens were safely stored in a paper wallet I forgot about Crypto until September. I then decided to really dive into understanding different cryptocurrencies and the visions they all had for our future. It's been several months now, and I still feel like there is so much more to learn, but I find the whole crypto-sphere so exciting. It's like I'm getting a glimpse into the future when I participate in it.What is Pillar?
Pillar aims to solve one of the biggest problems facing us right now, the protection of our privacy.
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We are so used to giving out our personal information and having it sold and stolen that we have become complacent. Pillar is trying to revolutionize protecting our information with the Pillar wallet. We can use the Pillar wallet to not only store our crypto-currency, but to store our private data. We can choose who we want to share that data with, and take it back when we want.
Imagine buying items online and sharing your information with the website and then revoking access to your information when the purchase is complete. Pretty revolutionary right? I think so.
They are also making something called "the Grandma wallet" which will be the wallet bringing cryptocurrencies to the masses. Simple and easy to use.
I have been holding Pillar since I bought it, and I will continue to hold until it moons!