Hive Gives Me Hope!
It’s after 1:30am as I type this. I am laying my bed in the dark, only lit by the screen on an iPad and typing away using Ecency to post while listening to podcasts coming from my phone. Yes, I know I should be asleep but I need to get this post out of my head and onto the internet.
Before I do a deep dive into talking about HIVE, I think I should explain my current life situation which should give you an idea of where my mindset is coming from. You have a right to disagree and that’s OK because it means that learn something new too.
My Current Situation
Right now I am employed by 4 or 5 companies, however I do not work every day despite this being my goal.
The companies offer sporadic, short shifts, at various job kocations doing different tasks. There can be some weeks where there is no work at all.
Those jobs include:
- Pouring hot gravy over hot chips at the Villi’s Pie Shop at the Adelaide Oval during football games.
- Transporting boxes of merchandise for the current run of Beauty and the Beast stage play at the Festival Centre from the basement to the first floor store room.
- Doing hospitality work during functions at the Morphettville Racecourse.
- Supervising children playing on inflatable jumping castles at locations around Adelaide.
It seems like a lot, but for the last 6 months or so it was barely covering rent, and it meant that my savings were rapidly depleting almost to the point where I wouldn’t be able to make a rent payment!
I have also been investing in ETFs through an app called RAIZ over the past few years. I will never withdraw
money from that account as it’s at a point where it’s paying dividends, however I have had to cancel regular automatic contributions because it was draining my bank account.
I’ve had to cancel all of my subscriptions for the same reason and I have returned to visiting local soup kitchens and I have had to weigh up whether or not to pay for a pub meal at social gatherings.
I was desperate.
I chose to go back onto the welfare system in order to guarantee that I could afford my medication and make regular rent payments.
On Saturday morning I had a good friend gift me $50 and gave me a bag full of frozen mince meat, pasta, pasta sauce and tins of tuna.
I am still not out of the woods yet, and it will be a while before I can start saving FIAT again, but for now I have food and the safety net is in place.
I am good with money, and I am wise enough to know that I can always know more and be better with it, but without a consistent income above and beyond my expenses I am either treading water or I am sinking towards homelessness.
Hive Currency
This is where HIVE comes in. You’ll often hear me say at a local HIVE meeting that “HIVE is real money”.
I think I confuse people when I say it, and I am not suggesting anyone power down their HP (Hive Power)
or take HIVE out of the ecosystem.
What I am talking about is a mindset when it comes to operating on the Hive Blockchain. I use a website called walletinvestor.com to show me the conversion between HIVE and the Australian dollar, or to see how much DEC or SPS is worth at any given moment.
When I post a selfie to the blockchain via Ecency Waves and it gets upvotes, I know how much in Australian dollars I will get paid for it. Anything is more than the zero I’d be paid it I posted it to Instagram.
This post will hopefully be upvoted and generate HP and HBD.
My HP, if I powered down completely now, is worth over AU$4000. It’s worth far more powered up though, and in he 7 years that I have been here I have never powered down.
I powered down 500 HBD and converted it to HIVE, then converted it to DEC and started to invest it into Land Plots in Splinterlands and also the various pools on Tribal Dex.
Going forward, there will always be an emergency rent payment worth of HIVE kept liquid in my wallet just in case and I have some waiting on an exchange to avoid the capital gains tax (yes, I know it’s not 100% safe).
HBD can be used to by goods and services in a small number of locations, completely independent from your FIAT bank account.
HIVE is real money and in thinking of it in this way, gives me not only hope but confidence to make real world FIAT decisions.
The Hive Community
Another source of hope is the Hive community.
The people reading, upvoting and commenting on my blog posts give me
hope and support. Interacting with community members via Ecency Waves or InLeo also gives me support.
I can see the technology, software, and projects that actually help people on the ground also gives me hope because I am involved in something greater than myself.
I can also provide hope and even sustenance to other people, on the other side of the planet, with a few mouse clicks or screen taps on my devices. Stop and think about that for a moment. That’s incredibly powerful.
The Hive community groups are also a wealth if information, whether it’s financial speculation or gardening tips or recipes for foods I haven’t tried or even seen before, it’s all at my fingertips.
Then there are the Hive meetings that people are engaging in, all over the world, every single month.
This is where people are learning, sharing and encouraging each other. It’s brilliant!
HIVE gives me hope, not just for the future but for the present moment as well.
That’s all from me today. Thank you for reading.
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