I have been pretty busy lately, and frankly, not in the best mood to write that much.
But hey, that milestone deserves it.
I'm now an Orca on the Hive Blockchain after powering up big sums of HIVE lately.
We'll atm I'm sitting at ~70K HIVE POWER between my two main accounts @empoderat & @thexbttrader. Technically I'm an orca... and a half!
I'm not realizing this fact yet, but this milestone (much less, in fact), was something unreachable in my mind in the not so distant past. Today I would like to talk a bit about me and how I reached this (IMHO) impressive milestone.
@hivebuzz dropped this to me yesterday:
A tale of self-improvement
Many maybe think that I started out with huge amounts of spare money to invest.
Far from reality.
To put things in perspective for those who still didn't hear about me.
I meet the steem Hive blockchain in late 2017. And I was very happy to be able to amass ~1000 tokens around the previous bull run peak.
Used to dream about ~50$/STEEM. Completely delusional, I know, but that's how you come back to reality. With big hits.
Lost everything in 2018. Entered into a self depression phase.
Didn't have a job or much income at that time, but I saw something in 'crypto', don't ask me the reason because I still don't know, but I became very obsessed with Bitcoin and fell to the depths of the rabbit hole.
I don't believe in gods, but I thank 'god' for the path chosen.
Maybe for others, the 'Orca Status' doesn't mean shit, but where I live, it's a VERY big amount of money. ~12.500€ could easily be a FULL YEAR INCOME for a big chunk of people in my country.
This is how I managed those previous years to reach the position where I'm sitting at the moment. If you ask me, I made some sacrifices and managed some pain ('financial & emotionally' speaking) from time to time.
-I failed a lot of times and woke up over again & again to fight another day. I've lost DOZENS of bitcoins since my early days in 2016. Fortunately, I learned a lot, before most of the others. Never got into debt. That devil thing freaks me out.
-I got dumped by ex after 5 years. Different priorities. I'm more into working hard, she's going for the partying route. That's OK though. Meet new people last couple of years, fewer people but more trusted. In that sense, less is more. Feel grateful for that.
-Worked my ass off for 2 long years in shitty-jobs to keep accumulating when nobody believed at all in any of whatever I did.
Put apart ~50% of my salary each month, EVERY month, to keep investing in cryptocurrencies.
-Returned to parents home. To be able to put apart that sum of money every month to invest, I needed to cut my expenses to the bare MINIMUM. Don't think that I'm a hermit. I still got time to enjoy life & party from time to time (not while COVID though!).
I should add that I 'just' enjoy being involved in the crypto world, Trading, researching or writing doesn't feel like a job for me and I'm doing it almost every day.
I spent a lot of time here and I would like to see this project (or still 'proof of concept'?) succeeding, we can't sleep on ourselves.
My Vision for the Future of HIVE
IMO getting rid of steemit has been a game-changing event, which may be at first felt like a couple of steps back, but something that will appreciate over the long term (BYE BYE programmatic selling!).
On the other hand, I also believe that we have a limited time to build something 'good enough' for the masses (1 bull cycle, max 2).
If we don't 'fix' our problems and 'make it' in terms of 'direction' in the next 2-3 years I believe that we will experience a bad time dealing with other organizations better focused & with better funding.
In the coming months I would like to see:
-Fix Onboarding & Mobile Apps ASAP
-HF24 to get rid of the last steem traces.
-Smart Media Tokens (pending since forever...)
-Revised Power-Down times. IMHO 13 weeks is A LOT.
-Revamp the DAO. (Burn steemit's stake maybe?). What about asking for some type of 'Proof-of-Progress'?
-'Improved economics'.
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And I just realized that I'm maybe throwing away a lot of topics to the same post when I only wanted 'to celebrate' that I'm now a bigger animal.
Thanks to everyone who helped me along the path. You know who you are :)
That's all for today.
Cheers!
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