Crypto is not a lottery.

There are ways to get rich quick. Some people do win the lottery and sometimes your horse comes in at big odds. Crypto has made millionaires and you will see them on social media and every once in a while somebody will buy Shibu Inu just before the spike and get set for life. Like any gambler though the high doesn't last and they will probably keep chasing lost causes until they run out.

These are outliers though and not the norm. The normal way to get rich is to make smart decisions repeatedly over time.

Slowly, slowly catchy monkey.

The biggest problem with gamblers is winning. a lot of them say that the first big win set them down the path. They did it once and though that it could happen over and over again.

There is nothing wrong with betting in reasonable amounts and it's what we do in crypto on a daily basis. But there is a world of difference in betting small amounts often on a reasonable outcome to betting the house on a long shot of a horse.

Hive hasn't made me rich.

Hasn't and won't right now. It's not going to 10x again from here all of a shot. If it does happen it will happen gradually over time.

We will see more use case and more users soak up the supply until demand outstrips that supply and the price keeps rising.

It has made me comfortable and gives a solid safety net for my real life income. Being able to keep adding $10 HBD, $20 HBD every few days to a compounding savings account adds up over the years. I only have a couple of thousand there for now but keep adding to it daily.

That's only one part of it. Then you take the other options like $CUB that is doing the same thing as well. That's stacking another $50 a week at these current prices.

Slow and steady along with another dozen drips adding to the grand total.

Now I could put $1000 into multiple shit coins and hope that one of them hits along the way. It might even happen but the laws of probability say that i will probably just lose a few thousand bucks.

instead i will take the safe path and keep adding a few hundred a week to compound over the few years and turn those hundreds to thousands.

Doing the right things, repeatedly.

This applies across all walks of life.

The fact that hive is my passion only helps the situation but to be successful in any field you need to show consistency and build form the ground up. Shortcuts don't tend to last in the long run and I've seen what happens to a lot of lottery winners.

They don't know how to manage large sums of money as it came too easy. They didn't value it as they didn't work for it. We had a show here about past lottery winners and the majority said that it either ruined their life or it was already gone and wasted.

You see the same issue with a lot of high paid athletes. They get too much money too fast and don't know how to hold on to it leaving them struggling in later life.

Part of appreciation is grafting to get it in the first place. I've spend four years here grafting for every token that i hold and won't let them go easily.

That is the opposite of airdrops that i find hard not to see as free money when it comes so easily.

I still like it but just don't have the same appreciation for it.

I think that it's much better to get rich slowly and learn how to handle getting there while it happens than hit one big score.