My Toxic Relationship with Hive
Hello friends!
Today, Hive just recently celebrated its first anniversary as a fork of Shit (oops sorry I meant Steem). That celebration has made me reminisce about my toxic relationship with Hive (in and out, checking in silent, waiting for amazing opportunities). The phrases in close parenthesis were already the proof of how I've been a toxic member of Hive.
Days, weeks, and months passed by I'm what they called an "opportunist" who just appears if you smell something "great" is going on in the blockchain. In fact, it can't be denied that my little to moderate activity on Hive was because of the rising interest and prices of cryptocurrency in general.
Yes, I missed that and I know you know what I missed too. The things that I'm looking for and waiting to happen on Hive and I've realized it has already been there since day one "content and engagement". These things, which are obviously the key recipe to get noticed and rewarded are the things that I took for granted. I understand that rewards aren't a guarantee even though you put so much effort into writing, there's no such thing as assured returns in life in general. But from what I've observed, people that are working hard on crafting their content are the people that are rewarded well. And yes, I'm not part of those hardworking people.
My Toxic Mindset
And so when Hive was born. I was one of the few people that didn't feel great enthusiasm just as much as others do. My old self still thinks about Shit (you know what I mean), that with the drama that happened I still think it's probably gonna be worse. One reason that I think that time was the blockchain was very "new" and that there was no central authority of developing the blockchain like what Steemit Inc. was doing (sorry, it was @ned's mismanagement issues, not the brilliant developers they had).
I was also hooked with "the too good to be true" scheme that most people fell into - gambling. I was hooked with Dice, a Hi-Lo Hive-blockchain game that has its own tokenization and that token holders receive at least 60% of the 50% of the daily profit - in short 30% of the daily profit lol. I got addicted to the game and developed my own strategies in which all ended up in failure. It added another toxic feeling to the blockchain.
Another thing is that I got addicted to a tribe/community that had difficulty in governance issues in combatting abuse & plagiarism. And so, the token's price resulted in a massive bear - making me earn a little at that time. My investments on that too were in a loss. It was time+money spent that I feel lost.
I was completely hopeless about the blockchain at that time and started wondering if I really belong here. Someone who can't create a catchy title and beautifully-written post. I felt lost somewhere and so I decided to take a break.
It was a couple of months taking a break from commenting and posting. I'm on the verge of moving on at that time especially since the price really went down (I remember 8 cents). But luckily, based on my observation of the developments made by @howo, @blocktrades team, and what was top witnesses like @themarkymark were doing, I felt bullish on Hive at that time. And so I bought a 2800 Hive and Powered up.
A screenshot on my first purchase of 1100 Hive, then followed by a more than a thousand
Reality Strikes
I know I'm probably too late to catch the ride but I'm willing to go even though I am just holding the bar as long as I'm still on the ride. It doesn't matter how difficult it would be, as long as I'm happy with what I am doing and I was not forced to do so to suck rewards.
So now, I truly think it's still not very late to be active again. My wish is that I can write content with full enthusiasm and 100% effort. It doesn't matter if it's not as technical as other writers here do, but a writing that someone would appreciate because they know this person puts his heart into it.
This blog will soon be a space haven when I grow old and look back on the things I did in the past. I'm almost 100% sure that Hive will still exist in many years to come and that the adoption it deserves will come in no time. I heard that Hive Marketing is now starting to get their groove and that's amazing news for all of us. Let's just hope that this marketing thing attracts attention to the public.
What can you Expect?
I'm a Sportsperson and I talk a lot more about Football and Basketball. I'm in 100% full interest in cryptocurrency and finance and I'm starting to grind on development courses. These things (include life too) are the things you can expect that I write in my next blogs. Your support will be much appreciated as I start grinding back again on Hive.
Engagement, oh c'mon that one. I guess that's the thing that I am most afraid of. It takes me time to absorb content, like I need to re-reward it at least twice to fully understand all especially the technical ones. It's really not just my thing.
The catch is that I'll promise myself to engage in at least 3-5 blogs per day and these engagements are not "that's a good one!", no no-no. A type of engagement that lets the writer know that you've read his content and that he/she knows you absorbed it.
If you finished reading this until here, thank you! I really appreciate it! Please let me know your thoughts in the comments section below and let's talk. Bye for now!
References:
- Took Advantage of the Dump to Bag!
- I Wish I Bought ALL IN! But It's All Good.
- Canva for the creative design
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As much as I want to stay fair and objective, I cannot justify logging in to a centralized and censored chain that is being cannibalized by a scamcoin TRX which is a rip off of ETH; when ETHEREUM now is attempting to copy the Hive concept and claim it as their own brilliant innovation. I suspect they are just trying to cut and paste as much random code into ETH2.0 to prop it up before ETH1.2 collapses under its own weight.
Can we have this conversation?
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Where is the lie here? I see none
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We have the same sentiments in your first sentence. I know how it feels how they ripped (JS) our hearts when they ruthlessly overtook a chain that we poured our hwarts over the years.
@hivecoffee I didn't know that ETH is attempting to copy, can you please educate me about that? That goes to show we're doing some great thing here that even a large crypto token is interested to replicate the technology we built.
Well it seems you've gotten your plans on the way already. I remember back in the days when I had zero funds, all I could think about was how I missed out on investing early in cool stuff, now I realize so many times I had spare funds and bought tokens high and sold them low and lost money, sometimes what we envision in retrospect may not be the outcome we desire,.... Maybe the universe was just getting you ready for this moment.
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I agree. It's not always all the time your hunch will get you the things you want to be. I had experience a major drawback in cryptotrading too. That was probably the reason why I didn't go all out because the fear was still there. But 8 cents was way too low that time. Your $80 would give you 1000 Hive that time.
You came back, that's all that matters. Really wish I had bought some Hive like you when it was low. Nice call there. I can't remember the last time I took a break from Hive. I play Splinterlands a lot, that's probably why.
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Thanks and I'm glad I was redirected in that way. I missed the Splinterlands part. I was way too focused with Gambling that time and a Dapp called Musing but now was dead.
There is no such thing as too late and especially with hive just building it's foundations you are still very early. We have about 50k active users across the whole world. Even when that goes 100x across all of the apps you are still in the early stages.
Be active and engaged and you will build an account in no time at all. It just takes time and commitment to see results.
Thanks for the advice @niallon11. I really appreciate it. I totally agree with you on that. I just wished I was there earlier.
As for the engagement, I really find it cool to see amazing stuff on Hive. The current dilemma that I am facing is I have a low-attention span. So I really find it difficult to finish reading stuff. But I'm on it now, thanks! :)
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