There are times I think, when those of us who create content on Hive, have a different perspective when it comes to value in regards to the tokens trhemselves and upvotes in general.
Sometimes, we need to ask ourselves why we're here in the first place. For me, Hive is a blessed refuge from the blogging platform I was at before, where I was basically writing for the entity itself and had no sense of ownership.
Remain In Light
It was also a free-for-all of content plagerism where trying to get anything done about it was like trying to run across a floor covered in oil. You were going nowhere fast and expending much energy trying to do it. Here, I have a true sense of ownership and a much more level playing field to create content in.
So being rewarded is the cherry on top if you know what I mean. I've never been one of those authors blessed enough to regularly make the 'Trending' sections, as we have so many good publishers who've truely earned their regular runs in that space. Kudos to them, they absolutely deserve it.
Having been here for years, I tend to take a long-term veiw of Hive, both the blogging platform and the tokens as well. When it comes to upvotes, I treasure every single one of them. If a post of mine "only" earns say $1, in my mind, that's a dollar more than I went to sleep the night before with, see what I mean?
I'm thrilled when my posts get any support, since no one "owes" me an upvote. So I always keep that future value in mind.
Being Grateful And Creating A Body Of Work
You should also aim to create a body of work, and just as we've learned to roll with the short-term fluctuations in the market, we must do the same with individual post earnings. If one doesn't gain traction, I've got another on-deck and ready to go. Having a long-term viewpoint will really help you here.
My last hive post as of this writing has earned $0.39, of which half will be paid out to me as the author. But to me, that half may be worth much more 5 years from now, and that's the possibility we need to keep in mind instead of complaining about our earnings.
That 20 cents in post earnings might be worth $20 ten years from now (yes, I look that far out). Just 14 years ago we saw the creation of Bitcoin and the ignition of the cryptocurrency revolution.
How many of you can remember when 1 BTC was worth less than a dollar? People back then thought I was chasing ghosts for getting involved with crypto, but I correctly saw this as the future, and wasn't about to be dissuaded by the small minds around me.
I feel the same way about Hive.
It also helps that I've been here long enough that many of the people you call Whales, were people I saw struggling as well when they first started. Some of them even joined after me, so I don't look at them the same way newer people might.
Their wise advantage was that they actually had the funds to put some "skin in the game" while I didn't. They also had the time which I lacked back then, to post every single day and engage like crazy, which also helped to build their network.
Again, Perspective...
Seeing Beyond The Horizon
There's so much unrealized value locked up in the HIVE and LEO tokens, that if we continue building a strong foundation today, we will be richly rewarded for it in the future. But that's just it, we need that "vision thing" that Steve Jobs had to be able to see that far out beyone the short-term bumps in the road.
Think of where we are right now, we're still in very early days. If you missed out on value BTC, you have another chance to get in early on Hive. What you may consider to be a less-than-successful post reward-wise, may end up contributing to a very valuable set of crypto holdings in the years to come, so continue building while keeping that future in sight.
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Thanks for the support guys. Not used to this kind of attention.
It is interesting when you change your perspective on things. For example, I view every Hive I get as $10. I firmly believe that they will be worth that some day and since I don't plan on selling any before then, they actually are worth that much. Now a post that gets two Hive in rewards is actually a $20 post. Do that every day for a year and you've got real money. Not to mention that if you post every day, eventually you will start to earn more.
As crazy as it sounds, there were people mining Bitcoin at the same price Hive is now. Who knows where Hive could be in 10 years? $10? $100? $1000? If we keep building and developing there is no reason we couldn't see this thing reach into the $100's plus. In the meantime, we just need to keep our heads down and put in the work. As you say, every little bit could be worth 10x, 20x, even 100x or more down the road.
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The early days of Bitcoin illustrated this perfectly. I became fully aware of it back in 2010 (heard of it in 2009), when it was around $0.25 (after getting my first five Bitcoin for free...).
Those first BTC came from a free faucet, and later on that year I started mining on a beatup old Compaq computer in my room (you could do that back then). I was unemployed and remember having to download the entire ledger which took forever.
Everybody was on my ass warning me that I would get arrested for playing around with this counterfeit money scam created by some shadowy "hacker."
I ignored them and kept on going...
I ended up mining 20 more Bitcoin on my own (BTC price was $1), before an elderly relative accidentally threw my $20 worth of Bitcoin out with my old Compaq desktop, (the rest were lost on Mt. Gox).
After that there was a runup to $100, then it dropped way back down and everyone in my area said: "See, we told you, the ride's over, you wasted you time." Small minds think alike. They can't see the forest for the trees, and they never will.
Hive isn't just the token, it's the community as well. Did any of the wise ones sell when it hit $0.25? No, they were accumulating which is one of the ways they became Whales in the first place. Thus we build.
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Hey there! Check your discord messages, @leogrowth just pinged you :D
Really? Thanks for letting me know, will check now. I hardly ever use Discord due to the email verifications and double logins required.
I think like this too.
What will this action be worth in 30 years?
!LUV
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Thanks! You know, I can't go back to the past in a time machine to 2010 and pickup Bitcoin for $1, but I can keep on building on Hive, and set myself up for one helluva future! :)
Yay! 🤗
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