It has been 9 months since I wrote an article for Steemit or Hive.
Steemit seems to be in trouble, but maybe there is some life to it, because it has done a little bit of a bull run and the value in my wallet has increased. Sure, it hasn't gone gangbusters like $DOGE, but it has moved up, but nowhere near the highs of 2017 and 2018, when things were starting to go to crap and cyrpto-currency hit a deep hibernation.
And, that's what this post is about.
I hung on through the end of the whale wars, into the crash and then the censorship of Steemit, until the final sellout to $TRON. After that, other things in life seemed more important than trying to post articles that nobody looked at but bots upvoted. It was obvious, that unless you became a whale early in the game or paid your way, the fight to be seen was almost an impossible battle. So, I faded off into the sunset. Sure, I watched the crypto market and still followed crypto people on Twitter, but it just wasn't the same. Even my sudo-stalking of Naomi Brockwell turned silent, as she went onto other social formats and became a ghost on the wreckage of what was left of Twitter. The excitement and lust was gone.
So, I moved on with life and just HODL my crypto.
About a month ago, after Bitcoin had its run To The Moon!, I decided to check in on my coins and see how things were doing. Binance was still holding my dust hostage, even thought there were a few hundred dollars worth there. Bittrex did let me take out my tiny bit of Bitcoin, after I did some sort of match click dance and the withdrawl options opened up. I moved the DOGE from my phone app to my Ledger, which I blew the dust off and brought back to life. Yup, I'm no Crypto-Super Star! And I definitely don't have a crypto Lamborghini, but there was some upward movement in my tiny holdings. I still haven't put Fiat into it, nor got Fiat out of it.
So, I started taking a look back on Hive, Steem and Steemmonsters, now know as Splinterlands. It was a sad state of affairs.
There were some rewards to be taken, including some Tron, which I added to my Ledger. But, nothing on Hive nor Steemit encouraged me to start writing again. Since I have delegated most of my cards to LogicForce, playing on Splinterlands is hard and I can barely make it to Bronze I. Most of my pals on LogicForce Discord haven't said 'Hi' in months. I went on to wake them up and a few responded. My crypto-world is a dystopia.
But, with some encouragement from everyone saying there's going to be a new Alt run and from @Mawit07 trying out new schemes to empower LogicForce, I'm giving it another try. There are conspiracy and rants I have kept to myself. Oddities and ideas that I have pondered and of course my garden is starting to grow again.
Will any of this matter to the Hive world?
Who knows, but at least I might get encouraged to write again and find a following.
Same story. When the fork happened, it was chaotic and unclear enough, that I just wasn't able to mess around with it for a while. The dust seems to have cleared now. Trying to get back into it. It's certainly a more constructive use of my time than Facebook.
My FB time is just down to checking in on friends and family.
So far, the encouragement to start up again on Hive has been good. I'm not sure why the price is not the same as Steem, but I guess that just might be the power of the whales over there.
Thanks for commenting and good luck to you too!
Nothing about the crypto market makes sense at the moment. Why is doge a top ten (was a top five!) crypto rn? Nothing makes sense.
So I ignore the price unless I'm trying to flip something for more sats.
LOL!
Good to see you, man.
Hey... welcome back. Yeah it has been a rough ride with some of these blockchains... I sent most of my Steem here to Hive and managed to grow from 12,000 Hive to 15,000 Hive over the last year. I also found out I had a 6,000 blurt airdrop on another Steemit Fork called Blurt. So I thought I’d post there for a while and grew my 6,000 Blurt to 400,000 ...Blurt is only a penny but it’s a meme coin so it might follow in the footsteps of Dogecoin. AnywAy... Everyine who had a Steemit blog also has a blurt blog with an airdrop of Blurt you can trade on Hive-Engine or Ionomy for Bitcoin. Here is your Blirt blog ... https://Blurtter.com/@deanlogic
82 blurt... almost dust.
Hopefully I'll be motivated to stay active.
Well... I have bought a lot of Bitcoin, Ethereum and Dogecoin with Blurt on ionomy.com. https://exchange.ionomy.com/en/aff/f7862c1aeae8e0399176a908fcecbcfe
Use tags like #blurtphoto #blurtart #blurtlife #cryptoblurt #blurtshorts for big curation upvotes over there ....
Yes, come back. We are still here <3
I'm still delegating to you. <3 back at ya!
It's hard to ask you to write or not. It depends on what you offer and why you write here... Some are trying to earn some coins and others want to spread their ideas ... I am writing here in order to escape reality and search for a new space in my life.
Anyway, I'm sure there's a lot of people who're happy to be with you here.
I used to a combination of conspiracy theories (of my own) and general future thoughts. I mixed in some of my gardening, political discussion (video with 2 friends) and thoughts about the crypto market. My most popular articles were taking a prepper perspective of certain movies and breaking down what was done right and what could have been done differently. But, those were only hits a few times.
At a minimum, I'm glad you took the time to leave a comment. That in itself is encouragement.
I've been reading your posts for three or two years ago, and I have a good idea of your strange and amazing ideas, hehe
for that I'm glad you're here with us.