You just read the title of this post, coming from a user that's kind of established as content creator around here and you're probably thinking if I'm on drugs or something... No, I'm not doing drugs or anything, but it just started "making sense"...
I'm just excited and fulfilled seeing that the main token of the blockchain that I've been active on for over three years, and another second layer one that I love its community so much are doing great.
Pointing at HIVE and LEO here. When these two are doing great, I'm in the same mood because my wallets and my income are growing. I have probably not confessed this yet on my blog, but I have been managing to live entirely off of content creation for quite a few months. As I commented on @taskmaster4450le recent post today, I have no other source of income for over six months.
It was kind of hard to not stick my hand into savings from time to time when HIVE was a bit over 10 cents and LEO less than 50 cents, during the hustling times as I like to call them, and relying entirely on my blogging income, but believe me that I've got through it alive and I have not once lost the confidence I will get to this point of self blogging sustenance.
LEO is over $1 now and who knows how high it will get this bull market thanks to so many goodies the team is launching lately and HIVE is getting there as well. It is around 70 cents at the moment of writing. We've climbed quite a bit lately and still not over past ATHs for HIVE. We will have new ones for sure in the coming months and only God knows how high LEO will get.
Now I don't know how many of you really wish to become full time bloggers/content creators but that's my goal since I created my account on Steem. Three years after, here I am alive and well, putting out content on a daily basis and being able to provide for myself thanks to this passion of mine.
Does that mean you dump HIVE on the market sir?
Yes, guilty of charge. About a few hundred of HIVE get to Binance from my account and traded for USDT every week, I'm not hiding that, it's not me, and it's obvious I'm in that position if I already confessed I'm able to currently make a living based on my content creation revenues.
Despite that, HIVE is still appreciating as there are always buyers and sellers in any market and my dumping doesn't seem to sink it. It's peanuts money in the grand scheme of things. @empoderat for example bought a few hundred thousand HIVE out of the market recently and powered up. That's probably 10x I earned in my entire activity in here.
We're individuals living in different parts of the world, with different needs, capabilities and expectations hence we won't have the same behavior. It's not much though I assure you, I'm quite frugal with my living, but it's a start and although I only managed to get here after three whole years and in the middle of a bull market, I'm still happy about that.
I am highly confident about the future of this blockchain and the apps created on it, I know for sure that crypto in general is in early stages and the era of abundance that cryptocurrencies are opening will get roomier as time goes.
Won't make this post too long as I am sure you already got the idea, but felt like writing it, soon after I read the one of @taskmaster4450le and commented on it, as a celebration of HIVE and LEO's great performance on the market and for my progress so far. It hasn't been easy I assure you. I had my doubts of ever being able to get here, the ones around me I was telling about my goals were having even bigger ones, but here I am...
Thanks for attention,
Adrian