I had to make a somewhat tough decision recently, as some of my reserves are coming close to being extinguished, I had to look for something to sell as I'll be traveling a little bit in a month or so.
Naturally having spent a decade active here pretty much every day, even the time I had surgery, it didn't feel right to sell Hive so I was looking for something else that hasn't taken a big dip downwards but instead maybe appreciated a bit in value as that'd make it easier to part with.
The choice was not easy anyway, since that thing is a multi-billion dollar company with a trading card game which's hype seems never-ending. Given that I've spent Hive to purchase it over a long period a few years ago however, it made it easier. Looking back, when Hive was worth roughly 20-25cents, I spent maybe a total of 40k Hive to purchase packs and rip them open either myself or secondhand through streamers/content creators when I couldn't find the packs I wanted locally. Now as Hive is down under 5 cents and the cards have appreciated in value, that same 40k hive is worth closer to my whole stake altogether on this account. Funny how quick some things can change.
I've also been debating trading it back for Hive, but unless it's made easy where someone's willing to give me crypto/hive in exchange for them, I'd rather not go through exchanges anymore as that's also been quite a pain in the past to deal with.
I haven't posted much about my collection, I've dropped a few compilations here and there that others have made of my lucky streaks, but I'm happy to say I've been quite lucky. The smarter play would've been to purchase cards directly rather than rip packs open, but I guess we all have our vices and I'm glad mine worked out for the better.
I have big goals for my Hive stake, but currently a lot of moving parts are making the future hard to predict. If there were no bills/outside pressure to pay for things, I'd try my very best to get as much hive as I can before we end up on the magical 0.95% inflation number (+/- hbd/dhf fluctuations) in 2036. Now of course I wouldn't cut corners or skip on morals as that wouldn't be a good way to appreciate the work, pain and sweat (and probably tears), although there have been plenty of times that's been tested in the last decade through code changes and other things that have been all "well the blockchain allows it so 馃し鈥嶁檪".
My goal short term is to try and reach 600k hp before the end of the year, then if I can it'd be cool with 21m hp before 2036.
Aim for the stars they say and if you fail you'll at least do quite well.
I'm still very far off from that goal, had I played my cards right I'd have been a lot closer today, but that's just how the cookie crumbles, I'm sure there'll be more opportunities down the line.
Dunno, not sure if exhaustion/burn-out, but lately I've stopped caring as much about "politics" or "impressions", or maybe these prices have shown the true colors of some people forcing me to not really care anymore. My opinion has changed quite a lot of some poeple I used to look up to and see do good work in the past, not sure if it's AI's that's kind of made things easier to notice/detect, could be it's been obvious for many others, but I'm going to try and be a lot more vocal about shit I see in the future and try to call it out rather than just focus on my own things. I feel there's a lot of pretenders and incompetence around and many of them have been in charge of a lot of value in the past that I'd rather not see being reproduced, so I'd wanna be around to point that out.
I do try to take things seriously, from small to big things, and I try to be active wherever I can. Pay attention to both big and small stakeholders while also treating small and big ones the same, I think that's a good way to continue to do things.
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