I checked hiveblocks.com today and looked for the exact date and time I created my Hive account. It reads 2020-10-10 19:23:33 which means I've had this account for thousands of days, 1,444 days to be exact or 52 moons, which is a very strange way of calculating age if you ask me. Does anyone know why we use this strange time measurement?
My first account was actually 
Anyway, I've been storing text on an immutable database that is HIVE for 2 million minutes. Some of those minutes I've spent making blog posts about being an entrepreneur in the creative space: recording music, dialogue, podcasts, foley, audiobooks, and creating 2D as well as 3D animations for clients. Other minutes, I've spent showing others how to use freedom tools built on the HIVE blockchain and what problems they help solve, other minutes I've spent spilling my thoughts with no real goal other than to use this distributed and immutable database and in doing so, create awareness and accumulate a bit of Hive Power for myself.
In these 206 weeks I've been using the HIVE blockchain, I've accumulated a total of 77,676 Hive Power. 54,254 of my own Hive Power + 25,139 HP I received from my recording studio's account - 1,716 HP that I've delegated to others.
While I'm not really celebrsting a milestone, I do think accumulating 34,656 hours of using this amazing ecosystem is a privilege and here is ONE out of many reasons: Every word I add to the blockchain earns me a tiny bit of cryptocurrency which I add to my existing cryptocurrency stack and it grows by 3.17% per year just by holding it in my account. It may not seem like much, but of you take into account that I'm adding about 600HP every month by creating content and voting on content I find interesting, useful and/or entertaining, you'll see that I'm actively working towards one of my goals, which is to accumulate 230,000 HP by the year 2030 and I'm harnessing the power of compounding to do it.
You know what they say about compounding, right?
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I might be completely wrong and I might be holding a worthless bag in 2030, but with everything being built on the HIVE blockchain, I'm willing to take my chances. With Hive at a couple of bucks ($4.2069?) I could have a nice chunk of change to change my family's life. Worst case scenario I'll be able to use the #freedomtools on HIVE to fight censorship and gatekept social media.
Only 63 months stand between me and December 31st 2029. I'm going to spend some of that time here, on this blockchain, learning, teaching, sharing and doing everything I can to make this blockchain ecosystem better. Hey! with a little bit of nerdiness, I might even be able to build a business here, but we'll see.
