Bitcoin was down around $15,000 6 months ago, and here we are now... 3x plus. Hive was at $0.12 6 months ago... 4x lower than now. Doge coin has done about 18x from 6 months ago to today and BNB has done a whopping 20x from 6 moths ago to this date.
So, why does it feel bad?
Everyone has read the stories about going "all in" on some coin and hitting a huge payday. There are stories about finally being free from the 9-5 and living strictly off of the crypto bags. Others have read the predictions for $400,000 BTC, $20,000 ETH, $100 Hive and $2 Doge. Most of us are not there yet but we are looking at the colour of the grass on the other side of the fence.
We are looking at what could be vs what is... and I think this is the cause for these "Bull Market Blues".
If I look back to November, I was holding a nice deck of splinterlands cards and a dolphins share of airdropped LEO. That was it. I moved some of my cards to market and made some safe trades on the market (buying BTC and Hive and since more LEO and CUB/BNB) and I am up 4x since November.
Nowhere can you find the potential for such life altering wealth. If I tell anyone that I had $5000 invested in November and now I have over $20,000 6 months later they would call me a liar. This is amazing gains in 6 months. If we have another 4x this year, which is entirely possible, there will be a lot of 6, and 7 figure portfolios that were 4 or 5 figure portfolios a year ago. The gains are that spectacular, yet, we see a 20% pullback and it gets us all down. We see some getting 10x, 20x or 50x gains and it makes our 4x gain look measly.
I see it. I have contemplated it and I overstand it to be true. I will be an independently wealthy blockchain emancipated freedom fighter. I am not independently wealthy (yet) and I am not blockchain emancipated (yet), but I will be. The long game takes away the blues the red numbers bring with them and brings focus to the cause.
We might have came for the gains, but that is not why we persist. I have come to realize the nature of wealth and the importance that blockchain technology and the community that encompasses it is.
We are playing with the tools of the future, today. We are building the foundation for how the world with do business and make decisions tomorrow, today. There are forces that have always been at play, that will continue to be at play that we must be aware of. Power and greed have not left the building, and those of us that see the future can see the arena that the next battles will take place.
Blockchain is undeniably the future. The institutions now know it (at least the forward thinking ones), the billionaires are now swinging their influence around to sway markets in their favour. We are witnessing history.
When the battle of Waterloo was done, the couriers raced to bring back the news. Nathan Rothschild had the fastest courier. He got word of the result of the battle first. He went to the market, as he did every other day, but this day... he began to sell. He sold everything he had. He crashed the market. Everyone panicked knowing that Nathan, being a powerful and wealthy man, had the inside track on the results of the battle. Everyone else began selling too, crashing the market further. The market went down by many multiples.
Minutes before the second courier arrived, Nathan bought back everything for pennies to the dollar. He tricked everyone. His selling was really just a massive FUD play that the war was lost. It was not. The results came back and Mr. Rothschild had purchased power for a fraction of its regular price. He has passed that power on to his heirs and his family remains one of the richest and most powerful in this current paradigm.
The new arena is the crypto market, and we are the people in the market. If we allow a rich and powerful man to con us and buy up power at a fraction of its price, we did not deserve it to begin with.
Power doesn't always come first. If we take on the responsibility and prove ourselves worthy to take it on, we will be awarded with the power that comes along with it. We are being conned into seeing the crypto market as a casino to make ourselves rich. This is a con to keep us in the old paradigm where the rich and powerful are part of an elite club. The crypto market is much more than a casino. This is where we can push humanity into a new paradigm of peace and prosperity. In order to do this, we cannot be conned by the next Nathan Rothschild trying to buy power for a fraction of the cost. We cannot be conned into thinking that this is all about gains and Lambos. We cannot be conned into staying in this old paradigm.
Do not get me wrong. I am here for the gains. I plan to gain financial freedom but I plan to gain much more. I plan to stay awake and vigilant. I plan to help bring the new paradigm into existence. I plan to bring people to the new paradigm. I plan to gain peace and prosperity for all who chose to take on the responsibility. We can get there.
We are witnessing the new paradigm. We are apart of the experiment. By our works we are judged and awarded. Wealth flows freely and we lose none of our own by passing it to others. Many people are gaining independence and passing the word on. The movement is growing.
There are also forces that would see this movement as a threat to the existing paradigm and the freedoms that come to those that are at the top. By selling this paradigm shift short and claiming it as a way to join the elite and be a part of the club, they are attempting to cheat us out of the reality we can see forming in the new paradigm, and keeping us tied to this old out of date system.
We are here for the gains, but let's not lose focus on why else we are here. Let's also not lose focus by looking at what could be and forget our gratitude for what we have now. The bull market blues are a trap set by the old paradigm. A paradigm based on scarcity, war and dog eat dog.
I have grown my portfolio x4 in 6 months! That is incredible and I could potentially grow more. My eyes are open though and I plan on not getting burned and watching it go down 5x from here. I am keeping my eyes focused on the long term and on shifting the paradigm into a world of abundance, peace, and each one teach one.
