It has been quite the journey for sure. One of the things that gave me quite a bit of traction in the EOSIO situation at the time wasn't that I was hugely talented it was more the fact that I didn't have a job so most guys wouldn't be able to take the time off to be a Mentor at the Hackathons. Hahhahaha 🤣

Right when we were in the early days I was doing very basic videos about account creation on my YouTube channel. I think the tool was cleos. There weren't many people that were visibly making content about it so it gave me a step in and I was able to go to those Hackathons which were an amazing experience but despite all that I was never able to get funding from Block One to work on any project. That was quite upsetting and a lot of others had a similar experience. The community got left out in the cold while Block One sat on more than a 100,000 Bitcoins.

Telos really was amazing and when they implemented their EVM the DeFi offerings over there were super fast but needed funding and liquidity. I was never able to get funding from that project either.

I have a lot of thoughts about it and I'm sure you can identify with this but IT related stuff whether it is systems admin related or programming requires consistent reps. If you are deep in the weeds on the daily you can stay sharp on it but if the funding isn't there and you don't look at stuff for months or years eventually you sort of forget what you already figured out. IT has been a lot of that for me. It's been very stop and go constantly and I was never able to get outside funding for any of my projects.

We are going through that with DTube. The remaining community involved is a handful of us who weren't as involved when there was the capital raise for it. So there is no funding or liquidity currently and we will work on certain things hard for 24 or 48 hours and if we could even do that for weeks or months straight things would happen but we can't really afford to just focus all our efforts on it unfortunately. All the crypto social media related platforms are getting pressed hard but even the flow has sort of dried up on centralized social media. Influencers aren't making near as much on YouTube and TikTok.

With STEEM I never really cashed in that much. The earnings looked high and my account value got up to $20,000 but the power down cycle was so much longer and I kept building the account up and when that crash happened in 2018 a lot of the value evaporated for me.

It's been quite the journey for sure.