Crypto Time Flies

Time flies when you're having fun, right?

The other day I was talking with someone who I've grown to like as a person and may consider them a tangential friend. I'm a few years older than him, which is also a little odd because I am now at that stage in life where I am older than people I talk to sometimes. For the most part, I've always been the younger one as I prefer older company as they have so much to teach me and I learn a whole lot from them.

I would like to think that I can take that experience and start to pay it forward with people who are younger, though this dude isn't much younger than me.

We were talking about a whole lot of things but I had my Decentralize shirt on and he made a comment about it and how he's been into Bitcoin. I guess we are also at that stage in life where Bitcoin is a more popular topic as it is nearing "mainstream" adoption and acceptance. It's not a bad place to be, really.

One of the things that we were talking about that felt weird in a way is that I was telling him I got into crypto a few years ago.. when in reality it's 7 years ago! Damn, it's been 7 years already? That's some crazy shit, seriously!

I was thinking back on the various stages that I've been through and seen. I got really lucky at some of those stages and made some solid investments that I am still holding onto to this day. I don't know what to do with some of those investments but we were chatting about crypto overall. I was talking about the ICO craze, the DeFi craze and now the meme coin craze. Every few years it's something different but it's a bit refreshing in that there are different trends.

I was surprised to think back at having experienced all of those things but I remember them as if they were a few months ago. Time is flying that's for sure! The crypto space, or digital assets as many are now calling them, has really come a long way.

I know one or two people who got into Bitcoin at the BEGINNING stages and one of them is living quite lavish in a foreign country right now. I don't mind his success, as he's a bit of a scumbag anyway so I'm not really bothered by losing touch with him and the potential Bitcoin connection I could have made. There is a lot to be said about the company you keep, even if that company may give you something that's valuable it's like taking the proverbial poison apple from Eve in the Garden.

I was telling my friend about the different things I've learned and was cautiously telling him a tiny bit about Hive. I am slow to approach the Hive concept because it's a different paradigm for sure and I think it can feel like talking to people back in 2013 about Bitcoin. Some people are receptive to it but a lot of people think it's a load of horse shit. To think of decentralized money the way we have it here on Hive is a big step for some people that I want to make sure I tread carefully on!

I was telling him about the Presearch paradigm shift as well, with Keyword staking being a significant game changer in terms of advertising. Being able to know how much someone is spending to have a specific ad is really a big change in how those types of things go!

What about you, when you think back on your time in crypto are you surprised that it's been as long as it has been for you? Let me know in the comments!