Okay, well I guess I will have to think on it.
Lately I am feeling quite disillusioned with cryptos in general. I am still bullish for price, but I'm not an investor, I'm a content creator. I was hoping to find a way to monetize my content creation but these blockchains have disappointed. I put in 3 years, full time, with a starting investment of $5000, and my current net total is under $1500. It seems that these tokens are designed to continuously lose value. I wish I had known that before I put my entire crypt stack into STEEM 3 years ago.
As time has gone by, crypto in general has become less private, and more centralized. At this moment, I am unable to use crypto with any degree of privacy or decentralization. Everything requires a smart device, which I will never touch, and/or government ID, bank account, etc. Crypto was supposed to provide privacy and decentralization but there is literally no way to use it that way. I'm open to suggestions but I have blogged about it for over a year and nobody has been able to come up with anything.
Recently, steem-engine started requiring "Keychain", which I also will not use, and now my funds there are unavailable to me. I can log in and see them, but that's it without "Keychain".
Hive-engine still works, but not without issues. I recently tried withdrawing 0.00001 BTC as a test run, to my private wallet. The transaction went through, but nothing arrived. I don't think I did anything wrong, but if I did, that means crypto is apparently too complicated for me to handle. Most likely I entered everything properly, but something went wrong with hive-engine. So I can't pull funds out through there into BTC, which is a bit more liquid. Everything I have is pretty much locked where it is. What kind of currency can't be spent or transferred, but can only be bought or earned, and saved? That's not even really a currency by definition.
I feel as though more and more pathways are closing up. The crypto world is not free, in any sense of the word. It sucks, because I've promoted crypto since 2011, before almost anyone here had even heard of it. But now I find myself wishing I had never touched it.
I also wish I could get out, but I can't. The best I can hope for is finding somebody who will trade me some USD or CAD via PayPal, or maybe buying something online with my Bitcoin and having it delivered. Not exactly liquid currency, if you can barely spend it, it costs you to spend it, and you can't get what you actually need/want with it. But I'll be happy to extract any value from my STEEM, HIVE, LEO and other tokens, BTC, and ten bucks here and there - like Cardano, to test it out. It's all wasted money and wasted time. It's just a big permanent record of my activities, stored for all time and immutable, but providing me no benefit. I have a big folder in my safe with dozens of crypto keys, blockchain keys, 3rd party service passwords, and so on. All a waste of time, and a security hazard on top of it.
I've yet to eat a single calorie obtained through my $5000 investment and 3 years of full time work here. Not one bite of food, not one dollar of rent, not one bill has been paid. It's just video game tokens to me, at this point, the lot of it.
RE: Extracting my BLURT, the easy way