I've lost my pigs and my dogs aren't farming!
It's just a phrase that came to mind earlier this week when my partner asked how my day had been. And after I gave that answer, he looked at me and seriously wondered if I had gone mad.
“Um, are you still okay?”
I wondered what was so hard for him to understand. It's obvious. Yes, I'm fine, but I'm just a little annoyed. My dogs haven't farmed for a month because the animal farm was paused. I had 2 pigs then, and now I don't see my pigs anywhere in my wallet. My dogs were farming pigs, but everything has been paused for a month and that just costs money.
My partner looked at me again and asked if I could explain in plain language what I was talking about. Firstly, we don't have any pigs, and secondly, our dogs are not used to working at all. So why does that cost money?
Miscommunication!
I realized we were dealing with a miscommunication here. For me this was quite normal, but for my partner I was talking gibberish! He doesn't do anything with crypto himself, nor does he have any idea of the terms. So you can say that I did speak Dutch to him, but it could just as well have been gibberish to him.
The next day, it was time to create a Hive account for my sister, 
Bears, Bulls & Whales
Now I had to explain how to navigate Hive, how to find the communities, how to manage her account. How it works to place a vote on a blog, not unimportant that a blog gets a payout after 7 days, and that it makes no sense to vote on a blog that is 8 days old. And many more things that are important to know, which are very normal for me. But what my sister was staring at, not knowing what to imagine.
When I also started talking about Bears, Bulls and Whales in my enthusiastic explanation, I lost her for a while. I was of course too excited to realize that right away. But when I also told her that we are all waiting for the bull to come back to shoot us to the moon, she interrupted my story, and asked me if I had watched a bad Star Wars impersonation.
Fiat, ... or Ferrari?
Now, if you think I've learned my lesson, think again. I got into a conversation with one of the few friends I still talk to in recent years. We were told about a colleague of hers who broke off a relationship because the man in question had no money to meet the demands of the lady. Would that be a reason for me to end a relationship? To which I, without thinking, exclaimed that I would never judge a man by his fiat. Now, I have to tell you that this friend may know that I do something with crypto, but that she really hasn't delved into it yet. Didn't even think about it. The term fiat therefore had a completely different meaning for her. And she told me with a smile that she would also prefer her husband to drive a Ferrari! But that in this day and age we should actually be happy if he would arrive in any car at all, even if it's a Fiat.
Duh, the penny dropped again, and I rushed to explain to her that I wasn't talking about cars. That fiat is a term within the crypto world to indicate the national currencies. And that a Ferrari or Fiat has nothing to do with that. At most, that shows how much fiat someone owns. LOL.
All in all, I had a moment to realize that crypto terms are not yet known by everyone. What sounds normal to me, and has become everyday fare in the four years that I see the blockchain as my virtual home, is really a kind of space language for other people. The language of the cryptoverse, and while everyone is welcome, not everyone is at home there yet.
PS: I have found my pigs back, they are in the pig pen now