It's been a while since I had any significant milestone to celebrate but I think that this one is worth a post.
It's been a while since the 50k mark.
When I joined the chain all those years ago it was a real struggle to earn even 100 HP.
It was 2017, we were just heading towards the top of a bear market and the price was around the $1 mark.
The original site was so basic and clogged with spam that being seen by any account of note was next to impossible unless you joined a discord curation group, paid for a promotion account to bump you or commentated like hell on other people's content in the hope of being recognized.
Even at that I hadn't a clue what I was doing and spent months just trying to understand crypto, tokens exchanges and everything else going on around me.
It was still very early days back them before easy logins or hive keychain where every action was a struggle.
The chain and the tools have come on so much since then that the whole place is barely recognizable. Unfortunately we have lost a lots of great devs and users since those early days but we have also had a lot stick around for a long, long time.
I remember there used to be a thing called the minnow leagues and the red fish leagues for smaller users to stay active, grow their HP and connect with each other ran by abh12345 and paulag who helped so many new users find their footing.
Then there were the discord shows with crim and with kittygirl that brought people together and made it fun for noobs.
A lot of the people still here today were part of these groups and are the reason why we have a community at all.
So despite all of the issues and the drama and despite the fact my account is hardly profitable at the moment with the price I still love to turn up every week and read and post to the chain. See who is doing what and hope that we can break some new ground in 2026.
I've always said in my bio that I will be here until I can buy a private island or until it all goes down in flames and that still stands to this day. Even after eight years of showing up and posting I still love the place and want to see it be successful.
We have build so many cool sites and tools for the chain that it wouldn't take much to make that big breakthrough with a couple of good apps and a bit of recognition.
Now that I have hit what always felt like an impossible target back in those days there is nothing left for it but to go for 250K next and see how many years that will take.
At these prices I will try to keep buying small amounts consistently and I still have big hope that LEO and SPS are going to pump at some stage and speed up the process by a lot of time. Either way I'll continue to try and keep posting, engaging and growing my account every week.
