馃帀 I was checking my voting power a couple of days ago, before I do my evening votes, and I discovered that I've been here for exactly ten years.
from a pickle post I made
It was a cold August morning back in 2016 when I had signed up for the S-word platform. I was thinking to myself, "This can't possibly be real." Still, I gave it a shot and then wrote my first post.
The whole idea was to put some posts up and see if any money comes in, and when it does, change it out to see if I can turn it into real crypto, I mean Bitcoin.
I had spent the last three or four days writing a post, little by little, starting at the first post above and moving through a lot of the way things went on hive over the years.
I featured the pickle post which is featured as the cover photo. I did the math and even pulled up a photo of what the price was when that post was made. I mean, the post made $118.00
Or did it?
I actually pulled up this chart capture of the price that I was trading at at the time that I wrote the pickle post.
Now I never sold any of the hive that I made, so $118 that I allegedly made is still in my wallet, but it's only worth $1.20 at today's prices.
Now that doesn't bother me because if I happen to make a dollar and twenty cents this post (the one you are reading), and the prices ever go back to $3.78 someday, then all of the posts one my blog will each be worth $118.00 at a minimum.
You should have seen the post that I wrote, the one I lost. It was filled with top 10 picks from my blog and the ups and downs of the different eras, such as the appics era, from late 2019 until April or May of 2020, in was going to be the instagram of blockchain success.
Appics was a craze that took the platform by storm. I did not realize it until now, but I lost a lot of content, including photos and videos of my kids at the beach and other irreplaceable fun times with my kids.
Most of my appics posts looks something like this now if you open them. None of the videos play and the site is down if you try to go there.
I didn't really pick any posts for my top ten out of the appics era. Featuring things that no longer work would not be smart.
The post was very long and very colorful and I only had six of the top ten done, but I had spent three days creating it in my spare time. It was cumbersome to scroll back 6, 7, 8, years and grab a post or photo. Write about it, then, because the page would reset, start scrolling to where I was and pick another one. It was a labor of love and I really enjoyed making it. I was very proud of it until Poof empty editor.
Sadly, I do not have another three days to go and find all of those things again, link them all, and present it. I will have to not be proud of this text version, and still let you know that I completed a full ten years on the platform.
I think it was a mouse glitch that clicked out of the the post editor. Not srue. I thought there was something that auto-saved the drafts. )shrug( I guess not.
This text version with a few recoverable remnants of the other one will have to suffice for this year's 10-year anniversary post. Tired, depleted, I leave you with an antique version of my footer image that I found.
