How long have you been showing up?
When I was younger, I was surrounded by people who were tech-savvy. They began using sophisticated technology devices as early as 2012, and they filled my mind with the endless possibilities of the Internet.
It was thrilling to see them communicating with random strangers on the internet via their phones, and it felt intriguing. I first heard about PayPal a long time ago, and these guys said it was a way to get monetary gifts and such.
The idea that there was money, friendship, and opportunities on the internet seemed unbelievable, and it piqued my interest. I grew up as a very curious person, and I occasionally overdo it. I first invested in gadgets to gain access to the Internet. I spent my entire month's salary on gadgets 11 years ago because I wanted to try what my tech-savvy friends were doing.
Although I was not as intelligent as they were, I was enthusiastic and not afraid to fail. In reality, there is a lot of money to be made on the Internet, and when people became aware of it, they began to take advantage.
From 2011 to the present, I have shown up every day. I do not mean every day of my life, but when I am available, curious, and physically fit. In those years, I've ventured into and interacted with many Opportunities.
There were things that made people a decent living that no longer exist. They simply went extinct, and other newer ventures emerged.
The Early Days
For example, there were crypto faucets that paid in literal BTC, but because BTC was cheap and unpopular, many people ignored them. It was similar to the guy who paid a few thousand BTC for coffee. Although he paid for them, my point is that there were faucets that paid decent BTC for simply solving captchas, as opposed to today's saturated and fake ones.
In reality, one can never be too early. I know someone who learned SEO when AdSense was the coolest way to make money from blogging, and they are now actively involved in web design. Did you notice how they transitioned from being a simple blogger to something more "in-demand?"
What is even crazier is that they have been showing up for over 13 years, looking for any juicy opportunity to change their lives.
Longevity is a skill, not a gift or something innate.
It is difficult to stay on a specific trail while hunting and experimenting. There are people who made the first magical Internet money, but some of them are no longer here, and we now have newer populations. One advantage of longevity is knowledge; you know the past and the future, and you can improve as your knowledge becomes applicable.
Consistency is often praised, but longevity reigns supreme.
The ability to persevere in the face of change and trend is frequently underestimated; however, there is no way to achieve longevity without having a sufficient knowledge base.
I was reading a post on Hive from someone who mentioned a Solana-based project they interacted with a long time ago; they apparently received some coins worth a few dollars and left the coins unattended.
After a long time, this coin began to pump, and this guy was able to make nearly $1,000 USD by selling it. Imagine going from zero to 1000% profit. One thing I know is that if you keep showing up and engaging with different opportunities without giving up, you will eventually get lucky.
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Yeah, I remember how I did get all the early ones, Uniswap and such, as airdrops, and they were quite considerable. Just because I used the tech when they were just starting.
I remember uniswap in 2020 or so, it was really good for many people. Unfortunately I didn't interact with that chain or so, and I missed out. Many opportunities there.
Finding Hive made me wish I had paid interest in internet 10 years before and made me wish I was surrounded by people who have mindsets like you.
Well even if you were surrounded by these people, if you didn't make enough sacrifices to advance, it might not work.
People that invested in the early days are truly the luckiest ones
They put in the work. Their longevity is no mean feat
If you power up one hive daily, you will have more than 5K in 5 years. If you do 10 hive daily, it will be over 65K. Crazy!
I use to power up daily in the past, a lot. Especially random power-ups, these stuffs adds up incredibly
Sticking around and trying different things always leads to something good eventually!
Well sitting around might not even cut it, 10 to 14 years is a really long time
Yeah, that's true tho. That's very long
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STOPSometimes just holding finally pays off! Let's hope that Hive does the same for us all in the not too distant future. I still remember the story of the guy who bought Shiba Inu in the first couple of days, like $14 worth. A few months later he sold for over $1.4 million. Luck has to be on your side too I suppose...
I held a project token on Hive that was tradable on Hive-engine. I started accumulating it over 2 years before the bull run, and when I finally sold it in the bull run in 2021, it was a decent chunk really and I was really surprised, it just pumped from nowhere, when everything was pumping around August 2021.
If I gave up accumulating, I wouldn't get it. Infact many people didn't know it would pump.
So that I'm not surprised at that Shiba Inu guy, that money was life-changing enough.
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Hmm, this is so deep. I was literally engrossed throughout. As this says , life doesn't have a manual, and there is no rigid way to go about life. A lot of people who believe only of 8 am to 5 pm have now started to have a rethink. Of course, no one could be so sure that people could leverage on the Internet to make a living as we have nowadays. Life is changing, and we humans have to revolve with it. If not, we would be left out. Even now that we have the advent of AI in every ramifications.
Of course, 9 to 5 is not to be underestimated infact it's the gold standard. In reality people are living big from earning through the Internet. From forex to crypto trading and even through web development. We cannot even begin to imagine the futuristic opportunities.
As you've said, way back, no one would have believed the opportunities we have here would be viable.
There is this saying for good reason, that "it’s not about timing the market, but about time in the market". And that is a skill... being able to control your impulses and desires to micromanage, and stay in the market for a long time, learning and adapting along the way.
For me, and many other it wasn't even about crypto alone. It wasn't even about crypto alone but about the opportunity littered through the internet and the longevity for over 14 years.
Yes, I've been like that to a degree. If I were to account only blogging, I think my first blog was on Google, on a platform that doesn't exist anymore (I even forgot its name). I moved on to Wordpress and there I even introduced my custom programming, and now I am here on a newer tech and different values, which surprisingly few people adopted so far.
If I were to start talking of mine, I think I even did so many things. I was blogging on the privately owned blogs of people and I was getting paid weekly, because I wasn't successful with owning my own blog.
I think we can say we're both on the path we prefer at this point.
And now those opportunities are rare and probably seem hard to find because of the escalation of everything
The opportunities are still here, there are too many fakes parading as the real thing
Exactly and that is what pisses me off, there are but just as you say the shiny diamond its hidden inside the dirty ones
Take the opportunities when you see them. We never know how prices will go and luck is always a factor. I think things can always turn around so long as the token/project doesn't die.
You're right. Take the opportunities when they come.
I think adopting a consistent ability to adapt as time changes in this digital age is our best bet on achieving longevity. I was also quite the curious one when I first learned about the possibilities of the internet back in my early teens, I saw it as a giant super store that has everything one can imagine.
Yeah, I think curiosity was a driving factor. Without that curiosity one wouldn't have that interest. I tried a lot of things as a teenager and honestly, not a lot of things worked, but that experience is the knowledge that many teens don't have nowadays
Very true, many tend to put more focus on quick gains, so they jump from one trend to another without sufficiently understanding much of how this space works from a basic level.