An inch of time worth an inch of gold. But you can not buy an inch of time with an inch of gold. Chinese proverb.
January 1st 2020 a total number of 26,039 new babies were born in Nigeria alone. This record gives the number of babies born in the hospital aside those born at home, clinic, roadside etc. From the African Development, in Africa economic outlook for 2020. 69% Nigerians are living in abject poverty. More than 124 million in Nigeria live in poverty I.E survive with less than $1 per day. High poverty reflect rising unemployment estimated at 23.1% in 2018 up from 14.2% in 2016. The increase in unemployment continue to rise daily, from January till date over 10,000 gain employed individual have lost their jobs. Meaning there could be increase in crime rate and other ugly illegal crime.
Exactly around 5:00am last week Tuesday, I was sitting alone reading when the good old memories came as a flash, could this be the missing piece of the puzzle or we check for another. On every crypto blogging platforms, there exist two (2)set of people just like the gold rush of 1894 (the miners and the shovel sellers).
The investors
The hustler
1.The invetors:- This individuals with huge stake in their wallet called (whales). They are the set of the rich guys, their money work for them. Everyone desire to be or becoming one someday but only few folks falls under this category. The hustler are always look unto them like the story of the "Rich man and Lazarus "in the Holy Bible (Luke 14). They set their eyes fixed for the scrum that will fall from their table (upvote) to sustain their post health.
2.The hustler :-This are the set of the workaholics individuals,they work 24/7 like the wall clock creating post, participating in contest, making meaningful comments and lots more. I tell you, this is one of the hardest but lots of them get nothing at the end. They always go through this rigorous activities daily just to get fair share of the whale vote if luck would shine on them. But most time it has always end in tears rather than joy.
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE WHALE AND THE HUSTLER
| WHALE | HUSTLER | |
|---|---|---|
| 1.They post once a week and bag huge payout | 1. Post at least once daily with little or no pay | |
| 2.Do do not need to join contest to gather token | 2.Join various contest to grab few tokens or vote | |
| 3. They could either post short or long post with lots of upvote | 3.maximum of 500 words per post | |
| 4. Spend few hours on the platform | 4. Spend minimum of 15hours daily in search of post to comment, curate etc | |
| 5. Post always appear on the trending page always | 5.post reraly appear on trending page except lots of ass licking has been done. |
I can go on and on with the difference between the two but time will fail me. There's still more to share. Yeah, I understand the part of the story that
When money speaks humanity obeys
Ride on with me, for I have a few things against you. Please read till the end.
This post won't be complete without going back in retrospect visiting where everything all started from.
MEMORY LANE
I join steemit August 2nd 2017. I study the platform for a good whole year, saw how the red fish and minnows suffer on the platform which resulted in lot of people doing some circle jerking voting and some into as licking. I tell you people can do ugly things all in the name of getting something ($$$)money out of it. No wonder the Bible says;
The love of money is the root of all evil.
That suffering inspired me in creating an account called "minnowstears". The vision was great with lots of promises alone to wipe the secret tears of many. Mind you, lots of communities were doing their best but the ocean is so big that they could not meet up with the large number of post that appears daily. Never mind to ask, all the community dreams went down the drain. Why? No support or help was made. Everyone was busy caring for their community members. I understand the pain, hard work and research done but day and night to put up a quality post which at the end was unable to make a good amount of money. I tell you lots of us join with the primary aim of making cool $$$ to sustain livelihood. Lots of individuals lives depend on their post payout to earn something good for themselves. Hmm, what a bad situation. I left the dream back then to die due to inability to get support to fund the account and I resorted to this words.
If I can't save the world, I rather save myself.
I did all my possible best, dm lots of whales, write out proposal to lots of community but it all fell on deaf ears and some with promises they never fulfilled. That taught me a hard learn, that when you are passing through challenges never depend on help from people but draw strength from God and yourself. That two is sure. All thanks to 
CURATION SHOW
Yes, curation show was a life changer. I remember back then everyday from 6pm till 10pm it's always busy time. We zoom from one show to another. In some cases i could be on two show at a particular time just to submit my post for curation. All this help a lot in getting good vote and also comments from others. It creates intimacy and relationships about members. It's either curation show or giveaway night or talent hunt. I sincerely miss those show and giveaway. I believe something can still be done. Information on latest happens on crypto world, investment opportunity, entertainment, meet-up and many more happen during curation show.
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The best way to succeed on a course is to check your predecessor failures and success. This is one of the main success of steemit and I believe it should be inculcated here too. Ever since I joined hive, I want to say they are not trending in the old steemit way but lots of folks have lamented about not getting vote after the welcome vote they received from their introductory post. This is a bad situation which need to be tackled, new members are on boarding into the platform daily. Many are old members of steemit and also many are new members into the blockchain world.
BRING BACK OUR CURATION SHOW
I know the old members will love to see the curation show back here on hive with lots of giveaway, fun, entertainment, joke, information etc. This are what makes a platform lively and engaging.
SUGGESTIONS
I write this piece to everyone and most especially to the whales among us here.
To whom much is given much is expected
We have left all and follow you guys down to this place believe it's a new world where we can enjoy what we call freedom and survive without becoming a prey. No man wants to become a slave to the other but be free and enjoy the work of their hands.