month-old picture of this years potato harvest, because apparently a post needs a pic. 😒

9 years ago

I found this thing 9 years ago.
Time really flies...

At the time, people were getting 30,000$ payouts for shitposting. I was early enough to secure my piece.

Since then time has passed and a lot of $$$ were made.
Many people came, were basically staked up by the whales, then made a splash and left.

I spent some of my stake on things, but always kept some, because I expected this tech to go mainstream.

Last year September I decided to spend all my liquid funds. I sold a lot of my Hive for cheap, which hurt at the time.

Happy Anniversary 🎂

Today Hive sits at 20 cents. Rock bottom.
My feed is ass.
Most of my friends left this place.
Many millions of $$$ were given to marketing scams.
Communities suck.
Splinterlands seems to finally fade.
What else?
Curation gangs are still doing their thing. Can't get rid of these parasites, it seems. At 0.01 cent some dickkhead wales will still support this scum.

Future

Despite all the frustration, I'll stay.
It's not like I've contributed much of value myself.

I am still waiting for real creators to appear and to produce real, relevant, timely content to blow all these clowns out of the water.

...I guess...

Meh

This tech might just be too far ahead of it's time.
But this is the internet. It's still magic in the sense that anything can happen.
The web moves fast, sometimes.

Forget the payouts for a moment; No transaction fees (ok: RC), 3 sec blocktime, 1 block irreversibility (which kinda made HAF obsolethe - another few millions wasted), custom JSON, HBD, delegated POS.

It's actually brilliant.
Just not the right users, perhaps.
That includes myself, btw.

....

I'll be away from the web for a little longer, only popping in sporadically.
I'll keep the last 50k staked, if only not to be a hypocrate.

so much more to write, but I am on a phone and it's a struggle....