TLDR
I farmed an airdop where an influencer made $52k, which is fifty two thousand dollars, as for me, I came out with nothing and here is my sad story
My airdop (hunting) journey has been extremely unsatisfactory, despite the fact that I have been working hard for over 6 to 10 months. It is either I miss a big win by a whisker, or I work so hard that I end up with nothing.
I have been extremely unlucky because the majority of the projects I have backed to do well end up being completely disappointing, and I only find out about the ones that do well a week or two before the end of farming.
Another scenario is that I sometimes simply trust one (airdrops) over the other, and then the team or VC behind the project I trust becomes overly greedy and messes up the reward that should go to the community, resulting in me wasting 6 to 8 months.
However, the only way to mitigate this is to farm a large number of these DePIN projects, committing time, effort, and possibly money.
So this particular airdop (project) is called SOSOVALUE; I believe it launched in March or April of last year, but I only learned about it in January.
I saw someone talking about the project on Twitter and was convinced that it would actually pay well, and my prediction was correct; however, I joined only three weeks before the launch date.
For someone who scouts Twitter for these projects that train AI and require users to test, it was unfortunate that I discovered this thing late, but here's what could have happened: these guys probably opened up referrals, possibly late, and people only decided to shill it when the project opened up referrals; unfortunately, it was too late, and latecomers became liquidity exits for people who used them for referrals.
I was disappointed when I learned that farming would end this week, but I figured it would not matter, so after connecting my metamask wallet, I checked today and discovered that my allocation was worth around $21.
Actually, the project's official token (SOSO) was launched at $1.7, but I did not realize it at the time. What really killed my morale was the gas fee required to claim Metamask and send it to a CEX.
The total amount was between 16 and 17 dollars, which felt completely disappointing. Tell me why the Ethereum chain continues to charge these exorbitant fees.
Fortunately for those who had been farming for more than 8 months, some made $1,000, some made $800, and others earned more than $2,000.
However, the influencer with the biggest drop received a lot of large rewards, with the highest I saw on Twitter being $52k. How does a person make that much money alone?
Granted, I was not an influencer, but I could have made around $1,000 if I had started earlier.
The tasks were absolutely easy, it doesn't take more than 5 minutes a day to complete them and so bagging 1k$ would have been nice, I could have bought some coins with them and reinvest into some other DePin project and increased my chances.
I was devastated to realize that I had spent months of time and effort on meaningless projects that were not rewarding, and that my choices had been poor thus far. It has been a sad day for me. I have been hoping for a win for over a year now, but all I have gotten is disappointment and losses.
Too Late To Cry now
Every hustler wants to win, and no matter how hard you work, you are not guaranteed anything.
Efforts do not always result in wins; sometimes we are fortunate and put in minimal effort, sometimes we put in all of our efforts and come up empty-handed, and sometimes we simply choose to back the wrong horse in the hustle game.
However, I am not giving up now. I discovered that the DePIN, AI, and NFT airdrop projects pay extremely well; all you need is time, a few resources, and some luck.
At the moment, I do not have the resources, and I have not been fortunate in a long time to have consistently put in the energy and time, but I have come too far to give up now; I do not think I can, and I must see this through to completion.
The DePIN industry is massive, and being consistent here will allow you to make a lot of money, which is exactly what I plan to do.
If you want to check out SOSOVALUE they've started season two of the airdop, you can click here and learn about the project by yourself.
https://sosovalue.com/join/W21085CE
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