I have a thing about crypto. I don't want anyone to know I am into it. Crypto has become the poster boy for get rich quick schemes like the pyramid schemes of the 80s/90s. It has become hipstery. It was cool back in 2017/2018 but now everyone is in on it and I don't like that. So this is the reason I don't like talking about it. When my friends talk about it, I tend not to get into the subject. The only person that knows about it is a work colleague that is into it as well. I don't speak about Hive to anyone because Irish people are nosey and if anyone from the town knew I was blogging, they would be pulling apart every post. Hence the Barry Gibb photo and my silkylounge twitter profile. My wife knows a tiny bit of what I do but I don't tell her much and I would die if she read any posts. I decided in 2020 that I would not put a cent more into crypto as it was more a gamble not an investment after experiencing multiple rug pulls. So now I treat crypto differently. I invest the crypto I have accumulated into projects I like.Hive is one of them. I am not concerned how much my account is worth but I do want the platform to become popular. I love Splinterlands , again more of a hobby than an investment. Splinterlands is changing the landscape of computer gaming forever and I do not think we in Hive appreciate it as much as we should, to have them on the Hive platform. I think the future of the game is bright so I have recently purchased a license for a validator Node. It came to around $1500 with 500 vouchers. This ROI gives me 6 vouchers per day and SPS rewards are also coming( next Tuesday we think) 6 vouchers per day at todays prices is $1. The more nodes that are purchased , the larger the reward pool so best to get in early.
So I am earning $6 per day which is $42 per week. I am just converting it to SPS right now to build up my SPS stake. When SPS rewards come online then I will start buying some decent cards from the vouchers. I have another source of passive income from the DRIP network which is paying me around €10 per day. I throw this into DEC and I am trying to max out the Chaos legion deck before it sells out. All in all I am probably making €100 euro in passive income per week. DRIP is at all time lows so this tenner per day will only get larger. The Vouchers will be high for a while hence the fact I pulled the trigger on the node last week before the Riftwatcher announcements.
But back to the point, my wife would not have a clue what I am making, how much my Splinterlands deck is worth (very little but I plan to change that) and basically she thinks they are all magic beans. She asks a few questions but mostly lets me off. She knows I am playing with monster cards which she does find quite nerdy. A 40 year old man playing video games cards does come across a bit mad but she's happy I enjoy it so thats all that matters.
If I did come out and told her how much of my money I put into crypto between 2017- 2020 I would say she would go mad. We get on great and don't argue much but I would say she would be pissed off over what she would perceive as a waste of money. Also the $100 per week could be used better than to spurge on monster cards. She is right in a way as I have put my money on the wrong crypto horse so to speak so this is why I decided to not put anything else in. Now I still have bags of certain coins and some have put me in profit overall but not as much as to say buy a car or a house.
So it is better she doesn't know for both our sakes.
So the question to you is does your other half know how much you are into crypto?
Does She/he know everything??
Tell the truth now. I know one or two of you will say that you and the other half have no secrets but I know its a pack of lies. You don't have a wife, you live in the basement with your corn flake beard and your jar of liver!