Here is a screen from a post I made over 5 years ago
Looks like I bought the LEO top haha
I have bought plenty of tops in my lifetime
When steem launched back in 2016 I bought around 1.6 ish BTC worth of steem when steem was near its all time high
I think I got like 300 steem for for 1.6 bitcoin, something like that don't judge my math I am going off memory
Back then Steem had some wild inflation, the voting was way different too. Something like if you vote early on something that gets traction you get more from every new person voting after you...
It was a broken system which is how we got someone making a make up tutorial that ended up with a $40,000 post reward
Did that person actually get to cash out $40,000 I do not know but anyone who was here from the beginning will remember that infamous Make Up Tutorial
Since then, steem has plummeted from around $6 and bitcoin has gone to do over a 100x
Hive was also never able to surpass the ATH of steem
Making Steem/Hive one of the worst "investments" I have ever made when I think about how much that bitcoin would have costed
But Hive wasn't about making mad gains. It was about looking at blockchain from a different view.
Sadly from day 1 the chain was riddled with fears of premine dumping and lots of insider shenanigans
The birth of hive was a big FU to Justin Sun and those who thought they can rewrite history and paint their own narrative
Now, the hive of today I have no clue how it's doing. What I mean is I have no clue if there are any "insiders" taking advantage of the reward pool or anything like that
To me, its not that deep, I don't really have that big of a piece of the pie
I had a lot of steem/hive at one point but a lot of exchange fuckery made it so that I got really turned off from the project
Overall I was sticking around because I am a creature of habit and I wanted to make sure if I wasn't posting everyday at least I can reply and curate daily to keep my "streak" going
Enter LEO
At first I felt like why not get 2 tokens per post to maximize my returns
But even then, I wasn't really thinking about the returns, they were so tiny I figured I would just keep it all or maybe buy some ETH with it here or there
LEO though, kept things interesting
When it was called LEOFINANCE I felt like I had a home to talk about other tokens
On hive I would talk about this coin or that and, in my opinion, crazy people would go nuts and downvote me to zero even though I was just chatting about legit projects, not like I was shilling obvious scams.
But it was clear hive was a place to talk about hive, not any other crypto
But LEOFINANCE gave me an outlet to talk about ANYTHING finance related.
I had a voice to speak about the markets, the ups and downs, crypto, real estate and gold and silver
Actually if it wasn't for LEO I wouldn't have had a place to show off my gold and silver coins and would have never known about the #silvergoldstackers community
Not only did I find a place where I had a voice, I found a local community on this new platform that accepted me as one of them
I mean not ever silvergoldstacker uses LEO but it was LEO's frontend that I was using that allowed me to meet so many new people who have similar mindsets
That is why at the time I put a lot of hive into Leo
that's quite the ratio, 1.2 hive per leo
There was. time where LEO dumped pretty hard and hive stayed pretty stable
but recently with the new deflationary change to LEO, that ratio has dramatically shifted the other direction
Earlier I saw a 12 cent LEO price, no I think its 11.6 last I checked
That is pretty much 0.5 Leo per hive
I see Leo going up to being worth 3 hive
I see hive going to 33 cents and Leo hitting a $1 sooner than most think
My portfolio is still pretty much 0.001% Leo/hive, I know for a fact I am going to regret NOT cashing in a handful of ETH to buy up LEO
But the PTSD of losing those bitcoin has me stunlocked... the trauma is too strong
I have to admit something though..
When I get a big upvote on a post I made, like the recent one where I should get a $20 payout for a single post... That $20 feels like a big deal... I can make $2,000 buying some coin and selling it higher and be like meh... but this $20 I will get next week has put a BIG smile on my face
I know I still earned that $2,000 in this hypothetical ... but since I wrote a post and you guys liked it enough to vote on it MEANS a lot more to me than some yield or one of my coins pumping hard
Its the fact that I can make something out of nothing that makes LEO and Hive so interesting
Now I know me taking the time out of my life to sit down, make a title, take a screenshot, upload the photo.. write all this, post and share it.. I know this is more than "nothing" but its the fact that I am literally typing this on my laptop, no AI, no tools, just me, my brain, my eyeballs and my fingers.
Its even got me typing faster since I don't really type anything long form unless I am posting here...
My goal is to get to 30,000 Leo Power... then I will see where we are and decide what to do with the rest.
Even if Leo is at $10 I think I will then keep stacking up coins
I have a thing about milestones, I will hit 30,000 LEO one day which is 0.1% of the total supply, however as more LEO is burnt, the higher that 0.1% will go... I can already predict that I will want to have 0.2%... then 0.3%... and eventually might settle for 1% of the circulating supply which is already less than 300,000 leo
Setting goals makes things so much more interesting and I am super excited to see where this all goes.
All votes on this post will solely be used to buy Leo premium and buy up more LEO
proof is on the blockchain and will not sell a single Leo until after $1, at which point I might see 100 to buy myself a 1 oz silver coin and some delicious pizza :) curtesy of you guys so thank you in advance