2022 seemed like a bad year: the bear market, the fall of Bitcoin, and the collapse of exchanges, but, for those who know how to put their eggs in the right basket; 2022 has been a spectacular year.
As investors, we always have to analyze very well where we put our money and our hopes. It's about researching before investing, but I'm sure you already know that. For me, these 12 months have been a test of my patience, intellect, finances, and, above all, a litmus test for my dreams as an entrepreneur. Nevertheless, I feel that I have gotten an "A".
Pictures take it with my smartphone
When one door closes, another one open
BEUROP has come through despite the odds. Our Legends of Aragon game is renovated and improved because we had to start from scratch after the hired team of developers took the investment money and left us with a half-baked game. Now we have evolved to a better interface, with much more interaction between players.
YouCrypto, our DeFi, and marketing platform for new blockchain projects are about to launch its unique tools. This decentralized platform will have free access tools for traders and cryptocurrency enthusiasts. Also, a bot for Telegram for the analysis of pairs in the market.
We created an NFT art project whose peer is ARTs/BEPR; Diverse DAO is a system that aims to host independent artists to highlight art in all its expressions (visual artists, musicians, writers, and journalists). A decentralized autonomous organization that aims to give art the space to express itself without censorship or taboos; where it is the community who decides how decisions are made.
Screenshot from Legends of Aragon
A new path
Retracing our steps is perhaps the best way to analyze how we have behaved, what our successes and failures have been, and what we have learned from our mistakes. If I say that I did not feel demotivated at times, I would be lying; there were many professional obstacles, but with each one of them, there were opportunities to get up and continue.
I have always dreamed of a world free of oppression, manipulative governments, centralized companies, and businesses; I am not the only one. With that goal as my emblem, I searched for people, and projects and found them.
Hive has been one of the best things that have come into my life. This decentralized ecosystem exalts democracy (the real one) and trusts that it is the community that calls the shots; it is home to many who have, like me, a dream to fulfill.
Hive and its ecosystem have given me the place I was looking for to let myself go, to tell my experiences as an entrepreneur, as a dreamer, and as an entrepreneur. Each of the communities to which I belong has opened a page where I can express myself on related topics without detours or censorship.
Beurop family at Hive
When the veil of FTX fell, only one cryptocurrency benefited: Binance Coin. Many criticized Binance's native token leverage, but, for some (like me) this was a "lucky break". The rise of BNB increased the liquidity of BEPR (the BEUROP ecosystem token) to $50 000. After months with a stable price, this token paired with BNB, increased in value by 15%. Not only was this a huge boost to our company and for our investors, but it allowed me to invest $22 000 in HIVE.
From this investment, not only did I enter the Hive ecosystem, but I formed a learning team to bring our community of Beuropeans into it. We are creating tutorials in Spanish, English, Ukrainian and Russian, which we will upload to our online academy. All the members of this team have committed to Hive and found a space to grow professionally and financially in its system.
Also, I have promoted communities within Hive, such as 
Beurop Family plans to be a curatorial project that fosters art, blockchain technology, journalism, and writing. We believe that the boundaries of technology and areas like text editing (digital publishing) can be blurred, in the same way, that limits have been blurred with fine art and photography (NFT). And our work begins at Hive.
The year of the harvest
What is most enjoyable about a victory is the effort and perseverance that lead to it. The road has been difficult, but I have learned from every stone I have stumbled over. I have grown as a human being, an entrepreneur, and a leader. This will be the year to harvest what has been seeded with love and sweat.
The Spanish writer Federico Garcia Lorca once said:
Waiting, the knot unravels and the fruit ripens.
The last selfie from 2022
2023 is the year to take off and touch the moon.