Do you ever find yourself refreshing the coingecko or coinmarketcap market page once every few minutes to "stay in touch with the market" like you were some sniper(edit courtesy of @edicted )or something waiting to hit your target?

I find myself doing that multiple times a day. If I had one penny for every time I checked the crypto market in the past five years I'd probably be a millionaire by now. Refreshing such pages haven't made anyone a millionaire yet and will probably never do. I don't even know of anyone who has ever become a millionaire in crypto overnight. 

I know people who fucked it in crypto overnight, I'm one of these lucky bastards...

So, the starting point for this post is wasting time on futile actions(refreshing pages, constantly checking on the prices). These aren't productive at all. Even if you witness some pump "live", the most you can make out of it is tweet about it or make a thread on Leofinance, I bet not many are trading such moves that often. 

It's funny, though, how a tiny chart encompasses a decade of price action and evolution in the crypto industry. I was looking at [this one](https://twitter.com/CryptoNoob_1/status/1585194660523216896?t=WFVya212xqSvbH3Kjv5NLw&s=35) a few minutes ago and according to this guy making the tweet, we're on the path of an insane uptrend for Bitcoin. 

![photo_20221027_145956.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/nr5uTJZ.jpg)

Has any chart predicted the 2017 bull run, though? I doubt that. Has any managed to foresee that $69k was the top for the previous bull market? Same thing... I'm not meant to diss any chartist here, but behind all these bars, candles, and wicks some shit is been going on for a while. Like... [Hong Kong planning to put new rules in place that would make retail crypto trading legal in the city, as part of its efforts to become a center for crypto](https://decrypt.co/112971/hong-kong-may-overturn-crypto-rules-open-trading-retail-investors-report). 

Hmmm, China, China, China...

Or, [Kazakhstan inking a deal with Binance to launch its Digital Tenge on the BNB Chain](https://cryptoslate.com/kazakhstan-to-launch-cbdc-on-bnb-chain/). While the charts seem to be following some patterns and to some extent respect the halving cycles, there's a crypto integration process going on that these charts are not talking about. 

What was crypto about back in 2017? Nothing but hopes(ICOs) and dreams(Steem). The mass integration of crypto in the daily lives of the masses is not yet palpable, but when we compare 2018 with 2022, the space is a whole lot different. While constantly refreshing a damn page and waiting for something to happen is like running inside a hamster wheel, shit has happened in the crypto world while we were refreshing pages. 

El Salvador made Bitcoin legal tender, and Bitcoin score a one trillion market cap for the first time in its history, it was discussed at a state level as becoming a currency to circumvent American sanctions, fintech companies are slowly integrating crypto as payment currencies, kids are more into crypto than ever before and Steem is no longer what it used to be.

Steem was a home, a promised land, and now it's nothing but a wreck, an excessively milked and dying cow. Hive is the calf of that cow, pardon my expression, but Hive is not on the same path Steem was. Hive is more "of the people and by the people" than Steem ever was. It's true that some people are still living on the same old principles here as they were on the old chain, but we have evolved, and the industry has evolved. 

Bear markets are highly boring and time-consuming, but every bear market has an end, and every end of a bear market precedes the beginning of a new bull market. I'm not saying I know that the bear market is over, I suppose it is, but even if it isn't, what did actually happen between these idiotic pages refreshing I was mentioning?

Well, I built my portfolio back, managed to cover most of my expenses using my Hive rewards, and survived an 80% correction of the crypto market for the second time in five years and I'm ready and eager to once again climb high with the wave. This time is going to be different, I tell you that... And with every such wave, we move forward in our story of taking over the world. 

Cuz that's what crypto is all about, replacing the old and crooked with the new. Before I close this post, I'm curious, how many times a day are you checking the prices of Bitcoin and other cryptos a day?

*Thanks for your attention,*
*Adrian*       

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