Hey everyone, as most of you may know I kinda like to keep my private life private, many may assume that "anon" peoplen in crypto do it for shady things but some forget that privacy is important in some of these places, especially on a platform where I like to say what I think and do what I believe in and it allows for that through freedom of speech. So while I'm not going to go into deep details as to what happened, I'm more going to discuss some thoughts around some of my projects and future plans. 

I've posted quite extensively about my Holozing project before that and I understand that my silence suddenly may have deterred some or thought that things are worse off than they really were when in reality it was more about me personally, but being an integral part of the project at this point in time it also affected it which I regret.

Basically, I got sick, like usual I'd ignore it/hope it'd go away on its own but it got to a point where it was affecting me and my daily "hive" routines, especially with Holozing taking more of my mental resources it was making things very hard to ignore the symptoms. I finally started looking into what it could be and was provided with medication, for a while it felt like it was getting better until it got worse. I kept visiting other hospitals and doctors but it kinda felt like no one could nail it down exactly and make it better, in the end I decided maybe it'd be a good time to go back to Finland and check there while at the same time I could visit my parents which had been quite a few years since last I had. Fortunately I was able to figure out what the issue was there so while the travels lasted quite a bit, waiting on appointments, results, second opinions, etc, I can safely say now that I'm on the mend. 

Here's a picture I took of a lake there one afternoon. 


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I'd like to talk about some of my projects here on Hive, mainly Holozing. This won't be a technical rundown on the project and where it stands right now, there'll be many posts about that later, but more about my mindset going into all of it. 

As many others here I'm someone who sees value in this space, even though the rest of the crypto market may not right now. There's value, freedom and a lot of opportunity and most importantly I know this chain isn't going to go anywhere. I imagine it is quite literally close to impossible for it to die as we've seen with way smaller chains/worth less but also old meme tokens/chains survive even with barely any usage. There's people and projects on here still working on upgrading and evolving this chain and network and I have a lot of respect for them and their dedication and similarly hope to be able to continue building things here for as long as I can. This is also a reason why I had to take my recent illness a bit more serious and check thoroughly up on it because I didn't want my projects and things we're building here to go to waste because at a time like this, this early into the project, I don't think it would survive without one of its founders, although the plan is that it eventually will. 

Having said that, I'm in no rush to rush this project and half-ass it. Holozing has started in my mind way before it was announced and there's parts to it that are way further ahead than they may seem even though I admit most of what is visible now is a few creatures on posts and a website with a token distribution. We want to release things when they are ready and when we feel the timing is good. With the way we started this project I also feel that there's not the same kind of pressure on it as you may see in other projects where you may have investors, institutions, etc, having a stake in it and bugging you about progress or exchange listings and showering you early with money to make things look nice but at the end of the day not care about its longevity or health as long as they and you as the founder/team got your profits and move on to something else. 

Now I'm not going to lie, I did kind of expect/hope more from Hive itself seeing the way the rest of the market was performing I was thinking it would give our gaming project a boost in funding with the stake we had amassed gaining value instead of losing it. While my own health did cause some things to be delayed it can't be ignored that the price of Hive has also delayed the project in certain ways. It is still in debt and barely able to pay our gamedev and 3d creation, of which some parts we've had to postpone completely due to the costs. It is true, though, that delegation isn't the main way we want to build this project but I can't see us launching a starter sale in the midst of this alt-rekt season. The project didn't come to a full stop, though, while I was semi-afk only operating from my phone. 

Without trying to get too technical and detailed about Holozing in this post, I wanna discuss some things I find important with it. 

The artwork may seem like not much to some of you, but from conception to polishing to turning them into 3d brings us a lot of long-lasting value to the project as we can use the artwork for many different things. Thus it's important that it's done properly from the beginning, especially with immutable/nft's coming up in the future where ownership of these assets will exist. There have of course been some pitfalls with certain artists underperforming, cheating, attempting to cheat (AI) and some money going down drains while we searched for the correct fits, but that's kind of normal with this kind of project until we're ready and big enough to register it as a company and get the perks of that to hire these artists we have now and future ones through means outside of "crypto/paypal/3rd party website handshakes".

Anyway, I guess the gist of this post is, I'm back and I'm not looking to abandon any of my projects here on Hive. There's always uncertainty, especially in this space and that is okay, I'm almost always looking at the longterm side of things both with Hive and my other projects and I know there's some of you out there doing the same. 

For those who didn't check the latest Holozing post, we got some fun little things coming up next like soulbound achievements with the ability to earn Zing from so keep an eye on those posts this coming week. 

Here on this account I'll be posting a bit more random things from time to time (this is the best time to post when prices are down, right? :D), but I'll also go into some non-official zing thoughts and thinking of the game which I have to say has become quite complex which is also a reason it is a bit late for alpha testing. It's all done in the spirit of avoiding the _gaming_ aspect of it so that players and delegators/future buyers of starter packs don't lose out value to cheats/bots. Let's see how it goes. 

Thanks to the awesome Hive community, not just for staying active with Holozing during these uncertain/silent times but in general being awesome on Hive as a whole and not lashing out or going crazy during these in my opinion unfair evaluation these crazy volatile markets have brought us. 

Thanks for reading.