I have probably been in the cryptosphere for about 4 years now, with my real deep dive about a year or two ago. The deep dive involved having to deal with nonsense like Uniswap, watching a token become worthless overnight and thinking that liquidity farming is some sort of saving grace. 

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Now I don't mind Uniswap they are grand, Ethereum is absolute retardation though from a user perspective but then again people listen to the news so it is not like the world has their heads screwed on properly. 

After all this time though, it has finally clicked for me. 

I now know that we are in a Bear market. I never could instinctively or without pause answer "which one is bear and which is bull?"

Dunno. 

Now that does not mean I care, I just like the fact that I know and thought I would share. Call me emotional. 

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<h3>Not so liquid</h3>

After dropping a grand of my crypto at the peak on some promising but ultimately wasteful real-world items, which to be fair if I did a bit of effort and possibly spent a little more could be fixed and earn it all back. I won't though, yet, ok maybe but we will see. 

After I did that many of the liquidity farms also started acting just like humans. Which was not supposed to surprise me. Since humans are trash and all that, also since we run these projects and by extension, only a fraction of a fraction would be worthwhile. 

So with those coins going into freefall, me selling and consolidating everything back into Hive and friends I did not really venture out again. 

Once you are staked and consolidated it is really hard to find the edge of the scab to rip it off just right. 

The sweet satisfaction of bleeding on your own terms. 

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<h3>Venture</h3>

Now I know Hive is not the end-all and be-all, but the thing with Hive and friends is that I get to lose all my value while gaining and really just being proactive. 

Recently I read this article <a href="https://ecency.com/hive/@makerhacks/get-off-the-hive-treadmill-love-to-say-i-told-you-so">Get off the Hive treadmill</a>, and not to spoil it but they do speak about something many like @chekohler have preached for a while. 

It boils down to why you blog though and why you earn on Hive. If you are a "blogger" or have to earn then unless you are completely using every opportunity and maximizing your Hive income like @belemo then you should without a doubt be utilizing external platforms and build your brand as you would IRL. 

If you are like me who is more on the fence until they fall off and decide to run which confuses the cops so they chase you anyway and now you have a reason to run, then sure remain a bit consistent, stake and just do things as they come. 

I guess you can see how I am not a good saver or future builder, right?

I never could click what a bear market is because I have never really experienced one. I have never cared that all the crypto I earn is worthless if I were to rely on it. 

That may sound like a dramatic realization but it is not. This is not a post about how I am going to change my life and focus on earning and how I see the true potential and all the things hypebeasts and happy-clappy look how retrospective I am pissfaces might do. 

It is just a reminder to keep venturing even if your focus area is small and as much as you want to you just can't get yourself to buy some of the "HODL" tokens they scream at you to get. Even then just keep compounding. 

The beauty of Hive and friends is that we get to do the things we would be doing online but every interaction is a dive into the wishing well. 

Now that can sound good or bad and I would guess that both are equally correct. 








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