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There are 85 days left in the SPS Airdrop, where 400 million of the 3 billion total supply will be issued, which represents 13.3% of the total supply. This is a year long process. But, there is also 200 million that was in the private investor presale, with 10% of it becoming liquid each month. By my math, that means that the last vesting unlock period should be the start of next month, unless the first unlock was on day zero. Anyone know?


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Regardless, there should soon be 20 million less SPS emitted each month and that could mean that a little less dumping will be going on by those who have bought in the private sale *much cheaper* than what it currently sits at - 11.5 cents. This is good news for the price hopefully, but for now I don't mind, as I am trying to collect all I can in the hope that when the time comes for SPS to shine, it will be more than worth my while. 

For me, the majority of my own drop comes through the DEC:SPS pool on Tribaldex, which accounts for about 90% of the total I get. This of course comes with a price tag and a fair amount of risk, as it requires holding DEC and SPS pooled and DEC is likely going down from here. Hopefully though, there will be more SPS at the end of the airdrop to make up for it. 

By the end, there should be around 719 million + 166M play to earn + 166M Staking/ LP/ Oracle rewards - but those last two I am not sure about how that is being emitted - because currently, there is 740M already in the emitted supply, which means that in the next 85 days, there would need to be 311M more added. I don't see that happening, but I think this is because the development roadmap is no longer on schedule. 

I don't know what has happened, but suddenly, Splinterlands has become a very major holding for me, with my cards and SPS/DEC amounting to a pretty digital penny. This makes me quite nervous at times, especially when other holdings are taking a hammering, like Cub - it is down *a lot* and just over the last few days, it has bled several thousand worth out of it. Will it recover? Unsure. 

I have been in this "crypto game" for a while now and I haven't really benefited financially from anything that I have done here, but at some point I do hope to be able to improve my life and open up opportunities that were previously closed to me and my family. I think it would be quite incredible to be able to redirect the future through a process of creativity, brain power and effort - in a community and ecosystem that encourages and rewards others to do the same. Isn't it nice being part of something that is meaningful to so many?

But, none of that comes for free, does it? There are so many costs involved and they aren't just the financial ones, as with any opportunity, there can be a slew of incurred costs involved.

But, I was reading another article saying what I (and others) have been saying for years, the young are turning away from traditional investments, because they are getting priced out of the markets - like in housing. For many, they aren't necessarily going "all in" on crypto, but they are getting accustomed to *investing themselves* into stock markets, making their own decisions on what to buy or, investing into ETFs. This is part of the training process that normalizes micro investing and in time, more knowledge and confidence builds and they start roaming further into other ventures - like Splinterlands assets.

What a lot of investor people have yet to recognize with crypto yet is, that this is a long game and while they can't see the "point" of it yet, in time these same kids will become the middle-aged manager levels, working in decision-making positions, after having invested themselves for half of their lifetime into digital assets on trading apps. What kinds of business decisions do they make?

While most people understand and can visualize the "reality" of owning real estate, the future generations are going to see the *reality* in digital assets too, transforming them from a financial oddity into an every day commodity. The fact that they don't physically exist doesn't matter, because just like gender these days, reality doesn't have to be physical. 

That sounds like a political statement, but in this case at least, it is not - it is just the way people think about concepts these days. The concept of something is akin to being the thing. If you are thirsty, a digital glass of water is not enough, but we are becoming more accusomted to personifying things that do not exist. This isn't new - remember that in the mid-1990s people were suiciding when their Tamagotchi pets died and, people are carrying around body pillows with manga characters on them to feel "comforted" - reality is changing. 

But, this doesn't change the need for usecase, it just means that what usage we consider valuable is changing, where a person can feel appreciated because a chatbot says thank you for calling, or a person can feel powerful because a metric says they have a lot of followers. They may not have any influence over those followers at all, but that doesn't stop them feeling the sense that they do. 

In many ways, this all sounds dystopic, but have a look at the *reality* of the current physical world and economy and tell me whether it is any better. At least in the digital realms, people are able to feel that they have some agency over their path through digital life, something that many people feel they are lacking IRL. And because of this, they are going to continue to favor where they feel that they are valued. 

The current economy has done a brilliant job of increasingly ostracizing and disenfranchising the average person and making it obvious that we are not valued as individuals or groups. As a result, there is a fragmentation of society and communities, where people want to be part of something, but still treated as a unique individual, which creates all kinds of internal and external conflicts. So, the rebellion that is taking place and disintegrating the basic ties that used to bond us in the physical world, will reform them in the digital world, where communities and participation can be fragmented across multiple points, but still make a single individual feel whole. 

Do you see how the start of this post on Splinterlands and the last half are related? Do you see how we are part of building something that might to the status quo eye look foolish? Do you see how the current economy is pushing the average person to find another way, to stop being reliant and instead take responsibility for themself? Perhaps you don't see it. But it doesn't matter, because none of this really exists.

At the end of the day - *everything is worth exactly zero.*

Taraz
[ Gen1: Hive ]



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