I've been reading a lot of the most inspiring posts on Publish0x recently about portfolios, goals, regrets and what accomplishments of this past year. I still feel like we should be in January - it seemed like it was a non-month to me, but I digress. 

This past year has been weird, wacky, scary, fluid, timeless and abnormal for a lot of us. One thing I noticed at the start of 2021 was the lack of New Year's Resolutions flying around social media. A lot of the people I know really just want 2021 to be better (even slightly better) than 2020 was. 

Humans are creatures of routine and a large portion of people attribute big change with stress. There was a lot of change last year, coupled with an existential panic due to CV19, matched in severity by a crash in the economies around the world, elections, violence and general mayhem. People in general don't do well in high stress environments for long periods of time. 

Last year was extremely volatile for me in many ways and the global sudden changes and lockdowns wrecked havoc. I did not do any sort of inventory of accomplishments until recently. I only got introduced to Cryptocurrency in earnest last year and I am very glad I did. Unfortunately I come from a background of non-believers in anything even remotely related to a stock market due to the risk inherent therein. Being taught (indoctrinated) to never take risks but to simply work yourself to death in the same industry your whole life and then reach retirement age, only to realize that the government has locked your pension into a state owned enterprise that has been looted by corrupt politicians is not my idea of setting a great, obtainable goal to be proud of. 

So if anyone has broken the generational cycle it would be this black sheep right here. 

My crypto porfolio a year ago was non-existant as can be seen in this graph below:

And seeing as I only really started accumulating cryptocurrency in October and I was only able to start buying Crypto in November, I was really quite impressed that my portfolio now consists of pac-man eating some pie as can be seen here:

I think I'm doing pretty well lol. 

All jokes aside though, I have been scoffed at, shouted down, ridiculed and mocked for "gambling money away on cryptocurrency" by the non-believers around me and I no longer even mention it. Every person has their own way and it's not for everyone and I'm not going to push any of my stuff onto others, that's not my style. 

Strangely enough when I first started getting acquainted with crypto, I was absolutely flat broke with a mountain of debt that was exacerbated by my business going under due to the CV 19 shutdown. I had no money to invest in anything, but I started fauceting and while I no longer feel that fauceting is the way to go if you are serious about seeing long term gains, it is definitely a good place to start and get excited about the different defi coins. Three months worth of fauceting on various platforms, giving up on many of them and consolidating what I could out of the rest into my Trust Wallet, FaucetCrypto was in my opinion the most lucrative and that has earned me a few dollars. I've actually managed to reach level 158 and I still believe that if you can get the right referals and enough of them linked with a high level, you could actually make some decent money from it. The two main coins I withdrew were DASH and LTC. Here are my withdrawals in satoshi over 3 months. 

I love reading posts by my favorite authors on how they are making gains by simply adding to their portfolio each month and weighing up the risks and rewards. I believe that Bitcoin is still going to keep going up and that the same people that laughed at me will be crying when it reaches stupid levels. I am still hoping for ETH 2.0 to solve the ridiculous gas fees but for now, my ETH is just sitting there and glaring at me while I ignore it. 

Two currencies I have recently come to love are Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash. I've been slowly but surely adding to my LTC portfolio every few days and I absolutely love that the transfer fees are so low. Bitcoin Cash was the first Crypto currency I ever used to pay for something and that was a picture that Azure posted of his cat that I want to use in a business venture of mine I'm planning on launching in March this year. And then a week ago on the recommendation of another Publish0x author I found Noise.Cash which I'm also posting random thoughts and photos on and earning BCH daily. It has grown my BCH portfolio substantially and a sixth of what I hold has come from there. I'm planning on looking into publishing on Read.Cash later this year once we are settled in our new hometown. 

Publish0x has been monumental in broadening my horizons with regards to crypto and the future of digital decentralized currency. I'm a lot of a rebel so considering that the banks are not happy about Crypto makes me think that it is the future of the people, for the people, not just the select few. 

StakeCube has also added a passive interest earning to my portfolio and while it's not much, it's a lot more than the banks offer on savings accounts, especially considering that fiat currency is devaluing at an increasing pace with the amount of stimulus being pumped into economies the world over, while most of the crypto coins are (on average) gaining in worth and popularity. 

So I'm keen to see where this takes me in the next few months and what my portfolio will look like this time next year. 

Onwards and upwards :)

Comments always welcome.