As a father and teacher, I find that my individuality has been coiled tightly - much like a cobra strangling the breath out of its arch-enemy, the python - by obligations and responsibilities. Okay, not that teaching isn’t fun, but when my entire Term 3 was spent conceptualising and coordinating the final-year paper, you can imagine how I don’t quite have the creative space to innovate at work. But this year, I have dedicated myself to publishing my content on Stacker News and getting paid in the form of satoshis (the lowest denominator of Bitcoin). It took me one whole year, but I was able to unlock my Bitrefill referral link

(https://www.bitrefill.com/invite/q3vi9c4y) before 2024. Bitrefill is a website that I use to buy NTUC FairPrice and GrabFood vouchers with the sats I accumulate from Stacker News (and other sources).

Well, one has to buy $50 worth of vouchers from Bitrefill before he gets bestowed with a referral link, so I can proudly say that I’m an earning content creator. Beyond the monetary rewards, I’m gratified that my writing is deemed engaging and relevant enough for strangers to tip me sats. I love that I can forge this fledgling identity outside of my home and work and have something that is authentically mine.