Sitting here, in the lobby of an office building, between incessantly checking my Metamask portfolio rise and fall incrementally, I stopped to ponder why I am still in this space.
I came into this space the way most people did during this last cycle. I had dollar signs in my eyes!
Between 2017-2019, I was fascinated by the digital asset boom and the eventual downturn. It’s easy to write something off as a scam or rug pull when you don’t have skins in the game. I didn’t hold any crypto assets during that bull run and didn’t know what it felt like to see your investment moon!
In 2019, I started really reading more articles about crypto currency. I started watching Bitboy YouTube videos. The price of $BTC was around $13-$14k at the time and I decided I was going to buy some.
I opened a Coinbase account and purchased my first Sats around the end of Q2 of 2019.
It wasn’t until I held crypto assets like BTC and ETH that I realized, I wanted to find a way to accumulate more. I looked at shitcoins and bought a little here and there.
I reconnected with an old friend of mine that had been through two halvening cycles already. I looked to him for advice on what to buy and hold! He even sent me 10,000 Doge when it had run up to 1 penny!
I think about the experience of watching that investment drop below a penny and then seeing it run back up to where I felt like I needed to get out of that investment and find something more stable! And then a month or two later watching it run up to $0.73! I think about Elon Musk and SNL! I think about having coworkers talk to me about Robinhood and how they were hooked. 
I decided that I was more comfortable as a HODLer. I would buy Bitcoin as a hedge and ETH as my main squeeze! Of course I degenned into NFTs thinking that it was the next big thing! This is how I’d grow my ETH holdings!
Now the Web3 space seems so dull and drab. People are still launching new NFT projects framing theirs as something different. Something new that ACTUALLY holds value.
Now, in this boring bear market, my aim is reward farming! If any of you have read any of my other posts, you would know that I believe participating in this market and farming rewards is what my short term plan is. The crypto space moves so fast and if you’re here, you’re farming too!
We’re farming rewards from Publish0x, tipping and writing for tips! And yes, we’re making small gains that we’re all hoping will be worth more in the future.
Maybe it will pay off. But at the end of the day, my main strategy is that of a HODLer. I’m holding these assets because I believe in them.
I’ve given up trying to convince my friends and family that they should hold ETH and BTC. They know that if they’re interested, they can ask me questions. They don’t, because bear markets are boring. They’ll start inquiring again when crypto makes positive headlines!
I think about where I am in my crypto journey and I feel proud that I’m still here! Digital assets ARE the future and no one can convince me otherwise. We all spend way too much time on our damn smart phones that it’s a mathematical certainty. But I digress.
How about you? Drop comments on where you think you’re at in your journey. Why are you still here.
As always, thank you for reading. ✌️
