I don't have a dime of investments in Bitcoin but I do in several other alt coins and I have been buying the dip for as long as it lasts with as much as as I am able.

Technically with the money that I usually use to buy cigarettes and beer, icecream, any entertainment, etc. Only thing I have paying with the cash on hand I earn from my slave work is going towards food, small necessary household maintenance and to keep up my off-grid project that I am still working on. (it's no walk in the park).

Why am I invested into crypto is for maybe two or three reasons.

1. to establish my off-grid living as a successful business
2. To have a future asset for when I am forced to retire
3. hmmm vacation?

I think that is pretty sound reasonable points to why invest into crypto.

I haven't invested into Hive at all, but I am thinking about buying 100$usd worth of POB. and use that stake to achieve my goals mentioned above. Also to stake some hive HP little by little but I am mostly interested in POB.

As far as the recent drama that had taken place causing the price to go down, I am very skeptical about the whole thing now.

I have noticed that causing drama to be trending can either be damaging to the community or it's a very smart psychological influenced warfare to bring down market price at the price of a few individual accounts. Thus enabling malevolent agenda pushing investors to come in and stake in a high amount of PoB.

That's just my theory and I consider it a very plausible scenario that can occur to anyone on this platform.

So, just as evil does not rest, neither should we. Thus it is very important to keep being informed on various subjects. and try to figure out who could be the target when things are seemingly "too" bullish for "too" long.

Bears will jump onto the bandwagon to self destruction if it meant making a large investment in downfall. So I would caution every user to stay vigilant and defend your posts from all corners from psychological attacks.

I ain't going to be pointing fingers at who is at blame because as a community we are all equally responsible for how the price fluctuates.

From the moment I saw the huge candle wic of sales I knew a downtrend was inevitable and being that market price fluctuations are nothing more that the influence of the human psychology the questions surrounding me was, Who is going to be the downfall.

We saw

We saw the trending pages. It was clear to us. Who do we support?
We tried. But the odds were against us for x various of reasons.

So ​here we are now. Recovering from
that drop.

I have been on the sidelines with hive for quite sometime now. Viewing from the outside since the creation of Steemit.

I was looking at the title as a really good eye catcher for thoose that just wanted to release steam.

I have read up on the history on how Justin Sun tyrannized his way up to the top and took over and forced a hardfork. Now after having seen some of that drama die down I am hoping I made the right decision to invest my time into Hive.

I have some skepticism still simply from lack of trusting, and I don't think that will go away.

I will explain... but to do so I will jave to travel for a short moment back in time to the 1700's in the newly colonization of what is now known as North America.

How does this relate to what i have said above?

:)

Short History Lesson

King George the third has been ruling over the Eastern European world with an iron fist.

He overtaxed his people, caused false flag attacks on his own country men and committed many more atrocities in the name of the crown.

Things weren't looking to swell either in the western world either. Many, if not the majority,of the people in the west side of the Atlantic ocean, were people who wanted to het away from the tyranny and start fresh.

But all of the bananas in the world was not enough for this George. He wanted more. And he was going to get it one way or the other.

Uprisings ensued in small parties. Pirates also played a huge part. They were to me, a symptom of a system that just didn't work for everyone.

Many tolerated the hard times only to meet more tyranny for they bent the knee too often to their opressors. And the opressors loved their slaves docile knees on the floor before them. The red coats took well advantage of these scenarios.

To put it bluntly, people just had enough of getting pushed around for scraps. On both the west and east side of the this enormous ocean of empty space.

Some of the aristocrats that once supported the crown turned thwir backs on the king because they saw something bright and shiny despite the kings attempt to shite on over everything his minions could touch.

They wanted a bigger piece of the pie and the only way they could establish something such as this...

Was to continue the same game but, with a new face and a new master....

1776

Some country men good and evil rich and poor gathered up one day to a secret location to discuss the future of the new world and how it is to be governed over...Yes, these aristocrats were there too, and yes some were Freemasons.

(I will discuss my point of view of this "brotherhood" in the future.)

These aristocrats knew the game better than the average Joe. The average Joe didn't know how to even read and write but that doesn't mean they were any short of being dumb enough to know that being opressed by a tyrannical man was not cool at all. They knew any amount of taxes was theft and thus a major reason among many why so many rebelled against his so called "sovereignty".

But the game of word play was nothing new to these aristocrats. They were political assholes nonetheless on a course to acquire wealth for their future generations at the cost of their new slaves will come to call it the "land of the free".

You must understand that this word play is still used today. It is called the legalese language and they knew it well but they had an enemy among their group of special invites they didn't count on being so understanding of their schemes.

His name was Thomas Paine.

It was thanks to Thomas Paine and his never ending questions about what they wanted to build that prevented many wars from happening, and help prevent the new world from becoming another monarchy type of governance. His famous book "Common Sense" was published and spread amongst the soldiers and was read to those that could not read. It was thanks to this book and his many lectures that allowed the common folk to view the reality around them as they were.

It was thanks to T.P. that these aristocrats didn't get everything they wanted. Now it was up to the people of the new world to be properly informed and to build a consensus on how to go about this new CONstitution.

The aristocrats were hell bent on creating a separation of classes among their country men rather than having everything be equal and having an abolishment of slavery all together. They made it quite clear in the preamble that the free people are only to be a small amount of individuals.

"We the people... etcetera" and "for our prosperity" both of these terms are exclusions and do not include everyone. Not to mention the worst part about how they name slaves as citizens. Smart move there eh?...

Nowhere in the power house of the constitution does it ever mention citizens as being the ones that hold the power to govern over. Rather, they mentioned that citizens are the servants to their newly created fictional character Santa Clause aka government. If they wanted equal men to flourish in this paradigm they were trying to establish they wouldn't have made it to be two seperate classes of people. The haves and the have nots. The master and the slave. The ones that order and the ones that fallow.

The Aristocrats knew that this parchment was going to take a substantial amount of time until it was accepted, they were in war after all. And the people were awake to any trickery. Just ask Patrick Henry what he thought about the constitution at that time...

I smell a rat!
-P.H.

Indeed there was a few rats in the room Mr Henry. It couldn't be helped though. It's now a done deal.

I will leave it to the following video from one of Eric Williams lectures to further explain the point here. I haven't seen anyone do it better.

The Aristocrats of Hive that migrated from stincy politics, did they bring the stinc with them?

To digress from the above and to further discuss my point of view here regarding the new world that is Hive, I can't help but smell the same type of rats working their way around this new ecosystem to benifit from the poor.

They are around.

I ask my readers to stay vigilant and have no fear but keep their eyes and ears open to wisdom and truth. Know that these aristocrats will use common languages to fool the masses into a potential fork that could mean more work for the smaller accounts to have the same benifit of having a decent meal on their plates at the end of the year.

I am weary of whats to come. Some masks will fall from now to then and we shall see who has benifited from the blood on the streets that they themselves did nothing to prevent when they could. Some even partook into its creation. Some have been silenced from speaking up through shadow banning simply because "they could" and they are "too big to fail"... They did have an early start into this hellishly played game.

I cannot say the same for the future of Hive. But these are the cards we get. Best we make the most ofnit while we still can eh? Eventually we will all be in the same boat casted aside when the real sharks come pouring in under the guise of "helping the community"... or a "community endeavor"...

The new Hardfork will reveal many truths. And if they aren't scared of it, then they are either really blind with their own greed and thirst for power as the KGIII was in his time, or they have something up their sleeves still.

Which brings me to my last couple of questions...

If this is supposed to be decentralized, wouldn't it better to distribute stake evenly rather than having a double voting power?

What's the point of having a double voting power if "the elite" gets it too?

Where is the fairness in that?

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