Hive can become an addictive game. My dad is addicted to Duolingo. It's not a bad thing until you ask him a question while is is trying to gain XP. At the end of the game he gets XP and gems, but those tokens are useless. You can't trade them for anything. All you can do is keep playing the game. At least on Hive I was able to cash in the HBD and pay for my son's braces. One day he will have straight teeth and have Hive to thank for it.
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That's pretty cool that you were able to pay for your son's braces!
I'm quietly "saving up" with an eye towards replacing my aging (desktop) computer, one of these years... and I feel fully aligned with the idea that it might take three years, and it might end up only being a "subsidy" towards the final price... but yes, it does have value!
=^..^=
Like the choice of this word "aligned"
I started in 2017 with nothing. At first I put in a lot of stress and tried to follow what everyone was doing. Later I learned to just use it for myself. Anyway over time I found some spare change. It was my first to change to fiat and literally cash out. We changed HBD to Bitcoin and then sold the Bitcoin. I wish we had held the Bitcoin until after the election, we could have cashed out more, but we needed it then.
Computers might be a waste of money, but if you need it then you need it.
Indeed, computers feel like a bit of a waste of money... but I do a lot of photo/image processing, and I like to look at things on a big screen, and I hate actually writing on a phone. I try to buy tech that's at least a little obsolescence resistant... my current gear is 10+ years old.
If wishes were fishes... I wish I had some of my early BTC I paid about $300 for... but oh well.
These are life lessons. I left a chunk of Bitcoin and Ether on the ionomy exchange waiting for a good trade. Now the exchange doesn't seem to exist anymore. The only safe place is my own wallet with my keys stashed away in a place I and my wife can find.