Great post and I'm very sorry to hear about the chronic pain and health issues you're experiencing.
I've been involved in cryptocurrency for four years and was guilty, early on, of underestimating it would take to get to mainstream adoption. In retrospect I can see how naive I was. I see a fresh batch of scammers rise up with each bull market only to leave crypto with their metaphorical tail between their legs when the bear market returns. I've noticed that the "true believers" stick around when markets tank. These are people who aren't just speculators but they have a deep appreciation for the potential of this tech to create a more equitable and decentralized world. These are people who have the ability to see ten, even twenty years into the future.
To take crypto to mainstream adoption will take the concerted effort of creatives and devs. I still see a lot of projects in the space that aren't telling their stories effectively. But's only a matter of time before more projects "get it right".
Platforms like Hive are an immense step forward. For something to be disruptive to the status quo it has to be incrementally better than what it's hoping to replace. Hive already is this...it pays you for doing what you already do on other platforms that profit from you and give you nothing. Even if you make nothing on Hive you're further ahead from a privacy perspective because Hive doesn't sell your data.
I'm so proud to have been in this space as long as I have, I feel like we're all part of a revolution. It won't change the world overnight, it's a long game. Each of us have to be an advocate for the tech. It's up to us to educate people, often one at a time, about how this can change the world for the better. Each positive conversation/experience people have in this realm help to inch mass adoption a little closer and counters negative things they've heard from unreliable sources. Anyway, sorry for the incredibly long response here I kind of got on a roll.
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Take care, man!
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I think it will also require some professionals to come into the space, people suited to "speaking to the market". That costs money or a strong belief in the product. I am hoping that the apps to come will be so good, strong belief will follow.
I agree and it is a small step process that takes time to build it in a healthy, distributed manner. Too much hype too early, and the grassroots value gets swallowed by corporations. Good for the early adopters, but it is a hijacked movement.
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