Hail to the Hive!

Last March we took a big step and walked away from what we had been doing for the previous seven years in the Philippines. We had spent that time running a Scuba Diving business and due to the whole pandemic, it became completely untenable.

I had been dabbling with the blockchain before the pandemic and after we had been completely shut down, and no tourism looking likely in the near future, I focused a lot more time and energy into it and started to peel back the curtain of the crypto world. I still only feel I am peeking through a small gap to be honest.

Our short term escape plan was to purchase a small narrowboat in the UK and spend maybe a year or so exploring the canal network while the world sorted itself out. Taking a step outside the normality of day to day life as it were.

We figured that hive could contribute monthly to the running costs, a bit of diesel here and a bit of cooking gas there, that kind of thing. But as the months have passed by we are starting to see that it has subsidised more than we anticipated.

Living on a tiny boat and being nomadic forces you to streamline, downsize and strip most things back to their basics so our living costs are considerably less than they would be if we lived in an apartment or house.

We've realised that our yearly canal and river license is approx £700. Insurance £160 per year. Monthly diesel is working out around £50. Monthly cooking gas £12. So with all this in mind and our hive earning increasing we have managed to subsidise a sizable % of our living costs through the blockchain alone. this along with other online activities have brought in a bit more and we are just about self sufficient. I had to power down a bit to pay for the heating to be installed onboard before winter set in but again, #hive paid its way!

So this had us thinking that perhaps moving into our 2nd year on the boat full time that perhaps we can grow our online income a bit more and may be able to upgrade to a slightly longer narrowboat (28ft is an incredibly small liveaboard). This is our year 2 goal!

I've now been looking into creating NFTs and admittedly I don't have a scooby do at this point how I could market them but if you don't take steps in any direction you simply won't get anywhere. I've got as far as creating (minting) some which is my first baby steps into that realm. I've noticed you can do photos as NFTs as some have done so that's my starting point at the moment for this project.

Open Sea allows you to create and list NFTs with no gas fees which I have begun. If anyone on the blockchain has any tips or advice I'm all ears

https://opensea.io/Scuba-Head

My wife and travel companion @millycf1976 has thrown herself into creating communities on the blockchain with her Cinnamon Cup Coffee Community which is growing beautifully due to her diligence and hardwork, interaction and passion. These things don't just happen by themselves and it's been amazing to watch it's growth and the creativity it is also inspiring in others feeling their way around the blockchain. I think 2022 will be a very interesting year for Hive. Could this be the year it takes off?

I've always felt Hive is an extremely fertile environment and the possibilities are mind boggling. I know for us no matter what the future holds that in our first year of leaping into a new lifestyle we definitely benefitted from Hive and it can help propel us into the next level

Hive helped us Survive!

Without a doubt!