Have you ever wondered how your life would be if you would write for a living. Having all the free time in the world, doing things that you loved the most - for most of the time you have in a day. Not a care in the world because financially, you are free. Everything is financially covered, and the only thing you need to do is to write 1 article per week, and ka-ching! Money in the bank. Just 4 hours of work everyday. Or 4 hours a week.
Yeah, sounds ridiculously like a sleazy snake oil salesman pitch isn't it
For most people, the idea is ridiculous and only exist in the realm of dreams within dreams. Becoming financially free from just writing? Heck you talking about. Earnest people are working hard 12 hours a day, 4 hours of being stuck in traffic, tired and profusely grunting when the day is going to end to be able to earn food for the table. Need to pay the bills. Need to pay your mortgages. You also need to think about your kid's college funds as well! Come on man, be real now. The reality is dream can never be true. And that is why it is a dream. If it's possible, then everyone will be doing it.
Huh, wait.. there are people who does this for a living
You are right though, the reality is everyone needs to work to put food on the table. I have been, I am, I will maybe still need to keep working into the future until my bones run dry to JUST.DO.THAT. I get why people keep hunting for low marketcap crypto due to this way of thinking. "I WANT TO GET OUT OF THIS SITUATION!" If desperation ever reeks, it is that and exactly that be the main culprit of why more often than not, people got themselves REKT especially when it comes to crypto. After all, you need to have a very high level of luck to be able to become rich overnight by investing in crypto. Sounds like gambling to me.
There's too some people who writes, and still struggles financially today: yeah, but really though? Do we know the circumstances in which to why they are struggling? Marketing? Insufficient followers? Bad writing skills? Bad titles? Honestly, everyone will struggle for the longest time - if you want to write, it is better to start now especially when there are many ways available to start as a beginner. Thinking and doing, are not exactly the same thing. The longer you are in writing, your skills will improve and everything else will follow.
The reality is nothing more than a cog in a mechanical system
The real reality is that most people's mind are governed by the idea that has been put out by the society. Teaching one another to obey the system, or else kind of deal. School taught us to be obedient. People are scared to be wrong, because they feel like they will be punished. The punishment is not the scary part of it, it is the actually the entire system and how you are programmed to be a replaceable cog to fit the mechanical turn wheel. If you choose to deviate, then you are the devil! You need to have a job! Don't get me wrong, I know the necessity of the system - it governs chaos, it gave us purpose, and it provides us with the mean to put food on the table. But deep down, in every each of us, we know how much we despised the traffic.
On the serious note, are you trying to break away from that system?
The way out
When I was first introduced to Publish0x back when crypto was just in its infancy, I became attracted to writing again after years of stopped writing. The idea of being able to earn through writing has never crossed my mind, and so it clicked to me that I could earn crypto for the skill I have been honing in my teen years. Honestly still honing it. But this time around, with purpose.
The Journey
It has never been rainbows and sunshine when it comes to one's journey to improvement. In fact most of it are filled with disappointments and heart break.
But the quote that says:
"Smooth sailing does not make a good sailor"
Kept me on my feet and try harder each time challenges were met along the journey. I do get the allure of giving up, as it is the easiest way out of the tortures of giving effort day in and day out. Most of the time the challenges are in our heads. Mostly saying that how inadequate, incompetent, and lacking I am. Because honestly, we have been programmed to work just like every other working ants. Working for the big guys, get salary increment, get good pension plan and in the end die with dignity in our stomach. But I can't falter now, I kept saying. And I pushed on. I keep my feet on the ground, of the ideas that I have, even when if I have to be a working ant for awhile.
While crypto allured me to the world of "Financial freedom", what got to me the most is the ability to earn through the skills you have. The "do to earn", "stake to earn" and "play to earn". This is where the whole space is gamified, just like life is. If you play the game right, you'll get to your goals. So I started looking for social type crypto projects where I could find a same like minded people whom I could learn from. I have never stopped ever since I started except for the brief period that I left crypto due to some unforeseen events in life.
What I have forgotten about
I did write a little bit here and there, but only for myself. I kept most of my writing in word and note documents. I do that because I love writing, but I do not have any place to share it with to monetize. The question struck me a lightning, why do I write? I love writing. I love sharing my story with people. I love teaching. I love whatever there is to read. I love letters. I love it all. That is why I kept writing, not for the views. Not for the money. But my self fulfilling need that binds my love for knowledge. Money comes second, and the moment I treated it that way - my desperation subside, and I am once again a man with a mission. A mission of responsibility towards myself and the people whom I hold dearly in life. To give them more of the time I have to them - by being free of corporate ladder hell. By first prioritizing on nurturing my skills as a writer before any monetary reasons.
"Don't try to run before you can walk" - made more sense.
Current Standing
To my surprise, my writing skills became useful once more, since the day I found that there was a peculiar project on Solana base. It has not many user, but it does give away reward by interacting with articles and to write my article at the same time. I thought to myself, this is how I could start again. For sure I could use Publish0x to monetize my work, but the pay ration to earning capability alone will not be able to contribute to me reaching my goals. Although I write numerous of article over there, but it was more of a hobby.
Of course, I do not expect it to reach half of my pay on the get go, but I'm talking about a year or possibly more worth of side hustle work effort. That is why I had to learn how to gauge the probability of how feasible the side hustle is before jumping into it. On top of that, I must consider what I'm good at, to be able to make the side hustle a feasible endeavor. Or else, I will be driving myself into a dead end and all of it will be a waste of resources and time.
What is BULB though?
On the surface level, BULB is a write to earn crypto platform on Solana Block chain. But what it really is in actual is a do to earn type of crypto ecosystem. This platform does not just reward you for writing your blog like Medium does. But it rewards you by reading, reacting, commenting and moderating the space. In short, no other "profit sharing blog posting" model ecosystem existed like it. There is Publish0x that rewards you with crypto that is not its own (currently ETH and OP) if you read and write. Bulb does that as well, but does it differently. We could also say HIVE has the similar model as well. But how many that we can say has a straight line forward to earning like BULB has? NONE. And therefor, it is a precious project.
A little something something
On weekly basis, BULB has a total reward of 1 million token to be distributed among its leaderboard. The higher up you are in the leaderboard, the more tokens you earn. You will be thinking "I am too late to the leaderboard game, hence I won't be able to earn anything", you are both right and wrong. I joined BULB around 6 months ago, and I constantly ranked in the top 50 of the leaderboard (because I earnestly tried, instead of spamming) and I am already out earning my other crypto related publishing works.
Of course, the income is not sustainable and can only go up from here! The reason why is because the marketcap is super low right now. For a project like Bulb, it is unthinkable that it has that amount of market cap. All I can say is we are still in the early phase of the project where people do not realized its true potential yet. Early birds gets the worm. And I wish to be one of the birds proverbial speaking. Since this is a crypto project, I own the ownership to my works and I can mint it as an NFT. Just an extra stuff on top of the project I guess.
Creme de la creme
This is where I gets better. The platform provides you with the ability to stake your Bulb token for Bulb rewards on weekly basis. The more you stake, the more of the pie you get. As I was able to accumulate quite a chunk of Bulb before end of 2023, and stake all of those earning into it. The more you stake, the more reaction points I get for my daily activities, the higher I climb into the leaderboard, the higher my weekly earnings goes. As of right now, I am earning about 20K bulb tokens per weekly, around 80K minimum per monthly. At the current Price, it is around 70 dollar. Not much, but like I said, It can definitely goes up once more crypto users realized the potential of the platform. Even at where my earning from Bulb currently standing, it still rewards me more than my earning from Publish0x, Torum and Solcial combined. By simply reading, reacting, sharing, and writing!
For those who also love to write, you don't have to spend much to start earning in this project. Of course you will need to level up your account. With better engagement overall, you'll be at level 8 in no time and have max energy to utilize and to earn. If you buy (Not financial advice) to stake, you'll immediately get multiplier for every activity you do in Bulb causing more Bulb earned at the end of the week. Pretty neat in my humblest of opinion.
There is also an option for you to purchase a "blind box" for Bulb emoji NFT, this NFT multiply your activity points as well. More stake, more NFT, more earning. Functional. Everything is, in Bulb - and that is why its a top project that is currently hidden in everyone's radar.
As we speak, there are 750Million (most of them are in treasury) tokens in circulation, and there are monthly burning. Where the developer team burn 25% of the total monthly spending of Bulb. In the month of April, 400K bulb token has been burnt. By rough calculation, that is 5 million token burn every year, causing diminishing amount of Bulbs in circulation that could be one of the driving force to prop up the token's price. Aside from the earlier Token burnt (250Million burnt), the token is no longer mintable as the mint program has been revoked.
Point of no return / The grey area
From where the project is standing right now, Bulb is poised to be a successful project with its small team currently working hard to bring in more partnership with other project aside from constantly improving the platform. In future, we will get thread function that resembles X (formerly known as twitter) for micro-blogging purposes and gives the user different way of getting followers and earning Bulb token.
Finally
I can't be more thankful than where we are right now. Maybe in the future, there will be another blogging sites that I could take advantage of and the opportunity for me to earn through crypto are more lucrative than ever. Also not to mention, these many platform will be prove useful when you have your own brand and products to promote down the road.
Why do I write? Because I want to be able to earn through writing, and I am on my way of writing my way out of 9-5 hell.
Thanks for reading to the end, I know it's quite long this time around. Your attention is my gold and goal. What are your goals with writing? Feel free to leave a comment.
I'll see you in the next one!