Seven years ago when I left Norway, I had no idea what I was going to do upon returning home. I was suffering from depression, anxiety, and panic attacks that I didn't even know I had, and I had nothing "on the map" for the foreseeable future. Two years prior to that, all I knew was that I would never return to Romania…
What a shift in thinking and events, but here I am still living in my parents' house, with no pin on the map indicating what the foreseeable future might bring, but carrying a "bag full of hopes" and a pocket full of vision and perspective.
Money was always on my mind, but I was never the type to do anything for money. Had I been that type of individual, I would be in a much better financial condition by now. Coming from a few years of bad working experiences, I decided in my early 30's that I would no longer accept shity jobs and that I would focus on doing what I like for a living.
That was exactly what the psychiatrist prescribed for me back in 2018, and soon after meeting her, I found out about Hive and started investing in crypto. Back then, it was called Steem, and only about two years after I began blogging, I actually managed to make a living off my content creation rewards.
2020 and 2021 were two of my best years in this regard, but what followed was struggle and sometimes despair. Some people might quit in such a situation, and I bet 99% of people in my position would get out of crypto entirely and do something else, even a shitty job if that pays better.
But I am not like the 99%; I am stubborn, sometimes proving to be quite fanatic in sticking to some of my beliefs, and thus I won't quit. I have options, but nothing in a field that would fulfill me. On the contrary, the options I currently have actually disgust me.
Luckily, though, we are still in a bull market, as a matter of fact, we haven't even had a proper altcoin season yet, and we won't have any until BTC gets into price discovery and ETH marks its new ATH. That might take time, probably around elections this year, who knows… But we are on the right tracks, the tracks that we chose, remember?
The industry is not evolving at the pace we want it to, and the market does not respond to our wishes. If you ask me, I'd like to see new ATHs across the board on this very day, but things don't work like that. We might have to wait another year for the market to peak, who knows…
But the ones having the patience and conviction to wait will surely be rewarded.
I was going through my Twitter feed this morning, as I do each morning, and two pieces of news that simply blew me away were the ones regarding Deutsche Telekom looking to mine Bitcoin and Tether launching a "gold-backed stablecoin".
The money as we know it is about to change drastically; it will take a while, but in a decade or so from now, the only regrets we might have is not getting more involved with crypto. I made a choice back in 2018, and I am sticking to it. If I make it, I will celebrate; if I fail, I will move on…
Sometimes you gotta follow both money and passion and not just pick sides… Just my two cents. And, if you're stressed right now about the bull market being over for crypto, just look at the traditional markets. Remember that no bull market for crypto has ever ended in disbelief, or two months after the halving.
It's an election year, and we are all gonna make it. Survive the chop for a few more months, and you'll be filthy rich in a year or so… If you don't sell too soon…
Thanks for your attention,
Adrian