If you're reading this in Spring 2019, pat yourself on the back!

If you're here now, investing your time on Steemit, learning and talking about Cryptocurrency and Blockchain tech or just interested enough in earning Steem for blogging or upvoting content,

ESPECIALLY if you were here through the 2018 bear market, even if you hodled too long and didn't take enough profit,
even if you are holding heavy bags of "exotic digital assets" (a.k.a. shitcoins),

Pat yourself on the back because you are a winner, you experienced one of the fastest and widest swings in any market in the history of markets.
If you were paying attention and trying to learn, you basically got 10 years worth of financial, trading, business, wealth management, government, computer science and for some even programming or business law experience all crammed into less than a year-and-a-half.
You didn't get shaken out of your cryptos for a loss, you didn't give up or give in to all the nonsense and criticism from people that don't and can't understand this the way we do.
You have earned your battle scars and war trophies and you're here in full battle rattle, locked, loaded, powder dry, blades sharp, ready to fight another day!

The bottom may not be completely in yet but it's not going to matter to us either way because we have strategies for every direction the market can go and when the iron get's hot we're ready to strike.
If you're still here, pat yourself on the back and get ready because this next run, when it comes, is going to be ridiculous and there are going to be crazy curve-balls thrown at us what with the world stage being set the way it is right now.
This is not for the faint of heart but you can do it!
Challenge yourself.
Don't let anyone education-shame you or qualification-shame you into thinking you don't have what it takes to make it.
Don't forget the lessons you have learned and connections you have made.
Stay up.
Stay free.
Don't chase rainbows. MAKE rainbows!

• @raddog