When I talk to my friends about the blockchain they seem to be mostly focusing on the short-term price of cryptocurrency. Last time I spoke to someone about it I think Bitcoin had just shaved £2,000 from its price. I remember they messaged me, worried about what I must be feeling, and I was telling them not to worry because cryptocurrency is a long term experiment. Sure, if you analyse the chart data over three months you'd think it was far too volatile to bother with. But then if you open that graph out to five years then you'd see massive gains and exponential growth.
Now let's think about me for a second. I am a hardcore content creator. You can usually find me active on the hot place to be because my work usually brings in the rewards. I exist where it's lucrative to be for people that have good skills in content creation. Think about that deeply for a second. My work should, and usually does bring in the rewards. I write for popular online publications, I have my own website with a huge reach; I've been doing this sort of thing for years, and it only makes sense that I'm going to be where it's happening in the content-blockchain.
Tribes, smts & HF22 have taken me back to Steemit. It has refreshed my faith in a system that was broken beyond belief. About a year ago I left Steemit to find solstice elsewhere; the amount of times I would scroll past undervalued and unappreciated authors were more times than I could think of, but strangely they still kept plugging away. Not me though, I need to go where the money is because I don't have a full time job and whatever I earn is usually from the internet somewhere.
I'm in a better position now. I'm no longer frantically searching for new ways to earn and have a little coming in here and there to sustain my living arrangements. I'm the sole breadwinner in my family so times are tough.
I found steem-engine by chance. One fateful day I had to withdraw some Dec from steemonsters and I had found that everything had changed. I could now cash out into this entirely new exchange with all these weird and wonderful coins weighted against steem. Curiously I had a good old search through the one's with a high trading volume, and immediately I began trying to understand tribes.
I found the city of Neoxian through his name. I had been watching him on whaleshares get increasingly more frustrated with their platform over time and then leaving because he understood what a losing business platform was. I knew this was the place that I wanted to be because if there was anyone that was going to incentivise growth it would be him (and his team of course), and thus I joined their discord and bought in heavily.
And yet people still question me today -- why buy into something that is barely worth half a cent? Isn't that like shooting yourself in the foot? I guess people asked the same of Bitcoin hodlers back when it was mere fractions of a cent. No, my game is a long one, and from what I've witnessed so far there is a team spearheading the city of neoxian that are exceptionally passionate about their content, growth of the coin, and stability of their discord server. I am more than pleased with my investment, and in less than a month I'm already more than 30% up on it.
Neoxian city was the right place for me. There are definitely plenty of tribes to choose from -- but remember, right now it's a long game. Come 2020 / 2021 it's going to be an entirely different ball game. A lot of you reading this will be eternally butthurt that you didn't take the time to invest $2 here, and $5 there when the price was exceptionally low for all of the tribes. It'll be like the time when SBD was worth $10 a pop. Remember that? I do. I remember counting the spare cash in my bank to buy just 1 Steem.
Good times are ahead. John McAfee said if Bitcoin doesn't hit the 1 Million dollars per Bitcoin by 2020 then he'll eat his own dick. I'm on the fence with his statement, but I at least think he wont be far off. And those of us that took the time to invest a little in the tribes now will be laughing next year.
What will happen is what usually happens. Bitcoin will explode; the newspaper will catch wind of it. Steemit will attract users and investors alike, and not only will that pump Steem price up, but tribes too. It will all be a glorious knock on effect, and like I said. Those of us that whittled it away for a better day will be laughing.