I have to admit after a long period of everyday headaches, I lost motivation to write (and to do anything) as my focus was a very low levels... Luckily, I have finally had 2-3 headache-free days, and that bumped up my will to be productive and to actually do something... As I was ready for a comeback, I decided to check out the YT video that I wasn't able to watch earlier...
As you can see from the title, I will write about the CHOICE... I have done that a few times (or many? 🙂) in the past, but I find it a very important and very valuable thing that we have to appreciate more and share that value with others... That others can realize that and appreciate more... Oh, what a mess! 😃 All this reminds me of a talk with @ninaeatshere in Hamburg, where she mentioned one important thing that stayed engraved in my head... If you think about things like appreciation, adding value to others, and thinking of others, you can't be a bad man.
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I had a rough dad who taught me by bad example what I shouldn't become... And the thing that I didn't learn is to show appreciation and how to accept it from others... Probably because he didn't show that to me either... It will sound crazy, but I needed a lot of time to get better with that... Actually, some of my new friends from HIVE showed me how to appreciate others, and how to accept compliments from others... I still suck, but I'm trying to be better... 😃
Anyway, I went too far from the topic... One thing that I do appreciate the most, which came into my life through blockchain technology, Bitcoin, and finally HIVE is freedom of choice! I was always searching for "my path", but somehow, I would always get into someone else's path... I was captured on the same road as everyone, making the same journey, with an illusion of choice, but still being part of the huge machinery...
It is very, very hard to go from ZERO TO HERO, especially if you want to play by the well-established rules... The game was rigged and you can't win... I'm a builder, and I like to build things from scratch... I did that many times in the past, and I'm doing that in the present, and will probably in the future...
I have mentioned my story of building a moto-sport community in the country where moto-sport was at the bottom of the "sports list", and it was an Internet community in the early 90es... And if you are that old to remember, you know how the Internet looked/sucked in those days... After that, I built a small PC Shop with literally $100 of starting capital, to grow into 3 PC Shops in 3 different cities... All in 3-4 years... And so on, and so on...
All those things were different from anything in those days, in those places, but still, I wasn't satisfied with the results... I felt that I was still part of the rigged system... The hyperinflation, then inflation, then unfair competition, and the centralized, corrupted system, led me to the other direction... I discovered CRYPTO and the blockchain tech! That was the moment when I realized, for the first time, that I have a CHOICE to "opt out" from the rotten system and rigged rules... The thing is that crypto wasn't "discovered" to be a way to hide people from paying taxes or to fund shady organizations but for an opposite reason... The crypto was invented as a SOLUTION for corrupted and rigged systems!! It was the other way around!
Today, I was watching a fantastic debate that Anthony Scaramucci and Erik Voorhees had with Peter Schiff and Nouriel Roubini about Bitcoin and crypto... It is a bit longer video, but if you want to invest time in yourself, check it out:
It was a very hot debate, but the takeaways are very simple... If you don't want to watch the video, you can check out some of the top comments, which describe pretty well how the debate went... In general, we could see 2 people yelling their "arguments", while the other two calmly showed theirs... Bitcoin doesn't care if you yell... Bitcoin is doing block by block, despite others banning miners, shitting about it over media, or spreading lies... Some people understood that, others will understand soon...
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These two comments say it all... I had an idea to write a post a while ago on the topic They want to have it ALL!, but I was procrastinating, and in the end, didn't do it... But, the general idea was that guys like Roubini, desperately WANT that EVERYONE follows their route, their WAY of doing things, even if they are maybe wrong... Until the last man on Earth!!! No choice! It will be my way or highway!
While, on the other side, people like Erik Voorhees want just one thing: freedom of choice to pick their path...
Sorry, it wasn't "Ph's shorts" in the end... Feel free to comment your opinion...
Thank you for your time.
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