11 September 2021, Somewhere in the Metaverse - UplandDood (@Just1Dood)

Written on 11 September 2021

Up late again

I'm sitting at an odd hour. It's way past midnight. It's not that I couldn't sleep. I'm very sleepy cause last night I'd stayed up until 2 AM for the same purpose.

What purpose is that? None other than Airdrops or drops for short.

Regardless of whether it is for a paid airdrop or a free airdrop, the emotion involved in trying to grab the low mint or to be qualified for a token is inexplicable.

I can share with you two personal examples.

First Drop - Not Free

The one I stayed up for yesterday had left a bitter taste in my mouth. This project had started in their Telegram group that their latest MusicNFT drop is scheduled for local time 2 AM. These are not free drops. I have to purchase these NFTs.

Naturally, I stayed up for it since I've been following this project for a while. When it was announced around 11 PM local time that the drop will happen at 2 AM at a given neftyblocks.com link, I've decided to wait and hope to grab a low number mint. For me, that means anything below 5. In the past, I'd managed to grab mints #1 and 2.

The frustrating thing was that when I checked at 1.11 AM, I noticed the lowest available was no longer starting from #1. It was already at #4, which meant someone had already started minting.

I then sent a DM to the owner of the Project and asked why this was so. I did not get any reply.

Then I went to check the drop site two minutes later at 1.13 AM. Now the lowest available mint was down to #5. However, the drop was still not opened for minting yet with the countdown clock with 46M 37S to go.

By 1.23 AM, the lowest mint had dropped to #7. It was at this time that I've decided to put out a public message in the group asking if there was another whitelisting for people to be eligible for an earlier drop.

It was almost 2 AM that I'd gotten a reply from the owner stating that he'd made the same NFT available at another newly listed shop link.

Though he had apologized, that didn't sit quite well with me. If this was such a big project, how could anyone make such a big boo-boo? This has left a big question mark on my mind on my trust in this project.

I think it may be time for me to not 'invest' anymore into this project.

Second Drop - It's Free

Tonight, while sitting here, I'm waiting for another drop! This time for a token drop. It was by chance that I came across this Telegram group. And because when I joined at around midnight, the group was close to hitting 2000 members. Once that number is hit, there will be a drop.

It was only a few minutes after I joined that the group reached the goal of 2000 members which means an airdrop is imminent and was announced swiftly.

The airdrop will happen at 3 AM local time. Oh well, so much for sleep. So, I thought I might as well do some writing to share about my experience.

At this point, the time is 1.45 AM, still another 1 hour and 14 minutes to go. I hope I can stay awake. The thing I do for airdrops.

This has better be worth it. I'll take a break here and continue grinding on the games I play while I wait.

Once the airdrop has been completed, I'll continue to write to share with you the details.

I had finally gotten to bed around 3.30 AM after submitting my address at the 3 AM drop time. When I woke up and checked, the token was already in my wallet.

I have received 50 $KTH tokens. What a happy feeling!

The Power of Possibilities

That 50 KTH is not worth much. It's less than $0.20. To many, it's chump change. Despite this fact, many were happy to have received it and more were not happy for missing it for one reason or another.

Why are people so excited at getting $0.20 worth of Tokens? It is the same reason mentioned by the admin above. The belief that the price "will increase soon". It is the power of possibilities. Hope for the moon. Rationally thinking, even if it goes to the moon, 50 tokens won't make much of a difference. I can't explain the feeling or the emotion felt. It is irrational but it sure felt great. You can tell how strong this emotion is when you read through some of the comments of those who weren't successful in the drop.

Let's keep our sanity

I was initially quite worked up emotionally at the first incidence. But then, it is not the end of the world. There are so many other projects I can lend my support to. So, why get so worked up over this one. Right? I'll move on and probably won't get any more from this project. Maybe. Maybe not.

Final few words

If you are planning on spending more time around these airdrops or dabbling a little more in cryptocurrencies - I have one piece of advice for you. Be careful of scammers. They are everywhere. NEVER share your SEED words or phrases, even if they seemingly come from legit sources. There is NEVER a need to share your SEED words. Sharing our SEED word is like giving someone your ATM card and also the pin number.

Alright, that's it for today. Have a great weekend and thank you for reading.

Disclaimer: Not Financial Advice. Do Your Own Research.

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