Thursday, 24th of February 2022
Last night I was talking to someone who I haven’t talked to for a while. Emotions were running so high, I couldn’t settle down to sleep until the sun was almost rising.
Today I woke up past mid day and with a headache that stays with me throughout the day. Next I see notifications from my crypto wallets - the dips are getting deeper. Next I find out why - a war has just started between Russia and Ukraine.
Seriously. I was born and grew up in a war state back in Poland. I never thought I’d see more of it in my lifetime. One would think we learn from the mistakes, yet with so many big egos and huge pride, the conflict is still inevitable.
I saw this meme posted by @nomadghada on noise.cash today. It made me laugh. How very fitting! I had to borrow it.
How I ended up in crypto?
On a day like today, marking the start of another unnecessary war, while everyone is crying about bleeding markets, I’d like to share my crypto journey with you all.
It first started in around 2017. I signed up to some websites and claimed various coins from faucets on my laptop and phone. A few weeks later I got bored and moved on. When I remembered about these websites again, none of them were operating any longer. That was ‘only’ 4 years later.
One could ponder where would I be now with my crypto portfolio had I stayed with it since 2017. Me? I tend to not waste time on ‘what ifs’. Life goes on and everything happens for a reason. Maybe being filthy rich is not my life path 😉
Mid April last year I embarked on a crypto journey again. This time with a bunch of online friends, so it was much more likely that I’ll stay with it for longer. A platform I was engaging with since September 2020 was already giving me a headache with constant ads watching and trying to raise the standard of interaction beyond the usual emoji comments. My friend @MegaKyodaiBanrai messaged me privately to say some of our friends are moving to noise.cash, so I decided to check out the platform.
What can I say? I was instantly taken by it, even though I couldn’t understand much about how the wallets worked and what happens to the tips I’m giving and receiving. I loved the meaningful interaction with other users, which was like a breath of fresh air compared to the previous platform I was using. I found many of my friends were already here too, so my subscribers grew fast. I joined read.cash on the same day, but I think I didn’t give it a good go for at least a month. I was mainly only using my read.cash integrated wallet for noise.cash tips, which wasn’t the smartest of my ideas, but I won’t bore you with those early hiccups.
Magical internet money
While the operating model of the previous platform was very easy to understand (watch ads, advertisers pay for ads, platform pay you some pennies of it), noise.cash and read.cash sure seemed like magical creatures to me. I was earning at least 10 x more on these two new to me platforms, yet I had to watch 0 ads and I was getting paid for what I love doing - engaging in meaningful conversations, posting quality content and writing!
Those who were on the platform for longer would try to explain that it’s all about BCH adoption and that Marc de Mesel is sponsoring both platforms and still it made no sense, it felt like people are speaking Chinese to me. Yes, I could see the amazing potential of BCH, but who on Earth is Marc de Mesel and why is he giving some random people all this money?
Months went by and I was posting on both platform and reading other people’s content. Without much effort the knowledge about crypto was sneaking into my subconscious mind and I didn’t even realise when I started to sound like Chinese to my real life friends. I was throwing crypto jargon all around me and couldn’t understand weird looks my friends were giving me.
With the start of SmartBCH my learning speed up infinitely. Day by day I knew more about Defi farming, trading, calculating ROI and so on. The NFT’s joined the party and with my first staked Punks my mind was blown away at the possibilities of this crypto world.
One friend after another asked me to invest some money for them. Since I don’t want big sums of money running through my accounts, I’d do the setup (BCH wallet, MM wallet for SmartBCH, Binance or other crypto exchange, KYC) on their phones and from there I’d invest their money in whatever I thought was worthy.
It was at that point, in the middle of transfers on 4 different devices, shuffling money between different chains I guess I fully grasped the idea of sponsoring platforms like read.cash and noise.cash. Simply by using both platforms, I had to learn how to create a wallet, connect it, send and withdraw the money from it to another wallet/chain/FIAT and so on. As if by magic, by writing and reading other people’s content about their daily lives as well as their crypto adventures I have become quite knowledgeable about it myself.
Only now I get to see and understand what crypto adoption means. It starts from educating people on how to use the many tools of this vast cryptoverse. From there we all have a choice… withdraw and spend our crypto on our daily needs (which of course is very important) OR learn how to multiply everything we earn OR use is as equivalent of FIAT money OR a little bit of everything above.
The opportunities in crypto are endless, but I wouldn’t know about any of it had I not joined noise.cash and read.cash almost a year ago.
So while we have a good reason to cry about the bleeding markets, let’s take a moment to be grateful for all the opportunities CRYPTOVERSE has brought to us. Can you believe that majority of people still don’t even have a crypto wallet? Crazy, I tell ya. I for one am making sure that all my friends, one by one have at least one crypto wallet ready in their phones. They will thank me later!
Until next time 💙
Some Filipinos who are fleeing from Ukraine are going to Poland where they will be flying from going back home to the Philippines.
Anyway, indeed there are many opportunities out there for us that the cryptoverse has in store.