A deadly inspiration

There was a time back in steem, when people genuinely made a blog post that is long enough to break the screen. The amount of quality pictures (unlike my spammy food photography that looks like I have chewed the food and spit it back on the plate) shared in the posts, where content consumers will take time to read, digest, and cast a valuable vote to the post.

Being one of the early adopters of Blockchain content creator, that 75% benefactor era does make an impact on my content value perception. Somehow I find it important to not only SEE the length of the post, but to READ the pictures. At times I SEE that people make up rubbish in the wordings just to fill the gaps and make the paragraphs longer. I admit to being guilty of shooting pointblank with my cell phone, sometimes just to make up some pictures when there is absolutely no value to it as I needed a picture for a post.

If you made it this far, I think we still have some hope on the content consumer column to survive for. I am not saying my content is valuable, but hear me out. ASEAN HIVE is probably one of the very few communities I have ever encountered, with a family who is dedicated to make use of HIVE power in the community to properly curate, making up raffles to payout, engaging and stimulate community bond between members by posting highlights. That was the number one reason I have delegated 10k in my first year here in the community.

The recent (actually quite a long time now) crypto bear has been taking a toll not only on content creators, but investors as well. As a content consumer community, Hive Power not only pays the bills, but it's a significant part of rewarding content creators. Now, despite the fact that I have not been able to post as often as I wanted to, but I do care and still read posts and casting votes, leaving comments most of the time. I can totally feel the pain.

How deadly is the inspiration? Well, you gotta be really love to read broken English, like this one. My dad was seriously ill recently, I was stuck in a job where it takes up 16 hours of my day and still unable to complete tasks, and worst is they setup a data jammer in the toilet, I can't even use my shitty time to make a post. I was relying on my heavily invested Ziliqa, DGB and a mining grid of Tfuel that generate more heat then tokens, paying excessive electricity bill just to hope one day all these will be exploding growth exponentially and I can retire from work, going home to take care of my dad and enjoy the rest of my life going to the gym, travel and blogging.

With the announcement of Bittrex winding down, I have decided there's enough time spent on hoping to get rich by trading. I do have a nano ledger at home, but I can't function without seeing my value in the exchange fluctuating with the market price. i sold all my dreams, turned off the mining grid. Pickup a phone call from my sister informing me my dad has passed away. That final nail came from my dad's coffin. Before I left my office, I executed one last transaction with Bittrex, sold all available BTC for Hive.

With the blessing from my dad, I hope the contribution may somehow increase more activities and also contribute a little extra to Justin's current situation. I don't know when I will be able to go back to my daily posting routine. I do not feel like taking pictures at the wake, nor will I have time during tomorrow's funeral service. But for now, let's keep things cool and hope you guys enjoy the new found power.