It has now been seven years since I first joined this community, and one year since my last post - which was about my six year Hive-iversary. You can find that post here: Having re-read it now, I think that pretty much everything still applies a year later. It seems like the past year has been a year of building, with a lot of exciting projects underway that will hopefully be able to propel this ecosystem forward and help us compete in an increasingly crowded market of blockchain platforms.

Six years ago I stumbled upon a website and blockchain that shall not be named, having absolutely no idea what I would be getting myself into. Over the past six years this platform and community ended up becoming pretty much my entire life, to the point where at one time my wife wondered if I had joined a cult. I suppose she may not have been far off :-)

I wanted to take a minute to share some thoughts on the most recent SPS governance proposal around limiting rewards based on card level used in battles. You can find the proposal post here for reference: Evaluating the Problem

The $GME and wallstreetbets saga has been the story of the year so far in 2021, and it has brought a lot of attention to cryptocurrency (bitcoin in particular) and defi as potential solutions to the myriad problems in traditional markets that were exposed in recent weeks.

With the seemingly crazy run up in BTC prices over the past couple of months, it can be hard to resist the urge to sell some (for me at least) so I try to zoom out and put things into perspective which I find helps to solidify my conviction in hodling and even stacking more sats.

It's hard to believe that it has been three years since I first became a part of this incredible community. It has been quite the rollercoaster ride, to say the least, but despite everything that has happened, this community is still here and still going strong.