I believe every one who is a cryptoneur or a person who survives off crypto is going through their survival phase right now and this is going to be one of the best times to learn a lot. For the past 4 years I have been surviving off crypto and this includes buying, selling and trading, so it has always been one survival or the other during the bear run. The last bear run in 2018, I had to get an offline job I never liked, just to sustain myself while I waited for the bull run. While working there I ended up introducing my boss into crypto, he tried but couldn’t keep with the market’s volatility. 
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[source](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2022/07/15/business/stock-market-recession-half-year.amp.html)
One thing about the bear market is when it comes, you have no other choice than to appreciate the bull run and feel bad for all those times you took the bull run for granted, or those bull run days you didn’t take profit, now you have a devalued asset that you can’t sell right now, because selling right now will put you at a great loss and the regret of selling at a loss and then seeing the value of the crypto skyrocket but because you weren’t patient enough, you sold at a loss. We learn everyday, I have learnt a lot this period, especially when it comes to hunting airdrops, because I have been hunting airdrops like my life depended on them. 


The bear market has had me wanting to sell some of my most valued tokens and coins to survive, but the thoughts of the bull run and the possibilities of regretting my current actions is just the reason I haven’t sold them. The problem isn’t that you are not earning, but the problem is that what you are earning is being devalued based on the market’s condition. The value of most crypto assets are down by 90% that is a lot, how do you survive the crypto market while being optimistic. 


Airdrops, move to earn, defi and trading has been the means to my survival during the bear run. Stakes on defi, earnings from move to earn, earnings from trading, but airdrop is based on hopes. Although airdrops are not my main, but I have gotten some airdrops from different sources that helped me survive the week or month, all these are the opportunities that crypto presented which is something I am grateful for. I have decided to focus my  time and attention to hunting more airdrops because, who knows how the next Bull run will be like? I don’t want to regret missing out on the opportunity of acquiring great assets for free. 

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