I have tried to sell Splinterlands to one friend for the past 3 years. He does not want anything to do with it because he cannot enjoy a game with the premise that in the end will be about money in any form. Bitcoin on the other hand he was willing to put money in at one point but cannot for the life of him handle being in control of keys then deciding when to pull out to make gains. He is more inclined into ETFs for bitcoin. 

I have given him Hive account that I purchased for them so they can be part of this place but nope avoids it like a plague. He says Facebook is enough for them. Of course he is well off so doesn't see any value to the platform and him doing things here. I even convinced his wife and she also got an account, posted one intro and unfortunately did not get the desired outcome for the first post so has also avoided this place.

Bitcoin is the only thing that most people would gravitate from all the people I have talked as well I am left with the thought, people are not tailored to crypto unless they have some prior knowledge about speculative investing as opposed to long term investing. It doesn't help that crypto holders tend to try to use hip jargon that most laymans cannot relate or understand and just think it all is just hogwash.

Like the term HODL, it is splashed anywhere there is any form of crypto. If the audience does not understand the context both inside them at a basic level of investing 101. It is a hard path up since most are already scared and do not see the benefit of having the tokens/crypto in the beginning.

I do shake my head in acceptance and just mutter to myself, *it's your loss."

>Buy something that is real, because it is better to have something, than nothing.

"Real"

Hey Taraz. Hope you're well. I heard something last night about this which made me raise my eyebrows. For years the standard unit of world trade has been predominantly USD. With the sanctions that the US has now placed on Russia, Russia can't use USD anymore, but the US still need to buy energy from Russia. So Russia has said ok you can still buy energy but you have to pay in the newly gold-backed Ruble because your sanctions have ensured that we can't use US Dollars - so why would we accept US Dollars if we can't spend them? And that is how quickly the US Dollar essentially has become worthless in one part of the world. From 100 to zero in how long it takes to say economic sanctions. So even what we might have perceived as "real" a few days ago may no longer be real now.  

Useless comment but I thought it was an interesting turn of events.

I'll never forget when a dude at work asked me specifically about Bitcoin and then another dude piped in and said that it was rubbish because he had lost $5k on it.  At that time I was learning as much as I could, mainly from everyone posting on Steem, and my exposure was tiny, but it was enough to inspire me to keep learning.  I just couldn't believe someone had dumped a ton of money on it, then panicked and sold out at a loss.  

I always wonder if that guy ever made a re-entry in... or if he's been trashing it forever because of his bad experience...

I think that the foray into crypto was definitely scary and a learning experience. I bought at the absolute top in 2017, bought some litecoin at the 300$ range lol it was crazy but then seeing it plummet down. Then learning how to try and swing trade. That’s where I got some of the luckiest chances besides getting some Eth at 100$. It’s all learning and indeed a bit intense and intimidating but like you said people who are into crypto love it, at least some of us. 

I’m going to be meeting with a friend this week that I haven’t seen in a long time, he’s got some Doge last I talked to him (I’ve mentioned him here once or twice) but I want to broach broadening himself a little bit without being overbearing. 

Hopefully more people I know aren’t no-coiners but hard to tell without outright asking them. I do know a very smart and well off guy from my last job who’s got a dozen or so bitcoin which made me happy to hear lol

Funny but all so true. When you first start you just jump in normally as you have no clue. I do understand many who have the hesitancy as it is real money after all. 

As you rightly state being in crypto for 3 or 4 years or maybe monger gives you experience that money cannot buy. I do understand now how many became so wealthy and it was through the knowledge they gained and knew what to do and when.

This is why I am certain that if you have experienced 1 complete cycle you would have to be a complete moron to screw the next cycle up and should be in a position of strength. maybe not retiring wealth but well on your way to setting it up at least. 10 -12 years is what is required to set yourself up for life.

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> Money doesn't make anyone better for having it - but it is a tool that can buy opportunity and through that expenditure

That's why it is necessary to have it to eradicate financial issues which is definitely the main priority when having it

Invest in what you know...   Well I may not understand crypto. But I know how to write and experience tells me Hive offers us crypto, experience and relationships with followers. That I understand and have been doing since 2017.   I wish I understood the crypto blockchains better. 

The operators doing V2K with remote neural monitoring want me to believe this lady @battleaxe is an operator. She is involved in the same discord groups around @fyrstikken and friends. Her discord is Battleaxe#1003. Shes in some groups with seemingly detached characters that dont even acknowledge the others in the group, looking oddly staged. She starts projects and does nothing with it or the delegations after its used to sway people. Like @steempowertwins does<------fake along with her @teamgood <------fake.  No substance in her comments and has a following that adores her for what? Life coach she is not nor is she insightful with any meaningful skills to follow. Ruler of pixie dust maybe? I would like for someone to show me but probably wont out fear maybe? @fyrstikken groups around him down voted me into censored and not viewable on my accounts as soon I told what they were doing.</br><br> I cant prove @battleaxe is the one directly doing the V2K and RNM. Doing it requires more than one person at the least. It cant be done alone. She cant prove she is not one of the ones doing V2K because she cant and could care less. I guarantee she knows this is going around and still wont prove it because she cant. Many of us here can prove what they have been doing to survive the past 5 years. What does she live off of? It definitely isnt in public view here.</br><br> I was drugged in my home covertly, it ended badly. They have been trying to kill me using RNM with applied V2K mental games while revealing as many accessories to the crime as they can. I bet nobody does anything at all. Ask  @battleaxe to prove it. I bet she wont. Pretty serious accusations to just blow off and leave the crypto community hanging in fear of this danger.</br><br> They want me to believe the V2K and RNM in me is being broadcast from her location. And what the fuck is "HOMELAND SECURITY" doing about this shit? I think stumbling over their own dicks maybe? Just like they did and are doing with the Havana Syndrome. They should start by looking at the communications between the top witnesses of Hive and the connection to @fyrstikken groups. Google his fucking name and see where his other interests lie around at least once maybe? The connections between @fyrstikken groups and all the exchanges built for Hive? Bet that would reveal some crazy ball less nutty shit. Homeland security should start preparing for their own incarcerations seeing how sloppy this was done. Patriot act my ass. Think we are really fools? Bad position your not getting out of. Dont be last to blow the whistle. Who will protect you?<br></br><br><b>People in and around @fyrstikkens groups are reckless and should have shown the proper media what they had before taking me hostage for 5 long torturing years and counting. That is a long time to wait for someone to die.</b></br><br></br> What would you say while having a gun pointed at your head from an undisclosed location? Have people find it? My hands are tied while they play like children with a gun to my head. Its a terrorist act on American soil while some yawn and say its not real or Im a mental case. Many know its real. This is an ignored detrimental to humanity domestic threat. Ask informed soldiers in the American military what their oath is and why nothing is being done. Nobody has I guess. Maybe someone told ill informed soldiers they cant protect America from military leaders in control that have ill intent. How do we protect locked up soldiers prevented from telling the truth from being treated as criminals? Not to mention civilians we let our leaders treat the same way. https://ecency.com/fyrstikken/@fairandbalanced/i-am-the-only-motherfucker-on-the-internet-pointing-to-a-direct-source-for-voice-to-skull-electronic-terrorism-terrorism

The operators doing V2K with remote neural monitoring want me to believe this lady @battleaxe is an operator. She is involved in the same discord groups around @fyrstikken and friends. Her discord is Battleaxe#1003. Shes in some groups with seemingly detached characters that dont even acknowledge the others in the group, looking oddly staged. She starts projects and does nothing with it or the delegations after its used to sway people. Like @steempowertwins does<------fake along with her @teamgood <------fake.  No substance in her comments and has a following that adores her for what? Life coach she is not nor is she insightful with any meaningful skills to follow. Ruler of pixie dust maybe? I would like for someone to show me but probably wont out fear maybe? @fyrstikken groups around him down voted me into censored and not viewable on my accounts as soon I told what they were doing.</br><br> I cant prove @battleaxe is the one directly doing the V2K and RNM. Doing it requires more than one person at the least. It cant be done alone. She cant prove she is not one of the ones doing V2K because she cant and could care less. I guarantee she knows this is going around and still wont prove it because she cant. Many of us here can prove what they have been doing to survive the past 5 years. What does she live off of? It definitely isnt in public view here.</br><br> I was drugged in my home covertly, it ended badly. They have been trying to kill me using RNM with applied V2K mental games while revealing as many accessories to the crime as they can. I bet nobody does anything at all. Ask  @battleaxe to prove it. I bet she wont. Pretty serious accusations to just blow off and leave the crypto community hanging in fear of this danger.</br><br> They want me to believe the V2K and RNM in me is being broadcast from her location. And what the fuck is "HOMELAND SECURITY" doing about this shit? I think stumbling over their own dicks maybe? Just like they did and are doing with the Havana Syndrome. They should start by looking at the communications between the top witnesses of Hive and the connection to @fyrstikken groups. Google his fucking name and see where his other interests lie around at least once maybe? The connections between @fyrstikken groups and all the exchanges built for Hive? Bet that would reveal some crazy ball less nutty shit. Homeland security should start preparing for their own incarcerations seeing how sloppy this was done. Patriot act my ass. Think we are really fools? Bad position your not getting out of. Dont be last to blow the whistle. Who will protect you?<br></br><br><b>People in and around @fyrstikkens groups are reckless and should have shown the proper media what they had before taking me hostage for 5 long torturing years and counting. That is a long time to wait for someone to die.</b></br><br></br> What would you say while having a gun pointed at your head from an undisclosed location? Have people find it? My hands are tied while they play like children with a gun to my head. Its a terrorist act on American soil while some yawn and say its not real or Im a mental case. Many know its real. This is an ignored detrimental to humanity domestic threat. Ask informed soldiers in the American military what their oath is and why nothing is being done. Nobody has I guess. Maybe someone told ill informed soldiers they cant protect America from military leaders in control that have ill intent. How do we protect locked up soldiers prevented from telling the truth from being treated as criminals? Not to mention civilians we let our leaders treat the same way. https://ecency.com/fyrstikken/@fairandbalanced/i-am-the-only-motherfucker-on-the-internet-pointing-to-a-direct-source-for-voice-to-skull-electronic-terrorism-terrorism

i had only the patience to teack my brother about splinterlands and hive. He plays splinterlands daily, but is just learning about hive. it is writing on splintertalk on weekly challenge and learned to use tags. that's all, in one year. and using hive-engine here and there. got some cub thought.

This is a post I'm putting into my WhatsApp.
I've tried to tell them this in various ways but maybe seeing it in cold print will make a difference.

Get involved and start learning.
Don't be afraid to make some moves and take some risks. Earn what you can and multiply. 

> It can't be taught, it must be experienced.

Even if it can be taught, experience and practice just takes it all to another level. And the best way to experience and learn is by taking risks and losing a tad bit in the process. 

Sadly, people just focus on the risks and mistakes alone. They barely look or even try to find the positive lessons they've gotten out of these losses.

Difficult and stressful, yes. It is not at all easy. But, you learn to live with the feeling of drowning and ecstasy at the same time. Lately, I don't even focus on how much I am earning. The money into crypto is something that I do not count- more often.

I remember J talking to one of his friends about Bitcoin and I turned around and yelled out BITCOIN IS SLOW which was actually good for J as he was trying to explain why he thought it wasn't the best but like everyone else it was the first and only thing his friend had heard of at the time (think the friend knows a lot more now).

>  the amounts that they get are considered "too small" to matter - yet, they can't put these kinds of small amounts in themselves - "too much risk"

And that would be why I absolutely cannot under any circumstances get people to see number presentation differences (one thing is presented as 1000 and the other thing is presented as 1% and expanded they're both about the same, but people hyperfocus on the amounts and simply don't hear/refuse to acknowledge the comparison).

Poor @slobberchops, gradually reduced to Slobs :D

It is interesting, though, the scaredness, as if investing the same amount as you wouldn't think twice about spending on a pint of beer (or, more expensively, a packet of cigarettes) is going to damn you and suck all your money, house, spouse and children into a black hole.

> The Love of being in...

Nice, a new acronym, a new thought concept, perhaps this explains the tenacity of gamblers and investors alike, though sometimes I wonder are the two really different..another post, another time...

But **LOBI** the Love of Being In It.
I love being in the process of learning more about crypto, and also being in the process of making more crypto, as I pursue financial freedom on my own terms here on Hive. That is really the Love of being in it reason for me, Life changing financial freedom I control...mostly, some, or more then my current job and business.

The Love of Being In It...LOBII...Lobii... I think as an acronym its bad, but as a concept, it's good. 

I need more time to develop it into something similar to FOMO and FUD... suggestions?


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>Getting into crypto seems like such a no-brainer thing to do (for us) with at least some small percentage of income...

People buy or sell cryptos, but I think that most of the them don't know the mentality, intelligence and the technology beneath it.

>It can't be taught, it must be experienced.

Experience is what you can't buy, but face. One can learn taking risk slow by slow. I believe that taking much or less risk depends on personality. Courage of ignorance would lead to one wrong though.