What Can Be Earned Must Be Spent. Right?
It got pretty cold outside today, like in a proper autumn day, it's very windy and I really have nothing to do. No plans, no destination, no nothing. It seems though that my feeds are also pretty poor not hooking my attention for too much but I threw a glance over some Steemit posts and I found about accusta which is something similar to steemworld and worth checking if you like stats and numbers.
That's what I did as soon as I read about it. I checked my profile and I saw my earning evolution there, in numbers, for every month since my beginning on this platform. It's not bad I have to say but I'm no hardcore steemian either. I did earned though in my entire career about 450 SBD, 488 STEEM and 1077 SP. However just a small portion of it is still in my Steemit wallet.
The question that comes next is what the hell have I did with all these tokens? I don't remember buying myself not even a beer with earned my Steem. It's true that I have powered down a lot of SP, I have exchanged liquid Steem to other cryptos but nothing got to my day to day wallet, it all got stuck in the virtual space. I really don't feel that I earned "anything material" from this blogging thing and I feel like a jackass.
Now some of you that power up everything they earn or plan to hold their Steem for many years to come might not like what I am going to say, but I regret not buying something for myself with all that Steem. At least a t-shirt. Really. The main thing that made me try Steemit was to make some money online which I literally failed. I did enjoyed every minute spent around here and money came second but anyway...
I am not a materialistic person and I don't depend on my earnings around here either but it would have been nice to have some object bought with money made on Steem to remind me of Steem if I will become inactive for long time at some point in the future. I do consider though that what's earned should be spent no matter what we are talking about and excessive stacking is not an option for me. Not everything one earned, if possible, but at least a small portion.
The only thing that could make possible for me to exchange and spend some liquid Steem in the near future would be a proper bull market and a over $3 Steem. Otherwise it will all remain just numbers on a virtual currency wallet. I don't see any point in selling 100 Steem for example at 16 cents per coin. Not even if I will never blog again. I am sure that I am not the only one in this position and the only reason for that to happen must be greed. It's always about mooning in every crypto community but I haven't seen any astronaut yet.
Thanks for attention,
Adrian
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I agree with your points. At this moment, it doesn't make sense to do any transaction, unless someone owns an important amount of Steem. I think the blockchain changes are good, but they came a bit too late. We shall see if the results will improve. The number of active users and new posts per day are dropping dramatically which is definitely not a good sign.
Indeed. When I started there were tons of new posts everyday but I only have 5-6 people constantly blogging. I was in the same situation for a couple of weeks. I get it. I don't see this excessive holding proper for me. I like spending but at the current price I don't see the point to sell any Steem. Maybe the end of the year or next year will be more generous.