A New Age

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Ours is a Time of Revolutionaries

No, not in the "grab your guns and topple the government" sense, but in the philosophical and economic sense. Those of us here, and on other blockchains, are settlers on a new frontier. Think of each blockchain (ETH, HIVE, WAX, etc. Ones with more than just a coin) as their own "territory", like in the wild west days. Large, full of mystery and potential, and even a little danger. Some of us find one such "territory", set up shop, and seldom if ever leave. Others find a place and stay there while scouting out the others for extensive periods of time before taking the risk of expanding into a new "territory." Others are in and out of all the "territories" old and new. Regardless of your method you are one of the revolutionaries of this time.

It started all those years ago when Crypto first came out. People took a risk and it quickly grew into a way for people to guard against the ever declining and unstable fiat currency. As time went on it became more and more the tool of a modern day revolutionary, tired of governments constantly inflating and devaluing the fiat currency of the world causing more people to join the revolution. Crypto has now become a "mainstream" concept and now governments are starting to have to either openly support or oppose the developments that have come from them. With this we have come to somewhat of a standstill, particularly in the United States (with which I'm most familiar). Businesses and governments have yet to start accepting crypto as a method of payment which causes there to be a lack of "real world usage", which places us relatively firmly in a "chicken or the egg" scenario. Without a real world application businesses don't want to accept crypto as a method of payment, but without businesses accepting crypto as a method of payment it is hard to establish a real world application. That being said it will require a push from the crypto community, most likely having to start with local small businesses as they are the ones who largely drive such grassroot movements.


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This brings us to the newer, second talking point. Blockchain communities, gaming, and NFTs. This is a furtherance and expandment upon the original revolutionary standpoint that not all of the people of the original group followed into, however, all of the people in this group fall into the original crypto group. These are the people who decided, in one way or another, that they were tired of allowing large corporations to own their online data. Whether that be gaming, pictures, posts, and other interactions. Taking ownership of their digital assets (regardless of the form they take) and having the potential to earn the money for themselves that the large corporations would earn off of them. While there has been a lot of skepticism surrounding this area, and improvements can definitely be made in some areas, crypto itself started the same way. These blockchain communities, believe it or not, can also help to provide a real world use case for crypto as well. There are several examples for starting down that path just here on hive itself. There's the list store where you can by real world products from other hive users with crypto. There's the PIZZA store where you can by steam game keys and they have a music store in the works. Last but not least you have the ecobanker project where you can by shares of a real world company and assets that have been tokenized as cryptocurrency on HIVE after they have been released. There may be more real world us cases on HIVE that I am unaware of and if so please let me know so I can check them out. The people who have made this step to own their digital assets and interactions and even start providing real world use cases for crypto are furthering the revolution that crypto itself started all those years ago. The main things that we ourselves must keep doing is finding and instating real world use cases for crypto and refining our own projects and blockchains to appeal more and more to the masses. Take heart my friends, while some people put us off as the fringe and weird people, we ourselves can take comfort in the knowledge that we are the driving winds behind the sails of change and are revolutionizing the future for ourselves and generations to come.


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