Why am I Powering Down my HP? An Update about my Life.

in GEMS2 years ago

Transparency on the HIVE Blockchain

Today I want to bring you a small update and explain you the reason behind my HIVE Powering Down. Because the transparency of the Blockchain is amazing and allow the whole community to see what everyone is up to.

But what that transparency is good for can also be hurtful to the creators, when the reasoning behind some of the moves that are done are not clear.

Many times People in the community see this movements and tend to do their own stories and come up with their own conclusions even without having any idea for the reasons behind the decisions taken.

So I wand to leave you here an update about my Life and let you know why I am Powering Down.

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Working full time online have not been easy

Some of you might have seen and might know that this past January I have quit my offline job to dedicate myself 150% to create content and try to make a living out of it.

After many months working full time on my offline job and dedicating some extra time to create content and sell some NFTs, I was making a considerable and stable amount of rewards here with my content on the HIVE blockchain and also I was consistently getting my NFTs collected.

This was stable for a while, so I thought that would be a great time for me to finally take a leap of faith and start working full time on it. So I would be able to have more time to come with more and better content.

I couldn't haven't been more wrong.

The first Month

I knew that obviously it could take some months to see a difference and to see some results to appear when it came to increase the amount of rewards and the growth.

But unfortunately, on the first month of me doing this full time the opposite have happened.

NFT sales

The NFT markets are complicated if you are a photographer and to make it even worst, from February EVERYONE started struggling to get sales. I am not alone in this boat.

So only there I have lost a lot of money that I was counting as "extra" money for me to be able to use on my daily expenses.

That income disappeared straight away. I am still making efforts to create great images and try to promote them so they reach the right collectors but that have not been happening.

HIVE rewards

When it comes to generate higher rewards with my content on HIVE, that didn't really go as I thought either. As I said, my HIVE rewards were being very consistent and stable for a while now.

So evidently I thought that if I had even more time to invest in creating content that I personally think it is better than the one I was doing previously, I thought that probably after a while I would be able to keep growing and with that the rewards as well.

The opposite have happened. For some reason, the amount of rewards I was getting in the content I was sharing have started to get even lower.

Powering Down to be able to pay my bills

I need to make it clear, I DON'T HAVE A FIXED INCOME coming in from any employer now, so after the first month seeing all my numbers going down the drain I had to activate my back up plan.

I was not expecting to have to, but in case of emergency, and so I could keep working on creating content, I thought I could do a power down so I would have the money to pay my rent but still be able to invest all the time, money and energy in keep good content coming, hoping I will be able to turn the tide around.

That is my reason behind the Power Down, money to pay my rent so I can keep working on creating content.

HIVE have changed a lot

The HIVE community have changed a lot since I have first started creating in this platform, and although I am a very "old" creator in the platform, I feel that I don't know it anymore. Many of the People that believed and were content creators in here, have left, because at certain point it was not possible for them to keep creating and spending time, money and energy in something that was not bringing them any benefits at all.

So I feel that at this moment many people on the community might have seen me around, might have seen my content. But don't really know me as a person and only see what my current situation and what the movements on the blockchain are telling you. And I feel that many judge me for that.

You might see an Old user, with a low HP that is doing a power down. I am way more than that. I am just a person trying my best to share my art, my creativity, and keep everyone entertained.

This is not a rant

I am not here to tell you what you should do or not. And I am not here to complain, just wanted to keep you updated on my Powering Down situation.

This old dinosaur in the community would much rather keep his HP all staked and keep growing, instead of having to power down to pay the bills.

Message to All the new content creators

Many new people in here are doing amazing when it comes to create new and fun content, many of you are banking really nicely with your content. And I also don't know a lot of you but listen when I say this. I have seen many AMAZING, talented people coming and going on the HIVE blockchain, many like you created amazing content and got rewarded for a while and then they were just ignored to oblivion. Many others came and put a lot of time and effort in their content and never got any recognition from the community.

I have seen it all. So remember, no one is above and you should keep an eye and really trying to support everyone as much as you can. Because one day you might not be the HOT thing anymore.

When it comes to me?

Well I just want to say, think about all that I've just said. And when you see my content remember this.

This Old user with a low HP that is now Powering down, have been here working really hard for years and have still not abandoned this community, even when I'm literally working for scraps.

That's all I wanted to share with the community today.

Have an amazing week.


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Good luck! You're smart to recognize the danger early. I can tell you from experience it's a horrible feeling to know it will take you a year or more to crawl out of a financial hole. I get a little nervous when I see people expect a regular income from NFTs after one lucky break.

Thanks. Yeah now I am just trying to come up with a plan that will allow me to keep doing what I love while still being able to pay my bills. Eheheh

Aww good luck! It's okay to make profit, I think you really worked hard here creating content and art stuff.
I hope you can make this your full time and be very successful.

Aww Thank you so much for the nice words. I just wanted to share, because as I said in the post, I think many of the new and successful People on the community right now really tend to look at the numbers and not caring about the people. So just wanted to leave my 2 cents. :D And I know the Big fish in here will not like this and most likely even get me more blacklisted LOLOL But just wanted to share the real story behind the reason.

Very well @sergiomendes, the transparency is one of the key things why the blockchain is a blockchain. I perfectly understand your view on why you made this post. But left to me, you owe nobody an explanation really. Still its good you did what you thought was right. Keep doing what you love best. People like me are here to learn from you! 🙌

I wanted to explain it because I think many people have opinions and make their own stories and have their own ideas when they see this movements but they don't really know the REAL reasons and stories behind it. Thanks for commenting.

Exactly, I see your point..
Anytime, brother.

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