Gravity hurls the world around the sun one time each year. The start of a "year" is different, and a matter of perspective. Today's the start of my fourth year on the STEEM blockchain, which means that I have been here for three years, and a handful of seconds.
What have I done?
This screenshot from Steemitboard tends to sort that right out.
(Thanks to the team behind this site, Project Designer: @arcange Web Designer: @techybear Graphic Designer: @captaink)
THE CAR
What else have I done? Well, I did a thing to my car before I figured out what the difference between Steem and Steemit was.
THE SHITTY RPG
You can read about why I decided to make a shitty role playing game about Steem here:
https://steemit.com/gaming/@holoz0r/the-isle-of-steem-a-game-development-post-mortem-and-an-essay-in-obsolescence-and-pointlessness
You'll also find that I abandoned development for reasons of it not being financially viable to pursue development for a project with such a limited scope and audience, though; the response to the post-mortem was good.
It was a fun way to try and troll the community in a way that they knew they could never be trolled.
Little did I know, I trolled myself by wasting my time. I learned about game development, github, and other things along the way, though.
THE MEETUPS
This is probably the best part of the last three years that I've spent on the blockchain. @mattclarke's vision for a monthly meet up has exposed me to fantastic, and lovely human, individuals that I would have never ever encountered in my day to day to life.
THE FUTURE
I'm against Hardfork 21. I don't think it does a single thing to help onboard new content creators, and does nothing to assist existing content creators. As seen in the first screenshot of this post - it can't be said that I have contributed "nothing" to the chain.
I have received nearly 7000 Author reward SP, but find myself sitting sitting at 13000 SP - meaning that I have invested a fair bit into the platform beyond my time.
An average 7.2 SP per post isn't bad - and its a lot more than 0, if I were doing this gig on word press or something like that. The bear market, steemit inc's lack of governance, and the lack of vision, alignment, and differences of opinions on chain have led to a point where I simply feel that steem may be on its last legs from a price-stand point.
I want this opinion to be wrong. I really do. I recently sold a bunch of steem to buy a camera lens. That felt good.
I'm not going anywhere, because this is the only place where people tend to pay attention, anyway.
What to expect from me over this next year?
Watch me become a better photographer. :)