I've got mulling a hurricane of thoughts and ideas stuck in my head, so here goes.
There's been a lot of FUD lately in the SmartCash chatrooms (Slack and Discord) and admin-mods censoring or suppressing it isn't going to make it go away either. What is needed is more dialogue. So, I'm writing this as a powerful pep-talk to lift up the chins of all those silent-stewers bottling it up, who are down over the stagnant price of SmartCash.
This is a Pep Rally: 2018 is the Year of SmartCash
I'm here to reinvigorate people to make 2018 the year of SmartCash. I'm here to turn your frown upside-down, at least for those who are tepid, luke-warm or have a smile on their face, but deep down inside feel insecure about the future of this crypto. When I'm done with you, you'll have energy anew, and regain the urge to power, and be reborn, so we can spread the good message of this community-centric cryptocurrency which has unspeakable potential.
Goodbye November 2017, December 2017 is on Deck
It's only been 45 days since embarking on my krypto-adventure, and during this brand spanking new experience, Bitcoin went from $6K to 10K+, and there is no stopping this train either, and with it, hundreds of altcoins are following behind with great vigor and force, we are witnessing the revolution in full swing. Cryptocurrency is not going away and the more decentralized it becomes the more it's never going away.
https://youtu.be/rDMMYT3vkTk
Watch SmartCash do "The Triple Lindy" with Rodney Dangerfield, RIP he's frozen solid in cryosuspension (literally).
You know "The Triple Lindy" right? It was the only scheme of that cheesy movie "Back to School" worth remembering. Remember that tired-old underdog revenge Hollywood theme where the outsider dorky kid(s) always overthrows the "evil Americans" to get the cute girl, in the end, you know that theme, it's the theme kinda common in the 1980s and 1990s (think Revenge of the Nerds, Karate Kid, John Cusack films) usually aimed at teens and young adults in their rebellious stage. Well in this rendition of the metaphor about the "kid who doesn't get picked in the high school gym" it was with Rodney Dangerfield and his make-believe nebbish son, who we never see again in Hollywood.
To reiterate, the Triple Lindy was the one moment which made the whole dumb movie worth watching and it's the only thing I can remember about the campy flick, with the exception of Dangerfield combining multiple dorm rooms to make a luxury suite at college. Well, a year from now, in 2018, when new years eve comes again, people will be pouring golden champaign on each other's heads. Get ready SmartCash is gonna do the Triple Lindy in 2018! Come on baby, get excited! 2018 is where it's gonna happen. Hodl for #SmartRewards staking and don't look back.
Now 4 Some Tough Love
It's a reminder so people don't get triggered: Every article I write, I'm going to try to push the envelope in some way, even if it means breaking out of my comfort zone, even if it means repeating certain things to hammer them home, even if it means offending people and saying things which raise eyebrows or irk peoples' sensibilities. Sometimes I-gotta-gets a little salty, sour, sweet and savory -- even if it means egos will be wounded or massaged. I'm sorta that guy who doesn't care what people think, and is ready to move on to bigger and brighter things.
Life is short and there are hundreds of worthy cryptos, so we got to treat this like Texas Holdem and play tight and aggressive, no matter what the outcome, no matter who gets upset or pissed off, no matter if we win or lose. Remember, the goal is with good intentions so we all benefit - even if the road of good intentions sometimes leads to hell. We can be the house or the player in our cryptostrategy, keep that in mind when I whisper vague sweet nothings about SmartNodes.
I have to try to differentiate my communication for my own edification, so it becomes therapeutic, it lets me get stuff off my chest easier, and allows me to be playful when inspired. There is a great hurricane of turbulence within, so writing lets me open the floodgates from time to time, to momentarily release some of the errant tidal winds. I'm secretly having too much fun in the process too.
You better start getting excited, New Years EVE is Coming, and there's a new dawn here for SmartCash, which is much needed to finish 2017 off strong, and start extra fresh with 2018. Dec 31st, 2017 is knocking on the door and is less than 5 weeks away. We're gonna party like it's 1999, because we know 2018 is gonna kick some hynies in a most excellent way.
Pay very close attention and don't get attention-deficit-disorder on me.
You need read this out loud if there happens to be even one mote of FUD dust in your consciousness, it pertains directly to you Smartypants adherents (sometimes called SmartCashians or Smarties) and you are NOT going to want to miss a chance to marinate your SmartCash hodlings for some steady earning potentials in an upgrade. SmartRewards are great, but this just got reraised with SmartNodes, yeah that's a little teaser.... Start building up your questions, get butterflies in your stomach.
*Special Note: It's 10K in $Smart (SmartCash), not $10K USA Dollars (USD). Just in case anyone wasn't sure.
If you're not a millionaire with a lot of money to throw around, you can grow your precious SmartCash golden nest egg in some new innovative ways coming down the pipeline, stay tuned on these hinting points, but wait, first things first. Got 10K in SmartCash? No? Well, you better hock grandma's false teeth and dentures at the local pawnshop. Wait, Not enough cashola? Not enough paper with images of dead geniuses on them? Look at all those dust collectors in your place, the shiny baubles and trinkets, the sentimentalones you've been saving up, come on, hit the closet, look under the bed, no, I'm not talking about the dust bunnies either, time to liquidate anything you haven't touched in 6 months in your residence, it's time to purge these things on ebay. Have a yardsale if you're too damn lazy to pump em on the Internet for a firesale. It's time to clean house folks, get rid of stuff, out with the old, in with the new. Sell your junk, and I don't mean anything naughty by it either. Get your mind out of the gutter.
Ambassadors Retire, Embassies Close, New Writing Guilds Arise
Firstly, there has been some people shuffling among the innerparty, the Ambassador program was finalized. Thank goodness, it was too nebulous on what to do and when exactly reward-compensated efforts would be disbursed for a long while. It was too arbitrary. Finally, people were paid-out, and the whole writing-for-earning program in the SC-forum http://forum.smartcash.cc/ is being re-engineered into a civic writing team structure on Steemit Beta (www.steemit.com) and individuals have been broken up into their current resident countries as national teams. Think of it as kind of a writing special Olympics, because you get paid even if you're writing is no good. It's kind of like highschool and college, effort counts more than anything.
There will be some tell-alls, and a lot of holding back too in the name of both transparency and respecting anonymity in the cryptosphere as well. Decentralized is no longer managing the writing contest, it's now in the hands of Somnium, we welcome you. Decentralized is obviously a very busy man with a lot of irons in the fire, he should be lauded and applauded for being a blinking lighthouse of true-believer zealousness needed to fire up this nascent bee-hive-like coin in a dark sea of too many altcoins. Decentralized is a hero. He helped me get started in SmartCash when I was a crypto-virgin, when everyone else was too busy or too ambivalent to throw me some "SmartCash shekels". I am indebted to him for getting me started when I was wet behind the ears in this crypto-reality, one month and a half later, I'm still am wet behind the ears too. Though now, I broke three investment goals in SmartCash.
People were frustrated during the interim of management shuffling. The first writing contest had ended on November 6th, 2017, but there was no communication about who the winners were for more than a week. People were submitting articles to the Ambassador program and getting nothing but crickets instead of real feedback. Many people felt demoralized, felt despair, as if the community building was being managed by glib and manic pollyanna types who embraced the 2nd-world manana attitude toward life. It made people feel dirty like they didn't matter or that SmartCash was just a bunch of smoke and mirrors.
I realize people are burned out on too many people "always not doing what they say or saying what they don't do", especially in the cryptosphere, but people should exercise a little patience, mellow-out and not get so hot in the pants. SmartCash is on the rise after its birth in July, it's a new cryptocurrency, there are going to be hiccups, potholes, swerves, detours and the occasional roadblock on this great journey.
Mellow out people, if the local wallet is stressing you out, cool down, and get the webwallet. There are going to be glitches and stitches in the local wallet. Everything is a work in progress. No doubt setbacks are coming down the line. Just take a deep breath, we'll get through them together and if not, remember, no attachments, all is impermanence anyway. We are losing nothing in the end, we only gambled what we could afford to lose and the upside is the stars, and we are going to the stars to colonize the galaxy and then the universe. However, in the meantime, I'm asking people to embrace life with a yes-fanaticism, which means you can and will manifest your dreams on at a time. Don't lose spirit or momentum. Don't put blame on any one individual, we're all human, and human error is what makes it all interesting. We need to have compassion for the people running the show behind the scenes. What matters is we weather the storms together. What matters most is when problems arise they are dealt with in the philosophy of "stay cool in a crisis", and so far with all the drama the SmartCash innerparty gets, they deserve an A-/A for captaining the ship through doldrums and typhoons.
You don't realize how lucky you are to be alive, really, you don't realize what a fuh-king miracle it is to realize you are an aperture by which the formerly unconscious universe can experience itself. You are the universe, experiencing itself. You finally figured out you are the eyes, the ears, the tongue, the touch, the emotions, the life force of the universe. The universe is experiencing itself through you, beforehand it was unconscious.
Let me gently slap the FUD out of you with a soft flannel glove with a story of love
Can I tell you a little abstract story about a 20th century Romeo and Juliet to hit the point home? He was a handsome, old-fashioned and loyal young man living in the city -- he was cosmopolitan, intelligent, ambitious, witty and dreaming of love. She was a country farm girl, svelt, sultry, with the body of a ballerina and wanting nothing more than to be a fanatical love-making-machine housewife, they were soulmates to be, but they never met because there was no Internet in existence at the time.
Get it now? So put the damn Lambo Fire out in your mind.
Fast forward to the present, you can actually fulfill your dreams, not just the small and medium ones, but the big ones too, so I'm asking you to dream big, and I will keep on asking you until you either shut me out, or scream yes in the silence of your mind to the cosmos. Come on pump your fist in the air right now and say Yes to existence, Yes to consciousness and to life, Helluva YES.
To put the English Philosopher Alan Watt's words in my own wild twist:
It is your eyes that evoke the light and rainbows where drunk Lepracons break-dance on pots of bitcoin gold, it is your eardrums that evoke the bone-throbbing sounds of DJ Tiesto spinning in a stadium called Amsterdam arena, where everyone is dressed in White and tripping their brains out on magic mushrooms, LSD and ecstasy, it is your nose tilted to the sky that wafts inward those fragrant mary jane smoky perfumes. It is your heart pounding when you watch some guy put 40,000 euros on a number in a casino in Monaco and he hits the number, earning over a million years in one wheel spin.
Right now, slap yourself in the face gently and wake up, get out of the trance, we have thousands of cryptocoins we can get involved with and radically change the world beyond our raucous dreams. Few of these coins reward people with cryptos for coming up with creative ideas and spreading the word.
No one is asking you to have a monogamous relationship with SmartCash and get married for life, so now that you're free and in an open relationship with SmartCash, you have no iron ball and shackle-chain on your ankle, explore all that SmartCash has to offer with no attachments, no obligations, and no overly complicated red tape that's impossible to manage. The forum is waiting for you and if you're out of ideas, go spend a weekend intensely studying how to meditate, it will open up the limitless fountain of your imagination if you're indeed lacking in an explosion of creativity. Now try throwing yourself hard into this coin and giving it your best shot.
FUD: Let fear, negativity, uncertainty, depression, and despair be like falling raindrops into your ocean of bliss
It's easier said than done.
I keep seeing people in the chat rooms coming in with FUD (Fear Uncertainty and Doubt). I try to sympathize with them and feel compassion, these are natural-healthy emotions. I think the admin-mods should rather than purge these individuals as a short-term solution, a different approach is called for instead. People having fear this cryptocurrency is a Banana Republic Central Bank, where the insiders print coins at will, is a normal fear for people to have. People are skeptical by nature, it takes time to prove a track record.
I've had a 100% success rate talking with FUDDERS in private messages. When people have panic attacks over this cryptocurrency, as I have in the past when my own local wallet broke, I try to sooth them. People did that for me in the past and it got me out of my funk. I try to do the same for others. Pay it forward.
If someone can't handle a pump and dump, because of the price collapse or because of some local wallet drama, I tell them this:
Put all your SmartCash in the webwallet, and walk away from it for 13 months, until the 25th day of the month at the end of this long segment of time. When I let people know peaks and valleys are a necessary part of every coin, it helps and enables people to think about vaster periods of timescale. If you know some who becomes apoplectic when the price of SmartCash falls, tell them what I wrote above (throw your SmartCash in the web wallet and walk away for 13 months), it works wonders. Get them Fudderz into retirement-minded investor mode (something which is hard work mentally), then the days, weeks, and months no longer matter, it's the years which count. I'm learning a great deal about human psychology going through these anxiety-inducing swings myself and witnessing how others react equally as I do myself.
The price swings are really teaching me a lot of discipline, being so new to investment and to be frank, i've been doing some really idiot things, like buying high and selling low a few times. I had experienced temporary insanity with bitcoin cash, I bought at .28 and dropped it at .18, when I thought I better get out before it collapses even further. The day trading mindset newbies like me have is going to take great work to overcome. I think I'll just stick with the long-term "hodl" strategy no matter what the outcome. It's actually less stressful.
This is Odyssey is epic, is a song, is a saga, we are watching a token/coin which is pennies right now and will someday be dollars, or it will implode and the insiders will run off with an invisible pile of bitcoins as the FUDERS suggest or suggested. Never invest more than you can afford to lose, say it out loud 3x.
In every crypto-investor that's the fear, isn't it? I can't say it's good or bad, as healthy skepticism is warranted.
I say push out the fear and doubts, become a naive child again and throw your heart into it. SmartCash will never go back to pennies in the years to come, so tune-in to Excelsior: onward, upward to the loftiest heights, no turning back.
Is SmartCash the Bitcoin of 2009 as I asked before in another Steemit post? Yes, if it can build a track record, in fact, I think it might potentially be even better than Bitcoin if the insiders lower the transaction fees significantly and take the Zero-coin protocol to the next level by making the IP transactions private too. This would make SmartCash equal to bitcoin taken to what it was meant to be. I also think 10% of the transaction fees should be coin burned, which is to say 10% of the transaction fees are removed from circulation forever, but from what I hear right now, SmartCash, is not favoring or considering any coin burn suggestions.
SmartCash Only Needs A TIME-TESTED Track Record To Join the Pantheon of Bitcoin
Is bitcoin going back to 9 cents? Why should SmartCash in the next 3 to 5 years go back to where it is today?
Is bitcoin going back to 6 dollars, when my stupid ass should have bought it, and had the chance in 2011? Why should SmartCash go back to the single or double digit pennies in the next 3 to 5 years? SmartCash will likely never be less than $10 in 5 to 7 years.
Is bitcoin going back to $1000, or $5000?
Not a chance. So while SmartCash is floating in the penny stock range, you won't get this chance again, seriously, how do I chisel that into your head. So, What I'm asking people to do is find their inner Zen and exercise patience when deadlines aren't met in community building efforts, don't be demoralized if a contest ends and there is no communication for a week, don't lose your spirit. There is a new guy running the show. Out with the old in with the new.
You are the REVOLUTION
The cryptocurrency revolution is still in its infancy,