Diamondhands
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Bitcoin Archive is 5 years old today!
Exactly 8 years earlier to the day, I had experienced a profound loss in my life that left me with a lingering sadness I still find difficult to think about, much less sharing with others.
In those moments of mourning, I made the promise that I would go down swinging - whatever the cost.
We will all be forgotten - the sands will bury us all - but just do something! Anything. Take a chance. Find something and make an all out effort.
So 2021, in the midst of the global economic shutdown, I had the realisation that my career was over, without a clue what would lay ahead.
Putting all my money into Bitcoin in late 2020 helped me find the Bitcoin Twitter community, and on the 2nd of January, 2021, I started posting as Bitcoin Archive.
No plan.
No capital.
Just vibes and let's see what happens.
The opposite of everything I had been taught, and everything I had previously tried on the path to many failures and burnouts.
When I saw the initial positive response to my posts, I became obsessed with delivering on my promise.
I felt the urgency in every moment, and would often read this passage from Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar":
"There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life,
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat,
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures."
I may have even posted it once or twice in the bull market, to remind myself, and others, that we were in a flood, and the good times would not last.
Indeed there was a flood!
A 15 month daily obsession in which I built Bitcoin Archive from ZERO to 1 million followers.
It took 16-17 hours of grinding every day.
Monotonous.
Menial.
Tedious.
Humbling.
**I didn't care!**
I felt of service to the community, and in return the community projected a immense amount of goodwill for my work.
There was no hack.
No shortcut.
No engagement bots.
I literally did this every day for almost 2 years before I took a meaningful break.
People don't believe me when I tell them, but that was it. No tricks. Nothing but hard work.
Bitcoin Archive has been a labour of love for me; an obsession which consumed me without any rational justification in the early days, only later becoming a mission, and recently, a business.
The transformation is not easy.
I am struggling to let go of some things, so that I can give others an opportunity, and fulfil the potential of Bitcoin Archive.
And then there is the time consuming financial aspect of working on sponsorship deals, which i try to do as little as possible as it takes me away from what I love most, creating new content for the community.
I would have had FAR MORE Bitcoin had I never built Bitcoin Archive. But then I wouldn't have Bitcoin Archive, which has given me the purpose, community, and opportunities for growth I could never buy into working in the corporate world.
It's not quite a redemption arc. I don't really have anything to redeem.
All I ever wanted was to build something with a purpose.
Bitcoin has given me that purpose.
YOU, reading this right now, have given me that!
For that I am forever grateful.
🧡
Archie
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Unfortunately, I had to take down the podcast I just did live on YouTube. Promotional tags were visible that weren’t supposed to be there. We’ll have to re-upload it without them. In the meantime, you can listen on schiffradio.com
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Polkadot’s new website is live.
It's a simpler, more human introduction to a complex system.
The last decade built the protocol; that work continues. In the decade ahead, the focus shifts to the products and experiences built on top of it.
This is v0. It will evolve as products emerge.
→ polkadot.com
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