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Adding Value | Be Part of Something

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Hello SPIers. Today we talk about adding value to community, project building and working toward a bigger goal. Bigger than SPinvest or even HIVE for that matter. Your on here because you like crypto (i guess) but crypto is such a small space. You might in your head think crypto is growing and becoming more mainstream but it's not, not yet but it will with time. As time marches on and 1 generation replaces another, it's inevitable really. If i were to stand outside the local shop offering people free HIVE as they come and go, I'd bet most people would look at me like I had 2 heads and I would not give much free HIVE away. Could be anything crypto, even NFTs. I'd say most people will have heard of crypto, NFTs and a few even defi but most people just are not interested. I personally dont know anyone in real life that is active within the crypto space.

Why is that?

Put simply, it's niche. We live in our own crypto bubble, we interact with other like-minded people, stay up to date and of course, spend many hours thinking about what we could have done and what your gonna do. Because crypto is a big part of your life, you see all its positives and are aware of all the advances taking place.

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People outside see it as the wild west. 1 month BTC is $65k and a few months later it's down to under $30k. When this shit happens, People might view this as verification that crypto is just hype and will not last the long run. They will call for it to fall when it's been mooning for 6 months already and of course, everything that goes up must go down so their predictions always come true. It's just not stable enough for normal people and with stable tokens under pressure, it does not look to be getting better.

How do onboard People to crypto?

We (SPinvest) cant, well we can but others with much further reach are already doing that. The best thing we/you can do is to do your part and do something for some project you really like. Most will think, I dont got time for that. Some will think, I would but I cant do anything to add value and a small number, a single-digit percentage will actively do something. I mean, even offering to be a project graphic designer, video editor, content producer, discord mod, membership list holder, or run a simple side project like a voting curation bot for their token holders. There are tons of ways to add value to any project like the examples above that do not take that much time but add so much value to a project.

What we can do is prepare for when people do arrive, make sure there will be plenty of decent, trustworthy projects that have the infrastructure In place ready to scale up. The best example of this i can think of is Splinterlands which has lots of people adding value to the project. Think of everything from PeakMonsters down to people creating teams to play. Those folks are not directly connected to Splinterlands but they see they can add value and go for it. There are alot of people adding value to Splinterlands and look at it go! Second, most played blockchain game within the past 24 hours is amazing.

How can you add value?

First off, you have to stop thinking about yourself all the time and look at the bigger picture. When I launched SPinvest, I sacrificed my personal earnings on HIVE to focus solely on SPinvest and I was doing ok for content rewards back then. I invested 10,000 STEEM HIVE and that is worth much more now and generates me a weekly income equal to if not greater than what I was earning back then on my personal account. The kicker is everyone else that holds SPI tokens is in the same boat. A few hundred people can take advantage of 1 person's work as it's stuff that person might be doing anyway. JK6276 and Shitsignals are examples of others that have added value to SPI.

Before SPI, there were no real investment tokens on hive-engine. I personally wanted to invest HIVE into something on HIVE or hive-engine that was like a managed index fund that was backed by real assets. Im a silver and gold stacker and backed money would be a wet dream for me and should be the standard in my belief. Because no such token like that existed at the time, I thought there was a gap in the market to be filled and I could create a project that I would invest in thinking others would as well. SPinvest including all its tokens will have gotten people invested and exposed to things they would never have done on their own, paid out tens of thousands of dollars in dividends to tokens holders over its 4 main tokens and of course we're getting rich slowly. All projects under SPinvest are backed by assets, it's our thang you could say. Going off-topic, I remember back when I promoted SPI tokens as guaranteed to increase in value, I got so much hate for making that claim but turned out to be true. HA! True until started the hold a more diverse portfolio 😁

If I sell our BTC and convert it into ETH, I change the investment holdings for a few hundred people. The top 25 token holders hold in the range of $1000-$23,000 worth of SPI. If you run a community voting bot as an example and you secure an HP lease at a cheaper price, you can lease more HP with the extra cash and increase the upvote for everyone. If there are 200 people on that voting bot, 1 person's actions can improve something for 200 others. That's adding value in its simplest form.

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It's dead easy, all you have to do is look at whatever project/community you are involved with and pick holes at it. Think, about what would be good to have, or how to improve on something already in place. When I was with silvergoldstackers, I noticed there was no discord server and thought, that would be a great thing to have. I had never set up a discord server before but I watched a few youtube videos and then set it up with a few hours of playing about, turned out to be very successful and it added alot of value to the community. To maintain, maybe 5 minutes every 2-6 months to add a new role, add new channels, all things that take like a minute to do.

That's an example of one of the things I did when I was with the stacking community. With the blockchain being an open book, almost anyone with an excel sheet can track stats and produce reports which is great information for others. Anyone can host raffles, contests, curation trials, group buying, themed content or everything else. Others can collect data, automate things, produce reports, and run social media, the list of really endless. Create videos, host a lotto, offer to do some admin tasks, do whatever you think would add value.

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Even if you dont get paid for it, you dont get paid for everything you do and should not either, that's a bad way of thinking from my POV. I do things to make money and I do other things that I wanna do and dont expect to be paid for it. In general, the things I make money from are mostly things I dont wanna do, boring like go and collect harvests/rewards, convert this to that and stake it there and then do something tomorrow. When im doing SPinvest stuff, be that SPI, EDS, LBI are CUBlife, I sorta enjoy 90% of it. I mean doing the weekly reports for me is very repetitive as it's been 3 years and 350+ reports in total but I like to see the results each week so the effert is worth the result for me and I know alot of others like to see the weekly results as well because it keeps all the tokens under SPinvest transparent with holdings and earnings.

Not everyone will give up earning from their personal account to start a project but I think anyone can add value to a project with a small amount of time. I run CUBlife for LBI for around 1 hour per week. Not much work to offer an LEO income with an APY of 25ish % for a few hundred people and feed into LBI weekly earnings as well.

If more people were to think of adding value instead of personal gain, we'd be in a much better place than we are now. I run CUBlife for LBI for around 1 hour per week. Not much work to offer an LEO income with an APY of 25ish % for a few hundred people and 10% of its earnings feed into LBI as well so there are maybe 300-400 people affected. And again, 10% of LBI's earnings feed into SPI so there are even more people. All from of 1-hour work per week. 50% of CUBlifes earnings go to CL token holders, 10% goes to LBI and 1% ends up in SPI. Beautiful 🥰

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Ask yourself, which project are you most invested in be that time or money and then ask what would you change or add to make it better and then do it.

Anyways, not really sure how to end this post, I stopped halfway through to get some food and I lost my mojo a little.

Adding value is the way forward, we're in a bear market, there's no easy money so let's build out and be prepared.

Have a great day, hope you found this post entertaining.

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