The Everyday Gifts

My wife is a better parent than I - in most ways.

She forced me to go to various random shops to pick up a bunch of random stuff to wrap and create a Christmas calendar for Smallsteps to open over the next 24 days, starting tomorrow. Last year, we did similar and it was a huge success, so I am guessing that this year will be similar. There is nothing fancy in there at all, but Smallsteps is generally appreciative of anything she gets, regardless of what it is and over the years she has cared for everything she owns. I think that is a good sign for the future.

I don't generally get that much of note for Christmas, but this year I did buy my own present to open, well, 1306 of them. Splinterlands packs. I am considering taking the day off work, just so I can spend some time enjoying the process, as this will be my first "big deal" event in five years. I have opened packs before, but it has been random and toward the end of the DICE release, so there wasn't the sense of community excitement around it and literally less than a handful of people knew I was buying anything.

With this purchase and opening, I am going to be opening twice the total number of packs opened thus far, effectively tripling my current holdings. Of course, the value of what I am holding want triple, but hopefully in time it will have made sense to drop so much into this and I will look back and be glad I did. There are some very bullish Splinterlands investors out there and I am feeling the draw to invest a bit more - though who knows if I will be able to get any more packs after this at all.

I would love to be able to go deep enough to have a maxed deck, but that will take around about 5000 packs from estimates, which is quite an investment. But, what else am I going to use crypto on?

If 2022 is going to be the year of the usable NFT, I think Splinterlands is well positioned to take advantage of at least some of the market attention and attract players and investors into the game, as well as potentially pique the interest of larger gaming outfits. I think from now on, the entire crypto industry is in an "accumulation phase" and rather than tokens, it is collecting advocates.

Advocates are hugely important for an industry in the early phases and while crypto has had plenty for a long time, now they aren't just crazy people - they are mainstream business entrepreneurs and corporations. This has a huge effect on the public narrative, as well as instils confidence into the fringe dwellers who have been biding their time, weighing up whether to enter the industry or not. There is so much advantage to being an early adopter, but for the "legit" businesses, they have to satisfy their fiduciary responsibilities too, as well as their stakeholders. This makes entering into this kind of market early, almost impossible.

However, once there is a modicum of framework, legislation and a potential market, they will very quickly pile in and try to stake out their patch of the future, hoping to get an outsized return for their investment - just like us. Of course, those who do happen to ahve invested early into something that people are going to invest large into later, will definitely make some significant gains, as we have seen with Splinterlands this year. With the hodlers quite grippy, there is bound to be a lot of scarcity on the asset classes, but will the game sustain it?

There needs to be liquidity and at the moment, that is going to come at a price with so few willing to sell. I bought my first cards around six months ago and have a lot of duplicates - haven't sold one. I am not alone in this, since there is a market to generate near-passive income through rentals, plus the speculation on future price, plus usecase on Land etc - so, why sell? However, Splinterlands can't just keep releasing set after set until no one wants to buy anymore, as that just dilutes all of the other assets, much like a central bank printing money.

I don't know where it will lead, but currently there aren't many people in crypto and almost no one relatively in NFTs with usecase, so not only will new people come in through the social and gaming gateways, but more experienced crypto hodlers will look to SWAP some of their holdings for other crypto assets to both diversify and, take advantage of where people are going to be in the future.

For me, that is pretty clear, it is going to be where we are already. On Hive. It might not be only Hive or Hive experiences of course, but for nearing six years, Hive has been ahead of the curve for the normalization of the blockchain and crypto industry, creating spaces for average people to do extraordinary things. It might not seem that special to many of us, but we are now living in a skewed world, because we have already been in so long, that all of this, seems normal.

It isn't normal.

We have been establishing a foundation and a constant stream of value so going forward, we will continually have presents to open - as if, every day is Christmas.

I might not be the best parent in the house, but I am good at some things. What I am thankful for is that I am able to use what I am good at to improve life for my daughter in other ways, even if she doesn't have a gift to unwrap.

She will understand when she is holder.

Taraz [ Gen1: Hive ]

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