Painful eh? :D
Yeah very, thankfully I managed to stomach it but there were a few close calls!!
As for the long term, I full agree and that's one thing the PhD taught me about patience, persistence and seeing something through to the bitter end, with the ultimate reward at the end of it all - different challenges have happened since then of course and life is just one big PhD haha
Sometimes I kick myself for not selling, then I kick myself for thinking that if I had sold, I would still be here. From what I have seen, many of those who sold, never had enough to buy back in.
I have no PhD, but patience definitely is a virtue in this space and there will be plenty of people who fall by the wayside before the mainstream.
I'm playing the long game but the great things about Hive is that there are so many ways to get Hive that you can get it back just by being active whether it's playing games, commenting/posting, entering contests, raffles, leasing, delegating to name a few!
I agree, have already seen a lot of musicians walk away from crypto due to previous frustrations and revert back to Web 2.0 despite it not working for them. Either I'm the crazy one for sticking it out or they are... time will tell haha!