Today was the Christmas dinner for the family.
My dad was invited too. (like last year).
I'm happy my dad and my mom's new husband get along fine after my dad managed to avoid meeting him for about 5 years.
It makes the life for the children about 10 times easier. I can tell you that.
No more constant questions of who am I going to invite to what party? and all that.
The food was perfect and eventually, the subject of crypto was touched.
My niece Fee and me
My Dad and Brother are both finance guys.
They are the go-to people for investment advice.
And they are good at it in their own (dinosaur) way.
My dad, for instance, sold all his stock (against the bank advice ) before the crash of 2008. It's one of his favorites stories.
They are convinced crypto is a bubble and that it will pop.
They read this every day in the Dutch Financial Times.
I'm the opposite as you probably know. Although I do agree there are projects out there that are completely without merit and are still being bought.
But more and more often I no longer feel the need to convince others about the space.
(Not to be confused with teaching about the space.)
It just makes me tired.
Therefore I'm so happy that my own mom (@clio) is on board.
When everyone left she asked me to help her with something on Steemit.
I did.
She also showed me all the people she's following and the connections she made on the platform.
Later when I talked to her husband he told me that she often sits behind the computer late at night leaving comments to other people.
She truly enjoys it.
This is just a huge plus for the Steem blockchain because I don't know anyone that send any crypto from A to B (like a lot of other projects) just because they enjoy it late at night.
I also saw she collected some SBD's in her wallet from her blogging efforts.
I asked her what she wanted to do with it.
"What do you recommend?"
She has invested thousands into Steem so I suggested she sent them to me so I could convert them to Euro for her.
Take some profit. Always.
She agreed.
That's what I did when I got home tonight. The money is still in transit but I already booked it to her account.
Talking about crypto becoming real :)
Bubble or not.
While the dinosaurs are standing at the Station we are at least on board the Steem Train and having fun too!
Merry Christmas!
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I have learned from my recent family and health class how children , the little ones, are impacted by the parents behavior and what not and how the parents should give a lot of love and support when they are young for emotional support because kids don’t know what’s going on and often blame themselves
seriously @exyle you are one of the most great seniors here on steemit who is promoting steemit and doing hard work for steemit !
Glad to see her also !
Excellent work this made me happy !
seems first-rate and could shop me time as a quite new member who’s nevertheless hooked on every interaction, and might prevent me from looking all of the time.
I Wont call cryptos a bubble but i see a big correction in the near future. As you mention there are many cryptos with out merit. Each and every day i see tens more ICOs which is not at all sustainable. But i have 100% faith in the blockchain technology. Few of the crypots are really good with some meaningful project under them and have a bright future but rest is just get rich scheme.
@exyle,
"While the dinosaurs are standing at the Station we are at least on board the Steem Train and having fun too!"
Well said friend! Yeah some of crypto projects are just bubbles, we can't say it's not. But STEEM is not a bubble, atleast we got a good project among thousands of Bubbles!
Nice to hear your Dad came to the party! It's a good example for time cure every pain!
Merry X'mas to all of you!
Cheers~
I agree with your brother and father that cryptocurrencies do appear to be a bubble but there is a difference. The price of these currencies will fluctuate - often wildly but it is because we are observing a change in technologies. When CD-Roms first entered the market they were around $5000. Families (in China) would buy many not because of speculation but what they represented. The CD-Roms meant an income flow and they started burning CD's for the pirate market. "Bitcoin" are the same thing, they are a new technology which are destined to change not only the way money works, but also the way that societies work.
Yes some of the major increase was due to Bitcoin Fever but also part of the increase is the recognition that it is an alternative. Ask your father if he believes the stock market will tank this year (it is within the last 3 years of the decade). Then ask him is the bond market is a good place to shift the money now. Finally ask if the commodity market is a good investment (it is in a longer range investment horizon). I think that more and more investors are dipping their toes in the cryptocurrency market as a desperation play in order to put their money into something that may have a potential. This is only a guess but I believe that Bitcoin will bounce one more time against the $12000ish support level and then resume its upward trajectory.
STEEM as an investment is totally different to Bitcoin. It is more than just a crypto ... it is "brainware". It is a community of over 500,000 exchanging ideas, goals and motivations. When the SMT technology drops, it will revolutionize a growing number of ways of communication.
We as humans always tend to look at what happened in the past and what will happen next. This works sometimes very well. But in this case - crypto is something very, very different, than stocks.
So - while I understand why your father would be sceptic about crypto - he could have made a lot of money over the year(s) since you are active on STEEM(IT).
And with this logic - if he was wrong back then, maybe he is wrong now?
Anyway - always great to read your blogs. They're very authentic.
I'm glad your dad came, It's so hard to be a child of parents who got divorced. I'm happy you got to hang out with him in Christmas, There's nothing more important than that.
I'm glad she can have fun and make money from it as well! My mother is bored as hell and I might show her Steemit, I don't know, You just inspired me and gave me a cool idea.
What's her account?
If she likes writing Steemit is not a bad place. Thank you for reminding to tag my mom's username. It's @clio.
followed her. thank you!
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Oh, yes, my friend, your judgment about dinosaurs is correct as ever, of course, each of us decides to join us on board, but I fully agree that if you do not make a decision, you can stay out of the way for the rest of your life! It's also nice to hear that a close person, that is, your mother, supports you in your decision and what she is very happy with together with us! Thank you @exyle for the positive and happy Christmas!
its really great to hear about your mom that she works on steemit and enjoy this platfarm and i feel good to know about her that u share with u sure i want to follow him that will be more good if u share her account name with us she look so pretty and really very happy with u i wish GOD give u more happines with ur family @exyle
MERRY CHRISTMASS U AGAIN EXYLE
and also its just funny that u against in work of ur brother and father and hope they joine crypto on day to see ur success or u joine them haha
"All aboard the steem train! destination moon. I hope you have a pleasant journey and make many friends along they way :)"
I can wait for the first person to plan the steem flag on the actual moon, it will be hilarious. Your mom is awesome btw. Cheers !
Steem train is not only fun its the livelihood of thousands of user I know and people are just devoting their time as if they are the employee of steem, such is the madness and I am sure it s gonna rock in 2018.
Thank you @exyle and have a great day.
Exactly. Talking about converting Crypto to real money, I converted a small share of 4 SBDs Yesterday and gave my younger sister a surprise on her Birthday. Decorated my room for her Birthday. It is almost the end of the month and my Salary is almost gone. Had those 4 SBD in my wallet, I guess that was the best use I could get from them. I can so relate to what you said.
Merry Christmas! And hey, Fee is so cute.
@exyle, cool. you a lot like your mom.
Good deed for helping her.
I saw a green egg this morning on my community.I stopped to snap a pic but cannot block traffic. It is big and very green. I think of you when I see it. It was almost 4ft high with wheels. look like this.
Keep on steemit.
That's a green egg!
Merry christmas my dear friend @exyle and I am also happy that you around your family member and enjoying your life. and yes steem is the longest train to go, so lets board this train who knows when it starts it never stops.
lol same here, the fact is I am ready to teach you how to fish, be it small or big but when you start drifting away and you rather prefer the already cooked food it just makes me tired and I end up leaving you in the ocean.
Steemit really an amazing platform and a life changer but still others refuse to get involve bringing up excuses about unable to blog, when you literally do it everyday on whatsapp, facebook, telegram etc..
Why not join a platform that actually pays you and see genuine people who actually value your post
Mums are almost always more supportive then dads :) They have this unconditional love inside them. No matter what the son is doing, they are there :) Lucky you that you have such a cool mum!
Today, my sister taught my mum also about crypto and investing. I didn't mention to her that I am on steemit or that I invested in other currencies. I was thinking she will not be capable of understanding. But now she is analyzing the charts and wants to invest! :)))) haha.
Merry Christmas!
Interesting situation with the parents my mom and dad divorced and as you know trouble can rekindle, I think they maybe right with crypto being a bubble its still growing and fast, I also wanted to wish you and the family a Merry Christmas @exyle
Wow!!, @Clio has being our steemit mum. Most time when checking her blog am carried away with her life experience ad historical writing on her blog.
Am proud having her here on steemit, even seeing her getting more use to crypto.
Thanks for sharing @exyle
Good thing to have friends riding the same train, leaving history behind, waving us goodbye from the train station while we are heading to a bright future.
Glad to see your family getting a long. Sometimes people mellow out with age and realize that getting along is important.
I'm long cryptos. There could be some wicked corrections but I think overall we are early days in the crypto revolution. Merry Christmas!
Hey @exyle, my favourite blogger on Steemit.
I just wanted to say it is so nice to see a blogger Steemian, who is not involved in those downvote wars, and who seems to not bother anyone with the way he make his blog. There is so much talk about the fairness of reward system, but you seem to be out of it, and that's how I would like to see most of the community to behave!
Be positive and not engage in disputes. Cheers!
Amazing post. Happy to see your family get along. I have similar situation whit my friends, who are all economist. It is just a waste of time explaining them about blockchain technology etc. Merry Christmas !
This is great story. Whenever a home breaks apart, the children suffer it more than anyone else. And its good that @clio enjoys blogging, that's a good example for mosts moms to follow. @exyle I'm standing with you on the crypto issue. I just voted @blockbrothers as a witness. I love your family's lifestyle. And your niece, she's so cute. Hope she becomes a business expert like you @exyle.
what a beauiful Christmas dinner with your family .it is really beautiful think there is people who advice about finans in your family .. thank you for sharing your day with as
Excellent post. It’s good to see that older people getting in on this platform and cryptos in general because it is often said that this is a millennial fad. It’s also nice of you to help out with getting her involved. Great post and very good grammar and spelling and a good job at being concise. Do you write articles professionally?
Merry Christmas as well!
Thank you and no I only started writing since I joined Steemit in July 2016. Merry Christmas.
I think you could really write for a paper or magazine or something. Your stuff is so fluent and you kind of paint a story with your words. My mother was good at writing and could’ve been and author or writer, but instead became a teacher. I see the same kind of things in your writing as her writing. Keep up the good work man! :)
Family is everything. We are born in a family, nurtured by the family and buried by the family when we die. I am glad your mum is now here, even though I lost my own mum when I was just 8.
I wish your mum all the best.
This community is for all people and all ages, wonderful to see your mom on Steemit and may be your father, after seeing you and your mother million of dollars one day would join too!
Merry Xmas @exyle you've had a kick ass year! Looking forward to what the @blockbrothers brew's up next! :)
Thank you! Merry Christmas to you!
really love to see fee and you
Sounds fun.
@exyle another Christmas Gift from Mom @clio, more SBD for your STEEMIT Account. You are clever and I would have done the same for my Mom and then told her to go out an buy something for herself. Just splurge a little bit once in awhile.................
you have amazing family...specially your dad...how he escaped from 2008 market crash...haha ..it sounds really funny....but nothing is better than spending time with family specially on festivals...merry christmas..hav good time ..enjoy the dinner..
Life after a break-up is never easy but avoiding each other for 5 years is not a good way either. It's very good to hear that they finally were able to accept each other despite all that has happened. Such a blessing it was on Christmas as well.
Thanks for great post! Read it on one breath :)
You're right, it's late night now but I'm sitting and reading / upvoting the interesting posts on Steemit :D
Merry Christmas!
Nice writing loke always ..say hi to your mom and Merry christmas for your familly ..
Wow Mark, a Mother which is into crypto and also good in writing posts on steemit. Thats something I didnt see or hear before.
Then you could realy share the new finance World, which replaced the pre historic ledgers.....
its a lovely time of life which is spend with family ,marry Christmas to all friends
This is nice, I agree with what you said about crypto. I'm new to steemit, very much new.
Trying to understand how you guys run things here.
Dinosaur has gone into extinction in the mesozoic era according to the Geological Time Scale..
Nice tail story
Hello @exyle your post is so beautiful. you know why? Not because of the talk of crypto or anything else but because of the vibes that I get from the narrative and the pictures of a family that bonds together and is celebrating Christmas together.Remain together and remain blessed
christmas is about spending time with family and friends. It’s about creating happy memories that will last a lifetime. Merry Christmas to you and your family! Dear @exyle
thank you
Your niece is so cool, and also your mum is looking too astonishing...
Merry Christmas @exyle
True @exyle I hope it was a long debate because crypto subject has so many questions and an interesting one that people are yet to understand though too hard to grasp.
@exyle Merry Christmas man! I'm happy your family get on well with each other! I think the crypto thing is still at its infancy stage so don't worry about the bubble! This bubble only gets bigger!
Best
thanks for sharing your story...
and Merry Christmas
Exactly. Crypto is an area on a new level of complexity where some knowledge of programming is helpful, that's why many people just don't get the point of it.