As of now from the past 10 years, I didn't get really involved into bitcoin until StratisPlatform in 2016.  At the time I was working full time doing odd jobs and at the hospital five days a week 11pm to 7am.  When the peak occurred in 2017, I was able to pay off my MBA and eventually resigned from working at the hospital after 10 years of service.  Each day has been interesting due to the value of bitcoin and people that I used to work with at the hospital made it clear that my decision to work from home would lead to failure.  Update:  Some of the coworkers have been laid off or still work there but are telling me how it is difficult with the rise of covid-19 filling many of the beds and infection risks.  Nursing Manager's that thought they were safe from working bedside are now back as floor or float pool nursing staff.  My timing to leave the healthcare field seemed to be perfect timing rather.

Of course, I did try to resign back in 2014 with the attempt to become involved with bitcoin but I messed up by listening to other's opinions leading to me to go back to the same hospital with a major pay-cut.  I think my wife would have left me with my my newborn son if I had attempted the decision around that time.  2017 was a different story since I had a plan in mind and since then had been using my education to apply risk management to the diversity of investments and bitcoin.  2018 my wife was able to finish her master's in psychology which I was glad to say to have paid it off from using some of the bitcoin converted to fiat for the payments.  Around the same time, my in-laws was having issues with losing their home and was glad to find a solution with the resources available.  Recently, I have been involved in helping teachers with their project requests as a donor which is a good feeling and tax deductible for the charity.  My home is almost being paid off which I could have done it this year but I instead invested in solar energy with a backup since during the winter the power from the grid tend to go out around my area during the colder season.

I have to say, there are other life changing events since being involved with bitcoin but the main detail was that I learned from the failures just to keep it short.  There has been family trying to suggest investment ideas or selling me opportunities that have once told me my decision was a joke.  It is nice to be open-minded but very cautious.  Friends and family have always been wondering what I do nowadays.  I simply just tell them that I work from home "playtesting" video games...well I try to sign up to a variety of closed betas to keep me looking busy whenever they ask. lol.

As I look into my past, I may not even change anything since those memories gave me a learning experience rather to consider a perfect life but a life with understanding fulfilling basic needs and establishing a goal focus.  One way to stretch out the idea of simplicity for me was to find a way to live a life that will work without the demands of society and environment.  An example was work environment with a repetitive schedule where I can easily just clock in do the job description find solutions to small errors and establish the time for the two week paycheck.  The job choices seemed to be something temporary than to be a permanent career choice.  Personally, have family that tried to pursue this type of living may have sacrificed a bit to commit maybe 20-40+ years in a company.  In the end, the company decides to recruit younger and cheaper employees to replace the position which can have mix emotions of either self-worth and questioning commitment.  Hence, I like the previous comments about seeking simplicity with appreciation.  Even if you try to plan it out, there is something that might be missing or to consider as a part of one's perfect life perspective.  Personally, I wouldn't mind having more kids, but like the second quote, "we cannot get what we always ask".  My wife and I are already content with having one son after the previous attempts led to miscarriages.  There are still ups and downs in life, but there was never any regrets in the life only life lessons.

This is very informative.  I heard about Roblox years ago, but thought it was something more of Lego creator or Minecraft platform.  Never expected how much it has been established with a huge following and continues to grow with higher risks as you mentioned of bot-accounts.  Now that I have a kid of my own at the younger age group, I feel more involved in monitoring his online activities especially virtual learning education during this current situation.  Technology has gone a long way in improving but still you do have some participants that seem to like to cause trouble especially in a variety of gaming platforms.  Eventually the young generation will get exposure to such content which can even get bypassed from monitoring filters.  At the same time, I am also looking for such opportunities which can develop some creativity and even create his own game.  Thank you for your feedback.

I think if I was given one chance to make one wish in my life is to go back to 2009.  Not because of the introduction to the bitcoin, but it is the year of a life changing moment in my life.  My time was set for reenlistment for the military and I could have made 12 more year to complete a 20 year bucket list and retire early.  Adding bitcoin to this is like adding icing to the cake.  Instead, I ended up listening to family and friends that they needed me to help them out with their family business.  If I could have this wish answered I would have retained my focus on finishing my obligation and assist when needed instead of my full time towards the family's needs before my own.  Each time I tried to help out on their needs, my ambitions become less motivating.  However, it was not late to do some of things which I do not regret.  Though my life would be easier, I managed to get a job, start a family, have a home, and build a foundation of my own.  I guess the fork in the road was meant to be to help me realize what I needed and can always wonder the "what if" of the situation.  Despite it being a wish, it is more of a parallel world with a different choice.

Thanks for the reply, yea i figured it would be a delay with the events coming up for this place.  I was following the twitter and noticed a bit of activity especially with the potential new places to accept LGD and events.  Personally, my interest with LGD is the private rooms for business discussions, parties, and conventions.  The benefits of having a membership works well with this idea.  Looking forward to the progress in development, keep up the good work.  Glad to be a member.  I sent an email recently, hopefully it did not go through the spam mail, i'll resend it again sometime today to info@legensroomlv.com.  Thanks again!

Hi,

For the members slack channel, do I have to contact Kiki with my proof of ownership to the 5000 tokens to have access to the slack?  Keep up the awesome work with the establishment!  I missed out on renting out my membership last time so I never got a chance to try it out.  Would I have to move my tokens to myetherwallet or is there an interim wallet that will be developed as an app in the future?

I believe this is an excellent exercise and stress reliever from daily routines.  If you maintain the consistency and also add in a healthy diet, your body and mind will be at the best shape at your age.  In addition, if you have done this before at a younger age, perfecting the technique will not be much of a problem just the motivation to retain the routine.  Good luck on the swimming schedule!

Definitely, looking forward to the project again.  It was a bummer that it didn't make it pass the ICO stage last time, hopefully things go better as planned this time with the development and timeline.

I think it is nice that you made the first step in buying bitcoin.  Some people are hesitant due to how the stock market can crash at high levels.  This is not the stock market but it is a similar alternative to the market.  It seems easier to use as a medium to support other smaller projects.  If you ever decide to take the time and energy to research, you might be able to gain back more than 3,000 worth of bitcoins.  To leave your money in just Bitcoins at the a high price is like leaving an allotted amount of funds in the bank with little interest.  You can create a diversified portfolio by using portions of the 1.5 Btc into other projects.  In due time you should be able to get your value back, but it's in speculation that certain projects will create the value exponentially.  Avoid listening to exports about the market, everyone is in speculation based on charts.  It's best to do one's own diligence in research.  Keep in mind any form of investment is a risk and buying bitcoin is definitely not an insured risk, but the rewards are great if you manage to agree in those terms rather than buy in and wait.

I would sell all my Bitcoins if....wait...what???   So, I would not sell all unless I am in the deathbed and need funding for my funeral arrangements.  However, there is a catch to where my funding will be spent after that.  A portion will be spent to create a wild goose chase in finding my Bitcoins like a treasure map.  You have to spend something to make something i guess, so why not make a treasure adventure with digital nomads, (got the term from a blogger who is blogging full time and lived in an RV the past three years).  I guess you don't see that many travelers taking voyages to find the treasure chest, but why not?  It would be good exercise to get a piece of the pie.  Anyway, while I might have already been dead when this event is taken place, I would invest in a few scribes to record the events to make digital novels for the pleasure in others wanting to set off this similar activity.  Anyway, it something I had in mind after death with finances instead of making an inheritance, why not with Bitcoin as well and let them work compete with other to get it.  It is less to invest on a big treasure chest full of treasure when I could just set up a qrcode with an X marking the spot.

When I was younger, I used to want to live forever.  I am guessing my opinion is changing since I used to work at the Oncology/Hospice department.  As we get older, you may be able to prolong life and even make a variety of body parts replaced but we still haven't been able to define the limit of memory or even retaining valuable memories in the older stages of life.  A few mind puzzles, a healthy diet, but how long can we keep up a routine before we realize it's too much for us to handle?  Even if we have a different personality, there seems to be generation gap to what we are used to things in our lives like experiencing a mom and pop stores and even indoor malls.  If there was an option to die at the end of the life cycle and eventually over time come back, I might take it.  However, to live forever while others around me may not be able to afford to live forever will be difficult with trying to relate to the changes in my own environment.  If we can rejuvenate our youth, we still will feel old with the capacity of memories we hold in the mind that eventually can easily want to forget what was lost or dear to us.  This is a subjective opinion about choosing to live forever and it is one of those ideas many will have a different idea during the different phases of their life cycle or events in their own situation.

I recently read a blogger that is now a living in an RV while working in her past 2-3 years.  It is interesting, she calls the idea as a digital nomad where her full time job is blogging while she explores saving money ideas and side hustles with her husband.  If I could live anywhere in the world, I think I would prefer doing the same thing and implement digital streams of cash flow to ensure financial independence while traveling or living place to place.  If I need to secure the RV to travel out of the country, probably park and ride at a secured area within the airport while using public transportation.  Definitely would love to try this out when I decide to leave the workforce and pursue my hobbies as a career with my wife and son.

I had a lot of thought about this when I was a kid and a variety of ideas crossed my mind after watching winners and losers of the lottery.  To begin, I would continue to work the first year of receiving the winnings because I would need time to diversify the winnings.  Treating myself and family will come in a planning strategy especially since the first year if I had taken the lump sum would deal with a double taxation from lottery institution and capital gains in the tax filing which there is nothing wrong or can't be avoided when IRS want their piece of tax dollars.  So the next step would be diversifying the rest to build streams of capital starting with saving some in the bank as an escrow/emergency prior to investing into ventures such as crypto projects, stocks, rental properties, etc.  Vacations plans may take a rain check after setting up net worth through growing the funding to reach it's original lottery prize value as mentioned of 2 million into the safe-net escrow account.  This can be where it can be fast or slow in the growth, but as we all know, we do our due diligence when researching crypto projects and whichever one will fulfill our financial plans along with supporting the blockchain.

As we reach the point in which the original lottery earning of 2 million usd from this post a variety of conservative ideas will be added to my plan.  We already own a home, but still have a mortgage which we can keep for tax purpose or pay off for equity in business ventures such as rental properties.  I may max out my energy credits by fulfilling the checklist to make my home energy efficient with solar panels, water collecting rain water drains, and a few vegetable/herb garden beds.  As mentioned taking my family to vacation trips would require implementing the concept to a business strategy.  Possibly pursue a hobby in blogging and utilize the time to track down conferences near our visit plans example a Fintech conference in Florida near Disney, or a crypto project convention in Japan, Korea, Philippines, etc.  A lot of ideas are coming to play preserve and grow back the initial lottery winning value, but in reality, there is still work involved with winning the lottery of just 2 million...which might be 1.2 million after taxes and might be 10 million after building the portfolio after the first year work planning.

Hi Vintage,

I've been out for quite some time.  Did the number list change from the original 100 coins?  I did a payment of 250 stratis just now but when I looked on the list, my number #98 was already reserved and paid.  Let me know if I can still acquire one of the coins.  I also DM on Slack for my address.  Thanks.  The product looks great!

Maphistas

My Transaction ID: a10cf3ca130bfc66633adac236a2e29080bf077c9a095c281dbf346b9fb7a259-000
Just got the confirmation check:
Status: 13 confirmations, broadcast through 8 nodes
Date: 3/17/2017 19:55

Received my final payment, thanks Donald.  Good luck in your future projects.  And for what it was worth, I am a free account and my transactions were always paid.    His projects were not a scam, just an unfortunate event occurred with the changes bitcoin values.  Think of it as a business cycle of projects.  Some companies have to forfeit to the changes like Sears, Montgomery Wards, Blockbuster, Hollywood Video, circuit city.  Just think how many people were pissed at them when they upgraded their memberships and home insurance packages (Sears).  Over time, people move on and the cycle of projects continues.

This is where the ideas in donaldcoin and cetobeto were innovative.  It is unfortunate the project did not adapt to the changes in the rate of Bitcoin.  I joined in to cetobeto because it felt like a possible chance for the project to move on from the multiple bitcoin faucets.  They were fun and I did get rewarded properly prior to the errors.  In the end, this is where the innovation can acquire a new hand to handle project, but Donaldcoin can't satisfy everyone for the difficult decision made.  However, in the positive note, he may have a way to pay everyone especially the recently upgraded members through selling the site.  Who knows, the buyer could improve the situation to make more profit by repairing some of the flaws through the errors made on both donaldcoin and cetobeto.

Other similar projects to donaldcoin & cetobeto

Mr. Bean
Mario
bitcoin mines
Winnie the Pooh
Bitcoin Hotel
and many other faucet projects.

Anyway, Good luck Donaldcoin, hopefully you find a way to pay everyone that has put the effort to try the current project.

In addition to what Khilone7 said, Government in particular military would want more private features to ensure information is more secured.  If you think about hospitals today, patients are regarded as priority and may benefit for the extra protection from Insurance fraud and HIPPAA violations.  Also there are corporations that take the consideration of protecting the private shareholders that prefer the privacy for their own safety.  These are some examples where the feature can be used and needed.  The feature is there for people to innovate a purpose to society rather then shutting the idea down.

Back in the day of 2009 I heard about it but was hesitant to buy into digital currency and got married instead.  2011, a friend mentions me about a market place where you can buy anything you want.  He eventually died by an unknown substance purchased a "pharmaceutical" from the market.  During the time I was starting online classes for management and began discussions about bitcoin on my class forums.  I was not sure what to think about bitcoin after losing a friend over a market a negative reputation around the subject.  I eventually regained curiosity and wanted to learn more about cryptocurrency so I continued to involve topics in class discussions.  There was a variety of views and not many people knew much about Bitcoin.  Around 2014, I completed my bachelors and pursued my masters in business administration.  During this time I continued to discuss Bitcoin in my online class forums, and more people was interested on decentralized system, especially when the market value had extremes of appreciation and depreciation.  I guess my education expanded further thanks to implementing digital currency into my discussions.  However, I still wanted to learn more of the use to society and eventually involved myself to a few projects.  This exposure gave me a better understanding about what a project can be created from the technology and many benefits along with problems in development.  You may see a rise of new programs coming out from Bitcoin, but at the same time with scams.  Doing the due diligence in acquiring the research needed prior to involve oneself to any project required a bit of time to analyze the project's worth.  This is important when you have limited funds to invest into projects.

I am really excited to see every deadline met for this project more than being a long term investor.  It is okay for large ICO holders to sell since they helped the project accomplish the first wave of deadlines.  Eventually new holders or smaller holders will grow to retain the tokens to ensure the support is still there for entry and growth.  Allowing the developer to do their work is what makes this project fascinating.  Honestly, every project has potential to grow and succeed, and for me to be positive in this idea is to ensure the cryptocommunity continues to flourish and expand to grow into something greater than a few bits and pieces of cash here and there.  It is understandable for people to want to buy/sell to improve financial gains, as long as they have a plan.

A good read for long term investors to think about when investing into anything especially with volatility of Bitcoin/altcoin projects:

Warren Buffet's Ground Rules by Jeremy C. Miller, "If we start deciding, based on guesses or emotions, whether we will or won’t participate in a business where we should have some long run edge, we’re in trouble. We will not sell our interest in businesses (stocks) when they are attractively priced just because some astrologer thinks the quotations may go lower even though such forecasts are obviously going to be right some of the time. Similarly, we will not buy fully priced securities because ‘experts’ think prices are going higher"

In the end, it's based on one's own perspective and research to mandate his/her decisions.  No matter what you invest, when the money comes out and goes to another hand, you are entrusting the risk for the return.  As for now, I am glad for the Stratis Team's accomplishments and the pace that they are going to update the timeline.  I would say the same of any project that are putting some contribution to the cryptocommunity and sharing the ideas to the world.

Hi again, feel free to join the Stratis Slack.  You can get plenty of your questions answered from developers and community.  Here is the invite link: https://stratisinvite.herokuapp.com.  As of now there seems to be works on a variety of improvements before the new year.  You can also back track to the previous discussions about the project's development on Slack.