Six years of talking to an empty room. Talking to thousands of empty rooms. Rooms full of equipment, machines, tech gadgets and all sorts of things that only get used by a single entity. In many cases, the same thing duplicated, just segregated to its own room.

The last spent learning to crawl. Little hic cups that could probably have been avoided. Conversations missed, more likely dismissed. Struggle on with what we got, using the word we loosely. There is more than just I that built or gained the Hive resources available to us. Support cam unexpectedly from unexpected places. I might have dome most of the labour on this road I'd like to build. But people fed me along the way too. Nobody in this world does anything alone.

Everyone gets the benefits of something that someone has done developed or thought previous.
The same can be said today. For the thoughts I have anyways.

Dark clouds have silver linings.
WAR.

This finance war has been going on since barter began. The US Dollar was not the first currency, sorry to bust ye bubble if you hold American status. There was even a time when notches on a stick was considered currency. There was always fraud of the currency too. Even with metals fraud was attempted again and again and still to this day.

More prevalent today is probably the internet scams gaining bank details or phishing accounts. These methods of defraud will change and adapt to the changes we have in society. This is the environment we create for things like that to thrive.

Even wars that resulted from a personal difference. They too became financial wars. If the war could no longer be funded, you lost. You may still have to pay the debt even though you lost.

Back through time, wars were just as brutal. Maybe more so in some ways. Surviving a war with injuries centuries ago. Might have been worse. The advancements of medicine offered today make living much easier. Prior relief from pain or a properly set bone. Infections and all other ailments. Any that could arise because of the initial injury.

The exchange of wealth plundered or wasted always a bit of both. In the background someone is gaining from the destruction of any part of the other. At the end of the war. The reaper comes to claim his prize from the victor. For every soul that was lost has a dollar price. The soul has the cost of a bullet attached. That's what makes the bankers buck.

Imagine if we could go back in time and re-orchestrate how the use of finance went.

Imagine more if you could not go back in time and still do that.

Finance.
In theory it is happening now. The crypto that bit by bit is slowly drowning itself?
Blockchain/Crypto, not the same. two totally different things. A conversation about one should not need more than a chapter or two about the other.
Blockchain is a record of action.
Crypto tokens are a potential finance tool.
They just happen to work well together.

Nothing is 100%. No Guarantee. But there can be assurance put in place. There is no currency out there that offers a genuine assurance. There is nothing backing them.

I know the people in the Crypto world feel like that. I am so often told, the dollar has no backing. The backing behind the US dollar is the people. The taxes they will pay. That is what backs the US dollar. The same as any other countries currency.

Metal standard, no one will trust that any more.

Crypto something relatively new could that do it. The limitations of my view. Might be the reason I do not see crypto used to bring about change. I do see a big grab for the tokens and the potential they might hold in the future. What backs the crypto though? The most common answer is demand creates the value. There is only demand because they have value though. Going in circles. The problem is the size. The circle is too small. Relying on just two sides to prop up each other without any external support.

It seems to me all of the wars are just battles within the war of finance. This is the one war we are not invited to partake in. This is a war for those who control finance and use the persuasion it holds. To pursue a private agenda at the cost of the future.

To combat finance. You need finance. The winner most often is the one with the most. For us smaller can work better and provide the advantages to be utilised later. What we begin with must have function along with future benefits.

Because a central control is not wanted, or now needed by making use of Crypto and Blockchain. It has to be built like the blockchain. From all corners curves and angles of the globe. It also needs to start somewhere. Starting everywhere spreads the impact too thin.

So you build something locally that then supports future prospects. This means putting your hand in your pocket now. So government cannot take from your children later. Doing this you create hubs of activity. The hub is where the word of mouth begins to work. After all, that is the reason for the investment to go to meet ups or crypto shows?

Maybe I just look at the issues faced with an alternative view of the good and bad that is out there. There are two sides out there. You can title them what you like. One does seek to control you and the other to permit you choice. Both are fighting for their agenda and you are the pawn they use. How many can be sacrificed and how much will the plunder be. That is the scales of war we play.

No side wants you to have total freedom. If you hold that freedom, they will lose to the other side.

To get that freedom. You need to build toward it. There has to be something to back the new finance. A demand for the token already present. That is the approach I have taken. The first step toward a true DeFi. Built on Hive. The COLT token on Tribaldex.

Also accepted at local shop in Cherry Orchard along with Hive and HBD.