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Author: @DrMODOC
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*The following essay is a pamphlet. Viewer discretion is advised. PEGI 18.
It was a dry day in June. The year is 2021, haven’t really socialized for at least one and a half years because of covid.
Even though I knew about cryptocurrencies for a pretty long time, never really understood their power, until this year. I felt like I needed something new, so I invested my first money into a coin that a friend told me about. The biggest problem was that it was the most beautiful pyramidal scheme. I do not want to be a part of such idiocy. I may be a noob, but I can smell a scammer from a mile, probably because they do not get outside that much and do not feel the pressure to take a shower.
Almost lost all my money, but I got lucky enough to take them out before they pulled the rug, like Aladdin does when he wants to get to Jasmine’s place because her parents aren’t home (wink).
So, my extensive telegram search begins, slashing through the telegram scammer DMs like there is no tomorrow. At least 5 „admins” slide into my DMs after I join any group. I feel like an influencer. It was the first time I socialized in one and a half years. The „admins” would always want to take it to the third base really fast, wanting me to give my precious seed (wink), just after a few messages. But I am pure, and want to become a wizard (urban dictionary can come in handy for this one). I did not fell into their lustful search of my seed, and just like that, I gave them the big ol’ „block”, even though I did it with tears in my eyes. After all, they were the only human contact I had in eighteen months.
I stumbled upon Cardano and researched it a little bit. Pretty impressive stuff, but I am still basically a monk in a world of computers, that is pressing random buttons, and hopes to get it right not mess up something, and reach the moon. After I convinced myself that I understood how Cardano works, my ripe, hard, wallet that was full of fiat was ready to enter in the beautiful ADA. As I was typing the card details into ADA’s PIMP, Binance, a pinned post just appeared. I knew it. It was love at first Byte. Didn’t even have to know much about it, I just saw its beauty. I went to introduce myself, and after I said my name, I got the response “My name is Byte. CKByte.” There was it, I was sold.
I was at the right time, in the right place. I stopped myself just in time from entering in ADA and gave all my money to Nervos. At first, it was very hard (wink), and I was checking how my dear CKByte feels every minute, like in any new relationship at the beginning.
The community is amazing. Had so many questions, and got just as many great answers that only made me love this project even more.
I then started to explore its depths by myself (wink), late at night and early in the morning. Started to envision a future with my beautiful CKByte. How amazing it would be to wake up in a few years next to my CKByte, go downstairs, and see the fruits of my DAO, thousands and thousands of more little ckbytes that are playing. Watch them grow up, graduate the Nervos University, make their own little ckbytes, making me a proud grandbyte. And when everything is nice and settled, I would leave my dear bytes, knowing that I hodled till the end.
The alarm sets off. Woke up. 9:15 AM, mid-July, 2021. Portfolio is down 50%. Number of CKB still going up. Basically, I won. See ya in 2025.