Building muscle is a long-shot process, it's something that takes time, dedication, it involves a lot of hard work, resources, and tons of effort spent. You can't get lean, fit and muscle-packed over the night, metaphorically speaking.
There are supplements that can help, these won't do the job of a proper diet though, but will for sure aid, and then there are the steroids. These ones(the steroids) are the ultimate "external aid" one can use to build muscle mass in insanely low time frames.
I have a friend who started using them back in January, this year, and now after over half a year of use he is in such shape. He is in that position atm, but once he will drop the needle down it's when the pain will come. The drop in muscular mass, motivation, energy, testosterone level, and drive will be epic.
That's why most of the ones using such products get addicted to them and in some rare cases even end up dying from excessive usage.
Back in the old days of Steemit, we used to have something called bid bots. These ones would act for an account's growth the same way steroids do for bodybuilders. In exchange for an amount of STEEM or SBD tokens one could receive insane amounts of upvotes that would send literally any post to the trending page and boost one's account reputation score in short periods of time, but not that user's reputation.
Those days are gone now. Hive has started a new path after the hardfork and this path is similar to what natural bodybuilders are on. It's all about sustained growth, resilience, and usability. Such growth that Hive is engaged in doesn't come overnight and it won't vanish any time soon either.
I mentioned bid bots, but when we look at the crypto space as a whole we can clearly see that Hive is no "steroids user". Look at the chart of it and there's nothing spectacular about it. Look at how Leofinance(the most advanced Hive community) has evolved and it's clear it didn't happen overnight.
Then just throw a glance at LUNA, Celsius, and similar other projects. These things have experienced insane price growth and gotten to high levels of exposure in literally weeks. These type of projects are the "steroids bodybuilders" of the crypto space and their fall is as spectacular as their artificially inflated growth.
Most of us were expecting HIVE to hit $10 during the bull market peak. It didn't happen... HIVE has literally done just 3.5x of its after the launch price, but when you look at its chart you can see that it is clearly reflecting the growth of the community and its plethora of fully working apps.
Sustainable growth doesn't happen over time, big muscles that last don't grow in trees and aren't built in half a year. It takes time to grow "reliable muscle mass" or a strong web3 ecosystem. That's what we should have in mind before asking for $10 HIVE cuz I see quite a few reminiscing on that target lately. I'm fine with $0.60, you know, although I literally live off this thing and $10 would literally make me rich.
I'm fine with my body-building progress as well because I'm more after sustainability rather than hype, overnight exposure and immature dollar valuation growth. I'm not speculating on HIVE. It's close to five years since I joined and have no regrets about it not being on steroids.
The fall that comes after the use of em is as spectacular as the rise and we don't want that. Hope everyone is having a fantastic day and see you in the next post.
Thanks for your attention,
Adrian
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Posted Using LeoFinance Beta