Quote from: Ratimov on Today at 09:00:04 AM

Today on the forum is my full thousandth day of activity. And it was on this day that the forum decided to raise my rank to the final, Legendary.

What happened in those 1000 days:

Total time logged in: 411 days
Activity: 1022
Merit: 7062
Posting: 9609

1000 days flew by like one moment, but left a huge imprint in my life. How has the forum affected me?

I started reading the forum in the spring of 2018, and registered in the summer of 2019. I came to the forum with a speculative mindset and a desire to fully dedicate myself to cryptocurrencies and no longer depend on offline activities, to receive income only from cryptocurrencies. During these 1000 days, I completely revised my attitude towards cryptocurrencies and bitcoin in particular.

At that time, for me, bitcoin was just a speculative instrument for short-term speculation with leverage on the exchanges, but the more I talked on the forum, the more I realized that the best way to profit is the long-term bitcoin HODL. During these 1000 days, I have gone from a margin short-term speculator to a full-fledged bitcoin HODLer, who considers bitcoin not as a speculative tool, but as a store of value, as a full-fledged investment, not just a currency, but digital property that is worth keeping in your cold wallet , and not send to exchanges, and even more so not to change for derivative candy wrappers. I wish everyone on this forum who has not yet understood this to come to the realization that the best investment is HOLD, not speculation. Bitcoin is constantly expanding its influence in this world and you need to manage your coins wisely. Don't store your valuable bitcoins in places you don't have the keys to.

To summarize: Everything that I now have in the crypto industry (knowledge, opportunities, coins, investments, etc.) is all thanks to this forum, this amazing place where any beginner can get the necessary set of knowledge and skills that will be useful to him on his crypto journey.

I am grateful to everyone who supported me, who explained something to me, shared knowledge, appreciated my posts and just supported an interesting discussion. Today was the finish line, there is nowhere to grow further.

I continue to be active on this forum, my main projects at the moment are:

- Help for newbies: [Merit] Help newbies and those who have a little left to the next rank
- Help various users: Helping Potential Legendary, Hero, Senior and Full Members
- Reporting local and main sections: My contribution to the fight against low-value posts
- Merit distribution (currently supporting Main Board, Turkish, Russian, Indonesian Locale)
- Creation of guides and useful articles: Ratimov's Forum Guides, Tutorials & Lists
- Encyclopedia of the best forum materials: Beginners & Help Encyclopedia

I will also be running a Ruffle to celebrate this 1 000 day event, with a nice prize pool, but that will be a bit later, not now. I will make an announcement.

In short I would like to congratulate you on your achievement.

"Don't stop there. Keep working, because great people are those who leave works that will be remembered when we are gone. While stupid people only speak."