We've inherited some extraordinary events, and are all in the soup together. Give us peace. Each of us has our own situation, but a lot of us our finding ourselves with a surplus of time. It's become a popular meme to make it funny to kill time, I'd like to suggest that instead we use that time as wisely as we can. It's our leading asset right now.
Hoarding is vote of no confidence and we're watching the Federal Reserve Company inject pure adrenaline, further watering down the petrodollar. It's 2008 again. Out of that wreckage we saw Bitcoin take off, but Bitcoin's got problems, issues like fungibility and privacy erode confidence, and then when your store-of-value argument gets cut in half,...well,...you've got problems that can only be solved by the next generation. For example, Google and not Alta Vista coming out of the 2000 dot-com bubble.
Down markets are the best time to expand market share, it's the best time to maintain or even expand your ad budget when everyone else is turtled up. We can take that truism from business and apply it to our work of creating and sharing fair and private money.
Things To Do:
1.) Contribute to a Monero community workgroup. Writers, designers, translators and all kinds of volunteers are needed. You don't even need to join in a formal way, often tasks are posted and you can just help out where you can. A specific mention to the Localization workgroup (https://github.com/monero-ecosystem/monero-translations) since that's something that lot's of people can help with and the Monero community creates alot of awesome content to translate. Here's a list of all the Monero workgroups: https://www.monerooutreach.org/stories/getting-started-helping-monero.html
2.) Create something, anything. Now's a good time to learn and practice your skills. Videos, artwork, coding, embroidery, you name it. @MoneroMemes (https://twitter.com/MoneroMemes) is always looking for contributions.
3.) Learn More. The Monero Community Workgroup YouTube channel is a great place to start: (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKxLNPJeEjPXOke55i5AIXA) The Breaking Monero series is awesome, but there's also all the 2019 Konferenco talks and the Critical Decentralisation Cluster 36c3 talks. Don't forget reading, there's Mastering Monero (https://masteringmonero.com) and Zero to Monero (https://www.getmonero.org/library/Zero-to-Monero-1-0-0.pdf)
4.) Be well and add something to this list.
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