The crypto burger

To dream in isolation can be properly splendid to be sure; but to dream in company seems to me infinitely preferable.

Clive Barker

It's been over a year since I caught up in person with anyone from Hive and whilst interacting with people on the blockchain gives the impression of catching up it's not the same as doing so in person. That's why I jumped at the chance to meet up with @holoz0r who lives in my city, in fact only a handful of kilometres from my own house. He contacted me on Discord and in no time we'd set up a time and place and locked it in.

Being non-peopley means I try to avoid them where possible; I don't feel isolated when I'm not surrounded by people and am comfortable with my own company with just the occasional catch up with a single person or small group. I was keen to catch up with Holo though as I always get such good value from doing so. I sometimes feel a little crypto-isolated and he knows more than I do about it so it works out nicely.

We met at a burger place called Grilld and right away got to chatting but we stopped long enough to deploy a food ordering mission of course because, burgers!

We both had a chicken burger called the hot bird which is a grilled chicken breast with tasty cheese, jalapeños, roasted peppers, cos lettuce, Spanish onion, sour cream & chilli relish. Of course, no burger is complete without chips and we both went for non-traditional options, Holo the sweet potato and myself the thick cut, crumbed zucchini chips with sea salt. The images show my meal as @holoz0r's food was a little camera-shy. You can see his sweet potato chips and part of his arm in the photo above though.

The food was good, like very good, but it was the conversation that won the day.

We spoke mostly about cryptocurrency, a little about the blockchain, Holo's photography and working for a living which brought us back to cryptocurrency. I learned a few things, most of which made me do a double take around what returns were being achieved on certain things in the crypto-sphere, and got a good tip on the crypto.com VISA card which I've subsequently gone ahead and ordered as there's some very cool rewards for using it.

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I'm fortunate to have my brother around, albeit in another hemisphere, to help me out with my crypto stuff; he's been a massive help to me. He's introduced me in the first place and stepped me through a few things that looked unnavigable to me, a crypto novice.

It's also been of such a great help to have people like @holoz0r around to meet with face to face and it's helped make things much easier and more comfortable. We've had a monthly Hive meet up in my city for a few years now, arranged and hosted by @mattclarke, and having the ability to face-to-face meet with like-minded crypto-people has been so great; I feel I've got somewhere to turn if I need help.

I enjoyed having a crypto burger with Holo and catching up. It made me realise the value and importance, to me at least, of those real connections in a person-to-person format and the comfort one feels at having some back up from knowledgeable people.