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I don't know what my problem is guys. Here is a little background on my situation. I don't go to Casinos, not because I am a gambling addict but because they intimidate me and I don't know how to 'do' a Casino. Like sure I know how to play blackjack but sitting down at the table I wouldn't know the etiquette. Or at least that is what I always told myself.
Then enters RollerCoin. Look the website/game is fun. I wouldn't call it a DeFi game per say but more like a game where you can earn blockchain rewards. It's basically a mining simulation game. However you can withdraw the various cryptos you mine for into your wallet. So maybe it is a DeFi game by nature then.
Either way that doesn't matter. What does matter is how they ALWAYS suck me back in. I paid for the Season 1 pass and I think I got my money out of it in a matter of speaking. Season 2 and Season 3 are/were way overpriced for the quests you have to do, so I didn't buy those passes. However their stupid lootboxes get me every single freaking time. I don't know why.
I know the luck is not in my favor. Shoot I even know the odds of making my money back. But my problem is that I usually have pretty good luck on the stupid lootboxes. I never get the highest rarity one. But what I do get is usually the Blue or higher. Today I couldn't help myself.... I transferred over some Ethereum to purchase 50 RLT. I am trying to make money on this stupid game and yet I keep buying more and more RLT ugh.
Either way my plan was to buy 1 lootbox and keep the other 25RLT as liquid cash in game in case something comes up and I need to purchase before they run out. Well that plan went to crap after I bought my first lootbox and found this baby.
First try and I get a 50.00 TH/s Miner. That is pretty good. Now I could do better but it was one of the white ones so I was happy.
Did I want the yellow or pink ones? Sure, but I was pleasantly happy with a blue one. Or, so I thought. As soon I placed the miner on a rack I got this strange urge to try my luck again. Maybe it was FOMO, or maybe it was an addictive personality. Whatever it was I gave into the temptation and bought a second miner lootbox.
And would you look at what I got.....
A second Dragon's Breath miner. Even for my past luck I was surprised. I quickly added this bad boy to a rack as well. And don't they just look so pretty??
Rollercoin is such a oddity for me. There are times (weeks) where I only login every day to collect the daily login bonus for the Season Pass. Then there are weeks (like this week) where I actually play games and try to get my mining power up. I started this week at a rank of around 14,500. After playing a few games and getting the rank 3 computer and buying these two miners I am 12,395 rank. I remember the days I could be at like rank 6,000 without much effort. There are a lot of people playing this game, more than 2 million actually.
One of my greatest prides in this crypto space and my crypto journey has been that I haven't spent any fiat to obtain my crypto. You probably get sick of me saying that but it's something that I really hold on to and am proud of. To me if I lose all my crypto I can't be too upset because well I didn't pay for any of it. And if I make a killing then it's 100% pure profit. But I think I have finally realized the grey area that I am in. Because there isn't a fiat value I place on the crypto I have it's like "fun money" to me. I can play with it and do with it as I see fit which leads me to do things with it that I wouldn't do with fiat. Like blow 50 RLT on 2 miner lootboxes. I can throw crypto into crypto projects that may not yield a return because well YOLO.
And when I get results like the 2 miners I got it's hard to argue with my strategy. My fear though is that one day my luck will run out and my mindset of it being fun money won't change and I will loose all the profits I had made along the way by holding my funds and not withdrawing them to fiat. Time will tell and you are all along for that ride... :)
