Bitcoin Archive is 5 years old today! Exactly 8 years earlier to the day, I had experienced a profound loss in my life that left me with a lingering sadness I still find difficult to think about, much less sharing with others. In those moments of mourning, I made the promise that I would go down swinging - whatever the cost. We will all be forgotten - the sands will bury us all - but just do something! Anything. Take a chance. Find something and make an all out effort. So 2021, in the midst of the global economic shutdown, I had the realisation that my career was over, without a clue what would lay ahead. Putting all my money into Bitcoin in late 2020 helped me find the Bitcoin Twitter community, and on the 2nd of January, 2021, I started posting as Bitcoin Archive. No plan. No capital. Just vibes and let's see what happens. The opposite of everything I had been taught, and everything I had previously tried on the path to many failures and burnouts. When I saw the initial positive response to my posts, I became obsessed with delivering on my promise. I felt the urgency in every moment, and would often read this passage from Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar": "There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life, Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat, And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures." I may have even posted it once or twice in the bull market, to remind myself, and others, that we were in a flood, and the good times would not last. Indeed there was a flood! A 15 month daily obsession in which I built Bitcoin Archive from ZERO to 1 million followers. It took 16-17 hours of grinding every day. Monotonous. Menial. Tedious. Humbling. **I didn't care!** I felt of service to the community, and in return the community projected a immense amount of goodwill for my work. There was no hack. No shortcut. No engagement bots. I literally did this every day for almost 2 years before I took a meaningful break. People don't believe me when I tell them, but that was it. No tricks. Nothing but hard work. Bitcoin Archive has been a labour of love for me; an obsession which consumed me without any rational justification in the early days, only later becoming a mission, and recently, a business. The transformation is not easy. I am struggling to let go of some things, so that I can give others an opportunity, and fulfil the potential of Bitcoin Archive. And then there is the time consuming financial aspect of working on sponsorship deals, which i try to do as little as possible as it takes me away from what I love most, creating new content for the community. I would have had FAR MORE Bitcoin had I never built Bitcoin Archive. But then I wouldn't have Bitcoin Archive, which has given me the purpose, community, and opportunities for growth I could never buy into working in the corporate world. It's not quite a redemption arc. I don't really have anything to redeem. All I ever wanted was to build something with a purpose. Bitcoin has given me that purpose. YOU, reading this right now, have given me that! For that I am forever grateful. 🧡 Archie(Bitcoin Archive)