I Sold 3 Whole Bitcoin

I have been told to have a connection introduction but I don’t think I do that very often. I seem to start my writing in the middle of a thought and closing, finishing is the hardest. Once I start, I ramble on and on.

I am learning how to be more human and connect better with people in my writing. The Artist’s Way workbooks over the past few years have helped me more than anything, becoming human that is, finding myself.

Follow along this year and let me know how I am doing. I’m always the last to know.

What happened in 2016? How did I hear about Bitcoin in 2016? Where did I buy Bitcoin in 2016?

I was working in a restaurant, 56 years old, living paycheck to paycheck. Some young servers were talking about something they called digital money, Bitcoin.

I, eavesdropping, heard Robinhood and how you can make fast money, crazy money quickly with Bitcoin.

I ran home and got on Robinhood, learning it was where you could buy, sell and hold digital money , Bitcoin. They were around $500 each so I bought 3 whole Bitcoin.

The first week or two all the servers at work talked new digital money, internet money and how it was going to replace dollars.

A week or two after that, CNN was showing scandals of Bitcoin and it being illegal and used in black market trading, stories of drug dealers and Bitcoin.

I definitely couldn’t sell my 3 Bitcoin fast enough. I felt like I avoided a major financial crisis and was grateful to not be arrested or charged with anything.

Some time after that I was given The Book of Satoshi. I read it and thought, nice story, put it in a drawer.

Four years later, the world changed. March 2020. COVID and restaurants closed. I financially never recovered. I had been on Twitter social media and had started a TikTok account.

I was learning about cryptocurrency and NFTs. I took my retirement savings and put it on a centralized exchange( which collapsed a year later). I thought NFTs, this is how I can get money for people in the restaurant industry who need it and I may be okay. I learned how to make NFTs and then realized I didn’t know what I was doing.

I started learning in public, posting on TikTok, Twitter and started a YouTube channel. I got this crazy, ridiculous idea that senior citizens needed to learn about cryptocurrency and NFTs.

Onboard60, the idea, came about around Halloween 2021. I didn’t think I was a senior citizen but I lived in South Florida, Senior Citizenville. I spoke seniorese. I had senior citizenitis but didn’t know it yet.

I learned NFTs were contracts, smart contracts, controlled by whoever created them and whoever owned the contracts.

I learned Smart contracts (NFTs) could be any document on the blockchain and I wanted to help senior citizens transition their documents to the blockchain.

This was when people considered NFTs art. The ownership was unique because each art piece was unique. NFTs were unique because they weren’t duplicated. And simply put, smart contracts were the instructions. And ownership was verified with the smart contract.

I avoided talking finance and cryptocurrency for a year or so because of my own thoughts about how cryptocurrencies are intertwining with other financial systems and being controlled by governments and central banks.

I’m a self sovereignty kinda person, cold wallet offline, under the mattress kinda thing.

I started discussing cryptocurrency finance again when I saw traditional financial institutions and brokerage firms were advertising to senior citizens.

Too many brokerage firms have what’s considered “shitcoins” in investment portfolios. I think senior citizens should know if they’re going to invest in cryptocurrency which ones to research and which ones are considered tokens and which category they are in as securities, etc.

I also think senior citizens may want to consider learning simple concepts about A.I. as how to use Meta Horizon Virtual Reality or Decentraland or Spatial Virtual Reality on the computer. Doctor and lawyer visits, online “in store” shopping, socializing and physical therapy are available through these technologies.

I’m still learning as I go, starting over on social media, sharing what I learn and how I use what I am learning.

As the senior citizen population grows and stays healthier longer, Onboard60 will continue sharing the joys, setbacks, and challenges, accomplishments and opportunities.

I have adapted to the different non traditional financial systems and strategies. I have learned Virtual Reality and how to use it for physical therapy and connecting others.

I have been scammed so many times I can tell you what not to do I. Crypto and what to do in crypto.

I’m now learning How to AI using different A.I. platforms and have Sababa, my digital clone. I’m incorporating A.I. in so many things so that I can create better documentation for senior citizens to learn and get ahead of the curve.

My last component of Onboard60 is active 55+ smart home communities onchain, using smart contracts, tokenization and fractionalized ownership.

I’m proud to say I have been discussing how to get this accomplished and how to make it feasible. My business plan, investment plan has been sent to a few interested parties.

I may have sold 3 whole Bitcoin in 2016, but what I have gained since then is priceless.

Not only did I create Onboard60 , founded Onboard60, I also found myself in the process.

Thanks for following my journey. I have laid a solid foundation to build what Onboard60 is becoming. Now is the time to start following because I am just getting started.

And if you know me , you know!!!

Be fabulous,

Sandra Abrams

Onboard60 Founder

https://stan.store/onboard60

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandra-abrams

https://www.delphi.ai/sababa