How I beat inflation 📈, declining freelance revenue 📉 + travelled abroad ✈️ The answer is... airdrops 💰 ($25k on chain + $11k from InfoFi). More below 🧵 A little background on me: I grew up among a working-class family in a North-African country. We had little income growing up and we could only afford a computer once I hit 15. But I was always curious (and still am) about technology, software and the web, devouring all the magazines I could find on the subject 🤓 Around 2012, while I was finishing my bachelor's degree in IT, an IRL friend told me I could make money online by copywriting and translating content since I had a knack for it. So I started freelancing in 2012 and continue to do so. Anticipating the rise of AI in the translation field (@DeepLcom produced decent MTPE output since 2018-2019) and facing a staggering inflation in my country, I had to look for other avenues of revenue. I took interest in crypto in 2020 and invested heavily before getting rugged by $LUNA and seeing my remaining alts bleed to oblivion. But that didn't dissuade me (even as someone who was very risk-averse at the time). I started anew and started looking for more opportunities in crypto when I discovered that having an on-chain footprint can offer airdrops, aka free magical internet money, and that's what led me to my first airdrop from @arbitrum: 1600 USD. From that point on, I made it a daily habit of exploring more dapps and chains while depositing whatever disposable income I had in defi products (leading a more frugal life in the process). While the amount I'm showing here might seem low to many successful farmers, it was enough for me to mitigate inflation, curb the impact of AI on my translation revenue and even allow me to travel to Japan 🇯🇵