Hello everybody!
Actually, 2022 could have started well and ended well, but everything started badly on February 24, 2022, when Russian President Vladimir Putin declared a "special military operation" in Ukraine.
Innocent people, especially children, either died in the war or had to migrate to other countries. Children had to stay away from their schools and friends, while people had to leave their homes and workplaces. However, the war also affected other countries.
In 2022, the economies of most countries sounded the alarm. Russia left European countries in a difficult situation thanks to its energy power. There was a worldwide grain crisis as food-laden ships could not leave Ukrainian ports. Transporting grain-laden ships to recipient countries is already of great strategic importance in the food chain. When this did not happen or it was late, the food problem arose in the countries. The poor people, especially in the Middle East and African countries, were adversely affected by this. Recently, with the contribution of Turkey, the way for ships to go to buyer countries has been cleared.
The energy crisis has begun in the world. If I give an example from my own country, fuel prices have increased 4 times. It's not much fun to go anywhere by car anymore :). Grocery shopping also increased at the same rate, so people had difficulty in shopping for their homes. Because of this war, I think the rich got richer and the poor got poorer. Unfortunately, the war continues.
Good things also happened in 2022 :) The covit-19 disease has lost its effect. We see our health minister less on TV. We no longer have to wear masks. We don't have to put distance between us and our loved ones. We missed sitting, eating and traveling together. I hope the next epidemic won't be the walking dead.
The crypto industry, which I have been in since 2020, has also had its share of negativities. In fact, everything was going well. The Xs were also flying in the air 10x 20x .... 100x but it wasn't always like that. It fell as it rose. BTC showed us its bear face and experienced a big drop up to 16000 BTC. We said it would come back from here, it fell again. I said it won't fall anymore, it fell again. In the end, everything we bought was garbage.
On the positive side, I had the opportunity to discover new projects in this process. Some of them are Arbitrum, Optimism, Starknet, Scroll, Sui etc. One of them was the Crossbell project. Crossbell is a platform for us to be the owner of our social activities. For example, with CrossSync we can synchronize our tweets on the chain. You can connect not only your twitter but also your medium account or telegram account. This is my first post on xLog on Crossbell. xLog is an on-chain and open source blogging platform. I hope they become a platform that everyone enjoys and uses.
Towards the end of the year, another thing that made me happy was that Argentina won the world cup. Messi is now at the end of his career. Maybe it will be the last world cup for him. That's why it was nice that Argentina won the trophy. It was emotional that Messi lifted the trophy after Diego Maradona. I wish he had reached the final in Portugal with Ronaldo. It would be Ronaldo Messi final.
As we come to the end of our article, I wish you a year 2023 where there are no wars, innocents are not killed, violence against women ends and the bull season is experienced in BTC...
Thank you for taking the time to read.