Right Now It Feels Like Steem in 2016 With All The Excitement

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I remember the good old days at the beginning when the very first PoB blockchain was to grace the seven seas with it's beautiful newfound way of minting tokens. So new was this idea that it sent some cryptocurrency users into an "it's a scam!!!" shouting spiral on the open airwaves of the cryptocurrency networks. Steem it was called.

I was one such person. Someone came to us on a slack that we regularly hung around on screaming that Steem was a scam, and that no way we should even try it. Not trusting random users ability to discern a scam from something a little over their head at the time, I decided to join Steem and write a post one fateful day in July 2016.

Wham. $300.

My eyes widened with awe as I saw the numbers slowly rack up to amounts I hadn't seen in my bank account since I left my last job. My second post had an upvote from ned and made 4 figures. A number I had never seen since my wife and I had both lost our jobs way back in 2011.

If any of you can remember the beginning of Steem then you'll remember the amount of "Steem is awesome" posts in the Steemit category. There wasn't much diversity in authors, and most of them were either coders or people that were only just beginning a career in writing. This meant that the Steemit category got filled to the brim with people excited about Steem with not much variance on posts.

That changed in time though, as more people with real experience (and current writers got better with time) filtered through to the chain and called it their home.

So, now we have Hive and a lot of us are posting about Leofinance and how bloody awesome it is. It's like back in the good old days when rewards were insane and excitement was high. But this time there is a key difference -- there's a lot of really good reasons to be excited, and not just to sit there and milk rewards from the high stakers who haven't really much else to vote on.

Just look around you. So much building. So much rewarding. There are even posts from the Leo Finance team celebrating how much the top authors are earning.

That's quite a nice mentality change. Whilst on Steem we were battling each other over reward disagreements, on Hive and Leo we are celebrating those that are earning the most. This is quite a mindset shift, and honestly the way to go in my opinion.

Of course I'm not saying we shouldn't disagree with the rewards of shitposts, spammers, and milkers, but those that are putting true effort into what they do are now feeling the true benefits of doing so.

It was Taskmaster that made me realise that I can get back into blogging on the chain again. One thing I truly missed was putting my art to work. When I do I feel so much more calmer, more grounded, and more at peace with myself. It's like a way to flush all the negative energy away from the day as I spend an hour or two with just my thoughts and a computer screen.

Starting the Brofund had me feeling that I didn't need to blog again, and as a high staker in most projects I should probably turn myself into a curator rather an author. But observing Taskmaster over the last three months it has made me truly realise that I can write, and also curate. I'm also glad because I'm only just realising how much I miss this shit. hah.

And with that I'm taking to Leo to start it all over again. Finance is new to me, it's not something that I've written about much. Neither is cryptocurrency. If you want to learn about the social dynamics between teams, or the impact that mental health has on everything you apply your skills to then I'm your man, but this, this is new.

So please bear with me whilst I get the Leo Finance is awesome out of my system. It is because of this, that I am blogging again.

See, the beauty of this chain is that you can earn on all fronts. You can interchangeably write within three niche's and earn all their tokens -- something I want to touch on in my next post.

But it's not so much Hive and Leo that's making waves it's a whole lot of other tokens too on the chain. People come in via these front and filtrate to other communities and build on or earn with them. That's the beauty of this whole system, come in, earn, and then realise that you can build too. I honestly wish that I had an infinite supply of money because then I'd buy into all the projects that I am interested in and want to see do well on here.

Sadly, we only stretch so far. For now, anyway. It will come though, as we build and grow larger.

For now, we build, and grow even stronger :)

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I'll believe you when I get my first four figure upvote! :) I didn't start up on Steem until late 2017 or early 2018, so I missed all of the excitement. Typical story for me, day late, dollar short. I actually feel that way a bit with Leo too. Just once I'd like to be in on something great early enough for it to mean something.

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You are still early my man. Leo is peanuts right now and I am still buying them up by the truckload. Don't think now, think of two years down the line :)

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I am yet to get three figure upvote but I am not complaining. Will be there, I guess. I am using this platform to write what I like and what I know. Much like a personal diary but to share that with like minded individuals. It's best.

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I've joined steem in 2018. Rewards were never a reason and practically I've never got much. The main reason was the community we had there. Blogging and chatting in the space where everyone is into crypto to some extent seemed to good to be true. Now we have way more option for this. I hope Hive and Leo will grow further in numbers.

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