Hi Steemit, New Guy Just Dropped and Powered Up Too
So I was wondering around on the Internet and for one purpose, to look for a way to earn cryptocurrency. I have a fair amount of experience on crypto trading, by fair I mean I bought some Binance BNB, the price rose, I made a dollar profit and declared myself an expert, lol.
But I wanted to diversify my ways of making more crypto. I did a couple of hours of research, making different attempts. From faucets to almost getting scammed by some dude on discord. However I bumped into this website that has now introduced me to a whole new aspect of earning crypto which I didn't think about and didn't even know existed to be honest..
This is the website
The website top page
Where I saw Steemit
Yeah, I know markdowns, ask me how. I'm a programmer and I've gone through the intro posts on Newcomer's Community here. - I figured let me try this introduction style, telling you the cool experience of how I actually got here and see how much response I'll get genuinely. I hope I actually get some friends just from this.
I found Steemit through that website. I did a little bit of research and found out about Hive and Blurt but apparently they're all forks of the big guy, Steemit, so I might as well make this my home right?
It's actually my first time seeing any blockchain platform or system where crypto is earned through blogging. As I stated earlier, I was doing a little bit of trading. What made me start doing my research is that, I wanted to find something a bit more stable and utility based than just buying something and hoping it goes up.
I have not done any withdrawal yet but from checking wallets, asking chatgpt and doing my own research, this platform is as legit as can be. Infact, I trust it so much I decided to start with skin in the game. Not anything close to the millions and hundreds of thousands of dollars I've seen some people have in their Steemit wallets.
I decided to start small and bought 3 dollars worth of Steem tokens on Binance and successfully got it into my account. I have experience with exchanges and there's chatgpt to help me with the process so I had no trouble going through with it.
It dropped in my wallet in a matter of seconds. It was liquid Steem. I read everything about how to power up and do transactions. My account was created on Saturday but I'm writing this today, why because it took a while to study everything I need to know. I believe the only thing I'm left with is a little more on the markdowns like table making and so on, but I'm a pretty fast learner so I'll have no trouble with that too.
I also learned about the newcomer's lessons, plagiarism, AI and everything in between that. It took a couple of hours but from my research this has strong long term prospects so was totally worth the time, at least more than taking money and buying a shitcoin.
I also took some time yesterday to check accounts, communities and people, especially those that have been here for a really long time and I'm very impressed. There's a lot of people that have close to a decade of Steemit experience. That means I'll have so many experienced friends to make around here. Good for me, yay.
As you can see below that's the first Steem tokens I bought.
I then went ahead to power that up since it's highly encouraged and it's good for the long term dream of being here.
Oh, I also took the liberty of reading about the pinned posts on newcomer's community. Pretty awesome work and blog done by @the-gorilla. He explained everything so well.
I see a lot of cool communities on Steemit and I'm excited to join, learn and share and more importantly, see what people think about what I share. Different people, different languages, hopefully I'll be welcomed. Would love to know more people from different walks of life.
Self introduction Part
I wish I wouldn't make this too long a post but since it's my one time introducing myself, I might as well talk about me.
I chose the username @karmaar because I believe in sowing and reaping. What goes around definitely comes around, just as the world is round. I was going to choose "karma" but that username was already taken.
My real name though, is Sebastian Morales. I'm 26 years old in Colombia. I'm from a place not too popular, Guadalupe, Huila. At least that's what my mother says, lol. We all say we're born from a place and we're a particularly age because that's what our parents told us.
Funny thing, for years I thought I was born 11th May, only for my mother to tell me after I turned 19 that I was actually born 17th May. So I celebrated my birthday before my actual birthday for so long.
Regarding my hometown, I have gone there a few times before and that's just where I was born, not were I live. I would keep that private for now. I'm not a super important person trying to keep location private but I'm trying to be very mysterious just for the vibes.
I promised my mom I'll go with here this year to visit the hospital I was born in, Municipal Hospital Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe. I do a lot of traveling, moving around, no selfies of me though, I'm anti selfie of there's such a word, but I'll try amd change that too.
Lately I haven't been doing so much of that. Perhaps in a couple of months I'll attempt to visit the place.
Not much about my life except that I'm single, an extrovert at sometimes and an introvert at other times.
To make the intro even cooler, I'll show you some awesome places which you may have seen before, that is if you've been to Guadalupe. Sometimes, it’s the small towns that leave the biggest impressions.
Me trying to spell Guadalupe with the pictures, look carefully and spell with me haha.
