I have Steemit cryptocurrency worth $25,000 and I spent NO money obtaining it. Sounds too good to be true? It’s not.

In fact, you can start accumulating this cryptocurrency by doing what you are already doing – posting interesting things on sites like Reddit, Facebook, Imgur, Instagram, or your own blog.

If it is good enough to get likes on Facebook or Instagram, upvotes on Reddit or Imgur, or visits to your blog, it is good enough to actually earn a digital currency!

This is how Steemit is revolutionizing the internet.

(This post may contain affiliate links – they help me pays the bills around here)

 

STEEMIT

 

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STEEMIT opened for use in the first half of 2016. It was a pretty crazy time! People were making thousands of dollars for posts!

It was the wild west.

A land grab. Just go and plant your flag.

I eventually caught wind of what was happening and happily made my account. I had claimed my space, and with it a few dollars worth of STEEM coins as a welcome.

I had always been a lurker, silently enjoying what other people wanted to share. Now there was a real reward to create something that other people like.

It was also the perfect time for me. I was away from home and my family, working in a trailer in the desert of Qatar. I no longer had my normal side-hustles of eBay or secret shopping. I also had a lot of free time. (something I lack now that I am back home)

So I tried my hand at it. Much like those pioneers of old, I toiled at turning this digital plot of mine into a flourishing farm.

It didn’t start out so well. My first post made a whopping $0.00. A big ‘ol goose egg. And my next post. And the next. (In fact, I have never had any post earn me more than $78!)

I wasn’t expecting the thousands of dollars that the big guys were making but something would have been nice.

Some people were buying new laptops with the money they made from Steemit. Others paid for vacations with their Steem. A few even became full time Steemit posters, quitting their job if they had one.

I knew better than to give up. The path to success isn’t easy. (not saying I am a big guy on Steemit, because I’m not) Anyone that gives up at the first roadblock will never achieve anything.

I wrote more articles. Oftentimes spending 12+ hours researching, writing, and sourcing images. Sure, some of that was my own inexperience with writing, but I also wanted to output quality articles that were well referenced. I believed that quality posts would be the correct path to success for me.

Then one day I had a post that earned me over $30! A few posts later I created another hit, $50 and comments recognizing the quality of my work. (This is all set in stone on the blockchain, my history is there for all to see)

Was this the start of something big?

I started to gain followers.

I wrote a post nearly every day. It got my name out there more and more.

I was still about as tiny a minnow (what Steemit calls people without a lot of Steem power) as anyone else, but us minnows started to unionize. Strength in numbers. #minnowsunite

Those very first minnows that had achieved success formed groups, asked for power from the whales (those with lots of Steem power), and started searching for the best posts to reward them. @curie

I chatted to people in steemit.chat. I wrote comments that added value on tons of articles. Other times I just told the author that I thought their article was good.

(I will refrain from mentioning names as I would surely forget to write someone down, but those people know that I think they are amazing.)

Anyone that spends hours writing something likes to hear from the readers, after all. If I noticed areas that could use improvement I told them. I took it upon myself to mentor a few people. I had learned things and wanted to help people succeed.

All the while, writing about whatever I wanted to. History, space, Leonardo Da Vinci. Whatever I wanted.

This was so much better than the freelance writing outfits that give strict parameters and pay nearly nothing. (Yes, I did look into that online work to see what it was like)

Steemit is the new way to share with the world.

A chasm appeared on Steemit

At least that was and is what I believe, the price of Steem continued to fall. Some people panicked and abandoned the site.

Steemit was still brand new, yet people thought it should have been much bigger much faster.

I knew that we were just the earliest of early adopters. Like being on Facebook in the second half of 2004.

Still, the price of Steem went down – along with active users. It was the chasm time.

Steemit only had about 1,000 daily users at that time. Pretty much everyone knew about everyone else, at least in passing.

I posted nearly every day until it was time for me to leave Qatar.

Work and family commitments severely limited my time available to create articles. So I haven’t posted much since then, but the rise of cryptocurrencies has shone the spotlight back on Steemit.

New users are joining at tremendous rates. So much so that there is a backlog to get in. It is a beautiful thing if you think about it. All of these early adopters joining the future of social media.

So what are you waiting for?

Join up, claim your name, and start working towards success in the new future.

Write what you want.

Share your photographs, music, videos. Anything that people enjoy.

Not only will you receive more responses per view than anywhere else, you will earn valuable Steem at the same time.
No longer is recognition your only payment for what you do online. Get paid for it too!

And the best part, it is all FREE!

It’s not too late. In fact, it has hardly even begun.

Claim your space right now.

Who knows what you will grow it into.

Steemit could change your life. It has for me. It has for many others already.

In a few months, I went from nothing to an account worth over $25,000. Just by casually posting what I wanted when I wanted.

You can do the same, or much better. Just don’t give up like those that left Steemit before we had even got going.

What other website offers such an opportunity? No other.

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For an understanding of how it all works, check out this post by @teamsteem: https://steemit.com/steem/@teamsteem/steem-an-in-depth-overview

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I would love to see more people interested in personal finance posting and commenting over on Steemit. I mean who likes extra money more than those of us in search of financial independence?

Find me at https://steemit.com/@getonthetrain and leave me a comment on my latest post there. I can follow you and be on the lookout for your posts. You could also comment below with your username on Steemit. This is an amazing opportunity to get into cryptocurrency with no financial risk.

I posted about Steemit on the MrMoneyMustache forums way back in August of 2016. I did not get a single reply to that post. Now that I have shown success is within reach of all of us, I hope the personal finance community can get onboard.

It is a way for those without a blog to share deeper thoughts with all of us and be rewarded for it. Hope to see you there.