Three Years on Hive/Steem

almost 4 years ago

Hi Everyone,

A few days ago, I reached three years on Hive/Steem. Today, I completed my final main power down on Steem; I still have about 500 SP from what I have earned over the past 4 weeks.. This is both an exciting and sad moment at the same time. I am excited about what Hive has to offer but I am sad to have ended my journey with Steem.

I have chosen to invest both time and money into Hive rather than Steem. With everything that has happened over the past few months, Hive appears to be the better choice for both content creation and investment. I have explained my choice in my posts It’s Hive Time and What does the death of Steem mean for cryptocurrency?. I am very grateful to all the people that worked together to create Hive by hard forking Steem. To pull-off the hardfork so quickly and effectively was a great accomplishment. Without the hardfork, we would have been stuck in a long stalemate, which eventually would have still resulted in Steemit gaining full control of Steem as it has done now. I am very excited about Hive and I intend to be around on Hive for many years to come.

Thanks for the support over the years

Source: PeakD

Source: Hive Supply

Since creating my account in 2017, I have consistently posted on Steem and now on Hive. Steemians and now Hivians/Hivers have been a big reason for my continued creation of content as well as investment. I am very grateful to my regular upvoters and even more so to those that take the time to comment on my content. A big thank you to @jossediccus, @steemflow, @blazing, @chireerocks, @slobberchops, @angryman, @organduo, @kaminchan, @crpto.piotr, and @alokkumar121 for taking the time to read and comment on my content.

Thanks for creating great content

Source: PeakD

Creating content is only one aspect of being part of the Hive ecosystem. Another aspect is reading, enjoying and rewarding other people’s content. I do most of my upvoting manually. I very quickly skim through most of the posts I upvote but occasionally I read or listen to the full content. I have a few favourite content creators I would like to mention. These content creators are:

All of you are doing a really great job with your content. Keep up the great work.

At the beginning

Before I joined Steem, I did not know much about cryptocurrency and almost nothing about blockchains. I had heard of Bitcoin but to me it was just some electronic currency, which looked like a possible scam or just an electronic fiat currency. Steem introduced me to cryptocurrency and opened my eyes to the potential of blockchain technology. I now believe the blockchain is one of the greatest inventions of this century so far.

I did not come looking for Steem but stumbled across it accidentally. I was watching a ‘We are change’ video on YouTube. As part of that video Luke Rudkowski, the host of that channel, mentioned supporting his content on Steemit. I was curious, so I went to Steemit to see what it was all about. It was a fairly simple looking blogging platform but it offered the opportunity to earn money (i.e. Steem). On the trending page, several content creators were earning $100 plus a post. Therefore, I decided to give it go. I started by sharing several of my YouTube videos and included some short descriptions. Most of my shared content reaped close to zero rewards but occasionally, I would earn a nice big payout. At the time, I was confused why some posts could get such high rewards and others nothing. Later, I found out about @curie and stake weighted voting.

In the early days, it was quite a struggle to earn rewards or be noticed. Having almost no stake made that even more difficult. I was fortunate to get to know @sweetsssj, who offered support and some good advice that helped keep me going. She was also one of the reasons I started to buy Steem and become a more serious investor.

My sister (@vegoutt-travel) joined Steem in September 2017. She writes travel blogs. She is mostly a part time content creator on Hive but she has consistently put out a travel blog every few weeks. She does not have as much time as I have to contribute content but the work she puts out is of a very high quality and she consistently earns good rewards to back up the quality work she creates.

My content on Hive

I have discussed my plans for the direction I am taking my content for this year in my posts 2020 Vision and 500 Posts on Steem/Hive. So far, I have managed to keep on track. A few things have happened that have caused me to change direction slightly. I created a short series about Covid-19 and I have written a few post about the Steemit take over. The focus of my account has mostly remained on economics. I have brought back my ‘Buying and Selling Game’, which requires some basic knowledge of economics. This series is aimed at attracting more users to my account for the benefit of some of my other content as well as to generate some interest for my next economics challenge series.

Quest to Reputation 70

I had aimed to reach reputation 70 in my first 3 years on Steem/Hive. I am currently slightly short of 70 with a reputation of 69.50. Reputation lost some of its meaning on Steem when vote buying took over and reputations were artificially inflated. I bought votes for a few months at the end of 2017 and early 2018. The bought votes lifted my reputation from in the fifties into the low sixties. Since vote buying ended, reputation has regained some of the meaning it had before the bid-bots appeared on the scene.

Final words for Steem and Steemit

I will always be fond of Steem for all I have gained over the years. However, I am disappointed with Steemit and the direction it has decided to take. Steemit’s actions have destroyed most of the key benefits of the Steem blockchain (i.e. decentralisation, censorship resistance, and security of funds). I see very little incentive to invest in Steem, as keeping funds in your own wallet is no longer safe as they can be removed as part of a hardfork. I see very little incentive to post on Steem, as content can be censored if Steemit disagrees with the content presented. I wish those who remain on Steem the best of luck. I know there are still a few good content creators that have chosen to remain with Steem. We all need to decide for ourselves where we post and/or invest.

If you want to read any of my other posts, you can click on the links below. These links will lead you to posts containing my collection of works. These posts will be updated frequently.

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38 comments

@complaints-1 -2

almost 4 years ago

Dear member of HIVE,

Supplement 19 June - Some whales had asked me to stop with the many messages as they had written to @pfunk to tell him to support me and stop destroying the account. I have stuck to it and stopped. He has now sent out more downvotes and from now on the goal is to comment on every post published on HIVE. We have about 300 HIVE accounts that can be used alternately and will create new accounts daily.
We will program different scripts because every hour a post will be published in the top 100 days. These scripts will be available for every user of HIVE if he wants to use them.

I'm sorry for the automated comments. But we're not being given another opportunity to point out our problem.

For the time being, this news will only be published for one hour, should the proceedings against us be stopped and the donations replaced, we will stop. Otherwise this message will be placed under every post published on HIVE via hundreds of accounts.

Are you sure you really want to post here?

For example, we have a small account here that belongs to a social club in Germany. Donations were collected here, and every month a few dollars were collected.

But since ONE person - the witness at HIVE called @Pfunk (a witness is actually someone who is supposed to represent the members) has problems with the founder of the social organisation, he makes sure that all donations are deducted from the small account. Others who are also in favour of the account are also penalised, and all income is also taken away.

If you publish here, make sure that you only publish what is of benefit to the owners of the assets on HIVE. You must never express your own opinion or criticize someone who is a witness or owner of power.

You will soon find out that you only earn a few cents here. Others, however, sometimes enrich themselves extremely. Look around, you'll soon find that some people get 2 or even 3-digit $ sums for small contributions, but you don't even get 50 cents.

Now that the account has become basically unusable for us, we have made it our mission to inform all new members about what to expect here in the block chain.

There is no way to fight against the rulers of HIVE. One can only inform others and especially new members.

If you want to see how they take away donations for the association, you can see this here https://beeme.icu/?account=nesomi

If you ever want to find out what this is all about, you can do that:
https://peakd.com/deutsch/@nesomi/ve-the-blockchain-of-coldhearts-and-egomaniacs-ve-the-blockchain-of-coldhearts-and-egomaniacs-ve-the-blockchain-of-coldhearts-and-egomaniacs

and

https://peakd.com/deutsch/@nesomi/abuse of power-and-love-the-hive-witnesses radio or abuse of power-and-love-the-hive-witnesses radio

As soon as the downvotes on our account stop and the destroyed donations have been replaced, these comments will be discontinued.

If this action doesn't work, we will comment on less than 1000 newly published articles with this text every day.

Unfortunately we have no other possibility to take action against such behaviour. If you really should stay here you will soon realize that there is no other way to fight injustice than with many messages.

Anyone who has problems with a witness on HIVE I am happy to give the program that automatically distributes hundreds or even thousands of comments.

We will delete this comment if you wish. However, this may take a few hours.
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In the last 10 hours the downvotes were over $100. Consider, if love, not hate, were to decide for some, how much good could be done.

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@markkujantunen 77

almost 4 years ago

Thanks for the mention and the kind words! May we all have better success on Hive!

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@josediccus 81

almost 4 years ago

Wow three years? That's definitely astonishing, I'll actually get to reach 3 years in September 2020 and what can I say, I think you've got magnificent contents, it's been a year or so since I discovered your blog and well started following you. Over the years you've added value to steem and now you're continuing on hive and well I'll gladly say that it's great to get a mention and so far I'm glad we've come so far Wayne. Keep creating and I hope to power up more to support your contents and thanks a lot for the support so far, it's entirely been massive for me. Congratulations again.

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Three Years on Hive/Steem

Thanks for the support over the years

Thanks for creating great content

At the beginning

My content on Hive

Quest to Reputation 70

Final words for Steem and Steemit

More posts

Future of Social Media

In the last 10 hours the downvotes were over $100. Consider, if love, not hate, were to decide for some, how much good could be done.