It took several days until my request to join the community was approved and an image says more than a 1000 words! this is how I feel now that I am an active member of the community.
So much to read and to get up to speed, I loved the concept of Steemit and the power we have in our hands is incredible, more and more I see post from Steemit popping up on search engines.
What brought me here? well bitcoin caught my attention when I read about a fork that was about to happen, so as this is a self presentation, a little about me. If you are reading this what brought you here?
Few months back I took a step of courage and started to buy a few pieces of equipment (my first miner), later on I was dragged by cryptoworld, I bought a few couple of british sterlings in Ethereum when it was only $220,00 because I could have more coins than bitcoin which was at the time $2200.
As I was mining my first ever ETH's I was bouncing here and there until I found a pool that would pay me the fractions I was mining, yeah I lost about 7-8 days mining in a pool that only would pay once a full block was mined by my equipment.
Little I knew that I was getting into something much bigger! as I watched the price of bitcoin reach new heights every week I started to regret have invested my first money into ETH and not into BTC. But that's is ok I am a believer and my investment started to pay off.
It was so satisfying to throw in my wife's face that I actually have done something more than wasting money... ( I think a few friends feel the same here LOL).
About the time my beautiful ETH started to get to $1400,00 I was much more aware of the ups and downs of the market, I was watching carefully the time to buy and get out and I even did a few transactions on my https://www.gdax.com/trade/ETH-BTC account.
So about 4 weeks ago new era in my life into cryptoworld has kicked off I started to invest in ideas, this is where I meet EOS and injected about 1 ETH into it. Reading through EOS proposal I found STEEM and all the conglomerate that is part of it Steemit included, I am really excited to earn my first steem and I hope my story can help someone starting their journeys.
PS: Any Brazilians, or portuguese here? I'd love to get in touch with you!