I was introduced to Steemit by @gavvet who is the top user or should I say “whale” in South Africa. I was attending a hackathon for Open data for municipalities and I was busy “mining” on MinerGate. @gavvet actually saw me and asked about my knowledge of cryptocurrency and blockchain and realised my interest, so he told me about Steemit and right there I opened my account. I can tell you right now I am addicted to Steemit…he warmed me thou.
I also aspire to be one of the top users on Steemit and also contribute to Steemit tools.
I am a geek, technology freak, electronics engineer, programmer, mobile app developer, technical trainer, entrepreneur…so @gavvet advised that I blog about technology. If you go through my blogs on Steemit it has been mostly about technology and science…”My adruino fun projects” and recently @blockchain also like the idea and advised I add more details on my blogs like schematics and coding and as a results grow the arduino tag and traffic to the site.
One month stats:
Sometimes I used to make $0…YES zero for a really good content but I never gave up.
I used to write using raw edit then use HTML to compile my blogs and also for a good layout but now I find Markdown to be very easy and saving time to edit which I really recommend for beginners. Image credit
I come up with an idea for my blog but I noticed I spend a lot of time editing the blog. The most frustrating issue I have has been the “uploading of pictures”…sometimes I have more than 10 images, then uploading them on https://picload.org/ then get URL links...it takes time…even the site giving errors of abuse.
I am glad I met @thecryptodrive (Ricardo) at the Steemit Saturday event. @thecryptodrive is one the first Steemit witness in South Africa and he is the genius behind @steemsports@steemdrive. He also managed to crowdfund enough funds for Steemit Billboards.
I find it easy to share my crazy ideas with people as crazy as I am because they understand me…and I am glad @thecryptodrive is on the same crazy level as me. I pitched my idea to him on how to grow @steemsports and how we can work together on my idea…he loved it…well if he was normal he was going to say "I am crazy"...we will definitely implement it…Steem ON!!!
