Feels appropriate to begin an introductory post on the blockchain this way.
My name is Nguyen Dinh Giang, or Giang, for short.
I'm working in crypto full-time, and have been following a full-time blockchain career since early 2017. As of right now, I'm the Vietnam Ambassador for MakerDAO... yeah, that Maker Foundation, the one with MKR governance token and the DAI stablecoin. Prior to all this, I was Key Account Manager for Binance in South East Asia, and before that, I was Country Manager for Cobo Wallet, Ambassador for NEM, Strategic Advisor for the first ever crypto exchange in Vietnam, etc...
I got in crypto early and got grilled by it early. Broken to tatters by it, moulded by it, and still swears by it.
As an aside, I also have a small artisan chocolate company that I co-founded for a couple of years now, called Gilli Chocolate.
Here's a scan of the packaging:
I'm a voracious writer and reader. I wrote from poems, short stories, to articles and whitepapers.
I'm an amateur artist of sorts - I love to sing crooner songs (think Frank Sinatra), love to paint (I suck at it, but boy do I love it), and I've been dabbling with the classical guitar since I was 11.
And I love learning new things. So far, aside from my native Vietnamese, I'm fluent in English, conversational in French, and horrible with German.
Despite getting my feet wet with Steem since June 2020, I never got my account approval. 2-3 days to be approved, they said. Well it's 2 months now. When I popped my Twitter and was reminded that Steem is a thing, that delay drove me here. Hive did what Steem couldn't. Where it took me 2 months to get nowhere with Steem, Hive got me onboarded in 2 minutes.
I like to write, to create, to share. I already got paid for that elsewhere.
But why not pump it up a notch? I would love to be rewarded for the mundane things that I do, too. The idea that good non-professional content can earn me something is exciting to me.
If Steem won't have me, I guess Hive will.
Vui vui,
Giang
