Once I was posting regularily on steemit, I hodl'd up nearly 30 steem dollars. When our rates spiked up to $17USD/steem I knew that we were onto something.
Either that, or someone was looking for a good Christmas present at that time of year.
Not sure what it was, but I cashed in for my Christmas gift. Awoken by text messages at 3 in the morning. Later beckoned to 
That was really where things picked up for me.
to be contd.