#teamaustralia Sydney Meetup in Parramatta

Today I attended to my first ever Steemit Meetup organised by Hive account@ratticus, member of Hive account@teamaustralia. I had the pleasure to finally meet some fellow Steemians in person: Hive account@bearone Hive account@ratticus Hive account@phamished Hive account@ohboy Hive account@travelgirl Hive account@stabilowl Hive account@chrisdavidphoto and even Hive account@rustle !

What a bunch of fun people! Unsurprisingly, on my side of the table we were discussing crypto and Hive account@chrisdavidphoto gave us some details on how he got emails and phone hacked and the hackers has stolen about 3.5 bitcoins worth of cryptos off his multiple accounts 😱

I was too focused on the crypto talks that I didn't get to to around the table and discuss with more people. Oh well, that's another reason for me to come to the next meetup!

I've, however, gave the group a preview of what the witness server does by showing them the live logs of steemd, the witness software; explaining what was the meaning of all the output and summarising the 63 seconds block generation cycle.

^{Hive account@chrisdavidphoto & Hive account@phamished}

^{Hive account@ohboy & Hive account@bearone's hubby}

^{Front to back: Hive account@travelgirl, Hive account@ratticus & Hive account@stabilowl}

^{Left to right: Hive account@phamished, Hive account@travelgirl & myself}

^{Hive account@rustle was behaving}

I didn't realised we were going to have lunch there as the event started at 2.30pm... But not having breakie usually, I would not have lasted that late without food. But look at what they had!

^{Modern life: this is what people do first when good food arrives}

^{I don't drink alcohol so here is my beverage: Coke on the rocks!}

I did enjoy the event, it makes Steemit more social than just chatting on Discord 😄I will definitely try to make it to the next one and get to talk to more members and give more information on Witnessing on the Steem blockchain.

^SHOTS!