$0 to $5000 How I went from Crypto Noob to Hive Wizard / Addict

The story begins like many hive stories of the past.......

It starts with one bored lonely afternoon in December 2021......

And one Summoner's Spellbook....

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My introduction to HIVE was through Splinterlands. One night reading about NFT games and looking for something that I could play on my phone. The idea of being able to play a game and make any sort of money was such an awesome idea.

So I decided I was going to jump into it with a little bit of money and see how it goes. How was I going to spend my first $100 with absolutely no experience in this space or the game at all? Well I turned to YOUTUBE and found a certain content creator to help me out.

Hive account@bulldog1205 Was who I found and he had an outdated beginner guide that included how to spend my first $100. I followed that guide TO THE TEE I bought every single card Jared recommended, and even thought the guide was outdated, most of those cards I still have to this day: creeping ooze, Sea Monster, and Creeping Ooze. Thank you Bulldog!

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Where are we now?

Slowly, but surely I started getting sucked into Splinterlands, and deeper into the Hive Blockchain.

I just need to get to Silver 3 so I can start earning DEC
I just need some HP so I can try flipping some cards
Wow I can earn some HP and hive while blogging?
Liquidity pool what APR?!?!?!
Now, I just need to get to GOLD so I can rent out some cards
PIZZA and ONEUP who?
I can earn STARBITS completely F2P?
dWhat?

Next thing you know, I am contributing a regular part of my paycheck to this ecosystem and have moved some of my savings over little by little. And boys, I am pretty deep at this point and am planning on riding the Hive rocket 🚀 straight to the moon.

As Splinterlands was where I started and the place I was sucked into the most, most of my portfolio is actually in Cards -- $3640

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Next is my SPS - $1092

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Liquidity pools, when before I had no idea what a liquidity pool was - $370

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And then I have also thrown around a $200 bucks into rising star and dCity and have in a few other places on hive

.... This all totals a little over $5000 since December,

and I truly am in it for the long run. I am going to keep contributing to this ecosystem on a regular basis and growing my reach. I hope everyone here is along for the ride, and I hope to one day make this a regular and significant source of income to where I can contribute more time into this. :)