Greetings People!🙌
The Marathon has been an interesting race, and the feeling of meeting, mingling, and lending a helping hand to people has been so good. I'm glad I didn't miss out on this race.
Each time I reflect on how I was introduced to Hive blockchain, I always laugh because it's a funny story.
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Okay,
before I joined Hive, I had heard of it for a couple of months from some users there who were friends from the blogging world.
I remember clearly that we were all at a particular platform called READCASH, which was less strict than this; in fact, the strict difference is more than 70%. That platform was mainly on just write original content and you're good to go. Only one or two Communities had frowning rules that attract penalties.
With all these, I saw Hive as difficult, as we always say "Hive is difficult". I was so scared of this difficulty and not ready to leave my comfort zone [Readcash], even when people like @princessbusayo, @Ifarmgirl, and others were showing us good proof of earning. I checked out these people; they are extraordinary in how they write and how they engage like robots. I didn't see myself fitting in with their standards, so I stayed put.
But as time went on, my comfort zone began to shake in payment, and a majority of us quickly extended their legs to Hive in order to balance. I can remember well that these people were @kushyzee, @fashtiolwa, @jenthoughts @balikis95, and many others.
Wow! Such courageous people!
Honestly, I wanted to follow in their footsteps, but come on, Hive is difficult, and it's not for people like me that write unserious things, especially with the fact that I'm not into Crypto, so I stayed put and minded my business.
Finally, Readcash stopped paying, and that was when I summoned all the spirits around me and registered on Hive.
Let me tell you:
On my registration day, I was frustrated to the brim. I was told that my phone's IP has been used already.
"By who?" I asked. Maybe by my phone's company; I guess it was used in registering an account when they were building my phone. Lol🙂
I wanted to stop the registration, but Kushyzee was there to help out, and he gave me the peakd link, which was successful.
After that, I went to buy Hive with $10 to power it up. I didn't know there was something like Delegation of Hive Power.
After the power-up, I went on a week's break to regain the strength I used in passing the registration and power-up stages because I lost a lot of energy and "everything about Hive is difficult".
Those stages really proved to me that Hive is difficult.🙈
I came back after taking the rest, I published my first post, which gained a little attention, and I was discouraged, but thank God I didn't go out... I'm still here buzzing, and on the 12th of this month, I will be clocking ONE YEAR.
Thanks for reading.
This is a response to the Dreemport Marathon challenge prompt