In the picture is me: Hive account@mokluc (Lucky) Hive account@ned (Ned) and Hive account@gavvet (Gavin)
I had the privilege to attend Steem Saturday event in South Africa at Indaba Hotel. This is the same place I was awarded the “top award” for the Emerging genius in South Africa by Popular mechanics magazine, so I always associate it with great things happening in my life. Then it happened I got a chance to personally meet the man behind Hive account@steemit Ned Scott.

I was introduced to Steemit by Hive account@gavvet who is the top user or should I say “whale” in South Africa. I was attending a hackathon for Open data for municipalities and I was busy “mining” on MinerGate.

Hive account@gavvet actually saw me and asked about my knowledge of cryptocurrency and blockchain and realised my interest, so he told me about Steemit and right there I opened my account. I can tell you right now I am addicted to Steemit…he warmed me thou.

I also aspire to be one of the top users on Steemit and also contribute to Steemit tools.

I am a geek, technology freak, electronics engineer, programmer, mobile app developer, technical trainer, entrepreneur…so Hive account@gavvet advised that I blog about technology. If you go through my blogs on Steemit it has been mostly about technology and science…”My adruino fun projects” and recently Hive account@blockchain also like the idea and advised I add more details on my blogs like schematics and coding and as a results grow the arduino tag and traffic to the site.

One month stats:

Sometimes I used to make $0…YES zero for a really good content but I never gave up.

Project Hive account@curie:
Is Cryptocurrency and Open-data the answer to Africa’s thriving corruption and poverty?

My experience with Steemit in the last month:

I used to write using raw edit then use HTML to compile my blogs and also for a good layout but now I find Markdown to be very easy and saving time to edit which I really recommend for beginners.

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I come up with an idea for my blog but I noticed I spend a lot of time editing the blog. The most frustrating issue I have has been the “uploading of pictures”…sometimes I have more than 10 images, then uploading them on https://picload.org/ then get URL links...it takes time…even the site giving errors of abuse.

The same frustration I am going through has been explain under Hive account@joanaltres Steemit community what kind of software would you like me to create for you free no strings by Hive account@contentking

Hive account@everittdmickey says We need a thing

YES “We need a thang” you know…that thang…with a WOW thing...

Well as a “programmer” I am to working on a solution.

It will so wonderful to just attached all the images from your PC then Steemit does all the uploading and getting the URL links for you.

Collaboration work:

Image by Hive account@patjewell

I am glad I met Hive account@thecryptodrive (Ricardo) at the Steemit Saturday event. Hive account@thecryptodrive is one the first Steemit witness in South Africa and he is the genius behind Hive account@steemsports Hive account@steemdrive. He also managed to crowdfund enough funds for Steemit Billboards.

Image by Hive account@aslammotala

I find it easy to share my crazy ideas with people as crazy as I am because they understand me…and I am glad Hive account@thecryptodrive is on the same crazy level as me. I pitched my idea to him on how to grow Hive account@steemsports and how we can work together on my idea…he loved it…well if he was normal he was going to say "I am crazy"...we will definitely implement it…Steem ON!!!