My name is Dante and i am new to Steemit. I heard about Steemit while researching exactly what bitcoin and Cryptocurrency was all about a couple months ago. I came across a video of a well known Youtuber and Steemian, Jerry Banman i believe his name is. I remember him talking about what Steemit was, and from what i learned people would earn money from posting blogs and videos and would earn money based on an upvote system. I am a believer who thinks that people will love the idea of being paid for putting out content, especially people who use Facebook and Twitter who have large followings and do not get rewarded for it through those sites. I also just found out this week that earning money through the social media part of the website is not even the best part about investing into Steem, apparently there is no fees to use the system and it is able to handle a lot more traffic/transactions than Bitcoin or Ethereum. If that statement is true i believe that Steemit is very valuable to obtain right now under $5 and to hold your coins for a year untill we maybe see a $100 Steem coin, or if you really believe in Steemit hold your coins for 3-5 years until we see a $1000+ Steem coin. Those numbers are very possible to obtain I feel because Ethereum this time last year was under $4 per coin and its now at $800 per coin, that's 200x your investment if you invested at that time, or a 20000% gain in one year if i calculated that correctly lol. I think the same could happen with Steem, we might even see some even more crazy gains than that because cryptocurrency has been blowing up so much recently. I own 55 steem coin at the moment and my goal is to obtain 1000 steam coins by December. 19/ 2018. I am not a rich person, I am just a regular 27 year old guy from Canada who works a normal job that plans on investing a few hundred dollars every month and hopefully by this date next year I can write a blog titled " Achieved my 1000 Steem coin goal".
I also have invested $500 into the famous Bitconnect platform. I kind of feel now that i should have put that money into Steem first since the coins seem to be exploding right now but Trevon James and CryptoNick convinced me lol. I know that it seems like a ponzi scheme/ pyramid scheme but i felt that it was worth the risk. My next coin to invest it is definitely Steem and I plan on being in it for the long run (3-5) years maybe lifelong depending on how well this website does, if it becomes the next Facebook then I will be in Steem for life and hopefully retire because of Steem :P.
I heard about Bitcoin years ago when it first came out when i was like 19-20 years old, I remember I used to always go to this little cheque cashing place at the corner of my street to get change and the young guy like 25-30 years old was always pretty cool. I have always had a dream of being rich and I was a young guy at the time so I thought this young banker dude would know about making money, I remember asking if there was anything that i should invest in and he mentioned bitcoin and what it was about saying what it was but it was too technical for my tiny teenage brain at the time, so obviously i didn't invest or this would be a completely different post lol. Also about 4 or 5 years ago i had saved up about $2000 and was looking what i should invest in and i had come across Bitcoin in my research ($200 roughly per coin at the time) . I remember seeing an article stating that a financial person was predicting bitcoin to become $100,000 someday. Now this time i remember the reason I did not get involved in Bitcoin was because i thought that the only way to obtain bitcoin was to mine it, and i tried to figure out what the hell mining was and how to do it but it seemed very complicated. Also i should mention that 4-5 years ago there was like ZERO youtube videos on Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency unlike the amount of info and videos there is today so I did not invest in Bitcoin again and wasted my money on some pointless stuff. I tell this story because I feel like I have missed the Bitcoin Train and I am going to make sure I do not miss the Steem Train.
Thank you everyone for reading my very first post on Steemit I hope that it wasn't too long. Follow me and i will follow you back, I hope that is not frowned upon on Steemit lol and if it is than please do not hesitate to let me know as well as letting me know any other tips that may be helpful to me, I would genuinely appreciate it. Also the picture I used is from my favorite T.V show at the moment, let me know if your a fan as well :P Until my next post i will say what every investor in cryptocurrency loves to say "SEE YOU ON THE MOON".