My Steemit Story
I joined steemit back in November of last year. I was a college student studying computer science at the time and had heard about cryptocurrency but was too busy to really investigate. Some friends and I had been discussing decentralized social media alternatives, so I went for a search to see what already existed. A few came up, including diaspora*. I joined steemit at this time, mostly for its decentralized aspects. I also received 30 free steem (or something like that, I don't remember exactly how much) which I obviously thought was awesome! I considered converting it to fiat. (what? I was a broke college student, don't judge me) After reading a few posts about accruing interest for holding steem I thought, what the hell I'll keep it. I logged out, and never visited steemit again...
Until I graduated. I finally had time to investigate the details of cryptocurrency. I'd always been interested in the possibilities, but didn't understand the details. Until I started diving deep into the subject. I then remembered that I'd joined steemit months ago and was again interested in the possibility of a monetized social media platform. So I logged back in to my account and to my surprise my 30 steem had risen 10 times in value!
On to Introductions!
I'm a recent graduate from the Utah State University computer science department. I recently started working at Amazon as a software engineer where my team and I utilize AWS big data technologies, but, I'm hoping to eventually transition into a blockchain engineer role.
Since graduating I've become obsessed with cryptocurrency. I write a new post on my blog just about every weekend. My most recent post is some lessons I've learned the hard way about deploying smart contracts using parity. I aim to start posting these to steemit as well, so keep your eyes peeled!
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http://www.sjkelleyjr.com