About Me
Hello STEEM community! My name is Jordan and I'm just your ordinary 17 year old attending my final year of high school. I consider myself a gamer, environmentalist, photographer, and technology enthusiast. I am currently living in the low income bracket with a single mother near the poverty line and am required to work a minimal wage part time job alongside my studies to help pay bills since I was 15. I've had to endure a lot of hardships throughout my life like illnesses and lack of money but I always worked my hardest so I can one day improve my conditions for myself and eventually others.
Altcoin Buzz Community
Having heard of the term Cryptocurrency back in November I began to start researching about it and as I got more interested I started to look for videos on Youtube. That was when I stumbled upon the Altcoin Buzz Youtube channel which only had a few thousand subscribers in its early days. It has now since grew to 175k subscribers and they just joined the STEEM community last week! They have a very inclusive and informative Cryptocurrency community and I advise you to check out 
Invested All my Money
Discovering about Cryptocurrency and STEEM was a huge motivation and inspiration for myself. Despite all my friends telling me not to invest in these "Scam" coins and "fake" technology I took a risk and bought my first coins. Obviously only working part time and having to pay the bills, I only had my post secondary savings which consisted of only about a thousand dollars, which really isn't much at all to pay for university fees. Yes, I put every dime I had in my savings into Cryptocurrencies. I know to a lot of you a thousand dollars probably isn't much at all and pales in comparison to your portfolio but it is everything I have saved up in the last 3 years for my future and I put it all into something that I believe has potential and limitless possibilities. It can seem risky but I think its worth the risk since a thousand dollars wouldn't get me really far in terms of university tuition so I'm willing to risk it.
Going against Rules and Limitations
Being a 17 year old and trying to invest is not easy at all. Every website requires me to be 18+ of age including CoinBase, Kraken, Poloniex...etc. Obviously I'm not going to let that stop me from stepping foot into the Cryptocurrency world, so I looked up the options I had. At last I found out about Bitcoin ATMs and that they were all around my city. That was good news, but obviously it had its cons. It had fees of over 10%!!! Having no other options I went ahead and put all my money in Litecoins and purchased about 8 of them in early December.
So far as of today, my initial investment in Litecoin (LTC) is +60% in less than 2 months! I have recently purchased a bit of STEEM and it is up around +10% already in a week!
I will be holding my current investments for a long time and will definitely be looking at other investment as the year of 2018 in cryptocurrency comes along. Like many said "2018 is the bull year for cryptocurrency" and I have high hopes for this incoming bull run upwards and the technology!
I want to grow on the Steemit Platform - I'll Need Your Help!
I am looking forward to be a content creator on this platform and I hope I can create educational, informative and funny articles for the community. I may produce short news updates and funny jokes and articles or maybe I'll also do coin reviews. As a teenage investor in Cryptocurrency and the Steem Platform I hope I can encourage other young investors to join in the Steem Community! I will try to answer every comment and follow those of you back with a similar mindset and hopefully grow as a community.
