My fellow cryptocurrency enthusiast in 
You probably heard of people who hit it big because they believe in cryptocurrencies when nobody really cares about them or cared to learn and understand about them. Take for example this American kid who was able to amass around 400 Bitcoins (BTC) with an initial investment of $1000 from his grandmother that was supposed to be kept as initial funding for his college education. You can watch his video below.
The nice thing about this story is that it can always happen to anyone of us also. Of course doing it with bitcoin might not be the proper way to do it now due to the obvious reason that its prices have already skyrocketed our fortunes might be found somewhere else, STEEM perhaps. To give you an example there is two significant events that almost led me to be a “Peso Cryptonaire,” Peso since the cryptocurrency holdings that I had almost reached a million Philippine Pesos in value.
First Strike
The first instance was when I was doing Raiblocks which I have read from a website from a fellow Steemian 
However my boyfriend and I had already amassed around 14,000 Raiblocks before it stopped. We were able to do this because we ran a group that was solving the recaptcha and we help them cash out their earnings by trading their MRAI for them. Most of the time we don’t push through with the trade and just pay off the equivalent amount or a little higher than that of what they will get if they proceeded to trade them in bitgrail or mercatox the only two cryptocurrency exchange that trades this crypto. Unfortunately last October we sold all our Raiblocks in a much lower price since we didn’t see any price action in Raiblocks and thought that it will never “Moon” a common parlance in crypto sphere in describing the price of a cryptocurrency gaining significant amount of value. We sold it for around 84,000 Pesos to pay off some debts and living expenses. However, if we have waited for a couple of months my boyfriend and I should have been Peso cryptonaires in December as it reached $37 each and with 12,000 Raiblocks this would be equivalent to PHP 25,900,000 or $518,000 USD. That is indeed a saddening event but I have learned to look past that event and just continue hoping that one of my holdings will also moon like Raiblocks which is by the way has rebranded to Nano (just it case you want to check it now). One can say that it was a blessing in disguise because if I have not lost interest with Raiblocks I would not have started doing steemit.
Second Strike
The second instance was during the December bullish run of all cryptos. By then I have shifted my attention to doing Raiblocks to doing lending coins like bitconnect, regalcoins and hextracoins and on the side Steem and its Steem application Steemit. During my early days as a Steemian I would always do Utopian blog-post which pays blog that contribute to open-source projects. My post usually does not get any lower than 20 SBD and all of my earnings there I did not cash out and would always invest it in my STEEM POWER. This was the time that SBD and STEEM were only at around $1 each. Then the window of opportunity came while I was making a decent amount of income from posting in Utopian SBD suddenly mooned and was able to acquire much Steem Power trading My SBD to STEEM and then Powering Up. There was a point that you can get 10 STEEM for every 1 SBD you trade. Then STEEM also mooned making my account value almost reach the value of $9000 which is about PHP 450,000 Pesos. At this time I have traded some of my SBD earnings from making the Utopian blog-post to other cryptos like Kucoin Shares, Indigencoin, Libracoins, Exacoins, and other new coins that never seem to go down in value during that time. At one point I saw my total crypto holdings reached more than PHP 900,000 (US$ 18,000) only a few more I would have made it to 1 million Pesos. Unfortunately the market crashed. I was planning to hold on to my crypto assets until it recovers but at the time when my crypto holdings was at its lowest value financial problem came and I was forced to move my investments out of the exchanges at a lost. My hope and dream of becoming a “Peso cryptonaire” seems to be fading dream fast.
Steem became my bus stop
As I have said earlier I have diversified my crypto holdings to many cryptocurrencies, especially those lending coins that was all of the trend before. I thought I have found the holy grail of Passive cryptocurrency income: Lending coins but as I have discovered later on it was a scam and I have lost all of my investment there. Good thing there was Steem that have kept my mind from cryptocurrency market. I have become very active with steem community building. It was a lot of hard work but it is okay as it made me happier doing community building than trading during those days. I am happy that my efforts was not left unnoticed as sir terry started interacting with me beyond steemit and incessantly thought me of the ways of Steem and share his thoughts on how to improve as a Steemian and a human being. It entails a lot of sacrifice I tell you but it’s all is worth it. Opportunities sought me out and I have become a “celebrity” of some sort of course we are all a celebrity in steemit if we want too. I have even gotten a temporary 1000SP delegation from madam 
As I have learned more about steem I have found out that there are many ways you can earn in its platform you can even earn Steem without actually blogging. You just have to use your Steem Power to sell upvotes or delegations for Post Promotional Bots. They say that it is like earning from a masternode. Post promotional bots is some sort of advertising so that more people can see your post and hopefully they upvote your post, although this is not a guarantee that it would. I see a lot of potential for steem and its different applications. I plan to leverage the full potential of Steem by experiencing all the applications that this cryptocurrency can offer. Like in any other cryptocurrencies there is also risk and some bad actors but we will sort it out we are a strong community and I have full confidence in the communities, developers and leaders. I actually believe that I might be able to achieve my goal here of becoming a Peso Cryptonaire here soon.
The Plan
How do I get to do that? Simple I will just leverage all the available applications here in steem. First I plan to blog more often. Making sure that the value of what I right will not only useful for earning the rewards here but also something of value that I can reuse in the future. Take for example my contribution post in Utopian. Most of it are tutorial about cryptocurrency wallets or programs that other people would like to learn like emulators or cool computer stuff like virtual appliances. I think one that I have reused most is my tutorial on how to create my MyEtherWallet. You see When I post in steem I post something that people would like to know, something that is timely and useful. Something of value that people will actually read and learn from. Of course some of these tutorial gets outdated since new versions comes along but these are most of the time minor upgrades of revision which actually gives me an opportunity to make another blog as an update to the older version. Besides my target audience is not only people who are in Steemit my major target are those people are not in the platform who are using other social media platform. That is why, if time permits ,I always share my Steem-blog in twitter, facebook, VK and etc. It is also a cool way off side stepping their band on sharing referral links as I usually embed them in my blog-post. This way it is a like hitting two birds with one stone I get to earn from my efforts in doing steem blogs and in a way promoting steem in other social networks.
Second, I plan to invest in a better audio and video recording equipment so that I will be able to upload better quality audio and videos to the different applications we have here in steemit. I have already invested in a better internet connection that has enable me to have unlimited data monthly (My previous mobile account cost me an arm and a leg). Now the next target is getting the proper and right recording equipment so that I will be able to share High resolution videos and High fidelity sound. Right now I am not in the position yet to buy one but soon if I get to earn more enough money or if I find a really good deal on Lozada or OLX I will. I am planning to do some PODCAST or VLOG.
Third, I will try to limit cashing out my payouts and instead invest it in my Steem Power delegate it to bidbots and earn something on the side that I can invest again to my Steem Power for a compounding effect. I might also try to use post promotional tools to get more coverage from my Steem-post. I will try will try to leverage also some upvotes bots that are giving out small amounts of upvotes. There are a lot of them in the discord channel which I have tried avoiding before due to the data it consumes from my previous data plan. This free upvote bots does not really give out much but it is better than getting nothing.
Forth, maybe I will try to join more writing contest where I can earn some SBD. I have not actually tried to enter one myself although I have won a contest that 
Fifth, I will try to engage more Steemians in the comments sections especially those with high upvoting power. We can also earn from upvotes in our comments therefore you have a better chance getting the upvote of these high powered individual if you become active in their blog-post and commenting relevant and interesting comments in theirs. My favorite Steemian is 
Sixth, I will try to integrate my non-steem gigs to steemgigs.org. Another project of sir Terry that is intended to be a portal for a Steem-powered freelance market that looks and feels like Fiverr but a whole lot better. He calls it a dream-builder and by utilizing the steemgigs platform it might as well be. Maybe I will reach my target of “Peso Cryptonaire” their by offering my talents and expertise on that platform.
Seventh, I might consider contributing again more in Utopian.io if I find something of interesting to learn and share about of course if time permits. It just takes a whole lot of time making them and sometimes your work gets rejected. Well that is how it is since there is higher risk when there is higher reward. I was planning to make contributions on steemgigs from what I have seen from other contributions they are not accepting steemgigs contributions as of the moment. I might be wrong so please comment below if someone has already been approve for steemgigs.org contribution so that I can also contribute.
Eight, will trade again more actively in more trading platforms and more cryptocurrencies. I have taken up position in many new coins recently and I am happy to say that I have reach my targets in some of the coins I have wagered in. I have a pretty good feeling that indeed this year I might hit my target of being a cryptonaire this year.