50 Days on Steemit | My Experience

So 50 days ago I decided to sign up on Steemit just to get a better understanding on this STEEM cryptocurrency after hearing Hive account@jerrybanfield talk about it on his youtube channel.

As a semi-professional sports bettor, I planned on using steemit as a blog to post some of my bets and other sports betting related content. My Introduction Post quickly got 15 replies and a 0.17$ post reward thanks to Hive account@joele and Hive account@najs1crypto ! It did not take long for me to get totally hooked on this highly gamified platform and I saw big potential in what it could offer to the online betting community.

The 12 post combined after my introduction made a total post earning of 0.00$. Making money here never has been my short term priority and I did not even look at those numbers or get discouraged in any way. I did learn that voting power is essential and how 1 whale upvote is worth far more than 100 minnow upvotes. The first real supports I got was from Hive account@nicnas who is another serious sports bettor here on Steemit. As a way to increase my voting power I started participating is all kinds of contests and managed to win 26 STEEM and 49.919 SBD with these the last 50 days from contest hosted by Hive account@tytran, Hive account@sportspicker, Hive account@alimtl2011, Hive account@mohammad32, Hive account@jaki01, Hive account@artz, Hive account@nicnas, Hive account@miniature-tiger, Hive account@cranium, Hive account@sportsncoffee and Hive account@carlosdaniel
Thanks !

I bought 200 Steem and Powered Up to basically upvote my own posts along with 50 SBD to start hosting my own EPL Betting Contest to get more a bit more exposure on steemit. I started making some Betting related articles and received a 3.76$ post payout on my Gambling Psychology article thanks to Hive account@jaki01.

Starting my own contest was more difficult than I anticipated. Giving away 5 SBD with plenty of days to enter only reached 6 contestant including myself and a 0.26$ post payout. Thanks to Hive account@tzap90 , Hive account@hashcloud, Hive account@schumame, Hive account@lcst and Hive account@stickchumpion for participating ! Right now in week 5 the contest has grown to around 30 contestants with currently a 3.60$ post payout thanks to Hive account@flameburst and a contest prize pool which is currently 15.935 SBD.

I wanted to get my Steem Power above 500SP after I learned about the upvote slider. It really feels good to upvote others and see their post rewards go up because of it. My voting power got drained too fast only being able to give 100% votes, so I Powered Up again and invested in 267.582 STEEM to get my steem power exactly to 500. I made a ⚡️ Powered up ⚡️ post to celebrate and spread some of my new voting power around which got great reactions and some big upvotes by Hive account@damarth and Hive account@joele giving it 9.47$ post earnings ! This was topped by my monthly Steemit Sports Contests Report thanks to a whale votes from Hive account@ats-david, Hive account@steem-id, Hive account@dan-bn and Hive account@jchch reaching a 17.89$ payout. Thanks !

I am still learning a lot about this platform and started testing out the Hive account@randowhale and Hive account@minnowbooster services after reading a post from Hive account@investwarrior. I will only be using them now as a way to convert SBD into STEEM POWER.

Since steemit is extremely heavy on cryptocurrency content I also started covering Sports Betting related Blockchain projects and will be making a weekly update on the latses news in this segment of the market along with a portfolio update to track how they are doing.