How did it started?

It all started last year,
Me, Hive account@papanog, Hive account@wilsonkoh, Hive account@dilresh and Photofield were having some beers and barbeque. This happened at Hive account@wilsonkoh resident.

We were brainstorming on how to create additional income, especially now when economic activity were perceived as not very encouraging.
So, we came up with lots of idea. One that I had shared with them was how my youngest brother, Hive account@xenolien were doing some mining. He started mining Ethereum coins at microlevel.

Consultation from Canada

They got very interested and wanted to know more about mining cryptocurrency. I am no expert in cryptocurrency, except telling them how ethereum appreciates in value within few months.
In February 2017, Ethereum was valued at USD14. Now in less than a year, the value soared to USD1000 per Ethereum.

Everybody got very excited and wanted to mine as soon as possible. Since Hive account@xenolien were not around to give in more detail explanation, Hive account@wilsonkoh sent WhatsApp text to our dear friend who resides in Canada, Gavin.

Gavin were very helpful, giving answers to all our questions via WhatsApp text. Since the exchanged of questions and answers were very slow, Gavin decided to give us a call, all the way from Canada.

It was a very fruitful conversation. We started our gathering at 8pm and adjourned our "meeting" by 3am! Hahaha.
We were a bit tipsy but arrived home safely.

Getting serious

Our discussion about finding ways to build our 2nd source of income continued via whatsapp group. We were also getting more serious and decided to give Hive account@danieldoughty a call. It was after boxing day morning, 27th December 2017.

When I looked back at our whatsapp conversation, it was quite funny. Let me share some of our conversation that I screenshot.

Hive account@danieldoughty proposed us to look into steemit.com. The whitepaper and bluepaper. Yes, it started very early at 3am!

Hive account@wilsonkoh said he knew steemit but asked for other cryptocurrency info instead. I, on the other hand asked Hive account@danieldoughty how he did the mining.
In my mind, you need cpu or gpu to do your mining activity. I never heard about mining through delegated Proof of Stack.

The Bait

Hive account@danieldoughty were quite modest when he said he was quite a late comer. But now we all know that steemit.com is still in it's beta. That means, anybody who joined now are considered a new comer.
This time I took the bait.

Hive account@dilresh got interested. Hehehe
The screenshot that Hive account@danieldoughthy shared with us was a page from steemnow.com.

Got hooked!

This is the page that really got me hooked!
I did think that it was too good to be true. However, I wanted to know more. I have downloaded the Whitepaper and the bluepaper by this time.
He mentioned, it was Hive account@bitrocker2020 who introduced him to steemit.com. He mentioned that Hive account@bitrocker2020 went to Lisbon using money earned through steemit.com.
I said to myself, wow! this could be the one. The potential 2nd source of income that we have been looking for.

Me and Hive account@wilsonkoh set an appointment with Hive account@danieldougthy at Hive account@wilsonkoh house. Hive account@dilresh were out of town and couldn't come that evening.

Hive account@danieldoughty had even put the story in his blockchain. Please click here
He was right. We were very interested in it. I joined that night immediately.

Landed on steemit.com

It was on the 27th December 2017 evening that I decided to join. Got my password on the 28th December 2017.
We had a good time. Drinking beers, barbeque and playing darts. We went back at 3am the next day. Hahaha....

I'm happy to get hooked with what I considered as the ## best bait ever. I did have a very happy New Year 2018.

The beginning of a Success story

While the 3 of us are already in steemit.com, our other 2 friends hasn't decided yet. Hope they will soon. I already accepted that the journey would not be like walking in the park.
But with good advises from Hive account@bitrocker2020, Hive account@alvinauh, Hive account@danieldoughty and steemit bloggers like Hive account@sndbox, Hive account@curie, Hive account@adsactly and many more, that include my fellow newbies, their support will make the journey a lot less harder.