Journey Through the Blockchain and Finding Community
An Interesting Eight Years
On August 5, 2016 I stumbled across a website called ‘steemit.com’. My attention was drawn to the value their posts were supposedly earning. I spent some time exploring.
I’d heard about bitcoin. Didn’t really see the sense of it. What I had encountered was people wanting me to buy bitcoin on the premise that it would somehow rise in value and I’d make a profit.
This Steemit site was different.
People posted content on the site and earned a token called STEEM when people upvoted them. I eventually learned that the voting period was only 24 hours and then the post wouldn’t earn anymore.
I’d never heard of anything like this. But, I like to write, so why not, eh? I signed up.
During the signup I learned I was being given four ‘keys’, really long alphanumberic strings. I was warned repeatedly to keep those keys safe as they were my access to my account. If I lost them, my account would be lost as well.
Okay, got that through my noggin.
Exploring my account I learned I was going to need to use something called Markdown to post. I vaguely remembered someone I followed online talking about markdown.
