I stumbled across Steemit over a year ago when a friend of mine posted about this new website where people were earning thousands on blog posts, and this cryptocurrency that had entered the top five on CMC. Naturally I was curious and joined immediately. I’ve never blogged before, so took me a while to write my first post. But when I got my first upvote, I was over the moon, even though the vote was only worth $0.01. :) For my first few posts, I remember not being able to sleep and getting up first thing in the morning to see how much my posts had earned. For many of the first posts, this was under $1. But when I finally received a substantial payout, I was hooked. I’ve fallen in love with blogging and crypto ever since then.