I have been here since the first week this blockchain launched in 2016, and I have posted 1000s of articles. I would have to say I feel like most of them that only made .10 cents or less (the majority) we’re definitely worth more than that compared to the time and research I spent on them.

The worst part is that I have a few articles, which I will link if needed, these articles were getting 50,000-100,000s of views (before they took the counter down years ago), and 100s of comments still to this day, but the payout was less than 0.50 cents.

I am not the most talented writer, and grammer was not my best subject, but I have become a lot better writer because of this platform, and I am thankful for that.

When we first started and there was just like like 100 people here, I remember when the only posts were crypto blogs, and I was trying to post things I posted to Instagram (nobody was having that)...I pleaded to the community with post after post begging the community to be more supportive of music and art posts...

https://hive.blog/music/@stealthtrader/steemit-can-save-millions-of-musicians-and-artists

And then came the $40k makeup posts..

For some time we had a lot of those posts, and even fake model posts, but that was dealt with.

I remember posting in the very first open mic hosted by @luzchypher for awhile, and I had a lot of fun performing in those!

Years passed and the blockchain progressed on its own to this 3rd gen blockchain capable of handling the most transactions with no fees, and also the scalability for worldwide dApp usage.

So I do believe in Hive, and I hope everything continues to progress!