I'm drunk, I'm happy, and my voice is now worth something on Steem it.
My votes are currently worth 2 cents per up-vote and from what I understand that means I'm now in the swimming pool with the rest of the food chain inside Steemit. No longer am I the chum that swims around hoping to get digested and churned out as worth, I am now a small fish in a vast ocean...
...And boy, has it been easy.
Share your thoughts(real and honest thoughts), and get paid for it. How much easier could life get.
And sure, this could be classed as another circle jerk post but honestly, I'm about as happy a Portfolio Manager closing 100% winning positions in a week and I can not, for the sake of me, contain that joy.
I was skeptical 5 days ago when I first picked up this site... Now, my account is worth almost a grand. Steemit has basically bent me over, taken the doubt that I held, and shoved it straight up my tiny brown buttocks. And it feels great.
As vulgar as that may seem, it's the best way to describe this moment.
I feel like Bobby "Axe" Axelrod from the show Billions right now; fucking invincible.
I may just be a Minnow so far as this post suggests: https://steemit.com/steemit/@crypt0/steemit-whales-dolphins-and-minnows-the-importance-of-steem-power-on-steemit
But that doesn't bother me at all. I know that within time I'll be a whale, and those that were whales now will by then have become Submarines with trident capabilities; I'm totally cool with that. I'll keep treading the waters whilst these other apex predators take us along with them for the ride.
In three posts I've made what some people make in a week (and yes, I'm referring to my accounts estimated value, not one of three specific values, which from a share holders perspective is what we call total equity). That to me is amazing. It's like owning my own bank and all I need to print money is my own written word!
Even with the recent downtime we've experienced, this site will never die. It's too damn lucrative; to everybody!
You know how they say money makes people crazy, well this may just make a few of us lose our damn minds. $30k on a makeup tutorial... Fuck.
Friends who're not even using Steemit(because they're still skeptical), agree; "that's fucked."
So, lets make sure we as a community keep this shit up.
I'll be posting my own "verification/photos of myself" post soon, now that I feel entirely comfortable with the site. I hope I'm pretty enough for you all when I do
Oh, and if a drunken crypto/forex trader who's been on a 24 hour bender to keep up with market volatility can still write a half literate post like this, then even the biggest of dumbies can. I urge you all to try.
Please, if not for you then for the sake of my eye balls.
Until then, here's the most recent pic of myself I have online:
I'm very camera shy...
Until my next post... I'm off to go find a bucket to puke in.
Peace and Love!
- Sensei
My votes are 2 cents too now. And I was about to try to Power Up to 1 cent, I am waiting for some STEEM Dollars to turn in to STEEM. Then I also just got my biggest post reward ever for a comment, so I am going to use that to Power Up and see how much that is worth now. I think they made it easier to get to .01cent, they had it where you had to have around $300-$400 in STEEM Power to have a vote of .01cent. I was actually trying to figure out exactly what .01cent of Voting Power (cents) translated in to in Steem Power. And exactly how much STEEM translated in to in terms of STEEM Power. I am still going to figure it out, but I am not sure it each .01cent correlates to a set value of STEEM Power, or if the second cent is harder or easier to get, or if the third cent is harder or easier to get. But there should at least be estimates out there for everyone so they can try to guess at how much STEEM Power they can get for how many $s and how many BTCs, and how that translates into cents per Vote.
I'm honestly too drunk to try and solve that math problem right now. I think market fluctuation plays a big part here also. Don't quote me on that, my brain is mush right now.
Hey! The formula is complicated. It depends on these things:
Every single vote you cast will be worth a different amount.
If you mean how much $ your vote gives to the content creator then it seems to vary depending on how popular the post is. When I upvoted unpopular content it can give $0 and upvoting popular can give nearly a dollar, its not clear yet how that works. I believe if you vote early ant the content becomes popular there is then an additional reward for the voter.
Confused; you will be!
It surely does feel great and I am massively proud of myself :)
Let's Steem !!
Exactly how I feel right now. #steemparty
"Steemit has basically bent me over, taken the doubt that I held, and shoved it straight up my tiny brown buttocks." Lmao that's too funny.
Thanks, I try :D
I've only been participating for the last 24 hours, but I gotta tell ya, I'm feeling really excited about the possibilities here. I may very well be saying goodbye to other social media platforms if the direction keeps going the way it feels like it might. The system in place here is ingenious and I hope things keep trending upward!
Welcome to the family and enjoy the ride!
Man, I just wrote my very first post so I feel you! Need to figure out how to insert videos all willy-nilly like ya'll! Actually, I was able to atleast BOLD my sub titles so feeling good about myself...ha!
Feels nice doesn't it! Congrats on your success so far!
I'd rather be a minnow than my current algae state. ;)
I must put myself out there in hopes to be eaten and spit back out.
As far as I've come to understand.
Great post@senseiteekay... I was jumping for join when I noticed being at 1 cent an upvote:) The small things in life that makes us all happy!!!
Thanks for introducing me to this :)
yeah ^_^ nice stories
Thank you :D
your hair is like goku :v
That's exactly what I was going for in that pic haha It was a joke and the original title was "super saiyan god". Good pick up :)
Amazing. I love reading stories like this.
I promise my content quality will always stay this good!
That is a good post. I'm not quite there yet, but I am in the same boat.... errrrr or maybe pond... It feels good. I'm not quite a minnow yet. :)
Where ever you are, we're all making a splash right now ;)
Yeah! So lucky to have discovered Steemit!
Sometimes while laying on my bed I ask to myself in the darkness of my room, "What would I have done if I had not discovered Steemit". A silent tear of happiness rolls down my cheek.
LOL. That was a bit over dramatic. Anyways, Cheers! :)
3 words I have for you my friend
I'm not sure about that user name, but I'll be sure after a few of those!
I should really explain my username, will do one for those introduce myself posts at some point.
simply put "Blue" - favorite color / the song Blue Monday by "Orgy" - the band back in the late 90's - found the music video while searching for... you guessed it (Hey I was a teenager!) and the stuck, becoming my Counter Strike / gaming alias and so much more. ok that wasn't super simple
Thanks so much for the post. Gives hope to the others! :)
Just trying to keep it real!
Waiting for the next post! You are now verified and upvoted! :)
Thanks. My actual verification post may not be today as I'm struggling to sit up straight right now...
Thought it best to give you guys something now. Whales are like Mods :D
haha great post brother, love the verification/photos :P
Haha thanks bro.
This is out of hand.
Nah, this is in hand ;) heueh
Gotta admit, the first time I realized that my upvote made the value of a story immediately tick up was one of the best feelings I've had in a very long time as well!
power to the people
it's nice that you are a minnow because i feel like a plankton right now
But some day i could be a Minnow too or maybe a dolphin who knows.
I guess you're not a Minnow anymore ;) lol GL
in 7 days, made 70$, can't complain because last week I didn't even thought on any "extra" income! :) So yeah.. long live steemit!
@senseiteekay dude, I feel the same way you do! I only started 48 hours ago, but I literally cannot stop researching. This is like owning sunlight, before there was sun! One big question tho; how do you know how to determine what your upvotes are worth?
Nice!
It depends. I know you can use calculators to try determine what your Steem Power does to votes but then it also fluctuates depending on Steem's market value. There's a lot of factors that factor in to this. Someone will probably make a top notch calculator soon enough :)
Funny, in the basement dungeons of college we had a mop bucket called bother sensei and boy did it catch ALOT OF PUKE.
herro sensei-sama-senpei can u prease teach me to be rike you.
hello
how do you increase the value of your vote? does it rise with steam power?
That is exactly how it works.
Yes more steem power = more voting value !
"Share your thoughts and get paid"...
Who is paying for this? Inflation of the steem supply and manipulation of the value on coinmarketcap.com...
Ask yourself something... Does this seem "to good to be true". Is writing a tutorial for anything worth 30 grand? Do you honestly think this post is worth at present $975? Your steem account "valued" at $10,000 is not worth that much out of the steem ecosystem. Just try to cash out and observe the extreme lack of liquidity.