@acidyo, I read through your blog, found your transition interesting. I am yet to comprehend the blockchain technology and how all these stuffs work, but agree on your point that entry to bitcoin is now almost difficult. either you mine or buy BTC and wait for market to rise. and as you rightly said, steem is the only platform where you can earn without investing a single $, just by authoring contents. I came here with no investment, no blogging experience and my journey since the last one week is quite encouraging.
I am actually stoked by the helpful attitude of the heavy weights here who repeatedly post helpful post on writing etiquette, content creation, to do's and more.
I am going to keep digging more into this and keep learning and also give back to this community as much I can, in every way possible way that I could. Guess I am here for a long haul now. :)

I never had any BTC or ETH. Infact never heard of ETH till last month when I got introduced here.