This is a story of what happened with me in the last week. We might need more than one coffee for this post.





Once upon a time , there was me....









...bitcoin enthusiast , crazy cam girl for kicks and giggles and bitcoin of course. Always interested in cryptocurrencies, bitcoin and everything in between.





(sorry for the quality, phone sucks)





It all started a week ago , when i was introduced to Steemit. I liked everything about it, the idea, the posts, the hype, the people..everything. It became the #1 discussion topic in my XOtika.TV channel , to a point where everyone made accounts, shared links, comment, asked questions about how it works...the more we talked about it, the more i liked it. I was even asking everyone entering my channel if they know steemit and what do they think about it. Between all this happening , i was doing my own research about steemit and steem and getting more and more addicted to this social-media platform.





So one day, after many encouragements, i decided to introduce myself over a cup of coffee.





And this happen:









While we where chilling in my channel...it hit $2000. One of my members (aka @demotruk , the one who also introduced me to steemit ) wrote in chat , "Your post has $2000" , then another one said "$1984", and another, "noo it's 1989" all this, while i was saying "guys stop messing with me" (they have a reputation as cheeky monkeys , so messing with me wouldnt be a first) and actually calling the first one an "ass" (still apologizing for that), but they kept insisting, "go and check" "see for yourself"!!





I honestly was afraid to check myself...i was thinking surely they were messing with me. It can be true. So i gathered my courage and refreshed the page. AND OMG THERE IT WAS!! $2000, going up and down and up and down and i was shocked!





This is an actual screen shot of my reaction taken by one of the members present in my channel.





I was delighted, i was in awe, kept asking myself, how did this happen. It was such a rush..i still get goosebumps just writing about it. I didn't know what to do...how do i repay those people who gave their vote and those who comment? How can i give something back to them and to this amazing project?





Until that point , i was mostly reading content and voting here and there, adding a comment sometimes. But i wanted more, i wanted to know more, and learn more. So if until now i was only learning about the platform, from that point forward , i started to research the currency itself(thank God for my previous researches about Bitcoin).





It didn't take me long to learn what i needed to know.





Thanks to https://steem.io/documentation/how-to-mine/ and @joseph https://steemit.com/steemhelp/@joseph/mining-steem-for-dummies i was able to start mining on my other computer. But i wasn't satisfied with the hash rate (it was an i3 old machine) so i decided to investigate further.





So i found @pfunk guide https://steemit.com/steem/@pfunk/guide-maximize-your-mining-hashrate-in-windows-by-mining-steem-in-a-vm and @tuck-fheman https://steemit.com/steem/@tuck-fheman/how-to-mine-steem-in-windows





Carefully reading the comments i found out that the compiled binaries for v0.11.0 were already made and relieved that i don't have to compile everything from the start i said to give it a try.





Keep in mind that this is pretty much my first time trying anything like this.





First run first pain:









Uhm ... decided to delete and copy again witness_node_data_dir from http://steemitup.eu/





And Success!!! there we go mining...









Now the waiting begun....and there it was my first pow. Oh the happiness, i was giggling like a kid on the Xmas morning.





Royaltiffany royaltiffany found a pow 17 hours ago 712fb4cf









After all this, i decided that alongside with bitcoin, i want to promote steem too. And this is how i'm doing it.













To end this chapter of SteemLand adventure, i am going to say a big big "Thank you" , thank you for making me want to discover new territories (mining) in cryptoland and thank you everyone for the warm welcome.









PS:



Small preview for tonight cam session!!













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