This series of posts is gonna be a bit different from my other posts, because you're walking with me as I do this. Literally. Most of this writing is being done around the time I undertake this adventure. You're reading the field notes. You're seeing my visceral reaction to this. It's raw and unfiltered (even more so than my other posts). Enjoy, I'm sure you'll get a kick out of this. Take it with a grain of salt.

Signing Up And Ponying Up

So, after much preparation, like reading the Steem whitepaper and such, I finally decided to take a step into some Hallowed Territory. I have traveled to the Outer Realms of Steemit. In order to get started, looks like I need to make an account. So... let's go over to the "sign up" section:

Are... you... SHITTING ME? I gotta pay MONEY to make an account!? Imagine if you made a Facebook account, and before they'd allow you to have an account you had to pay a fee to them. How many people would end up screwing around with Facebook? I'll tell you how many, somewhere between a Big Fat Goose Egg and DICK. THAT'S HOW MANY. Imagine if having a Publish0x account required you to dick around and give them money first. REALLY.

Here's the thing, look in the Steem whitepaper. Like, THIS PART:

What the HELL Steem? If I wanted to pay fees and stuff, I would have went to the OTHER Steam!

The Valve is How They Dispense Your Money

So, calming down, I busted out my KY Jelly, lubed up and went to town. I get it, it's a vetting process, worse things have happened. I could have done the option where I wait ONE TO TWO weeks for their KYC process and register for free, but I ain't waiting for that. I got a post to write.

Fine. I'll pay the damn fee.

So in order to do this properly, I had to go to the app store and download the Steem Wallet. It seems... alright. It's definitely no Kalium or TronWallet, but it gets the job done. Biggest gripe: their Dark Mode is I-Drank-Too-Much-Pepto-Bismol brown:

Cool. At least its relatively simple to use. Unlike Apollo Currency Wallet. That's an interesting story for another time. And unlike Orange Yoda, I'll tell you the goddamn story.

Pictured: 5 Year Old Unresolved Blue Balls

Anyway, I paid, made my account and now before I make my way to Steemit, I should probably go ahead and buy some Steem. Why? A friend of mine here recommended that I buy a little Steem so I can "power up" and get a little clout to start:

Give My Boy Here a FOLLOW AND TIPS AND READS PLEASE. HE IS THE MAN.

Fortunately I have a bit of Bitcoin laying around, so I went ahead and made a block trades account and traded about oh, 37 bucks worth of BTC to STEEM. That gets me about 180 STEEM. I have NO idea if that will be enough to get me a little head start, but that's what we are gonna find out.

Awesome. Now that I have a little Steem to commit to get the POWAH, I'm ready to enter the Steemit Gates. Here we go.

So, after figuring out how to sign in to Steemit (gotta use posting key for a simple sign in, looks like. That took a minute) , I went ahead and got my settings in order, added a picture and my website (Publish0x, heh heh). Looks good. I'm now ready to start doing some serious work here, see how it goes.

I went ahead and committed all my Steem to Steem Power, so that when I'm ready, I'll be able to put my best foot forward when I release my first blog post here...

And that's the end of Episode 1 of STEEMIT ADVENTURES! My next update will include going over my first post and seeing how it goes over. I'm REALLY looking forward to this! If that's not a cliffhanger, I don't know what is.

Thank you SO SO MUCH for Reading. I don't know you and I love you. If you're a Steemit User, please consider Giving me a Follow There. You'll be the first to know when I write my first post. Don't spoil it (as if it's THAT important. This isn't a Star Wars movie).

Until next time, watch the markets and be so hot that you make Steem look cool.