January 10, 2021
Seven months ago, I was only fangirling - binge-watching on my favorite Kdramas and movies. I love listening to music too - in Spotify, YT music, and more free music app. Then one day I stumbled into an FB page with different earning platform sites. I got hooked by different proof of payments posted on that page. That led me to search other pages with free earning platform posts. That was cool, I want to earn a few bucks for free too. I got tired of being a victim of scams so I want some free at that time.
A few days later, I became like them too - feeding fish, merging cats, and watching videos on Clipclaps, reading articles and news on Buzzbreaks, petting dogs on a Doge app, claiming free satoshis on coinpot's affiliated sites, solving captchas on other free crypto earning sites, breeding chickens on Chikhen, doing tasks on KUMU, and many more.
Have you ever did the same too? Positive for sure. Because we are all here for one reason, to earn for free. And I know, most Filipinos here are enthusiasts of free earning opportunities. Those are different platforms, but with the same rule, 'need to reach the minimum amount of money or crypto to withdraw the earnings.' Then I asked myself, 'how long do I need to do the tasks to reach the minimum amount of withdrawal?' One month? One year?
I did reach the minimum withdrawal of other platforms after a month.10,000 satoshis how much was it before? Like $1? The same with other platforms, it will take a month or so to get the minimum withdrawal. Then a moment came when I asked myself again, 'Is it worth it to spend my time and data on these platforms? $1 a month, seriously?' Will I get 1 BTC after a year?
That sucks, I got bored. Then one day, I saw @Annie1812 post about read.cash stating that you can earn Bitcoin Cash through writing articles. It sounds interesting, 'I should give it a try,' I told myself. But honestly, the crypto on my mind was only Bitcoin and I thought I will be earning BTC once I join read.cash. That was funny to remember, I even posted about it in my first article. Then Anne told me that Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash are different.
Days have passed and I became one of the thousand users on this platform. When my first article got viewers and comments, I felt happy, even though my points were just so low. I was only new, so I didn't expect more. But I was curious though on how to get more points, and so I visited some articles hoping that I can earn more subscribers.
Sub to sub? I did that in my first few days. It wasn't forbidden back then, so I was safe. I posted articles, but only have a few readers. How can I increase my subscribers? That was in my thought. Different users were hosting giveaways in exchange for subscriptions. I was one of the participants earning $0.01 in every giveaway. That was fun though, I earned a few cents while gaining more subscribers through interacting with them.
After a month, I've got a sponsor @LeoBanna . I felt so happy that finally, someone noticed my articles. A few days after, more sponsors came. I became motivated to write more articles after being not so active in my first month here.
Those giveaways and contests gave me the idea of how to increase my readers and subscribers. But I decided to make it different. Weekend giveaways to my loyal commenters, that is how I started to gain subscribers. Every end of the week, those who commented every day on my articles got tips from me. It was my other way to share my blessings with others too since I started to earn more points because of them. And now, I have almost 100 recipients on the list.
My articles about increasing points got more readers, then subscribers gradually increased too. From a few points to hundreds to thousands of points, few cents to few dollars even got the highest-payment(at that time) among other users (except for old crypto enthusiasts), and I've got consistent huge points. It inspires me and others as well to become more active here.
I wrote articles about tips on how to gain more points and subscribers, and other stuff about writing and read.cash, even travel and photography blogs, and my readers liked it. I learned more information about crypto and Bitcoin Cash, get new knowledge through reading different articles, and meet new people from different parts of the world.
Thousands of users were on board, and spammers started to come out. The admin seems not to care at first, so I took the part of hunting them down. I was known as 'Spammers Hunter' along with other users who were not afraid to hunt down the spammers - @Eybyoung , @Shitcoincharter , @Jihan and @thesatoshistore even made a petition for spammers.
Due to my participation in hunting the spammers, I got haters - both spammers, and envious users. They took revenge on me, birds of a feather flock together indeed. But I didn't care because I know I was on the right path.
The chaos leads to creation of a new point system, spammers gradually decreased, and the community became at peace (temporarily). But it didn't totally solve the issue. Spammers always appear no matter how the system shooed them away. Upvoting groups exploited the system. They were like a theft robbing the points that were supposed to be for active users. Then another system was implemented. From the old system to the power user point system, here comes @TheRandomRewarder
Many things happened in the past six months. But the only thing I am certain of is, it changed my perspective. From being a fangirl and closed minded person to a crypto enthusiast and a positive minded person. Joining read.cash gives a great change in my life. Who would have thought that a closed-minded person like me in terms of money investing will become an optimistic person in crypto trading? Perhaps, the scams I have encountered were just my pathways to the crypto world, to a bigger opportunity.
I don't care about saving money before, but because of read.cash, I care about earning more and saving more as well as giving tips to others. I just ignored cryptocurrencies before as I thought that it was just a scam, but because of read. cash, I learned that it's not crypto which is a scam but the platforms.
I learned that I don't need to join those earning platforms, I just have to create a wallet, buy, hold, and sell crypto, and I even learned how to future trade. But what matters more here, are the lessons learned, the knowledge and friends gained.
Six months and counting and these 747 subscribers and more than 10,000 views are just numbers. I remember what @Laurenceuuu said on his post on noise.cash, the number of subscribers doesn't matter, but the number of active ones does (not exactly like that). Many old users have abandoned their accounts and created new ones (I can still sense you guys despite of your new names). But some remained and will continue to carry the name they have created until the very last day of read.cash.
In six months of learning and earning, a thousand worth of cryptos was added to my wallet from writing articles on read.cash and publishox, earning free crypto on other legit crypto platforms like coinbase and more, and in spot and future trading.
My journey here will continue to the very last day of this platform and hoping that this will stay longer.
Everything in our life happens for a reason and being on this platform is another one. The past year was full of uncertainties, but read.cash and Bitcoin Cash were the great blessings that I have received.
To new readers here, I guess you now have the idea of what happened in the past six months.
I want to share one of my favorite songs, it was also our graduation song in college. The title is 'At The Beginning' by Richard Marx and Donna Lewis. Just like in the song, 'We are strangers' starting out on a journey, never dreaming what we'd have to go through. And life is a road and I wanna keep goin', love is a river I wanna keep flowin', life is a road now and forever wonderful journey.
It is indeed a wonderful journey to be a part of this BCH community.
Hope you like this. Thanks for reading @Jane 💝💖
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Some of the hyperlinks are my old articles as well. You can read them if you want.
Thanks a lot Jane, you're such an inspiration to us newcomers here on Read.Cash.