How did I join Hive?
I have not participated in any of the IUC contests before but after seeing this topic, it was tempting to write on this topic. It was an interesting experience for me. I used to be a content writer writing some articles whenever I got a client. But back then I did not have any writing jobs with me and I was looking for one. About 7 years back it was the very first time I heard about Bitcoin and cryptocurrency altogether. Before I talk about my Hive story, I have to talk about how I got familiarized with Crypto. There was a group in my office with whom we spent almost 1 hour every day discussing cryptocurrencies.
Everyone in that team invested in Bitcoin and a few other altcoins and it was tempting I also made my first investment. I invested 50k INR which was close to 500 $ on Bitcoin when the price was 5k USD. Many people said that we were late to the party and I had no idea what that meant. But we were very fortunate to see the price increase. The price of BTC touched 13k USD back then. I thought I shouldn't get more greedy and I booked my profit at 10k and it was a 100% profit on my investment.
This is the first seed for my journey in the crypto space. After seeing the huge potential here, I was interested to explore this technology and wanted to see if I can use any of my skills in the crypto space. Back then I was not a great developer I did not know where to use my coding experience. I was looking for an avenue to write some articles and earn money through that. As blockchain technology was very hot at that time, I was surfing through Google looking for content writing opportunities in the crypto space. That's when I landed on Hive (Not mentioning the former name).
The first thing that I saw was the trending page and I was surprised to see many people earning a lot from the platform. That's when I got more curious and wanted to explore and understand more about this place. I have to admit that I had no idea what cryptocurrency was all about and I couldn't even believe that we could make money here. I landed on the https://hive.blog/faq.html page and I digested the information on that page for nearly 2 weeks. It took me almost a month to understand everything about this platform.
I created an account earlier but it took me a while to understand the platform and start posting. Later I was able to understand the community's strength and was able to make a lot of friends here. That's when I realized that I can do a lot more here than just writing blogs and earning from the blogs. Of course that happened too but I got inspiration from many people who were present on Hive even before me.
Today I'm a part of almost 20 projects on Hive in one way or the other. I'm very happy about it and I wish to have many more years on Hive.