I like to ask people on Hive how they found the platform and blockchain. And sometimes you can get some really interesting stories from how that happened. With so many ways to find it, such as search engine results (SEO), Youtube content creators talking about it it, or even just finding it as an altcoin on an exchange. So I am quite curious how others here found Hive.
My story started in 2016-2017 when I saw the STEEM/BTC pair on Poloniex. I liked to research the altcoins on those exchanges, and reading about how Steem worked it quickly stuck out as something different than many other altcoins on there. With a sea of ERC-20 Ethereum tokens, bitcoin spin offs, and every other kind out there it can be easy not to notice Steem. But I am glad I did and my journey begun during May of 2017 where I made an account and powered up a thousand or so Steem at the time.
Who would have guessed around three years later, the same exchange I discovered Steem on. Would turn their backs to the community and support Justin Sun in a stake based take over. And because of all of that, I am now on Hive and Steem is just a memory of what once was. Lessons learned, and glad Hive is much more decentralized and less likely to ever have such an event happen again to this blockchain.
So my vote will be for “Crypto exchange listing” as I discovered it while browsing coin listings on exchanges and researching their function.
I heard about steemit from the beginning through antisocialist. Long journey. Only active on and off. Have other accounts but they are dead. Only used for making deposits and transfers for personal business.
That is cool that @antisocialist onboarded you.
@bpcvoter1 is a bot, I just ignore them.
Oh. Lol
@offgridlife did my comment offend you?
dont worry I healed it.
Lol, "healed it."
I wasn't bothered by it. But there is something that does bother me to a degree.
Imagine this.
Applying this system In the real world, each accounts blogging in a market bazaar. Of course no one is charging you to consume what they produce, BUT there is this tip jar or donation bar that sits close by for 7 days where the bazaar marketeer, cannot do anything about it. He can set it on fire(burn), or dedicate it to someone else or a group or for a cause or keep it for him/her self instead of giving it away.
The public, can then add coins to this "jar" which once there cannot be taken away from others but they can take back what they themselves put it. However, they can "take away"(DV) the tips/donations of others, which will be redirected somewhere else that the "cities council"(witnesses) rule it where to go.
That sounds like hive right? Not exactly accurate but close.
Imagine the Gawl for someone to come to your bazaar to prevent you from getting tips, a totally voluntary thing, because of difference of opinion or for "muh own personal reasons", or because "that's just how the system is set up to be able to do", etc. to use that system, just because they can. It's power in everyone's hands to a certain degree because people can have more power than others. And with more power bigger comes responsibility right Spidey?
The thing is, wherever there is an opportunity to have power over others, it will attract these ingrates to abuse it and may even be swift with words to convince others in what they do is "for the betterment of the hive city".
If this is the system were going to use, we need more responsible people with good ethics and morals to be in those positions of power than the oligarchy that is plain and obvious that hive has now.
Another words, power up HIVE if you care about how it's ran.
@dreamtales please look into blurt.blog
That idea already exists
I'm very aware of blurt blog. However that is not what I was referring to. Thank you.
Blurt is awesome…. https://Blurt.blog
No downvotes. No downvote Bots. No downvote trails.
And that blog has turned into a Ponzi scheme.
No. Blurt is not a Ponzi Scheme. It is awesome. An no downvotes or downvote boys and downvote trails
No I am just using the Hive Downvote Bot. Nothing personal
Greetings @solominer ,
Thank you for your kind query.
This is interesting to try to recall...
Let's see ...The Dollar Vigilante had his own podcast back in the day and may still have idk...however in 2016 he joined Steemit. He interviewed Dan Larimer, August 2016...after one of his posts made 15k....Somehow Bleujay heard the story ...joined Steem September 2016. Many newcomers came as a result of that interview. ^__^
Those were very heady days indeed....the idea of decentralized social site, freedom, anonymity...etc....It was great fun....living on the edge.
Hive the fork of Steem is the better choice for Bleujay...so here we are today.
Kind Regards,
Bleujay
NB Would this be 'other'...not really sure which is a good fit.
I used to listen to the The Dollar Vigilante in the early 2010s but lost track of him in the last 5 years or so.
Is this the video you are speaking of?
Wow that is quite the experience, you have seen a lot here I am sure. Glad you joined us after the Hive-Steem fork :-)
I would say "Youtube influencer" would be how you found Hive on the poll.
Thank you @solominer for your kind reply.
What a great video...thank you so much...I am only five minutes into it....very similiar to what introduced Bleujay....those heady words of freedom, liberty and property and his journey....really define him as the genius he is.
Kind Regards, Bleujay
!BBH
@solominer! @bleujay likes your content! so I just sent 1 BBH to your account on behalf of @bleujay. (1/1)
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Word of mouth for me. My cousin was trying really hard to get me to see the value in crypto which I had mostly written off at that point, and as he knew I was a big nerd and liked writing he sold me on Steem. It's been a lot of learning and fun since then.
Ah very nice, glad you found this place. And it changed your mind about crypto.
Hive is the only altcoin I really believe in these days.
Same. I dabbled in a few others but it's only Hive that I've really enjoyed and that keeps me around.
I needed money because in my socialist country they destroyed the economy and the currency was worthless, it was better to stay and write in Hive and in the early days of steem.
But how did you discover Hive/Steem?
I think it was because of an article on a crypto news page
Ah okay, nice.
Jeff Berwick mentioned it on anarchast.
Ah okay, that is good he helped onboard some people.
A lot of people, many are still here.
He just got sideways with some of 'the whales'.
I used to listen to him in the early 2010s quite a bit. Him and Max Keiser.
But after listening him do a few of his walking videos in the late 2010s where he would walk around where he lived, something just urked me and I was not liking him anymore. Cannot put my finger on it exactly.
Yeah that was quite a mess, and could have been communicated much better.
He's brought a lot of people to crypto.
He kinda got in some wrecks, but he's doing better now.
He's got a tesla machine.
I was introduced to St--mit by a fellow user of Tsu after that platform shut down. I wasn't really a crypto guy then, but I liked the concept and was fed up with social platforms being shut down (Google!!).
I keep hearing about TSU, need to look into what that was.
Yeah man I am right there with you, I closed my facebook account over 10 years ago and left all centralized social media.. Now I am only on Hive and use Youtube to host videos.
Tsu paid users from the ad revenue with a referral system. It worked fairly well, but the investors pulled out. A blockchain is harder to kill.
I still use FB as some friends won't use anything else.
I only found #HIVE because of #SoMee - wish I would have found it much sooner!!!
What is SoMee?
It was originally supposed to take over Facebook…… was….
Interesting.. yeah there is a lot of cross over between other blogging websites.
I found Hive by a friend/co-worker.😊😊 I was invited to join since you can earn while blogging and I also like to read stories. Now, I'm more focused on gaining more HP to have higher upvote.😁😁 Thank you for the support of my goal too.😊
Ah nice, I think many people have learned about Hive through "word of mouth" as we call it.
Nice, good luck staking here... Sounds like a good plan.
I think it's true.😊😊
Thank you. I hope I can achieve it.😊
My story is a bit curious...I met first PIZZA community and then hive lol.
Oh cool I know of that Discord group Hive Pizza I think.
Hehe quite the unique experience as you stated
yeah it was weird... they added PIZZA token at tipcc discord bot and through an add in the tipcc server I joined and started talking there about general crypto , then I met hive ;)
I love all those cool discord robots
That’s so cool!
It seems that Communities will have a good chance to onboard people. It makes Hive more relatable.
Let’s see if dont know many people who went through this way hehhe
I believe the Skate Hive community is doing a good job onboarding skaters join the platform and also getting merchants to participate in the Spend HBD initiative. I imagine that if many communities follow this direct onboarding style, then I think it will have a good turnover.
@curamax
That is good to hear the Skate Hive community is helping to on board people.
for me it was splinterlands
Nice.. thanks for mentioning it. I will tally up how many people said splinterlands and add it to the post after the poll closes.
Mine was a long time ago too. In 2017.
I wanted to find opportunities for writers and have a community of writers too, so I joined some Literature group back in the University. Not long after that a guy came to the group to tell us about how an opportunity to make rewards blogging.
It was Steemit. I joined and the rest, they say, is not history 🌚.
That is cool you found it through your local university. Nice...
I found HIVE through Splinterlands so I marked Other in your poll.
Ah very nice, I will try to do an update poll in the future and include Splinterlands as an option.
The number of the silver stacking community in YouTube invited me, Unfortunately, they all migrated to Instagram. That's how I started, and the rest is just ... plugging along!
Oh interesting, that is really cool you found Hive through a YouTube content creator.
Glad you have found a good home here.
A bandmate/colleague told me about Steem. I was really into it. He wasn’t. I never found him on the platform and he never helped me look, never remembered his name and I just started assuming he didn’t want me to know. 🤷♂️ I stopped asking, and the subject never ever came up again. 🥸
I tried to vote, friend, but I don’t have the right credentials.
That is a cool story, funny how you learn something through a friend but they lose interest. But you still keep the hobby, that is cool.
Ah you need to log into peakd. Not sure what front end you use.
Hey neighbor, did you like dPoll? I thought it was cool. I only stopped using it because I close the tab in my web browser. 😬
Yeah, sometimes friends/coworkers have a powerful “outside looking in” perspective I guess.
Ecency is my go to front end. After all this time it seems like the most consistently convenient for me on my portable device.
Lol that story is interesting indeed !! Crazy
I found hive by search engine..
Oh nice, Hive has really good SEO. So I can see how that could happen..
Even to this day when I look things up sometimes an old Steemit post comes up or a newer Hive post.. lol
I was looking for a free to earn blockchain. Luckily I found a hive.
Oh wow.. so you started with nothing here, posted for awhile and then bought more Hive? I see you stake more than you have earned.
Yes you are right I started from zero here. I have spent a lot of time understanding hive and earning it. Right now I see a bright future in Hive and I buy whenever I see a dip in Hive's price. Which I converted to hive power. @solominer
Yes you are right I started from zero here. I have spent a lot of time understanding hive and earning it. Right now I see a bright future in Hive and I buy whenever I see a dip in Hive's price. Which I converted to hive power. @solominer
I was teaching a class on blockchain and I wanted to find a social media platform based on blockchain. I found Steemit, but then I found out about a conflict that destroyed it, and that's when I discovered Hive, which emerged as its replacement. I've been using Hive on and off ever since.
That is great you found Steem and still moved to Hive later.
a friend tell me about blogging, then i join mostly because of steenmonsters, then eventually cames the hf, and then hive. And here i am, a lot of years later.
Oh nice, good a friend got you involved.
Hah a lot of peole got started on Hive because of Splinterlands.. so cool.
I'm not sure about, It was also long time ago on 2017 but I guess was because my research
Ah okay, I should have included research in my poll. Figured it was kind of general though, as it could be through Youtube, or search results.
Glad you found it though :-)
we are veterans here! 😂
yeah man 2017 is way back in the day.
Let me make it's clear. I found Hive because of my friend but before hive was created, I and my friend joined to Steem. I gave up someday but my friend going through it, then she pushed me to rejoin blockchain with Hive.
Ah very cool, friends can really help out and keep you going. I try to encourage people I have on boarded to keep going.
Alright. Just because we had same background in literature, she pushed me to keep writing a content on Blockchain. Now I just encourage my friend from the same community: Literature, because for me Hive is not for anyone who just want to new experience without a skill of writing. :D
Good afternoon dear friend @solominer
I appreciate you sharing your experience in getting to STEEM-HIVE
I joined our company many years ago, eight years ago in August, and it was thanks to a person from YouTube, who invited me to join us, as in your case I started in Steem. And from there it has been an incredible journey. I am very happy to have arrived here. Hive is my life
Have a beautiful afternoon
Hey there, good afternoon.
Ah glad, I do not think I have ever publicly talked about how I discovered Hive/Steem. So figured a poll would be the perfect way to tell my story and learn about others origin stories on the blockchain.
Oh interesting you found it through a Youtube content creator, that is great.
Me too, an amazing journey here.. And much to look forward to in the future.
friends on steam ... the friends I've got to know through TSU a different platformthat payed people for posting their content .
a lot of the #tsufamily is stil active on hive : @melinda010100 @papilioncharity @ewkaw @brumest @digitalis @Dswigle andthere a lot more still here
Oh cool, what does TSU stand for? I have heard a few mention that but this is the first time I have heard of it.
it was the name TSU ,not a shortage for something ,
https://www.linkedin.com/company/tsu/about/
and
https://scottsery.com/uncategorized/tsu-co-closes/
shows some old info , and why it didn't work in the end .
I came to play Splinterlands which I found from a google search result. Then when I had some issues on the splinterlands website, I went to ask about it. Later someone told me about the blogging side of the blockchain (on Discord) and I loved it.
This happened almost three years ago in Nov, 2021. I knew no one from here before that. (A lot of others join in like me around the same time as the gains were really good that time)
I should have included Splinterlands in the poll options. That is really cool you found it through a Dapp.
Heard a few people have learned about Hive through Splinterlands.
Actually I can´t remember. Maybe through one of Jerry Banfield´s Steem-videos?
Hah I remember that guy. He did a lot to bring awareness to Steem. Though once he started making DJ dancing videos with his baby it got a bit weird.
https://peakd.com/life/@jerrybanfield/why-does-jerry-banfield-film-videos-with-no-shirt-and-a-baby
My husband told me about Steem when he saw it in an online article. I jumped right in. Still here.
Oh that is great that your significant other got you involved on the platform.
He never created an account himself though...
I found it by chance! It was 2018, I was starting to dip my toes in crypto, and read an article that was talking about how in the future social networks could actually reward users with crypto instead of likes. And soon after, googling, found out they already existed! Created account, and still here after six rewarding years!
Very nice, finding it through doing research is a great success story.
I found hive through my wife's cousin @robrigo. He used to have a pretty big account here but was powering down when I started up. I can't help but wonder how different my journey might have been if he had stuck around.
Nice, good to find out about it through other people.
I know what you mean, having big friends here is nice. My friend I know in real life @whangster79 had quite a bit of stake for a bit. But had to power down as well.
His company was running a witness for a while. They had a faucet and I was able to create an account and start with 15 or 25 powered up tokens at the time. It was really nice. It's sad when people have to leave like that for whatever reason. I wouldn't have wanted him to give me votes out of obligation, but if he could have... it would have been nuts!
I had a virtual friend from another blogging site and taught me about this.
Cool.. good to hear you found it on another blogging site.
I learned about it through a friend, but it took me some time to get the hang of it.
At times, I was inactive. However, especially at the beginning of this year, I finally set a goal and have stayed active since then.
This chain has good potential... I think we only need to keep making it known to people so that they will realize it.
Ah nice.. and I have taken breaks too. Recently I took a one month break from posting. But before that I was posting daily or weekly for years.
It sure does.. hopefully more will notice this gem.
Ecency vote♥️
thanks
Splinterlands.
Nice.. okay
Splinterlands
YouTube
Clove71
Oh cool.. yeah clove is a big splinterlands player
I heard about steemit first and then Hive
Great, but where did you hear about it?
Was an email about steemit
After being on Steemit for a while and taking a temporary break, I joined the Hive community. I have never really had a focus on the crypto market. I use Hive to introduce artists at the weekly jazz-matinee who haven't actually made it to the top yet. In between, there are short passages from stories (written by me). These will later find their place between two book covers. This is the way I try to get an initial response.
How did you discover Steemit?
If my memory serves me correctly, my involvement with Steemit was the result of an initiative by my wife, who, while exploring the web, became convinced that the platform might suit my interests. I would never have thought of it myself, as I prefer to be concerned with the world of nature and how many letters can make up interesting sentences.
I think I Googled "Ways to make money Online" xD
And Steemit + other sites came up :D
Oh nice.. that SEO is great.
Ye! Exactly :D
A handfull of musicians in web3 (primarily a project called Musicoin) were posting on here pre-fork. This was 2019. I came because they linked their blog posts on Twitter, Discord and such. I Followed the bread crumbs because I wanted to find out how artists were earning cryptocurrency with their art... and well, I never left :)
Oh cool.. That is awesome you found out by another web3 project. I also know of another altcoin community called Gridcoin that has some presence here.
That is nice you have stuck around here.
My brother @rentmoney Told me about it! First he was telling me about a thing called Steem Monsters and how you could get packs of cards by supporting their kickstarter. I threw in some money, got some cards, and then did nothing with it.
The entire time my brother was trying to convince me to start posting in Hive Gaming ( He told me what happened Steem) to make a few extra bucks. One day I was bored, just beat Guardians of the Galaxy game and wanted to talk about it so I made a review.
Being my first post it wasnt that great but the community was amazing with people offering me tips on formatting, the use of photos, etc! And I fell right in love with the atmosphere!
Because of Hive I finally bit the bullet and decided to build my own PC, which was partly funded from the earnings I made on here!
That is great your brother introduced you, and learned about it from a Dapp such as Splinterlands.
Haha yeah I know about Hive Gaming, posted a few times there myself.
That is great you were able to fund some of your computer costs by blogging here. I have also bought a few nice things such as a better camera for blogging using my earnings.
It was mentioned in a forum. I was curious, so I came.
oh very cool..
I remember that I started hearing a lot about cryptocurrencies and play to earn games, so I did some research on the internet and found something talking about Splinterlands, then I started playing for a while, I think after about 2 months I understood what hive was and that posts existed and that's when our love story began kkkk 😂
Nice, I found Hive learning about other cryptos.. really glad I did research and discovered it like you.
That is cool that Splinterlands was your entry to Hive.
My only regret was not having researched cryptos and p2e games earlier, if I'm not mistaken, I had already heard about cryptos 1 or 2 years before, but I was still blind, stuck in the matrix of thinking that all this was a scam or wrong things, then when I researched calmly I discovered this wonder called hive. Splinterlands may have many problems, but it certainly is/was the gateway for many people into the crypto world.
From an email newsletter I was subscribed to. 😀
Oh nice, glad you found it.
I was looking for a place to showcase my art and from what I remember some youtuber who I follow mentioned
SteemitHive.Oh very cool, glad you found Hive and communities like Sketchbook and Alien Art Hive.
I came from STEEM thing but only really used it when i made a new account on hive
Oh cool how did you find Steem?
Also I have been looking into that mycorrhizae fungus you were telling me about, and bought a jar of "Great white" gonna try it on some fruit trees and will try it on the pines when I plant them.. thanks so much for mentioning it.. its been quite the reading experience
Glad you liked that stuff, it is something simple and on the long run can produce great results and even extra income on the all land.
A friend of mine showed me steem and when Steem and Hive split I went with Hive.
Nice a friend introduced you, and decided to come over to Hive after the split.
I actually found this platform through a WhatsApp group in my country.
Oh cool. I should have added WhatsApp to the poll list.
Hey @solominer, I was introduced to Steem way back in 2017. My friend had been trying to get me on there for a while claiming as I'm good with blogging 'you will do well on Steemit'. If only I had listened to him sooner. I joined Steemit in March 2017 and I took to it like a duck to water.
I would blog about all sorts of things and learned tons of stuff from people all around the world. To me Steemit was a gigantic encyclopedia. Regrettably I wasn't on there long due to other things going on in my life.
Fast forward seven years and I see that Steemit has morphed into Hive, albeit hardforked away from Steemit and I have returned. But my word things have changed. I have just started again and I have already bought and powered up 800 Hive. I hope to make some connections, build relationships and hopefully this time I will stay and build something on this amazing platform.
Hey there @peaceandmoney
Hah I tell people that "You will do good on Hive" lol I know what you mean.
Amazing you have seen everything from Steem to now Hive and are back to posting. I see you in discords and see you networking, best of luck here.
Ha ha! Yes, it's both great and strange to be back blogging in this awesome community again. I'm really enjoying it this time round and getting to know some very interesting characters. I am indeed now hanging around a few Discord servers which I think is the perfect compliment to Hive. I hope that I bump into you again at some stage for a chat.
I have just seen that you've been busy visiting a few of my posts, that's really very kind of you. Thank you for your support, it is much appreciated.
Around the end of 2021 my friend told me about hive, it just so happened that my friend only met me after he explored almost half a year earlier than me, of course I was very interested in the world of hive where I could participate in my talent in the world of hive, because I was one of my hobby photography.
That is great, glad to hear a friend introduced you to Hive.