Back in 2016, I got to know about Bitcoin through a Ponzi scheme during that time, popularly known as MMM.
The scheme was founded by Sergei Panteleevich Mavrodi who was a Russian financial fraudster. Back in those days everyone took the Ponzi scheme as a business and an escape plan from poverty and frustration, but we have all forgotten that there is no shortcut to success, you have to work for it.
Bitcoin was one of the means of payment or donation on MMM, that was how I got to know about BTC. Though I have been on the internet as an internet market in couple of businesses like domain flipping, drop shipping among others, but the news about Bitcoin from Inception was far from me.
Back to the Ponzi Scheme l, MMM where I was later scammed over $1000, many was scammed of their hard earned money, though we were warned by the central Bank then but never listened to them, untill we became victims.
All my savings dissapear in just one night, so also is my wild west dream. I began to struggle financially, in 2016 which was my last year in the University.
I was depressed, but I never gave up. So I began to search, crawl the internet for opportunities, the curiousity led me to buying of courses online from Anik Singal and others, nothing came out of it.
One good day after I had returned back from work, then I was done with my undergraduate studies in Human Kinetics and was serving my nation, I started crawling the internet for ways, then I came across Steemit on a discussion forum. I quickly opt-in, then I began to study what Blockchain is. I thought I was in to just make money, but it turn out to be a community where I began to learn, socialize and organised. It was worth the experience. I introduced the community to over 30 people who happened to be my friends, family. Some where to lazy to create content, while some still don't about the prospect of decentralised social community. I was very active on discord where I met few friends, then on discord we organized a health channel with various health professionals which I happened to be one of them before everything went south on Steemit. I left the community for over a year, because I was to busy at work where I worked from Mondays to Saturdays as an Estate Facility Manager... I couldn't not catch-up with what was going on the Steemit, and U have also shifted to investing in coins and doing soft crypto trading on Vibrance and other platforms.
Late October, 2020 after recovering from health challenges that wanted to turned me into vegetable.. I finally discovered Hive Blockchain forked from Steem Blockchain, I was so happy to see the amount of Steem power I hold appear as the same quantity of Hive power on my hive account. I was so glad, my hope and energy was reborn again, I began to explore then I discovered that Hive Blockchain has more to offer than the other platform. I am so happy I discovered Hive Blockchain.
In conclusion
Never give up in whatever you are doing, you may fall along the road, be courageous , stand and move on, failure is just a pointer that there is success in that path. You become a failure when you refuse to stand after you have fallen. Never give up your dream.
Thanks for reading..
Quite a journey you have had. Also had similar experience. This things just have a way of making more wiser at the end. Believe Hive would help greatly in getting back from those times. As long as we don't give up, it will be better at the end.
Self motivation is very important in the journey of life. Thanks @josephmark
Exactly. We are to pick up ourselves up no matter how hard we hit has no one will do that for us. My pleasure man
Wow that is a great journey so far despite the fact that you face some challenges on your way although as you have said there's no shortcut to success.
So concerning the mmm the case was very bad because a lot of people invest their money in it and at the end of everything they lost it so it's not only you that fall into that victim a lot of people fall to it also.
I believe that is what makes some people to hold back to join this block chain because they believe that investing on internet it is a risk so they don't want to take any risk of there money.
but I believe since you have joined this community or this platform you will able to say that there won't be any regression for you now and in the future.
and as you have said it is good that we should never give up in everything that we do we should try our possible best to give some things some tryer, because if you have not give it a tryer it possible you might not go far up to this level.
the way to success it has never been smooth is full of challenges and problem and if you cannot face it is know how you will make it to the success land.