Hello, My name is Dustin Hutson. I am incredibly new to Steemit and all things crypto currency. I learned about the potential of Steemit platform, Steem and other Crypto's on youtube while searching for word press web building tutorials and marketing strategies. Randomly, a Bitcoin video caught my attention and i learned of alt Coins and eventually Jerry Banfield introduced me to Steemit. i heard more chatter and eventually signed up. After an agonizing 3 week wait, I finally got the e-mail granting me access.
Now that you know how i got here i will tell you a little bit about myself. I live in a mountain valley town in Montana USA.
I am 25 years old at the time of this post and am married to my wife Shelbey. We have a 3 year old son named Landon. I work for a painting contractor and am also a spray technician in a wood pre-finish shop.
I am an avid outdoorsman and I spend much of my spare time outdoors in the mountains or fishing in a river or lake. I spend a lot of time taking kids fishing and am active in local fishing forums and facebook pages in an effort to be a helpful community member and help inform the public on ethical and safe use and preservation of our natural resources. My wife and I Hunt every year as an alternative to store bought beef.
Now a little bit about why I'm interested in steemit and blockchain.
I'm very supportive of decentralized blockchain technology, cryptocurrency's and steemit for many reasons. The first being the transparency which is why I'm being very transparent in my first post. I hope to be as genuine as possible in order to build healthy and trustworthy relationships with other users. I was embarking on the journey of blogging and SEO as a way to start building a following. I may still work on that project but I'm interested in the ability to gain exceptional organic search traffic on steemit. Steem as a Crypto currency is very interesting as well. i WILL be powering up some steem very soon.
I have basically no following on any social media short of friends and family. I'm still exploring what paths to pursue. Day trading and mid/long term investing in crypto's are a seriouse interest of mine. I'm hoping to learn more about crypto's and ICO investing while on steemit.
The world seems to be changing faster then we can we can keep up with but I'm doing my best not to get left behind. The idea of getting rewarded for contributing my time and good content to the community is a motivating factor but NOT my main focus on steemit. The overall growth and expansion of steemit and the technologies it uses is my main goal in order to make the world a better place. I do own a domain and am in the process of building a blog and educational website called AnglersEd.com
I am interested in writing articles about outdoor recreation and conservation and also just educational content in general pertaining to the things I'm most interested in. That being said i want to be as helpful to the steemit community as possible.
I will challenge myself to convert some friends and family into steemit users with some introductive posts to steemit and cryptocurrency. people seem to be very uninterested in learning about crypto's even if it can make them money. I'm in this to educate as many people as i can. I believe in this technology and community and want to share it with people i care about and others who want to learn.
Please comment below and share your idea of what helpful content is. I guess what I'm asking is for example: are there enough fisherman/hunters/prospectors/outdoorsmen in the steemit community to post content on the topics? if not, will posting on those types of topics and inviting people to read them potentially help expand steemit into a more diversified platform?
Thank you so very much for spending your valuable time to read my story and my steemit introduction post. All comments, thoughts and constructive criticism is greatly appreciated and highly valued. I will follow anyone who is kind enough to follow me!
Thanks and steem on!
Good to be here on steemit platform
Hi, dustin-hutson! Wish you a very successful journey here in this loving and caring community :) Have Fun
Thank you for your comment!
I'm following you and hoping to see fish photos! Welcome to Steemit!
Thank you so much! fish photo's i have plenty of. i will do my very best to be an active poster.
Dustin, you have a great family and fishing is awesome.
Thank you for reading my intro post! I'm excited to be part of the steem community.
HEY so this is super weird but I just went into Steem Chat to drop a link to a post I just did, and yours was right there so I decided to check it out and offer you some support! Lo and behold, judging by that bridge, you might even be in the same town as me? That would make like 3 of us, if so! :) I will be more than happy to help you learn how to use Steemit! I have been here since December and there aren't many Montanans here...but we seem to find each other!
I would strongly suggest before you try bringing all your friends and family that you settle in for a few weeks and get the lay of the land. Its a bit of a learning curve, and also I found out the hard way that most people think this stuff is pretty crazy! :) I thought all my friends would jump right on board, but so far I have gotten two, and one isnt active! Your energy may be better spent growing your account for now.
Watch out for sophisticated spam and hacker bots posting comments on your posts! I think these ones here look okay but never click on any links in a comment that may be from a bot... I have noticed that theres a whole lot more comment spam these days for new people, than when I joined. Anyway, feel free to ask me questions, and see you around!!
I am almost positive the Welcome bot is totally legit and safe up there. You can always check out the account and see if it looks real before you explore links , too.
Thanks for suggestions! great to see another Montanan in the mix. the bridge picture was taken near willow creek about 10 miles from three forks. it seems crazy to me that people would not be interested in something like this. can hardly talk to people about crypto without them looking at me like an alien. will the world come to its senses or are we just crazy? anyway thanks for the advice and the upvote. ill follow you as i think us Montanans may need to stick together.
Ah! I was so wrong! I am in Missoula, but I just met a Steemian in Bozeman yesterday and there are a few more over there. I will dig up their usernames when I am less sleepy! There is also someone I talked into joining in Helena but he hasn't been active yet I don't think? Anyway I will be sure to connect you! And don't worry Steemit is a friendly place just stay away from the whale wars :)
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Welcome Dustin! Happy to follow your journey on this community platform!
Hello! its great to be here. thank you for your comment and follow
Hey Dustin! Another Montana guy here, up in Great Falls. Welcome to Steemit! I follow you. I can point out some other Montanans if you would like, know if at least 5 others.
that would be fantastic! I have actually built a Montana steemit users Facebook group to help us all connect. if you are interested i can shoot you the link in chat. i will follow you a well
my son is on here @jakeybrown, he lives in Missoula. There is a couple from Lolo, @lordvdr and @jametheil and then @pretty.dorky is in Bozeman. You met @dflo and she has a friend, also in Missoula @veckinon
not sure which chat you are referring to, there are so many different associated sites for Steemit.
I have a Montana Steemit page too hahahahah but I have not maintained it because i didnt know anyone but Veckinon! :)
This is the page. if anyone is interested in joining
https://www.facebook.com/groups/202673140347874/?ref=bookmarks
Hello @dustin-hutson, that is really fantastic intro!!!. im really very impressed. Please check my blog in which i put your photo as well. if you like it then please donot forgot to upvote and follow me too ;)
wish u all the best
https://steemit.com/newsteemers/@sultanmr/best-new-steemers-introductory-posts---page-4-1526167443-2337003
Thank you for your feedback. I have never written an article before coming to steemit. I'm not tech savvy and until now have only occasionally used computers. I hope to improve greatly while on steemit.
Welcome. Good to see another face from Montana around here. I feel like steemit could definitely use more fishing, hunting, and outdoors content. Most of the current outdoors content is related to travel from what I can tell. I look forward to seeing what you share.
Its great to know that, that content will be welcomed in the community. I will likely write more about crypto's and ICO's. I will start writing what comes natural and hope it is what people like. Thank you for your support!
Welcome to Steemit @dustin-hutson
Thank you!
Welcome to Steemit!
Thanks! Im glad to be here. Im really glad to see a few people frpm montana as well. Not very many though
Hi and welcome home. Just read your post and replies. You recieved a lot of good info there. Being new myself, I can only add, be patient and don't stop believing. We all are very early in this thing. I like to think frontiers men. I live in Cleveland so we dont have much in common. But I do like your openness and ideals. As for as a large followimg of outdoors men, who knows. But when there is, and I’m confident one day there will be, you will be the veteran here on Steemit. Good luck and wishing you all the best.
Thank you for your optiimism! And welcome to steemit. I sort of knew it was a gamble when i started. I hope as well that more outdoorsman come to steemit.
welcome