I am on medium. I have only published here in the last 11 months, but I used to be active there.
https://medium.com/@rubenalexander
I think the highest grossing posts was from the @dollarvigilante. I will leave a link here and if someone can find a higher payout post just comment with a link.
$15.9k : https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@dollarvigilante/the-dollar-vigilante-is-now-on-steemit
And he made another $9k writing about making $15k https://steemit.com/steemit/@dollarvigilante/how-i-made-usd15-000-in-12-hours-on-the-new-blockchain-based-social-media-site-steemit
no a programmer made $30k in early days. i cannot remember who it was though
https://steemit.com/beauty/@guerrint/the-first-steemit-makeup-turtorial-bringing-youtubers-to-steemit
I will look for it.
it's @xeroc, he made $47k