I came here on the advice of my "Crypto-Mentor" STAN (not Larimer) who said I should be on Steemit as opposed to just blogging and on bbs BS. It was a great move! 😁 Here are some of the "accomplishments" I have had in this time, in somewhat chronological order...

1. Joined up on May 11, 2017 and posted sparsely at first.
2. Quickly saw that I need more SP and moved about 1 BTC into Steem Power over that summer, average buy in of 90¢ or so.
3. Started noticing that I was getting consistent votes, but few comments??? 🤔 🤨
4. Learned about auto-voting and started trying to bolster my feedback.
5. Learned of Discord in there somewhere LOL 🤣 Also met the Fabulous @BATTLEAXE in my travels... 😉
6. Met the IMPRESSIVE 1kSP Program of @taskmaster4450 through the fantastic @overkillcoin who was doing the program with his own protégé. I obtained permission to join as a mentor and ALMOST DID NOT select @spiritualmax as my first "victim" 😅 The rest is History...
7. Hovering around 3500 SP and feeling rather "dolphin-Y" I made it a goal to become an actual Dolphin by 2018, and started scheming and planning. Steem was not very well coupled to BTC at that time so I bought BTC in order to catch the gains that it promised. Good Move! I was on Coinbase the morning that BTC hit 20k and tried to sell at 20k, but coinbase was DOWN!!! I took some screenshots and went to work, hoping it kept running UP. To no avail, it crashed. I did at least catch a bounce and sold all my BTC at 17k and bought STEEM!!! That put me into the 4900 SP range and I busted my A$$ to make 5000 by 1-1-18 and it happened exactly on that date!

DOLPHIN IN 235 DAYS 🤩 🐬

1. I took to calling this the "BRUTE FORCE METHOD" which was WAY More Popular when Steem was CHEAP ;)

PART 2 Coming this evening, I must now go to work and get laid off today!