My First Daily Steemit Blog : How I found Steemit

Hello my fellow Steemians,

Welcome to my first daily blog about the Steemit platform. I've been here 10 months not and feel I've got enough experience with the system to start writing my daily opinions and experiences. I'm going to start with a little background on how I came to Steemit.

I want to be 100% HONEST in these blogs, it's not always going to be puppies and rainbows but anytime I approach something in a negative manner, I'll try to give solutions I feel might work in order to give substance to my talk. I hope you enjoy the little write up !

Steemit and other blockchain social media based coins are unique systems with multiple ways you can invest. You can invest with money, blogs, media content and creating DApps and infrastructure for the Steemit system. I don't think I know anything else with so many angles of investment. Because of this we all approach and find Steemit in different ways and approach the platforms in various manners.

I've been making music since the age of 18 but in recent years have really started to take it serious. Like many people I'd just post a song on Soundcloud, never promote it and call it a day. Around the age of 35 I started promoting my work and made a You Tube channel. I was surprised with the growth of You Tube and it motivated me to push harder, thinking I could possibly make a living off my content and art.

I'm currently almost 1 million views and 5,000 subs, 100% organic. I never spend money buying votes, subs or comments. That's for losers who can't make content people want to watch. The motivation of my You Tube growth made me want to push harder, find new platforms and new outlets for my content and music. This lead to me reading about Steemit.

You Tube Link : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLIto_eLYSGNO_nZCu93qNg

I was always interested in crypto but knew NOTHING about the topic, it was all alien talk to my ears. I was always so deep into my music and art that I never got the time to look at cypto as a serious investment. Reading about Steemit was the first time my passions and crypto crossed paths. Beyond that Bitcoin was around 18,000k and ALL THE RAGE on the news. This obviously made my interest peak a little bit, having a chance to " dip my toes" in the crypto world 100% off content.

The final nail in the coffin was reading about Dsound and Dtube. Once I saw music and video had niche support on the blockchain I was 100% sold to try the experience and started posting a few You Tube videos in order to " test the water ".

@heimindanger or one of his curation team memebers gave me my first real juicy Steemit upvote and within a month after that @prc found me on Dsound. The amount of support I was getting from Dtube and Dsound trumped anything I was getting on You Tube and that's with almost 1 million views. Dtube and Dsound both do AMAZING work as keeping content creators interested in the Steemit platform.

Steemit should be proud of Dtube and Dsound. They are both systems being built and have issues that need to be resolved but the amount of support and work they've done so far is AMAZING. I know they have some " haters", that's part of life and everyone is welcome to a opinion. I feel without these systems Steemit would lose many good content creators because they would get overlooked.

My first 2 months are PURE honeymoon phase, I love everything about Steemit/Dtube and Dsound at this point. I didn't really realize the limited voting pool, voting bots, whale down vote wars and other issues that are hurting the system.

Even with the growing pains of Steemit I've got a lot of faith we can carve this system into something we want in the future. The great thing about this platform is we have the ability to talk, give opinions and help shape the future of Steemit.

I've made so many amazing friends on this platform in the 10 months I've been on Steemit. I need to thank some people for the friendship over the last 10 months, these are just a few names.

@vachemorte @dvine @waybeyondpadthai @tuckerjtruman @drumoperator @bobaphet @whinny @hopehuggs @moshitunes @noisenerd @juliakponsford @gray00 @clixmoney @greencross @artakush @icondark @alphasteem @d00k13 @techcoderx @drkent

Special thank you to @crimsonclad helping out the very FIRST day. I doubt she even remembers but her advice was important for my success and longevity here on Steemit.

When it comes to support I really need to thank @fulltimegeek @dtube @dsound. I've seen @nathanmars and @thejohalfiles giving UNREAL support to content creators and Steemians, you guys are perfect examples of what this platform should be. Then I really need to thank @Acidyo because his daily wall of text is what motivated me to start doing these post.

I'm going to keep pushing 100% original content into the Steemit system while starting to invest my first form of cash into Steem during this long bear market. I'll be investing next months You Tube payout into Steem !

Thank you to ANYONE who has supported my work since in the past, present or future.

Till next time, stay creative

• Todd