HAPPY FIVE YEARS ANNIVERSARY TO ALL HIVERS 🎉
It's a pleasure for me to be part of this wonderful platform. I'm just 10 months old on hive and the to be honest, the part ten months of my life, has been filled with wonderful experiences so far, thanks to hive Blockchain.
I joined hive May 10th 2024, i got to know about hive through my friend @beauty197. She introduced me to the hive Blockchain, she taught me how to navigate my way around The Blockchain, also get to create quality contents. I could vividly remember when we were having a conversation about hive, in her words she said.
To be able to make it in hive, you have to be consistent, engage with other people, make sure to make quality contents, most importantly don't ever publish AI generated content, no form of plagiarism is allowed. For you create a quality content, it has to be more than 700 meaningful words.
These words are still fresh in my memory till date, her instructions has made me make alot of progress on hive. Although, when i recently joined hive, it was a bit difficult for me to keep up. I have a 9-5 job that always take my time, i barely have time to create any content or engage with other people's contents. As at that time, i wasn't making any progress at all, i could stay for a week without logging in, which wasn't a good one for a newbie.
First progress
I knew i had to step up and create time for hive, i decided to add creating contents on to my schedule, then i set hive goals for myself. My goal on hive, was to earn a BUZZY BEE BADGE. I worked towards it, i waa so determined not to allow anything come in-between me and my goal. Thankfully, after seven days of consistently creating and publishing articles, i got my first buzzy bee badge. I was so happy when @hivebuzz notified me.
Congratulations, you just earned the buzzy bee badge, you have been a buzzy Bee and published everyday of the week.
screenshot from ecency
The excitement that came with the notification, it felt like i just won a trophy, my joy knew no bounds. I know ot sounds weird, rejoicing over a buzzy bee badge, this is just me expressing how i felt.
I didn't know stop there, i wanted to push further. I decided to create more threads on inleo, i set another goal but this time it was a different goal entirely. I wanted to make myself visible, so i decided to subscribe to inleo premium. Inleo premium helped me build my visibility on hive. I was creating threads constantly, with inleo premium, it's possible to organise threadcast and get your profile visible at the top of the inleo threads page.
These goals were helping me make progress on hive. I kept setting goals on hive and i kept working towards my goals. I made sure to publish every single day despite my busy schedule.
SPEND HBD PROJECT
Back in November 2024, i got to know about the spend HBD project through @fokusnow, when he made a post about spendHBD. I'm a very inquisitive person, i always want to know more. I made more research about spendHBD, i also reached out to @fokusnow for more information, which he actually explained to me in details of how #distriator works.
After a successful workshop and onboarding of newbies
A picture i took when i attended a workshop
It was an interesting one because in my country (Nigeria) crypto is not common to everyone, some people even thinks crypto is a scam, i guess that's for the ignorant people. When the spendHBD project was introduced in Nigeria, i knew it would make a huge change and also change the mindset of some people who thinks negatively of crypto.
Introducing spendHBD had a good impact, but introducing it to Nigeria was a game changer for everyone, both for hive users and non hive users. The project has created a huge impact in people's financial lives, including mine.
i made a friend at a spendHBD workshop
The spendHBD project has to be the best project, i have ever benefitted from since i joined hive. I didn't just keep the goods distriator was offering to myself, i told my friends and family members about it. Everyone loves cashback, so most of my friends were excited to sign up, start shopping and earning cashback.
It didn't just end there, workshops were being organised by my friend @beauty197, she's a trusted local guide in my area. She'd always organise workshops from time to time. Whenever there's a workshop, everyone is always excited to attend because in every workshop, there's always a newbie waiting to get signed up, it's always exciting for other hivers to welcome newbies.
So far, i have attended over 10 successful workshops, i have also spent HBD in more than 5 listed stores. I've made new friends from the spendHBD workshops. I have met other hivers through the workshops. So far, i have on boarded five of my friends on hive, through the spendHBD project. It's funny how, I have told these same friends of mine about hive in the past, but the seemed uninterested, so i just backed out and rather not talk about it.
Everyone smiling after shopping with HBD and claiming our cashback from distriator
Fast forward to when the spendHBD project was launched, i decided to give them another chance. I told them how I've been purchasing my groceries with HBD and I've been getting sweet cashback, when they heard cashback, they were all interested. I wasn't really surprised at their excitement because i knew, they wouldn't want to miss out of the goods, besides everyone loves cashback .
On the other hand, i was very happy they agreed to sign because there's also goods for refering. After each of them made their first purchase with HBD, distriator gift me with HBD as a referral bonus. With distriator, everyone could benefit from shopping, refering friends & family and also earn as a trusted local guide.
To be honest, spendHBD has made huge positive impact in the lives of so many Nigerians, it made it easy for everyone to believe in crypto. This is to be the best project on hive.
I want to use this medium to say a very big thank you to @thedistriator and @theycallmedan for making this project a beautiful one for everyone to benefit from.
Once again
HAPPY FIVE YEARS ANNIVERSARY TO ALL HIVERS ACROSS THE GLOBE 🌎 🎉
First image was generated by chat gpt, other pictures are mine.