It's about a year ago when I started on Steem, then I went MIA for almost a year.
Originally posted in https://instagram.com/loy.bukid
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I'm frequently watching a lot of YT videos about farming and permaculture, which led me to @siloe on his channel suburban homestead.
I was intrigued with this blockchain blogging platform that I totally don't understand—well not yet.
When I stumble back again on Steemit this year, last May 27th, I just continued posting, but really still don't understand what's going on with the numbers.
I stalked around and found jargons after jargons, then saw dollars going in and out of other's accounts.
I work in the IT sector so I know a bit of blockchain and cryptocurrency and even opened an account too, but didn't actively trade with crypto.
By June, while reading on various posts on my feed, I got bombarded with chaos—I mean, I just started and why everyone's already leaving?
I traced all possible sources, and stumbled upon news, rants, and friendly notes, which eventually lead me to moving to SteemPeak.
To my surprise, everyone on the site are also moving too. Even the site has an opt-in link to move. I explored again what's behind the commotion.
I learned that PeakD is SteemPeak but with Hive. I started packing slowly and jumped another ship, now to Hive. June 15, I posted my first blog post on Hive. I began using PeakD and Esteem onwards.
It felt like having a crash course about everything, overnight!
With satisfaction with Hive and the aggreeable platform, I invited @dzawn and @rosemaniego7 and kept pushing them to be active too.
I sent them an extra long step-by-step message on hwo to create an account and some general knowledge about Hive and how it works.
I also learned that I could claim my own rewards after a week after posting and either do 50/50 or 100% power up.
I've been blogging on WordPress for years, but unable to post about my other passion because it's going to clash with my literary theme on my WP blog.
It's here on Hive that I was able to post my first farming-centric blog posts which was a small achievement for me.
In just a month, I learned so much. Today, out of curiousity on how money moves around, I tested exchanging currencies from PhP to ETH to Hive—that I used to power up and gift to @dzawn for joining me.
I've been seeing @blocktrades on my sneaking to other accounts' wallets which led me to its site.
While checking on the supported cryptocurrencies, I found that it can exchange ETH to Hive, and I have ETH, so there should be a way to move my PhP to Hive and vice versa.
This was my experiment, I exchange a few PhP to ETH using my Coins PH account and waited for a few minutes—I was a bit hesitant at first because of all the safety notices, but I pushed through.
Then I went back to BlockTrades and exchanged ETH to Hive, waited for a few minutes—and that Eureka moment, I did it! Finally, it was successfully reflected to my Hive wallet.
Then I tried powering up and it did!
Then I tried transfering Hive and it did.
All transactions were smooth.
Can't deny I'm a newbie here, everything just seems so shiny and otherworldy. I hope to grow with Hive and invite more people to join too.
This is just the beginning, I hope to contribute more from my knowledge about art, farming, and software development.
Aside from art & farming, I also do a bit of CMS, IoT, ML, and automations, if you're also interested in programming follow me for more about making coding as your friend.
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@oniemaniego is a test engineer, but outside work, he experiments in the kitchen, writes poetry and fiction, paints his heart out, or toils under the hot sun.
 | Onie Maniego was born in Leyte, PH. He grew up in a rural area with a close-knit community and a simple lifestyle, he is often visiting his father's orchards during summer and weekends, which has a great impact on his works. |
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