It's about two weeks to my Third Anniversary on the Hive blockchain and it's cool to look back to where I started and where I've reached. Many times I've said that joining the blogging army on Hive then in 2018 was typically for fun and learning and eventually, earnings started coming while I enjoyed myself and grew through the process. This was possible because I joined a blockchain like Hive.
I will always be grateful to @Tomlee who first told me about Steem/Hive on January 22, 2018 and how it can help me engage my writing/research skills. His perseverance to ensuring that I found some good reasons to hook up with the blockchain is quite commendable. This is one of my motivation for helping others succeed here.
The first impressions I made on this blockchain was to connect with people and learn ion every good way possible and today, I'm versed with a lot of experience and testimonials in the last near three years.
I my first post published on March 5, though after several comments, follows and upvotes. Seven days after, precisely on March 12, 2018, 13:01:42 (GMT+00), I cashed out my first $0.182 and then, it was worth a bottle of coke and a locally made burger.
From then till now, the $0.182 has grown incredibly and I've reinvested the accruing rewards as well as withdrawn as much for my daily expenses. Presently, my main acount sits on near $10k and I'm glad that they are mostly held in stakes which mean that more would come from it in the near future.
I can loud it anywhere that Hive is the best blockchain to build a community and is built to last sustainably. Fast, Scalable and Powerful is just an understatement of Hive's characteristics. It won't be bad to call it the Blockchain King.
Most amazing is the fact that the Hive blockchain allos for other products to be build on it in layers, that's why we have the second layer which has become the business and wealth creation layer for Hive through which we have @LeoFinance @Clicktrackprofit @Hivelist @SPortstalksocial and the host of other second layer communities with tokens of multiple utility.
I remember sometime when @Theycallmedan echoed that it is safer to earn crypto and not buy it. This really sank into me and I tell that to everyone that is new to the crypto sphere. While I have bought crypto over time, the purchasing power is drawn from the earned crypto.
My First Crypto ever owned was STEEM, now HIVE and since, its been growing unlimitedly to the present value of over $10k and it actually started with $0 investment.
This is still the very beginning of this journey and looking into five years from now, it would be a bigger story. Then, the several Hive tokens would have reached maturity and the least of them should have been trading at $1 and more. It's good to remember that it all started from nothing.