I've been a member of Steemit community for a long time. Even back to the days before Protoshares (PTS) was launched. I remember waking up at 7:00am the morning of Nov 5, 2013, learning now to mine PTS. Only to discover I was late, because the time was 7:00am GMT not 7:00am EST. This was only the beginning of my learning journey.
Dan Larimer and Charles Hoskinson, Atlanta Cryptocurrency Conference 2013
As a Dolphin on Steemit, I believe in the platform and its ability to bring about real change. I have been recruiting members to the platform that would have never downloaded a Bitcoin wallet. Steemit has created a platform that allows everyday people, not crypto nerds, to join the digital currency revolution.
The following a list of the everyday people (minnows) that I've personally recruited:
@hellomrcole - A professional musician turned entrepreneur
@michaelpair4 - A 19 year college student
@iamdavidl - A professional music producer and business man
@tskeene - A publisher of 3 Books featured on Amazon
@conductor123 - A performing artist with a love for Ministry
Helping New Users
Each of these minnows knew nothing about Bitcoin, digital currency, or Keynesian economics. However, they knew how to post content and each has their own unique story to tell. Whatever was required to get them to create their first post, I helped them with it. I took photos, taught Markup language, created video tutorials, held conference calls, edited and formatted posts. They had varying degrees of success with their respective introduceyourself posts.
Those that had successful post wanted to know how to turn their STEEM into USD. This required more teaching and walking them through the process of creating accounts on cryptocurrencies exchanges like Bittrex and Poloniex and USD off ramps such as Coinbase and Circle.
Helping Minnows Grow, Teaching them to Swim
I've encouraged them to continue going forward. I told them while they are thinking about their next topic, to start curating content and writing comments. I will help them in any way I can to succeed. I didn’t write this post to highlight what I’ve been doing personally, but to emphasize the fact that we are a community.
Members of a community help each to succeed and as a result we all benefit.
Stay tuned for future episodes of the Dolphin Chronicles. If you are a Dolphin, I’d like to hear how you are assisting others to help the Steemit community grow. Let’s share ideas.
Thanks,