Yes, you’ve read me well.
I’m challenged but not pissed off. In the picture above, I’m the only black person just for you to recognize me easily. That was my Master of Finance class of 2012. That was also after my MBA international business in 2011 and a Bachelors of Finance in 2006!
You might not believe it but I was even recently enrolled into a PhD Finance but had to stop due to some financial issues.
I had deeply studied the capital markets and even visited some of the best stock exchanges of France CEAC 40, The City of UK, Spain’s IBEX35, etc. Just recently I was attending a workshop on how to get finance for SMEs from my country’s national stock exchange.
If I say I’m challenged by @Steemit, just believe me. My Education is being seriously tested with Cryptocurrencies in general and Steemit in particular.
Just in 2013 when I thought I had some level of financial education that I needed, I started teaching at the university. Then I started training people about finance in the community around my city.
That’s how I even managed to meet Professor Jeffrey Sachs who is my best scholar in ‘Ending poverty in the world’.
Then I got more confidence and contacts that allowed me to chair some business competitions that could help entrepreneurs raise capital.
I wanted everything of mine to be around Finance and Banking so I even managed to work with the World Bank for some time.
To make the long story short, I’ll tell you what happened to me like seven months ago when I had no serious tasks and had stopped trading Forex and stocks online due to huge losses.
I bought the first @bitcoin with my Visa card and officially joined the technology despite having spent more than five years just talking about it.
I then started training people on how to buy and trade bitcoin.
But because I didn’t have enough knowledge about cryptography and it was even impossible to do any bitcoin mining, I invested in more that 5 online businesses that ended up becoming scams!
I later felt terrible and wanted to abandon. But towards the end of last year 2017 I got to know Steemit and realized it coincided with my objective of creating online content that can sell.
So I decided to give it a try and I’m seeing it working. I’m even going to talk about it at an international conference in two weeks.
And if all goes well I want to start a Steemit School with the help of @dorbatim
Plus I thank him for this opportunity to compete with the community through https://steemit.com/steemitultimatechallenge/@dobartim/56m3h3-steemit-ultimate-challenge-8-weeks-prize-fund-2000-sbd-week-4-registration-is-in-progress
Thank you and see you all at the top curtesy of #steemitultimatechallenge and @dorbatim and his whole team on discord https://discord.gg/ppSRFj