I didn't think "it's a scamm" because i was already social media manager and i had a clue or two about the internet
but it seriously was hard as a crypto virgin.
Loved reading it!
keep it up

I confess I thought it was a scam many times simply because I was so new to it all!

Understandable! I still hear people saying it's a scam or saying that they don't understand why would anyone buy digital money. so it's common.

Hopefully this will be the year that it all changes!

Could not sleep one night back in 2014. Ended up ordering an ASIC miner from china at 4am :)))

Those are awesome. I presume it worked out well!

It did actually :) They were really cheap back in the day !

Hehe, I had read that. They choose a fortune now!

Lol, well, i guess it ended up well.

Kind of :)

Check my comment @estheromoyiwola ,you had laugh. Nice meeting you @hossary. I just followed you. Will look out for you. And my comment was

Oh yea!! Am actually an upcoming steemian. You know when you are added to a steemian group chat and then all the PRO in the building start saying SBD,STEAM POWER, CURIE, STEAM,WALLET, UPVOTE, am never shy, am like please guys use a lay man word and they be like those words are for steemit. Imagines few mins ago, i did a whatsapp call to two of my friends asking for more explanation of those terms and they made me realy cleared. I am same person that just taught someone that didnt know what to do and how to relate those terms. It fun and interestin, am realy learning and getting to know great people like you. Woooo!!! Am blessed. Steemit has been my bestfriend since then. Upvoting and adding more to post through comments. So sweet.

steem

'WOW Nice story dear @adsactly & thanx you so much for sharing . this post now #resteem & upvote done .

Big journey! It's been a really long journey! Long hours of study and research and sleepless nights of decision-making. All worth it. I've been in crypto since 2014. Not too early, not too late. It's never too late to be honest! We're not even mainstream yet! The blockchain is so advanced and guarantees that cryptos are the future.

Exactly! It's never too late! I read a fantastic quote from someone saying something like. People who worry it's not the right time to buy in are the only ones who will have regrets or similar. I think the quote might have been better than my wording!

Nice story writing..i like it..thanks.

Check www.cryptoegypt.com ;crypto community in Egypt

My first time

I was like a stranger in an unknown land but with time i got help from people who know much more about it
Thanks to steemit for making me meet those guys unless i would be left in the dark

Steemit has been quite fantastic for learning all about Crypto hasn't it? I think I have learnt all I know and made money out of what I have learnt here

I agree @meesterboom such a great platform

I WAST LOT OF MY TIME IN BITCOINS,!

nice story.

I have enjoyed reading this post. I am now Bitcoin. Everyone tried it in a lot of fun, but you have made a lot of posting and have a lot to learn and understand about the post.

the things you've ever experienced become the key to all my friends, a very good explanation @adsactly

Thank you for sharing

I really like your posts. new story, good photograph. thanks for your love and support.

Actually my first time I was told it was a money scheme I'm certain those guys never new the story of bitcoin

My first time was here on steemit , i made some good money when steemit was still new , but now i can barely make 3 sbd a month

Keep plugging away. Success will come

I used to do 30 minute surveys to earn like 1000 satoshi years ago, and then I would play poker with it on Sealswithclubs!

Haha, that's really cool!

Oh yea!! Am actually an upcoming steemian. You know when you are added to a steemian group chat and then all the PRO in the building start saying SBD,STEAM POWER, CURIE, STEAM,WALLET, UPVOTE, am never shy, am like please guys use a lay man word and they be like those words are for steemit. Imagines few mins ago, i did a whatsapp call to two of my friends asking for more explanation of those terms and they made me realy cleared. I am same person that just taught someone that didnt know what to do and how to relate those terms. It fun and interestin, am realy learning and getting to know great people like you. Woooo!!! Am blessed. Steemit has been my bestfriend since then. Upvoting and adding more to post through comments. So sweet.

Splendid, steemit is a game changer indeed!

@meesterboom am telling you. Game changer. I am gonna be steeming it soon.

Good post thanks for sharing

This is so relatable and I'm still a newbie! xD

I tried to make it exactly how it was for me so I am glad it was relatable!

attrative post dear @adsactly

I enjoyed how that actully made me a little tense reading it, also a a good laugh or two!

Hehe, splendid! It all built to a crescendo!

Haaahaha 😁

This line tho 👇
> All of them with exotic names, quite often ending in eum.

You mean something like adsactreum ? 😁

I can remember my first time... In fact, it was only about 2 weeks ago. I was worried that I might be giving away my money at first... but I am slowly seeing the advantages of it. It's so much fun to watch the number fluctuate.
I'm still a Newbie, and make Newbie mistakes, but I'm slowly learning.
You hit the nail on the head with this post! Thanks for sharing it!

It's all about taking those baby steps but it all works out in the end!

That's what I'm hoping for! I'm easing into it and trying not to be too addicted to watching it!

my first time was using faucets because I didn't have $ to put in...I did ok but I wouldn't recommend faucets.

They do take a lot of time for the return. I never trust those sites either for things like malware

I remember back in the day my friend and I entered a hackathon where the prize was 5 BTC (About 1k at the time, IIRC). We didn't win, but it was a great introduction to the world of crypto. I'm really grateful for polished sites like Steemit and Coinbase that make it easier for people to get in. Old messenger boards and shady download websites definitely scared away lots of potential early adopters.

I think steemit has definitely been huge in that respect. Shady sites added to the whole general perception of crypto being scammy.

Imagine if you had won the prize and kept it till now!!

My first time was 5-6 years ago . There are a few people all around who knows about Bitcoin . I heard about it first time in my high school years . My close friends offer us to buy some bitcoin but we refuse it because we can’t trust a coin that we heard about it first time . After years our friend group is so sad about it because we can be a millionaires now. That’s the butterfly effect:) Now I am still student and poor :)

It's never too late to get into crypto that's what I have learned!

Me and my friend invest 70$ last week and we re buying and selling different coins but we must do that in my high school years my dear friend . Thanks for your post and replys!

You will be gazillionaires before you know it! ;0)

More crypto craziness is going on for today's market.

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One of my girlfriends would literally not believe it. She said, "You are a LIAR." My friend and I roared with laughter at this statement for probably ten minutes.

I would have roared with laughter too!

Engagement! Most important for new comers here. My first time in crypto I got caught in Gladia Coin scam a lost half a bitcoin :(. You can help make that back by upvoting my blog posts though! :D Thank you Steemit!

Ouch! I am sure your blog posts will fly!

Thank you!

Still at the beginning stage. Still wondering if i'd go through all these. I feel excited at the same time feel uneasy.

If you feel uneasy then you will probably go through each and every one of the above!

"This is it. I am on the road to becoming a giant in the crypto-sphere" - I wish I would be saying this some time soon. I heard all about cryptos but never paid any mind till a friend referred me to steemit, then BTC went ballistic, damnit, I must have been a dummy for a while. So, back to a few days ago, I got on steemit and It's actually fun to see things you do for free elsewhere spawning some little money even though not much.

It's worth it to stick at it and it's never too late to join the crypto party :0)

Yeah I believe that and thats what people say.

Woowww... Amazing, I very love your content @adsactly !!
I have a little positive motivation for you my best friend !!
Hopefully useful and can be an enlightenment. thank you

https://busy.org/art/@geonusantara/life-is-beautiful-when-adjusted-motivation

you nailed it man, that's exactly how it went a few years ago haha :)

Plays out the same every time!!

Told my brother about Steemit earlier, I enthusiastically explained how the whole thing works and he said " that's definitely a scam".

I know that feeling. They just don't want to believe!

He still wont....

One day you can show him the money and make him believe ;O)

That would be nice :), the longer I spend around here the more I like it. I have always been a believer in crypto but outside this space I can understand why it all sounds so alien. The other one I get is "I didn't understand a word of what you just said there".

I think when people say that its just that they dont want to understand. Its tough getting through to them!

When I first joined the crypto-world, I felt completely clueless; "Crypto...what?", "I have to deal with a market?"...It was very confusing and nerve-racking. A bunch of my friends started before me, so it took me a while to understand what they were talking about. I honestly still feel like a complete newbie, there still so much to learn and accomplish. I'm glad I took the plunge sooner than later!

At least you took the plunge!! You are way ahead of the curve :0)

Oh you bring back some great memory's of the nail biting and butterfly's of the first trade, ringing someone in the ADSactly community who was up at 1am or 3am in the morning that was so gracefully willing to lose sleep to guide me through my first trade which to their surprise was .08 cents. that I had got from doing faucets. I was amazed you could get coins with pennies as it had been many many years ago they stopped selling 1 cent lollies, that was all you could get with pennies.
Now you can't even trade with .08 cents, how time fly's.

I know, the fees for transferring and trading are quite ridiculous now!

he still wont,,

Hmmmm, my first time was like magic. I can see it but don't understand it, people didn't have my time to put me through. Made some mistakes and learnt from it. Not yet a pro in it but I am a working progress

Please help me share this information
https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@andreateranb/please-share-this-message-por-favor-comparte-este-mensaje

One of my girlfriends would literally not believe it. She said, "You are a LIAR." My friend and I roared with laughter at this statement for probably ten minutes.

this is @awisdom your new friend https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@awisdom/philippines-travel-boljoon-eli-rock-b0nding-with-my-beautiful-sister-and-friends

This is exactly how my class is feeling! We are brand new to the crypto currency scene. We are going a whole project on it! Check us out! @shsibecon

I bought an ASIC miner back in 2015. Most miners had already quit mining because the cost was too high and the rewards were too low (in their minds). I thought it was a HOOT!

Haha, that's the way to think of it!! That way you can never lose !

I'm late to the show, but I signed up for coinbase last year. That was my first toe in the water.

Today i,m Earn bitcoin on crypto racers game one hour to make money 10 $ bitcoin price you see a screen short no scam real earning bitcoin.
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http://cryptoracers.com/r/962649
Join today to select challenge other's people's as you wish thank you.

Just started yesterday and I read and hear many great things! So far I'm enjoying expressing my own opinions to people plus earning something from that is a plus! Hope to do well with my future post! ^_^

I do remember my first time here. I did everything wrong and it seemed like everyone was pointing it out to me. I was embarrassed and ashamed, I wanted to tuck my tail between my legs, run and hide. Not too much has changed really.

Your post is very nice and diferrent.

@adsactly Great post! as I was reading it...couldn't help to relate with the emotions. Still happens to me, I'm still new to this world...which I just love! Best wishes to you always. Btw have you heard of the new 7 wonders of the world? - @splendorhub

What's a Mother to do?
breezin (67) in children • 2 months ago
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I must say that there is not a day that passes that I am not extremely proud of my daughter, and she gives me every single right to be!

One of the reasons must be the fact that she accomplishes so much through her self driven amazing personality despite her all but perfect circumstances. Look as a single mother I have always put her first and as much as I would love to give her the world on a silver platter, it is just not always possible especially if you are barely scraping by through the basics.

Just this week, she received an invitation to go on a tour to the USA based on her academic achievements of the year as a Gr 9 learner at Highschool Merensky situated in Limpopo Tzaneen, this tour hosted by: Travel & Sport – School Tour Specialists.
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One of the set criteria is that the student has to have a set grade average of at least 80% each term for an entire year, and only a hand-full of students from the entire S-A gets selected for these invitations. This is such a great opportunity and it would be an honor for her to represent not only her school but also her country on this academic tour.

However the costs of this tour is completely and utterly beyond my budget.

The total cost of the tour is R 55990.00 (excluding her spending money)
That is about +/- 4200 USD
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The aim of the tour is to expose learners to world class universities as well as other academic institutions on an international level in the company of academically prestigious peers from around South Africa.
(Please see the Academic Achievers Tour to the USA 2018 Leaflet and entry forms below for more details)

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Here are a few of her recent academic and cultural achievements that has made this invitation possible:

I have maintained a school rapport average over 80% for the year,
As well as participating in various other academic and cultural activities such as:

Tritech National science and technology fair:
Where her team made it through to the Nationals and attained Silver, whilst also placing second in the activity division.

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I participated in the: Afrikaanse Radikaale Redenaars:
Here her team attained Gold, and was acknowledged as second in the global Gr 9 group of entrants.

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During the National Computer talent search:
This is a yearly test that is done on national level, and is aimed at recognizing prestigious computer literacy that she partook in, and she received Gold.

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ATKV Debate:
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During this years ATKV debate, Meggan and her team placed first in the Semi Finals.
With the debate topic:
“Should cultural values be taken into account when school rules are put in place?"

Tzaneen Eistedfodd:
Meggan participated in the annual Eistedfodd under various categories and her results were more than impressive:

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Here she was appointed general winner in 4 different categories, and received, Gold, Double Gould and Diamond certificates in respect.

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The Presidents Award: Bronze Medal
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This year she also received Honors for cultural achievements
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On the cultural side:
Duvet Blues:
A musical production where Meggan played one of the lead roles, as well as a solo song.

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And she also participated in the annual SER:

She was a member of the winning team of the annual low-veld SER competition. (SER is short for Serenade and is a combination of song dance and drama combined into a group performance on provincial level)

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And these are but to name a few.

So, as you can see this past year has been a very productive one for her, and I feel that she has earned the right to go!

So as her mother I will try my UTMOST BEST, to make this tour possible for her.

Please support this post if you would like to help me make her dream a reality!!

Nice post!!

I thought it was a joke, but my buddy convinced me. I put $50 in and started trading alt coins. Lost 15 bucks in a week, but was hooked. Now I've doubled my $850 investment (only because bitcoin kept rising) lost a lot trying to day trade. Overall I love it its fun and interesting to research.

What a post! Loved it @adsactly . I am a newbie and am going through similar apprehensions. Reading you was so relieving in many ways :)

I can relate to all of what you said. I remember too my experiences in cryptocurrency... :)

it kinda compşicated. i am just a new fish in cripto ocean:)

lol so recognizable , I am right there in the beginning of your story. Heard about bitcoin long time ago, and thought scam or not, i would like some. I do not know how. Than i heard about steemit, and thought ideal for me , i love to blog and mostly i like to mix up in discussions and chit chat , and i mean i do just that, i read the others and share my five penny's of thoughts. And i try to learn about all them cryptos. And earn money with it, and although i have 500 + followers on facebook where from 60 will like what i write and only 10 will actually reply , Here there is not, when someone likes you, vote up, your voting bag has to be full :-) otherwise you never win in power. And reactions, well ... most say, nice, like your text or photo, and most just say , i voted you now you vote me, sometimes even only vote me. Very disappointing, but also direct so challenging !! And than the money, the first time i just did steemit transfer sbd to steem that took like 3 days ! 3 days of severe fear is it coming oke , did i transfer my dollar right? And than i learned about blocktrades, and it went immediately , oke immediately not direct ... it took a good ten minutes as green numbers under my left over before it became steem. I find it amazing i mean last week when you could get so much steem for your sbds !! i went to bed got up and had like five dollar more !! wow incredible. I am now in the fase, that i bought some dodge with steem, i mean like 1 dollar :-) just to see how that works, and it works, but big is my disappointment that i can not buy bitcoin with that little amount !! :-) it all is still such a big land of wonders. Loved your text ! The proof that al Cedar trees on the Libanon once started as small seeds too :-)

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My 1st was with bitcoin i normally do ponzi with and make some good profit until ponzi ranaway with what was left

Wow

Started back in 2013 and I instantly knew. I was heavily into the conspiracy of the US Dollar and the way it is made. Some lady I gave a taxi ride to from the Airport mentioned bitcoin to me. What? Decentralized money? I thought it was crazy. Then I watched that first "What is Bitcoin?" video. Version 1. Having a slight background in programming, My. Jaw. Was. Floored. My mind was instantly blown and I was immediately sucked in. While I haven't profited much yet, STEEMIT allows me to bring my creativity to life and earn crypto for it. I've been "playing" with digital currencies since 2000. What? How So? Ok, this may sound dumb, but it was MMORPG's like EverQuest. See, the currency in those games are essentially digital coins, and many players were trading those coins for real money. I am guilty of buying EQ Platinum on more than one occasion as a kid. So the kicker was that while these currencies are fully unlimited and obviously only usable within the game, and the idea of a global, limited, encrypted coin just absolutely blew me away. That video's explanation was top notch for me. I laughed for days because of how awesome it sounded.

I love that you found crypto through steemit. That is amazing. I never once thought it was a scam, just that scammers were out there (and back then, plenty of scam coins).

In my opinion, after messing around with steemit (15 day old minnow) I have found it extremely user-friendly and anybody can quickly understand the basics of crypto through this platform. Great post!

Cheers! That's quite fascinating the EverQuest angle. It does help in steemit if you think of the currency as in game tokens. Changes it all up, hehe.

Good luck in your time here!

Definitely! I used to play video games but now I play the crypto game.

Same here :0)

@adsactly So true the feeling is just how you described it. Funny how after time all those things become the norm and you are able to ride the waves up and down and think how did I ever keep my money in that old box of a bank where my only chance of seeing my money move is going down or getting charged a fee... Cryptoland is one hell of a fun rollercoaster ride.

Those are awesome

very informative article.

'my first time' still on the way .....hehehehhehehehehhe
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My first time is in Steemit and writing introduction post ! Its took hours of midnight to complete this intro post !!

That is me two weeks ago. I keep calling my two younger brothers for help. Im still learning here and share what I got. Thank you.

Ahah excellent post !
I started with Steemit but my first currency purchase is very recent. Actually it was last week !
Oh my God i was so stressed but so proud to finnally get some coins by my own like a big girl !
I posted an article about it by the way :
https://steemit.com/cryptocurrencies/@marfilena59/crypto-tradin-i-did-it
Can't wait to buy my first thing with crypto !

I remember how I try to trade with leverage and lost almost all the money. Luckily BTC never let us down :)

Owned a few raspberry pi at the time, probably in 2015 ish. I had done a few project with them and was looking to do something new and stumble upon mining with a raspberry pi. This sparked my interest for crypto which made me play around with them a bit and now I just discovered Sterling like a week and half ago.

When i had the opportunity to join this crypto world and i got my first coin i was so happy. I told to myself that instead of during surveys and paid to click i rather stay here at crypto world because I believe it is easy to earn more cash than other online earning stuffs. This is really a big innovation to ahve these cryto currencies. This simply reminds us that everything changes. I hope and pray that these crypto currencies will not be abuse by some people. Crypto currencies already invaded the world and everybody wanted to have atleast a share or portion of these currencies.

My first time was about 6 months ago. I put in a small amount of some inheritance I had left, my family said I was wasting my money and been stupid , but I have been proven right as my initial investment has increased by loads. No figures are been posted but believe me it was best buy of the year.

Could not sleep one night back in 2014. Ended up ordering an ASIC miner from china at 4am :)))

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since i found out and enjoy steemit i 'm keep trying to found good information about that i hope could help me and you to there dear steemit coummunity to improve our coummunity we need to bout hands together work with each other give information follow upvotes to all people we know and we don't know this is my strategy i wish could help me to reach my needs and all of you there pleas followme @alhmali lets do it we can help each others steemit @alhmali

I am still a virgin! Loved your writing, that was hilarious!
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Lol, thank you!

I cashed in my first STEEM DOLLAR last night...
I felt as clumsy as my first kiss!

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As clumsy and as beautiful I bet!!

Hell yes!

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:O)

My first time was around 2015, I dont remember where but some guy was apparently drunk and giving away bitcoins, i earned a small amount and it was interesting to see its value fluctuate. Im still sad i didnt buy a $1000 worth of bitcoin in 2010, but hey, maybe next time.

Quite Amazing! Crpyto life!

This is my first time :)

My first time, was fairly easy because I am in a facebook group that directed me to coinbase just last month. Coinbase is a fairly user-friendly way to purchase coins so I bought some bitcoin, ether, and a litecoin (was only $65 then). I quickly got addicted to watching the market graphs, and I still am. I'm learning now that a lot of times you just have to be patient and not react to every time a graph is down because it's normal for a crypto to drop a lot of percentage points just to gain twice of it back. I made a rookie mistake of selling my $65 litecoin when it hit $103 instead of HODL'ing it and now litecoin has shot to over $300... I did get back into lite around $180 but that was still a lesson that this is a long term future investment. I'm learning new things about this technology everyday so I believe in it's potential in the future and am trying to learn the technical part of it all.

Quite often what I do is pull the graph it to a 30, 60 or even 90 day chat to see the terms. It irons or all those minor bumps do you can see is it's really worth seeking. It's still a gamble but it does help with that fear!

The entire time you have to voices talking on each shoulder. Mr FOMO on one side says u better dump all your money into this NOW. The other guy Mr Scam says dude this shits gonna blow up in a week don't waist your time your gonna lose all your money.. Yes its and everyday struggle but WE LOVE IT.

A bit of love and hate sometimes!! If the markets are green, it's all love!!

This is my first day on steemit and I am super excited! I am going to tell everyone I know about steemit! Steemit to the moon! :)

It's never too late to start investing in crypto:
https://steemit.com/life/@xsid/is-it-too-late-to-buy-bitcoin

I still feel like it's my first time every time.

100% of the time!

the next day I was getting rich. There is an empty house next to Rihanna's house?

Interesting content...well presented...

During my first time back in 2010 bitcoin was 0.04 dollars. Never knew it will come to this.

Actually I heard of it quite a long time ago but I  thought not to bother myself as I was convinced I could never understand how it works. I thought it's a bussiness for investors and tech geeks only.

You write really well @adsactly, thanks for sharing your experience

Thank you!

I feel you man. I also made my first exchange of SBD through Bittrex and unfortunately I ended up messing one of my memos and that SBD was nowhere to be seen. Thanks to good folks at @blocktrades and my Crypto Mentor @sanjay91422, I was able to retrieve that SBD back :D

I wonder is this the platform that's difficult or it is the security measures that make this platform the way it is

The security has to be there because of the money aspect unfortunately. The good thing is though. It gets easier every time :0)

Yeah, that too is true. Earlier (during my first month) I kept writing and wondering about where from the 'real money' would come? But now, after spending time here and reading well--researched articles from experts, I have gained some confidence. And a bit of 'real money' too :D

Thanks for your comment.

just a couple week ago!

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