I've never thought I'd be posting here. It was supposed to be just another step in my journey to the world of crypto.
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I've set up a witness and miners using steemit as a source of knowledge (thanks for all great posts about that). I've successfully mined three blocks (yay!) and then the whole mine was blown up by some guy named Hard F. Fork. He was 17.
I don't know his middle name but I can guess ;)

Producing three blocks gave me something like 0.75 STEEM rewards in Steem Power. If only STEEM would be worth as much as Bitcoin... ;) But OK, mining STEEM for FUN (99.999%) and PROFIT (0.001%) was cool enough and more than nothing ;) I've decided that I would use my mineress account to write on Steemit!
Great idea. Login failed.
It took a while before I found instructions on how to set my keys to get in.

A week ago I've submitted my first post and it had begun...
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I wasn't even able to vote my own post because of an error telling me that Voting weight is too small, please accumulate more voting power or steem power.
My account's Steem Power was worth only $0.12, much less than I'd get signing up the normal way.
Normal? That sounds like an insult ;)
Fortunately it was enough to post more thanks comments as I've never expected such a warm welcome from total strangers!
I'm no longer using other social networks so I haven't shared it with anyone except showing it on my screen.
I had no followers on steemit because I was a total newbie.
Despite all that I was warm welcomed by 25 people who commented on my post!
It was viewed 156 times and got 86 votes.
Now I have 24 followers and 49 reputation which, as I've already learned, doesn't mean anything but good to have! ;)
I've got 0.010 STEEM from @surpassinggoogle as a gift (thanks) and powered that up immediately I'm still unable to vote :( but that's supposed to change as soon as I get posting rewards.

Remember my troubles with logging in? I saw @felixxx post about having similar issue. I was so excited that I know the answer that I missed the other half of the question ;) Thanks @gtg for helping us out with this. I've won the 5 SBD bounty! Thanks @felixxx.

Now I'm waiting for my first posting and curation rewards.
I'm excited that I can actually get paid for posting because that's something new to me. I was wondering if it matters whether those are real money or just some points like in games or that worthless reputation we have here, but yes, it does matter a lot even if we can't see it from our own perspective.
I've put a lot of time and effort to get on board and make my first post here. I would get much more money if I spend that time walking dogs in my neighborhood, but during this week, I've already seen that it can really change people's lives. @hykert was able to gather money for migrating from his country.
READ THAT AGAIN: He was able to gather money for migrating from his country. That's truly amazing story and one of many proofs that we are experiencing here something special.
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I think I like it. ;)

I would continue to explore this realm and support as I can.

Btw: Have you seen Se7en?