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well, I still got lucky, and most of my journey was around the 1 steem 1 dollar mark. the lower the price the more SP you get per post payout.
and then a few whale votes in the beginning
After that I also lived through the birth of the bidbots and used them as well.
Now I use smartmarket to get some passive income from unused voting power

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