How Crypto Currencies are changing my life - A crypto Newbie Story

It seems impressive how quickly things can change. I never saw myself dealing with Cryptocurrencies, here in my country we barely have access to other countries' coins that are more stable that ours while we afront times of Hyperinflation. But, more and more people were talking about bitcoin and other cryptos. Honestly, I felt like I was been left behind. Some of my friends were starting to speak this Crypto-lenguage I couldn't follow. Frustating a bit but also hard to digest. Man... the blockchain concept mixed up with the word algorithm was something my brain wasn't able to process. Then, Steemit appeared.

Suggested by my brother, I learned a social network was based on the blockchain and deals with a cryptocurrency called Steem. He had to insist with me for joining which I finally did on Jan 4, 2018. I've always been creative so a social network has always been a nice place for me to show talents, abilities, knowledge and more. That was the easy part. The hard one was to understand how steemit works. Steem Power? SBDs? Steems? Blocktrades? Wallets? one step at the time.


After I joined some discord channels, I started to participate in hangouts and curations in which the crypto currencies was a regular topic. My first one was @votovzla, I saw many posts there in which I started to understand some concepts. One of my fellow steemians posted a very simple analogy to understand what the blockchain was. Light finally came through! After getting the fundamentals of the blockchain everything kind of started to fall into place and with that came the change.


The kind of change I'm referring here is how my vision of money, money related institutions, goverments, burocracy and the management of all that is definitely way different. Dear lord, what the banks do with the money we give them freely and how be perceive almost nothing while they build their own empire. So, with crypto knowledge Finance education became a necessity.


While all that was having place, I started posting and earning some steem and steem dollars, That helped greatly with the crisis we are living in Venezuela. I would like to say that what I earned was used in a new phone or laptop but, most of what I've sold has been used for food, meds, debts and two meet ups with steemians in my state that have become very cool friends.


So back to Finance education and cryptocurrencies, I started learning in some discord channels more and more, came across with @adsactly, @whaleshares and @beyondbitcoincas in which I've been learning a lot. Got my first digital wallet, learning how to read the graphics for understanding the behaviour of the coin markets and receiving some tokens related to many projects in the blockchain. Now friends from Votovzla have continued promoting this cryptocurrencies education and invited me to join @votu and EOS discord channels in which I'm learning so much more.


Hopefully I'll be able to make some first steps in the trading world soon, make my money function to my behavior in ways it didn't before and keep growing in the blockchain sea. May these iniciatives for sharing this kind of knowledge continue and let me express my sincere gratitude for all the lessons so far!

@gaeljosser

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