Steemit Crypto Academy - Summary & Feedback By @santosbass2

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What worked well with the academy?

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I can say the I really like the rules implemented so far in the academy which are the club100, the club5050 and the club75.

The implementation of this rules has really brought about much seriousness in the academy as the students have turned to do more power ups rather than withdrawing everything.

And we all know more power ups will definitely increase the value of steem. I believe that the main aspect hindering the value of steem for its rise right now is the current bear run cause by the dominance of bitcoin. In the next Bull Run, coupled with the numerous power ups for the eligibility in club5050.

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What did not work well

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The only problem I have for this rule is that I think rewards should be given to a greater proportion to those who hold more steem power which are normally based on the proof of stake mechanism.

With the giving of extra rewards to those participating in the club 100 especially, I think it will encourage participants to hold more steem power and with the more active addresses holding the steem, the easier will it be for the token to rise at a quick pace.

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How will you improve the academy?

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On a personal base, I will improve the academy by first bringing in more students in the academy as I am doing already. I have already made some few students ready for the academy which will be beginning this season 6 or later.

Improving the academy is based more on creating good contents which is based on proof of brain. I believe a single good content created on the academy will beat down so many other contents which are mostly based on other views. A single content on the steemit crypto academy has a lot of value as it is really educational. So I will improve the academy by creating more quality contents.

I will also suggest for the improvements on the banning criteria of students in the academy. I think warnings should be given 3 times, and the fourth time before the student is banned.
And also, atleast after 1 season students can be unbanned, they must have learnt their lesson which will also prevent the banned students from powering down their accounts.

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What changes would you make for future seasons?

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The changes I would like in the steemit cryto academy are not that much.

With the current eligibility based on steem power, I will just increase the amount of steem power needed to make people hold more steem power. This is because with this logically the value of steem of rise and even if the students get a small percentage of vote it will be worth the effort and work done put in place.

I will also like the academy to employ more steemit promoters. With the aspect of recruiting more steemit promoters, it will bring in more students in the academy which will normally increase the number of contents created in relation to active subcribers.

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What did you think of the marking scheme for academy posts? And the available rewards.

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I will like for an increase in the voting percentage of the curators. The rewards I cannot deny is really encouraging, but the professors now turn now to increase the work done more and more compared to last seasons.

In previous seasons, a good write up of about 800 word count was really great. Now, due to other author who just want to write much has made the professors believe in quantity and not really quality again. When I compare the articles of those in the first positions, I notice that most is based on the quantity they write and not the quality of the writing.

To meet up with this, I think as the work has increase for each of the assignments with the numerous questions, I think the voting percentage should be added.

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Has the academy inspire you to continue learning more about crypto subject? If so, how and where have you extended your crypto learning?

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I will then be explaining how helpful the academy has been to me. I will not lie that for this season 5 I have really learn so much. Beside that I have been following the academy since season 2 just reading and building my knowledge since I did not have the desired steem power. But I can really say I have learnt a lot from the last seasons.

I did this, and let my knowledge which gave a good rise up. If you can check the post of most users, you will notice that they begin by failing before making good grades. But for the prove of my study in the background, you can notice that I actually began with the making of good grades from the start.

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Besides the trading on Binance, I also do much on airdrops and buying tokens on the trustwallet. As seen in the screenshot, you can see some of my claim tokens on my trustwallet all from strategies learnt from the steemit crypto academy.

^{Trust wallet Airdrop}

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Checking my tronlink wallet, I mostly do investments from sites in which I found during my research in the cryptoacademy. An example is the trx.blue site which I have invested 1300trx which I have a daily return of 40trx. The 40trx is 3% of my investment. And I have been there for more than 2 months. You can see a screenshot of my account while doing your own research.

^{Tronlink Wallet}

^{Trx.blue site}

Aside that, I also did participated in Initial Coin Offering and Initial Exchange Offering.
Beginning with the Initial Exchange Offering, I did participated in the FC Porto token

I cannot really say it was that successful on my part because it needed a huge capital for you to get a proper allocation. I participated in the IEO with a sum of $400. Meaning I held $400 worth of BNB for 7 days, and at the end just $0.1 was cut from the allocation. This means the token sold to me on the presale price was just 0.1 of it. Well the token rise 4000% but I was able to catch it at 1000% which made it $10. Meaning i made just $10 while I held my $400 for 10 days.

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To continue with the ICO, well I am still in it. I did participated in the bertinity presale after doing some research and it is still currently going on at phase 38 out of 50. Here is the link for participation (DYOR)

^{Bertinity Presale}

Talking now about mining, I am currently mining the following tokens for free

• Hi Dollar
• Pi
• GoodDollar
• Eagle

And I am registered in the 5BillionSales Affiliate marketing program

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Has the academy inspired you to start trading in crypto currencies? if so, which ones?

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I have been trading in the Binance Exchange. The Binance exchange happens to be in the top 10 exchanges. I mostly use this for most of my transactions and my trading. With the futures trading I studied I can safely trade futures now on the Binance platform. And also, talking about spot trading, I normally trade small proportions on what I can afford.

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^{some of my trades on binance}

To end, I did not just keep the knowledge to myself, but I have created a whatsapp group in which I make sure I share my knowledge on the stuffs I know to others as they prepare to reach their desired reputation.

^{Currently 77 Participants}

All in all, I am indeed greatful for this wonderful idea brought by the @steemitblog to get the point of view of students as well... truly I can say it is really a Decentralized Blockchain