Introduceyourself - Dream Steem
Hi esteemed Steemians, as is traditional my first proper post is an introduceyourself one. I like that idea, it forces the more introverted amongst us to take that first initial leap. A bit like mother bird giving a shove to that fledging who just doesn't want to leave the nest and take that first flight. I kind of know how that feels, my first reveal is that I've got a bit of a fear of flying myself. Ah, I hear you say, I know how to cure that, take some flying lessons, that will sort you out. Ah, I say back, it was taking flying lessons many years back that gave me that fear of flying, I was fine until I took them, I loved flying. I'll leave that story for a later day. I don't want to use up all my great stories in post #1.
My name is Max Bullion. Of course that's sounds a bit ridiculous and it's not my real name. It's my old bitcoin nom de guerre (apologies to any real Max Bullion's out there, it's not that ridiculous a name, I now have alienated five potential followers living in greater Paris). I was into bitcoin early-ish. Not quite as early as @jeffberwick, but certainly before the rush. You'll be jealous to know I bought my first 22 bitcoins at $16 each in early 2013, but I'll allow you a little bit of schadenfreude when I confess that due to the demise of Bitfloor, Mt Gox and my own stupidity transferring into a sexier altcoin which promptly dived, I now own a small fraction of one bitcoin. Grrr. One interesting thing that came out of it was I started my own buy gold for bitcoin website, it was huge for 3 months. It still exists, just no one goes there any more.
I've created a few websites in my day. I created an insurance sales website in my spare time back in 2003. Interestingly I was making more money from that site that I was from my day job in an IT company within a couple of months and after thinking about it for another a month, I decided to leave the day job and concentrate full time on the wild west that was the internet in those days. I've been involved in the internet to some degree or another since 1993 when I'd been seconded to my local Belfast based telecoms company's head office in Ottawa, Canada. I came back after a year full of ideas about the internet and setting up an intranet for the local office. Back in 1994 my director just wasn't having it, I tried to reason that allowing me to work on this in my lunch hour would be great for the company. He just didn't get it. The internet wasn't too exciting back in those days and I was trying to excite him with crazy talk about online phone directories and seating plans and he was coming over all, "I've got a perfectly serviceable paper phone directory on my desk that I can look up much faster than this witchcraft". In the end I just did it anyway.
I'm still doing pretty leading edge science stuff working for a scientific camera company, the kind of cameras that go on telescopes and microscopes, we do neat stuff for NASA and other leading edge universities and institutes. I was in this cool room with work last week, it's an anechoic chamber .
My most crazy holiday ever was to Venezuela. Why go there I hear you ask, surely no one goes there any more (a bit like my bitcoin to gold website)? Well it was slightly less loco back in those days and the main purpose of the holiday was to see the amazing Angel Falls, but I still just managed to escape with my life after surviving two bus crashes (the buses were both write offs though) and a near plane crash.
I love food. I eat out a couple of days a week and I'm going to be sharing lots of my food outings. I love skiing too, my skiing buddy is head chef in a 2* Michelin restaurant, so I'll probably get on to talking about that too at some point. Actually I love food so much that I've been forced into my first ever diet. I've been doing the intermittent fasting thing and it's amazeballs.
So what do you want to hear about first? My fear of flying, leaving my job for the lure of the internet, the crashfest Venezuelan holiday or the intermittent fasting or endless foodie stories? I'll let you decide by commenting below...
Nice to see you on steemit :D have a great time.
I am excited to read your future posts. Good luck and welcome! Please consider checking out minnowsupportproject.com and @minnowsupport. It is a great community of individuals that will help you get started and can answer all of your questions.
Thanks sepracore, I've signed up to @minnowsupport thanks...
Hello @maxbullion Great introduceyourself post and photos!!
I'm @andyluy and I've been here for a a month, a can tell you that steemit is the most amazing thing I've ever seen at the internet so far. I'm happy seeing it grows every day!
I had some hard time on the firsts week, so I spent some time searching information to improve my experience with steemit, latter I've decided to make posts about those things in order to help the new ones to have a shortcut to get deeper on steemit.
here is some of my posts, I hope It mitght be helpful to you:
Usefull steemit tool
The Randowhale
SteemBnB
Getting videos from facebook
Minnowssupport!
Here is one post from @yoda1917 That i think Is useful to have a look too
just halt for a moment
I intend to keep posting useful info that I may be able to gather, and in a near future some give away. Feel invited to follow me and if you have any question about steemit you can ask me in any of my last posts, I'll try my best to help.
Thanks @andyluy, looks like you've been busy in your first month.
Yeah hahaha, since I have no money I'm investing what I can offer which is my time ^^
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Meep indeed my friend, meep indeed.
Welcome to Steem @maxbullion I have upvoted and sent you a tip
Thanks @Bottymcbotface. Much appreciated. I've spent it wisely.
Great post - I have a feeling you are going to have a few stories to tell - following
Thanks Anneke, following back! Yes, there are lots...
Please see your post mentioned here
Thanks Steemwizards, you guys are awesome!
Welcome to steemit :) I also do covers, play violin and do videos on youtube as well. We have to support each other on steemit, that's why I upvoted you :D
I'm Venezuelan btw ;)
Ha ha. Wonderful country, but the roads were terrifying.
lol I no longer live there for obvious reasons. But if you wanna fuck some fine ass bitches for cheap prices... You should stay lol xD
Welcome, welcome.. ^^
Fear of flying, plz. :)
Ok, you win, I'll draft that up in the next few days...
Hello ! I am @digital-gypsy , nice to meet you @maxbullion ! Welcome to Steemit and all the best for your posting.
Thanks @digital-gypsy nice to meet you too.
@maxbullion