Quite a few milestones: 4 months on Steemit, 62 rating, 3k+ in rewards.

Yesterday was a special day. I believe it was 4 month since i came to this amazing community and met so many amazing people, made new friends, had interesting discussions and learned so much new about Steem and cryptocurrencies in general. Have been enjoying your art and parts of your personal lives while sharing the joys and going through the frustrations together. We have even connected our photography community to Steem blockchain. So many good things is quite a short time. So. COME ALL LET ME GIVE YOU A HUGE HUG!!!
It is a Nikon D3s selfie while klimbing Kjerag in Norway.

Rating.

A stat underappreciated by many i believe. And yesterday i dinged 62! Each next level is harder to gain, thus brings more joy and excitement. I think this stat will be more and more important in the future as more users flood in and is an indicator of your value as a community member. You can not buy it with money, it can be lowered and takes time to build. To me it is one of the most important numbers on Steemit as i am planning to stay hare for long!

Earnings.

We come to Steemit for the money and stay for the community. Starting from zero and working your way up is quite hard. Takes, time, patience, dedication and work. Steemit is not a faucet of free money anymore, maybe it was, but i was not here at that time so i can only speak of my own experience.

Make regular posts, try to stay consistent, be polite, try to answer as many comments as you can and try to comment on work you like. I know it is time consuming, and i am sorry i do not find time to do this all the time lately since we are working on our startup, photography community BeScouted on steem blockchain.

Yesterday, at some point when Steem price reached $2+ my account was worth more than $3000!!! Current swings in SBD price helped to get more STEEM which i am saving when i can get my hands on it in order to increase my say on the platform and i believe that it is still immensely undervalued. I mean IMMENSELY. And i see price getting to 10$ at some time next year especially with the upcoming SMT's.

Waiting for Steem to go to the moon in Bali, Indonesia (Image from the past)

So once again, i would like to thank all of you, for your votes, for your comments, for being here an amazingly creative community members, interesting people to chat and discuss with. I am spending 1-2 hours of time time on Steemit daily which is quite a big portion of my free time. But I LOVE IT.

I am sure the next year will be even more amazing than 2017. Let's have lots of fun, and let's earn from sharing our ORIGINAL content.

CHEERS!

BeScouted is a premier photography community on Steem blockchain.

David