How Steemit became my personal Lifesaver!

I became part of this community several days ago, browsing different topics and after reading several articles I stumbled across a post written by @infovore where he described how and why he started to write in Steemit. His story was appealing to me because I also live in a third world country but my life has been more or less the opposite of his. It's true I also belong to a middle class family but here in Venezuela that means that I have traveled around the world since a was 5 years Old. Venezuela has always been considered an Oil Exporting Country, founder of the OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries), aka RICH!

Well things have changed since the uprising of the so called REVOLUTION by the hand of Hugo Chavez, It's been a revolution for the worse! turning a wealthy nation into a chaos of hunger and shortage of all basic needs.

On top of it all a very tight exchange control and nearly no access to foreign currency. An inflation rate high as 2.000% a year pushes people to try by all means to protect their wealth or equity. One way of achieving that is to convert Bolivares to USD or find a way to generate dollars somehow, which is why a got involved with mining Btc and that led me HERE!
Thanks to blockchain technology and clever ideas like Steemit common people have a new hope in a country that lacks good news and optimism due to the REVOLUTION.