My Experience

in #steemit7 years ago (edited)

Most times when I talk with my friends, Course mates, or roommates about things like cryptocurrencies and steemit especially, they look at me like am speaking in tongues. 

Many don't even want to hear about it. They feel its too complicated and the process is too long. But talk to them about any Ponzi and the won't hesitate to invest their money and end up losing it. 

At first, I tried talking to a few close friends about steemit, surprisingly none of them were interested. They keep asking questions like 

Is the payout or cash real? 
How can they convert it to the local currency? 

And complained that the process is too much. 

I was lucky to get others who where interested, created accounts, after making few posts with little or no rewards, abandoned the account and are no longer interested. 

Although faults are mine because I created a false expectations to them!

"You Can Make Quick Money on Steemit"

 I have concluded to stop telling people they can make quick money on Steemit. This is in most cases its simply not true and it leaves a lot of people disappointed.  

Instead I have adopted this simply explanation.


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But it involves posting of quality contents, networking and being part of the community not for the money aspect.

Nigerians are left behind when it comes to the world of cryptocurrencies. Thank God for people like @ehiboss @gbenga,  @stellabelle, @infovore, @donkeypong, @tojukaka and @samstikkz  and a lot of other people who devote their Time to helping lots of ignorant people and teaching them about steemit, trying to grow the Steemit In Nigeria (SIN) and Africa at large.

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Well writen.There should not surprise about your friends reactions.They expect fast and volatule return of their investments, without even understand fundamentals of this social coin.Most people in crypto world invest their flat monet couse of small interest rates given by local banks.

Someone even said...

Is the payout in cash or megabyte?

Then I showed him my transaction history and he was like

I will register immediately

His "immediately" will be 25 days old tomorrow

Lol. Wow. I love this

Lwkm.... You are even counting the days

I know the feeling about speaking in tongues. Took me two months to tell my own daughter about Steemit. I was afraid she'd think - poor Mom, she getting old and she's losing her minds. And I did warn her it's not about easy money.

Show them your payout in few weeks like i did in may, blew so many Doubting Thomas Mind away...

Thanks, will do that

As u fine na so u get brain...
Chai!!!

This man is here again. Always putting sand in my garri. lol. Just proud of you guys. Its amazing how far we've progressed as a community.

Shoot to the sky @evelyniroh, I'm glad to see you do well

Steem on

Thanks for the encouragement. I really appreciate

So true,ever since i found steemit ,facebook became a little boring to me.
And I'm glad I'm here amazing article

Well Said.

That is y most ppl vex and go

Not everyone will get on board with the idea; at least not now. Realizing this and admitting is could be tough especially when those rejecting the idea are your closest friends.

Well done.

Especially when the are your closest friends.... You truly got it

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