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Thanks for your kind words and the resteem! Hopefully these kind of posts put some perspective to a newcomer's first impression of the platform. I try to keep a feel of what it means to be new to steemit by having a test account which I intentionally keep at entry reputation and without funding it.

Huh that's interesting tactic. I still have yet to power down and go to the steem market to trade and attempt to increase earnings that way. That aspect seems intimating to me.

Nah, don't power down unless you absolutely need to! Those who use Steem or SBD to speculate on price changes have them in liquid form. But it can be a risky task, and even experts lose when trading sometimes.

About my test account, that's simply a new account I created and I pretty much left it like that and test various things with it. When you have more than 500 SP as I do on my main account (and still being a plankton), it's easy to forget how it was when you had 15 SP delegated to you by steemit. That's what I try to keep more or less intact on the test account, so I won't forget how it feels to be a newcomer without deep pockets.

Lol it's going to be tempting to play with the exchange til I learn my lesson. Hodl the SBD til it's back to 8$ then get more steem :D

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