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why do you say 'last five months'?
how quickly you accumulate SP is dependent on how hard you work
time is irrelvant.
How many posts have YOU made?
I've made over 26K (and comments)...since I've been here.
I'm making a good living...paid off all of my bills...and I've bought some toys.

a houseboat,( my retirement project) a new computer, and a tricycle

anyone can do it..all it takes is work

Wrong. (see above). You are conflating the luck of your success with hard work. I see by your account that you joined August of 2016, LONG before Zimbabwe sent cryto prices through the roof. believe it or not, the majority of users OP is referring to arrived here in December, left in January. These people did not have the fortune to arrive early like you did. Please do not try to make it seem like someone can enter this market at this point and achieve the same success as you.

you've convinced me.

I totally failed to take Zimbabwe into consideration..

how thoughtless of me...

Well, that's a good perspective on it. I respect what you're saying, but I still say, the eco system is decidedly harder to break into at this point.

you're flat wrong.
it's easier now that it ever has been.

It is easier for YOU, but it is not easier to get started, same prize pool almost dollar for dollar as end of summer 16, but 100x more users.

Ever play the game "King of the hill"? And you got to the hill when the game started and few players were involved. So few players were here early that most could fit at the top. Sure, you had to "climb" the hill. But now there are many more players, and you're telling me everyone can fit at the top?

you've convinced me.
you guys say you can't
you're right.

Nobody said we can't. Everit. The argument is that more personal curation and upvoting, instead of leasing out your SP and buying votes will lead to more sustainable growth, and higher returns. But, you got it figured out. Meanwhile, those new plankton, cannot post 20x a day and you still have yet to address that.

See, we agree. :)

i've been here 4 weeks.. accumulated only $6 SP. Mostly derived from comments.

how do you rent steempower?

$6SP in only four weeks?
my payouts were .00001 for a long LONG time.
It took me two MONTHS to get that much
at 20 posts a day.
the way to rent SP is from Blocktrades when they put it up to rent again.
right now they don't have anymore to rent.

whatcha do..is keep pluggin away..
comments are GOOD.
if you can think it you can steemit..(post a lot...learn from doing)
when BlockTrades reopens for renting SP...buy some
(this is NOT investment advice..do what you wanna do...I'm just sayin)

then keep doing that for a while..
your SP will build very quickly.

I started same month as you, took me about a week to get my first $40 payout, was up to $16k SP in five months. It was MUCH easier in the beginning. And, with the limited SP a new account has, comments are not necessarily good, they run out after about two short posts and a half dozen comments, along with ten votes. You don't know.

my votes dont count for shits.. not even 0.01 and i still have 98% voting power

you should NEVER let your voting power get that high.
if it's above 80 at the end of the day (when You quit steemit for the night)
then you have been lax.
I always vote it down to seventy.

20% will regenerate in 24hrs...it's best to leave a cushion.
if you don't use it you loose it...why waste money?

if nothing else vote for yourself.

the more votes you make..the more SP you get...it's called curation..
it starts off tiny but builds.

nothing happens on Steemit that you don't MAKE happen.

but even at 100% it is $0.00... does it make sense to still vote?

you're right...you're doomed.
it makes no sense at all.
for get I even said anything....
if you're determined to fail don't let me stop you.

Nobody said they were doomed. #dolphinschool is proving they are not. But, it'snot easier now, which was the position you took and cannot defend. Your method will not work with a brand new free account today. It cannot be done. You cannot make 20 posts per day with the SP and bandwidth allotted. They have to be smarter than you. You're an ox, no doubt. It's impressive what you've achieved, but that bridge no longer exists.

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