RE: There is no excuse for you not to be the crypto guru among your newb friends
That was a great read.
I, on the other hand seem to be in the opposite scenario. My friends know more about crypto than I do, lol. Sure I've "known about" crypto for a few years but never really got around to looking into it, despite sharing a house with a miner aprox 5 years ago. All I really knew about mining back then, was that it was a strain on the electricity bill ^^.
It was only just over a week ago when Kurt (churdtzu) came down to visit that I was introduced to both steemit and consequently crypto at the same time. The following day after joining steemit, Kurt and I went into the city to catchup for coffee with the afore mentioned miner friend. Not being one to speak much whilst in the company of people more knowledgeable than myself on a subject matter, I mostly just listened to them talking about their last few years experience with crypto and heard the acronym "fomo" for the first time, as they discussed highs and lows they had ridden in the market. I was inspired, came back home and with Kurt's help started my steemit journey.
Initially impressed with watching my intro blog reach nearly $7, I then spent the last week, contributing and building up my reputation whilst watching that $7 slowly decline, day by day, to its current value of about $5.20 ^^ Without the support of my guru friends, especially Kurt, the declining value and all the fomo "shit posts" (as you call them ), I too may have acted a bit like chicken little. I'm also a huge fan of The Paradise Paradox so watching those podcasts also helped me keep my focus. As a newbie into both steemit and crypto, but also a veteran researcher, I couldn't think of a better way to learn about crypto than by getting involved in the steemit community spirit and earning while learning. Even though I'm only a week in, and what I know is still only the equivalent of my current voting power, compared to my guru friends, I can see that it wont take long before I can be the guru that you say to be, to my other friends, not involved in crypto yet. It's been a massive learning curve, but I'm not freaking at all regarding the current decline. Thanks for this article, you have inspired me further to be that guru :)
Speaking of learning curves, I only just yesterday really learned about voting power, and on checking mine (about 43% yesterday) am giving myself a 2 day voting break to recharge, but I will come back then and give you an upvote :)
Peace.
knowing less than everyone is a great place to be. You can learn so much! I have fun learning about the differences between each coin. The only problem is that after I learn about them, I want to hold them and I don’t have much to invest, only my sbd and I’d also like to power up when Steem is low and sbd is high....so I find myself putting a measly $15 usd in a lot of coins.
Learn about the usage and philosophy of different coins first and you will learn a lot of the context from there. I meant to research “what is proof of stake” but eventually I learned it just researching coins.
Don’t worry about it. I understand the desire to vote a lot of people, we used to have 40 upvotes but our upvotes were weaker, I actually prefer that though.
Thanks for the support and understanding. I'm on a double learning curve here haha. Learning how to steemit though, is an amazing way to gain understanding into the basic aspects of crypto anyway. I mean just to convert my rewards into steem dollars, into steem, into steem power, is a lesson in itself :)
Peace.