I thought today (June 30th) was my STEEM 2 year anniversary, but I just realized it was actually June 25th. I didn't post until July 6th.
Here's my first post: A Voluntaryist's View of Independence Day.
It got 14 votes and made $2.40.
It's amazing to think I was user account number 13,452 and now there are over 1,063,721 accounts. I was reminded of steemstory.com, a little site made by @roelandp years ago. I was happy to see it's still up and running today. I went ahead and captured a little video of it:
Check it out. It's fun.
I was also thinking about how the cryptocurrency space has become my full reality this year. It started with selling my business which I spent 10 years building. Two months ago I thought about this more and how jobs themselves are becoming outdated (check that post if you want to read up on SmartCash, BitShares, eosDAC, many of the interviews I've done, and more).
It's been an amazing two years.
What will the next two bring?
What will life be like in 10 more years?
Thank you for joining me on this journey and all the amazing support you've all given me. I'm so very thankful and honored to be part of this community.
You know, I had my one year on June 19th, I believe, and I was thinking about those of you that have been here for an entire year before that. Honestly, I just have to commend your tenacity. It's not easy to be an early adopter. I also have to thank you for being a great witness. Cheers to another year ahead!
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Holding Steem for a better future!
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It is a wonderful platform for us to earn some money!
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It's been a good 2 years! I think I found you shortly after you got here. I'm glad you're still around, doing what you do for Steem, and now I also enjoy your EOS incite. Here's to many more interesting years in crypto and blockchain!
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Thank you!
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Congratulation @lukestokes to your successful long term Steemit life!
Wish you all the best for your next, no,no.. not 2 years,
for your next 20 years on Steemit.
Have a great week and best regards
Tom
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Hello, first let me congratulate you for your 2 year anniversary, I am new to steemit as you have noticed in my blog, I also want to congratulate you for your excellent publications, I take this opportunity to thank you for your collaboration in my publications, I invite you to know a little more about Last I have published, you will touch your heart like me, hoping it will be to your liking. Greetings and blessings.
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It is a wonderful journey, isn't it?
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@lukestokes wow very intresting blog. and Congratulations for 2 years of success on steemit . i hope your future will be very successful on steemit.
according to your 2 year experience, what do you want to say about steemit platfrom.
please reply!
if you don't mind then can you publice a blog of your success story on steemit. we are very excited for known your succes story on steemit.
please upvote me @krishnackt11
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Happybelated birthday @lukesstokes :)
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Great, I've been on Steem for a little over half a year now, and I feel that being involved with this platform and its community has totally changed my worldview.
If you sold your business which you had been building for so many years, I can't imagine how Steem has changed you.
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Congrats @lukestokes on completing two years on steemit...
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Great job Luke, thanks for bringing rigor to the platform. Its great to have a critical thinker such as yourself probing for weakness and ultimately making steemit much stronger than it would have been without you. Congrats on your longevity:)
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@lukestokes
It feels awesome to know that when you have been a part of something from it's beginning and it's starts growing in future. I hope you might also have the same feeling for this platform.
Steemit is really an innovation in itself, and it has all that takes to be at the top.
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We are thankful to have you here. Congrats on your milestone. How much was steem when you started?
What do you think of the price now and will you stay if it goes below $1?
Joy
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I first invested in STEEM when it went to $3 and $4 back in 2016. I spent way too much BTC on it. I then watched as it dropped to $0.07.
Yes, I'm not going anywhere. I'm not here because of the price of STEEM. I'm here to have a home on the blockchain.
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Aww. How nice of you to have an online family. Same here.
But seven cents..oh my.
Lions and tigers and bears.
I just bought a lot at two fifty. Couple a hundred.
Joy
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Cool... 2 years .... when you are 3 years here ... you buy big cake :)))
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Thank you guys, I just joined in August 2017, today 330 using steemit platform, I am happy here, for me, steemit can help people, and the need of education fund spillover can be overcome with me writing in steemit. thank you steemit :) @lukestokes
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Sir hou to incress my steem profile , sny information and help
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Congratulations, can’t wait to see what this place has in store for us in the future!
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It has been an amazing journey. I've got another month to my second steemiversary.
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Congratulations for 2 years of success!
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Wow - congrats on 2 years!! Being in the first 15k accounts ever created is some serious bragging rights.
That steemstory video was awesome too! I had no idea that even existed... haha Excited to go check mine out.
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It's been an awesome journey, hasn't it? With more to come, I'm sure!
I signed-up at #72,653 - a long way after you... but still in the first 100,000!
SteemON!
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Congratulations, Luke. You've always been one of the good guys here. A steady rock. :)
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You archived higher success on steemit with rewards and higher reputation. Sir i have a litte question " How you help minnows to get higher rewards and reputation"
Regards.
@majidawan
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You have come a long way and had impacted people positively. Happy steemiversary!
@eurogee of @euronation and @steemstem communities
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Happy anniversary, great picture down by the river, and may you have many more days with the freedom to do just that!
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Glad to see you've come this far on steemit. More milestones ahead.
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Luke, man, I'm so proud to see how far you've come these past two years. From a wise sage to a select few and now to an evangelist for the many. You are an excellent example to follow in terms of how to approach new fields. I'm grateful that I've had the pleasure of knowing you ever since Pre-STEEM (because I now feel people will look back at this time in the future) and that I'm fortunate to have you as a mentor of sorts!
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Awesome man and happy 2nd birthday! Here's to a 3rd!
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Without you mentioning it on FB 2 years ago, I probably never would have heard of Steem!
Happy STEEM-iversary!!
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Congrats on the milestone bro! 2 yrs flew by. Was not aware of the steemstory site, def will check that out. Thanks!
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Happy anniversary bro! Mine is coming next month. What an adventure! Resteemed :)
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1' years ,now.
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Congratulations Luke! 2 years would feel so long but I'm sure it's loads of fun. Being #13,452 is so damn cool! :D
I just knew about the steemstory site and did it with my username... I was like, 'hmm..' but the site itself is cool!
Been following your posts for quite a while but sometimes they're pretty deep with all numbers and stuffs. This one is real simple so I completely understand all haaa.
Congrats again and enjoy steeming! :) ❤
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Congrats on the milestone! I look forward to the day that I have been on Steemit for two years. I can't even imagine the amount of change that is going to happen between now and then. It must be exciting to see all of the pieces that have been added to Steemit since you first started!
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Happy 2 year anniversary Luke!
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Hi @lukestokes ! Its always nice to recap what we have done on the last year and 2 years, or even more as you are doing here.
Regarding the app by @roelandp I tried it again now and did not work for me. Not sure why.
Thanks for sharing this with us!
Regards, @gold84
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Congrats on the Steemiversary! So glad you're still here. It's pretty amazing that you've been able to make cryptocurrency and blockchain your work. Whoop whoop!
Do you remember me sitting next to you at the Tennessee meetup when the subject of Atlanta was brought up? I said I wouldn't be there... Well, I bought my ticket. Hope to see you in August. :)
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