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Hello my dear Steemians,
Yesterday while curating and commenting I noticed that it was exactly four years since joined Steem Blockchain
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When I think back to the first steps I recall how my hubby told me that there is something like blockchain exists where people can post and share their interest. That was the time when I decided to start painting and of course he mentioned that there are some people who also post their artwork. That was the reason why I had an interest.
The first few posts were very hard, few cents and zero comments. At the end of the second week when we were thinking to leave the blockchain one of my artpost received an upvote from @blocktrades. Those of you who were from very beginning they know that such upvotes brought about 80$ and of course after weeks of cents that was a real reward.
I think on Steemit the curators also waited and learnt who the users are and how serious they were.
But such stimulus at the beginning is very important for newcomers and such big accounts should on and off visit smaller ones with upvotes or good words.
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It is important to have Steem Power if people want to be visible. It is not enough to earn and cash it out, the curators are there but there are much more people who around who need support.
With the help of curators you can get visibility but also it can help you to grow and get stronger. It is important that those accounts then to support others and help community grow.
From our side we used different way:
- We used bidvote such as minnowbooster and @randowhale1, he was sleeping but once his Upvote Power was full he voted those who set their vote for just 1 Steem!
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- Of course to boost you needed Steem, the users usually loosing rather than winning, therefore, very soon we just stopped it.
- We learnt that it is easy to invest our own money and to buy Steem and that is what we did. @myskye shifted some old coins that were there without use, so we just decided to Power Up.
- Powering up is only the way to be stronger and to get more from that. You see that despite of that we still Powering up.
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Who knows where we will be in near or remote future. Everything can get changed. The life is busy, so long we have time for that we are here. As active member of Steem blockchain it is good to know that there are bosses who also interested in the success of Steem. People may lose their interests and leave the blockchain. If people do not see any progress, it is then just wasting time.
Who knows how our 5th year on Steem will be looking like. Let’s see where we re in a year time.
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Felicitaciones por estos cuatro años te deseo mucho exito y de verdad agradezco que hayas publicado estas palabras de aliento para todos aquellos que estan ingresando en la plataforma, yo soy uno de esos y de verdad sus palabras son muy motivadoras,por cierto también dibujo y me encantaron sus cuadros.
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Thank you for reading my post, hope you have discovered something for your too. There are many things we can learn from people around. I hope you enjoy creating art like me :)
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Congratulations on your 4 years at steem / steemit
I remember well when I first noticed you and with your beautiful paintings. And I loved when you painted old sail ships
We quickly became known and today you have added a lot to steem and world of xpilar
You are a mentor to many so your help is incredible
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Hi @xpilar, thank you for stopping by and very glad to hear your supportive words. It seems to be so long ago when I first drop a comment to your story post and of course was very pleased to hear such great comment in regards to my sailing ships. If you remember in the past I actually started to do sailing ships, that was the beginning then slowly I did painting of different other subjects.
There were many different events around and it is true we are veteran's of Steem blockchain and still here :)
Thank you for all the support that you gave us and our Project @art-venture, we are happy to be a part of WOX family :)
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Hola @ste1 felicitaciones llevas bastante tiempo . feliz día muchos éxitos para ti . saludos.
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Thank you for nice words and your congratulation :)
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Поздравляю тебя, дорогая @stef1 ! Это внушительный срок.
Получается что я дольше тебя на steemit , но похоже мой блог пока не привлёк внимание китов :-)
Хотя я пишу для того, чтобы поделиться с друзьями своими успехами или приключениями в различных поездках, но если будет и заработок конечно тоже неплохо...
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Спасибо за поздравление, да нам деиствительно повезло, но сдругой стороны я ставила мои рисунки с самого начала еще в стором Стиме, там конечно было много поддержки для рисунков а также много конкурсов. Сеичас все изменилось. Но здесь все еще много людей кто делются своими историями, хотя читателей маловато.
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Congratulations 🎊 @stef1
God bless you and reach more milestone in life.
You journey is really inspiring and I can understand it is not as easy as it's looking while reading your post.
Tc & Congratulations again
Cheers 😊
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Thank you for your warm words and for reading our journey post. Sometimes people need to go through everything to reach their aim so we have come the whole way to this moment.
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4 years...nice :) Congratulations :)
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Thank you for Congratulation, it is heading towards a small Jubilee when it is 5th year :)
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Поздравляю Стеф! 4 года это серьёзно)
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Nice great work on 4 years, i had my 5 year anniversary yesterday
Cheers to another 4 years
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Thank you for Congratulation, wishing you too all the best in the 5th year :)
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felicidades amigo, eres realmente afortunado...
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Thank you :)
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Congratulations for hitting four years on Steemit. It's been a long time coming.
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Thank you Max, it is inevitable and here we are. Thank you for your warm words and also for being around :)
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How are you brother, long time no talk with you
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Yes, long time, we are still working hard :)
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Yes, here we continue to work hard, I hope you will be more successful than now
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Congratulations and keep it up!
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Thank you Jorge for your nice words :)
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Grats! Enjoy your 5th year :)
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Thank you for your nice words :)
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Congrats @stef1 on your first 4 years on Steem blockchain and I wish you many more.
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Thank you @zorank, it really seems a long time but while living it it just gone link one year for us :)
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very extraordinary painting.
I am proud of those who have painting skills like you.
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very extraordinary painting.
I am proud of those who have painting skills like you.
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Thank you Jason, there were many good works I have done in the past.I hope to return to this in near future :)
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I hope you can do it again.
I want to look back on your great work stef1.
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Heeey, eso lue genial, me gustan muchos los colores :D
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Thank you, glad you like it :)
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Congrats on 4 years! I remember too back in the day when most posts would earn nothing and the odd post would be highly rewarded under the exponential reward curve.
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Still thinking about time in the past I find it was good to be united to have an opportunity of bigger group of people behind Steem and now it is still feels like a half of the whole :)
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Yes, a lot has changed since then but there is still a strong sense of community even though there are less of us now. :)
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