15 days into Steemit. I guess It´s time to Introduce Myself

Hello Steemit World!

It´s been 15 days since i joined, and after testing, posting, reading, commenting, and voting, i decided to stay.

So i guess i can´t go on without doing an introduce myself post, after all, this is a great community driven by real faces behind the screens.

Hi! This is me: 

A little about me

I am 35 years old, Civil Engineer, born in a small town called Ipirá, living in Salvador, Bahia (Brazilian Black Capital, and Best Carnival Festival in the World), and a big curiosity about everything in life. 

At this moment, i am unemployed, mostly because Brazil is going through a huge Political and Financial Crisis, where people are getting pretty crazy, increasing the probability that our next President candidates are going to be an ex-president involved in corruption scandals, an ex-army guy that hate minorities, and a TV show host that is actually a good guy, but has never done politics.

Yeah, it´s some pretty weird times here in Brazil, but life goes on.

Even though the job market for Civil Engineers are pretty bad nowdays, i am working on my own construction company, doing some small contracts for now, but aiming for bigger ones.

This bad times also made me realize that i have a depression problem, that i am still struggling with, with good and bad days. I will probably make a post about this, because its a problem that i think everyone should be aware of.

My biggests interests nowdays are financial market, economics (Thanks to this book), and the blockchain technology.

I started a blog a few months ago

And also, in 5 months, i will receive a big present:

I am Happy and Terryfied at the same time!

How did i ended here

Some month ago, while i was learning about financial markets and trading I created a blog with the idea of telling what i have been learning about it. I saw it as a tool to help me learn about this new thing i was trying to understand.

But some bad depressive days came, and i kind of abandoned it.

Then something happened around a month ago: While i restarded my studies about financial markets, i decided to learn a bit more about the Bitcoin, and what i learned, oh god..... It blewd my mind!

As most people in the world, i also saw the Bitcoin as an interesting and promissing money experiment, but still too crazy to make sense of it. Until i started to dig deep about the blockchain itself. And like i said:

That was the time i actually understood what all the fuss around blockchain was about. The blockchain is definetly the base of this century Internet.

This is how i met Steem. Through some Google searches about the blockchain, some articles written here appeared on my results, and that is How i Met Your Mother, i mean, how i met Steem.

My first days here were interesting... At first i thought i would be a place filled with people trying to make some easy money and bots that cheated people in giving them money.

I wrote some posts to test the waters (Why Botcoin is not a Tulip Bubble (but may still be a bubble),  19 Industries the blockchain will Disrupt, Exploring the Cryptocurrencies Faucets(Free coins) world. (Or wich Faucets are the less annoying ones))

When i started to dig deeper (Something that could be called the actual STEEM Mining), i started to find people and things like @cryptoctopus, @elear, @utopian-io, @brazilians, @welcoming, @originalworks, @thehumanbot, @lemouth, @thomashblum, and a lot of interesting people posting interesting things about everything!

And that is when i fell in love. Not the possibility of earning some money, but the real fuel behind Steemit: The people.

And what am i going to do from now on

My idea to use steam is at first, read amazing things.

Then, i will probably retake my blog project, to talk about what i am learning about Trading and Financial Markets, writing here and there, to cover the topic.

Another thing that i am definitly going to keep contributing is the @utopian-io project. For those who don´t know about it, its a way to reward people that make contributions to open source projects. My latest contribution.

Also, i want to use this platform to write about personal things, as a mean to help me cope with my depression, like a therapy.

And i also want to help bring in more people, especially the Brazilians, who is a people that for some reason, really like social media platforms...

Good Bye. For now

Well, that´s it. That is my introduction, and you people will probably hear more from me around here.

Bye