It just came to me: I missed out on millions by overlooking Steem..

In general I am very happy to be a part of something as big and innovative as Steemit, I have also made some good money out of it and I suspect there is some more to come (reason why I am not powering down), I am here for the long haul, however I had a major shower thought yesterday that literally left me astonished…

I still remember when steem came out, I am a big bitshares fan (platform also created by @dan) so I read it first on a bitsharestalk. At that time I was working with Bitshares Argentina to create the first decentralized Argentine smartcoin (a smartcoin which is now live and can be bought and sold at OpenLedger as BitARS). We worked very hard on getting support from Committee members, code the coin and provide a price feed, so naturally I was a bit surprised and worried about the creator and some of bitshares most prolific developers working on a new platform.

I thought, I put all of this time and effort into a platform that is going to be left behind?, I have to admit that to a certain degree I was upset and didn`t want to have anything to do with this new coin called steem, I was in fact making some of the same mistakes most crypto aficionados make all the time: thinking your coin is better than the next and refusing to embrace new projects.

Back then I was already running a Bitshares node so I knew how to set up a steem witness node and mine (since it is the same Graphene tech), but I was skeptical and maybe even bitter to some extent, so NO I did not mine in the very early stages, if I did I could easily have 100.000 Steem now, or more.. back then it was a matter of getting a few average vps and running the miner!..

It took me 2 weeks to get myself together and join Steem, started mining, running a node, writing, voting and giving my opinions about the future of the platform.

Why did I change my mind?

Well I basically saw so many good developers working on steem, so many developers that I already trusted from bitshares that had even helped me in the past when I had a compiling issue or whatever. I thought if the likes of @xeroc, @abit, @blocktrades and @svk are here, this really can´t go wrong and it is most definitely not a scam.

I don´t want to be greedy

So even as I write this I feel kind of bad, it’s a weird feeling knowing that if I would have been a bit wiser I could have secured years of financial stability, but my time in crypto has tought me to be wary about new projects and I let that get the best of me.

I don´t want to be ungreatfull for everything that steem has given me, I still believe steemit has a huge growth potential and even the people who join today will be early adopters and have the possibility of being part of a billion dollar enterprise. So I am at peace and happy with myself, but I wanted to write this down and share my thoughts with this great community.

All of this kind of reminds me of a video posted by @cryptogee (the one where the person wins but wishes he should have made a bigger bet), so I will finish with a great quote from “the Gambler”

John vowed never to put such a small amount of money on a bet again…

#steemit