My first month on Steemit - Some thoughts.

My thoughts as I go through my second month on Steemit - Wow.

Can you say, "1000SP just for clicking on stuff I like?"

I can!

Learning the ropes

It has been wonderful to dedicate my self to learning another crypto-tech-system. I have not bothered to learn much about any of the coins I buy and sell. Dash has interested me some and setting up a node is in my future. But Steem, though volatile, is very interesting because of the opportunities here while reading interesting blogs and no ads!

It kind of makes me feel like the rest of the internet is just messed up.

I am still finding new ways to look at my account and others' activities on the blockchain. I am pretty happy as an investor, and I plan to throw a power-up into my account every couple of weeks for good measure.

steemdb.com - one of the nicest ways to view your status!

Price worries

I don't find myself fretting over price. I have had my share of heart attacks in the crypto-currency world. It comes with the territory. I find it to be a buyers market - time to add to Steem holdings. This order just executed, and I am putting another crazy-low world-low-snatch-up-some-more Steem order in as I write.

You're paying me?

I see people doing strange things as if they were diving across aparking lot - road rash on their faces to get that .001 Curation Reward. How many accounts can you juggle? This one has 54 if I remember right. I don't really want to draw attention to this person so the image is as is to show the quantity and strangeness, rather than highlight the user. Just something I ran across, that's all. This is a free, decentralized zone after all, and I like freedom to do as one pleases.

Image from steemd.com (intentionally small)

Scarcity of votes - Nooooo...

Another thing I notice is that people are taking back their votes , mostly during the 6 - 15 minutes range. I have seen this behavior occasionally in the past but now, it is freaky all the time. I guess that's what happens when you make each vote hugely valuable - people chase the money as if it were the last pop tart. I for one, let my vote stick once I have read a post and slapped it with a vote. My likes are my likes.

Things will settle down when people see that they can use the slider to give posts the amount of love that they deserve, and when they find out that they can't put their vote back as that same article goes into the thousands. Once you get out of line, you don't go to the back of the line, you're are banned from the line! Go to the next post, do not pass go...

All in all, I love my new job. I don't have a job. I don't need a job. I don't want a job. I want to do what I like doing and get paid for it. Steemit fits the bill.