My first post on Hive! - A Steemit Refugee
I had no idea Hive existed until this month
Hello, my name is Steve Cronin and this is my first post on Hive :)
It's been well over a year since I last looked at my Steemit account. I had been blogging occasionally for two years at that point and arrived at a period where I didn't have much to say or write about publicly. However, one of the many hobbies I have engaged in the past year is playing the ETH based TCG #GodsUnchained, which has been a lot of fun. Recently, after building out my card collection there, I decided to check on my STEEM Monsters account, curious about the status of my early collection of Alpha & Beta cards. This is when I learned, from an old Steemit friend @transcript-junky, people started migrating away from STEEM awhile ago.
Migrating over 8 months late
My WTF moment came when I realized I could no longer exchange my STEEM and SBD without using two new exclusive exchange options offered by Steemit which are not supported in the U.S. The only thing I could do was send my STEEM to other STEEM users, not much use there. Well, I was wrong.
A huge thanks to @naturalmedicine and their guide entitled Using Ionomy to trade Steem for Hive tokens, published seven months ago, which allowed me to send my STEEM to another STEEM user and exchange it for BTC.
Thankfully, STEEM Monsters, now apparently #Splinterlands, preserved my card collection with no action required on my part :)
Blogging here now
My content across the Internet, including on Steemit, used to be mostly focused on cognitive enhancement (see my VICE feature), however I don't have the desire to be so niche anymore - regardless of what all the Internet marketing gurus say! My immediate plans are to blog with Hive casually, because I support the product, and if I discover a niche use-case for it organically, then that would be fantastic.
Until then, I'm mostly just focused on learning more about the #Hive community (I currently have about 20 tabs open of different Hive blogs I'm about to check out) and enjoying the experience.
I'm sure there's posts I can readily find containing tips for new-comers, but if you have any suggestions, please let me know! As this is my first post on Hive, I am using the tag #introduceyourself and I'm hoping that's appropriate (if it's not, I'm sure people will let me know!)
Welcome back. I think you’ll find that Hive is really the spiritual successor of Steem. Steem kept the name but it became a completely different place following a “hostile takeover” by Justin Sun. Still, there are plenty of new projects & developments to read up on so enjoy those 20 open tabs!
Welcome to Hive.
Welcome. So much is here I don't want to make you drown.
First, you can access your Hive account using hive.blog or peakd.com.
Hive blockchain explorer: hiveblocks.com
If you had steem-engine tokens some of them may have migrated and been converted into hive-engine tokens: hive-engine.com
Your profile states you are interested in VR and biohacking. There are hive communities for that:
biohacking: https://peakd.com/c/hive-143722/created
VR: https://peakd.com/c/hive-116730/created
Your profile doesn't mention interest in art but maybe you might want to get some NFT tokenized art created by Hive users. Maybe create some art of your own to sell: https://nftshowroom.com/gallery
That's probably enough for now. I'll let someone else fill you in on the other things like brosinopoker.com.
Thanks for the community suggestions and for the welcome!
About time
welcome back ;-)
Welcome Steve to HIVE you are here !!!!
I think I knew you from steemit not sure
Its interesting and great that you put your story into a blog and left it here on the blockchain, so welcome, welcome to the Hive movement and blockchain. Your first blog is up and on the chain, hope you feel relieved, and not afraid of what is coming your way in the comments.
We know it can be daunting and frightening because all is new.
If you want to read some history this is a blog https://peakd.com/hive-198524/@hivepeople/hive-for-noobs-hive-198524 about it.
But for now the new beginning, you will have fun blogging and vlogging I promise. But in the beginning it’s hard and all is new and maybe you need help. We have amazing people here and a help discord if you need it. I love blogging, and was a newcomer once aswell so i know the feeling. The biggest and best advice is always be carefull with all your passwords, Never give those up !! I speak from experience !
What always will help you build your new hive account, and profile on here, is establishing relationships and the best way to build them is to comment on other people's posts, there are so many topics here, and there will always be one that is of interest to you but also be interested in them, by reading and upvoting. This will draw them to your own account aswell, where they will discover a little more about you and relationships take off from there, and comments and votes will be the next step. When you have a twitter account you van visit #hivelift for more information.
I use Peakd to post to Hive. But hive.blog is an option too. They work well and let me know if you have difficulty.
Good luck with with hive experience and I Will See you around and may you find here what you are looking for. Just remember that all good things come in good time and never giving up is THE key to the big succes on the Blockchain.
Also you could join the the Terminal discord. Or visit @heyhaveyamet for more new arrivals, newbies exposure in the beginning is very important, and you can always learn from others.
Let me know if this was helpfull or if you need more help, or better see you in Discord
the Terminal.
Here is the invite its free,
https://discord.gg/XZGPGpz
Greeting from the Netherlands
@ Brittandjosie
Thanks so much for the kind words and resources!
Welcome to Hive!
TY! Checking out your blog :)
Welcome (back) to Hive!! Looking forward to your posts.