I have a few altcoins, coming from the faucet which I earn by doing some small task such as visiting website. I earn few satoshi and litoshi and thousand doge which I use to buy some sbd on blocktrades.us.
To be honest, I never heard about steemit before no word of mouth telling about steemit and steem, no one care anounce a news about this good system. In fact, I am new here just three days old.
What brings me here is the despiration and being bored doing the same in the faucet website with little gain. Upon searching top 20 alt-coins then I found steem on the rank 17. Read all the white paper on each coins and only get my full attention. So I stumble upon the website steem.io looking for link join or register but I see none.
Everyday in the span of 2 weeks I search on google about steem and all feedback are good and still trying to locate the join or signup link on steem.io but still. There are time I lossing hope that time. Until lastweek, I view the facebook ads about steemit.com which is connected to steem. So I signup but it takes maybe 12 hours before I get approve and here I am now very thank full to be a part of steem network and steemit.
At least your diligence had paid off and you have made it.
Perhaps as you learn and grow you can make sure that others actually do hear about it from word of mouth.
meep
thanks @papa-pepper, and looking forward to that.