all I was able to muster was about $500 which I put into $STEEM back in late 2017 as the price was peaking.
Yeah, I think I pretty much did the same thing!
I think a lot of the same folk are still posting away here, although many have dropped off since the Steemit days. As bitter as it ended up getting there, I do remember a great sense of community - maybe it was the heady days of 2017? I dunno. Whatevs, it was good, and I suspect some stayed at Steemit and never came over here.
Reminds me that I should have a sneaky peek who of the old-guard is still posting over there...
I looked recently, and you won't find too much written in English over there. I was one of the few that kept my Steemit account when the split happened as the memories of the Polish downvoting gangs was fresh in my mind and I wasn't about to delete years of content that I'd created.
That $500 I invested actually cost me almost $1000 because Coinbase wouldn't let me open an account due to being an American living in Germany. As I had a German residential address at my dorm, but all my ID listed my US addy.
So I had to use Paxful in order to buy Bitcoin in order to buy $STEEM at twice the cost. But it was fun seeing that token price go UP, UP, UP! :)
I just checked back into my old Steemit account and was surprised to see from my feed how many folk are cross-posting their Hive stuff over there too (and actually, getting fairly high votes!).
Quite surprising!
That is surprising! Maybe I was looking at trending, where the majority of posts are in an Asian language, making them unreadable to me. I've also never cross-posted, and wouldn't know how to do so, not even over here, never had an interest in it.
I haven't posted over there in years, and advised everyone not to delete their accounts, but to do what I do and make Justin Sun pay to support Hive. Every once in awhile, I go over there and collect my STEEM and SBD. I take that, turn it into credits on Splinterlands and buy cards. Some I keep and others I sell to buy $HIVE. I thought it was poetic justice that I'm doing my part so that Justin Sun is indirectly allowing me to buy $HIVE! :)
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