Hi! I'm Dylan. I've arrived on Hive by the most circuitous and unlikely of routes...
I'll tell the story quick:
In 2020, I got my (re)start in crypto (I was a BTC miner back in 2011... threw out the hard drive, etc, hadn't looked again for years!) at the Cent community (https://beta.cent.co/epicdylan is my site there). I was immediately hooked on Ethereum, as people were tipping me for posts - which was very unusual, coming from Facebook!
I began writing (feel free to review the posts yourself if you care to see them!) about philosophy and doing some fiction posts as well, but nothing took off quite like I had hoped until I began to write about cryptocurrency.
I explored the ecosystem, eventually landing a hit article that got me a job writing at the Voice platform for real money, which was a big improvement over Medium.com, where I could make up to $100/month or so but was far from surviving as a writer!
I tried out Splinterlands, cleaned up in fact, late in 2020, which was my first Hive experience. Around that time, I'd gotten deep into Cosmos SDK and its app-chain vision. Seeing the gas competition on Ethereum really drove home the concept of why we need to eliminate the gas bidding wars, and I was not seeing good tools for writers on Web3.
Eventually, all of the early experiments had come and gone and we were left with a company we called WIP Publishing that had a handful of self-published authors and their books, but the books weren't moving all that well and what we had couldn't possibly scale. The PageDAO was born ( https://page.app.bio/ ) at the end of July in 2021, and a few months later Dibblers.dabs and his friends found us.
Now we've partnered with Scholar & Scribe to bring long-tail monetization potential to the Hive ecosystem, starting with Scholar and Scribe! Our technology platform is nearing launch eligibility, which is very nice because it will supercharge the NFTBook minter we deployed last year on Christmas Day 2021. We also have membership NFTs that allow people to use this minter permissionlessly - have a peek at https://membership.nftbookbazaar.com/ if you'd like to pick one up before the $MATIC price increases!
Things have been... eventful, lately, but I'll stop here - at the end of the "quick" introduction :)
Feel free to follow along if you like, I'll try to make posts as often as I can but I'm not wagering I'll be as good about that as I'd prefer to be. Still, we do what we can!
Cheers everyone,
Dylan
Welcome to Hive! Hopefully lasting bridges can be built between the two communities. PageDAO offers many of the things we were discussing in the Scholar and Scribe community and Hive has a lot of passionate writers. !PIZZA
Hello @epicdylanblog! This is @traciyork from the @ocd (Original Content Decentralized) curation team. We noticed you shared your first post here on Hive and introduced yourself - congratulations and welcome! That was a very cool Reader's Digest version of how you found us - mind if I add a bit of a twist to it? Seems like you were on our legacy chain back in early 2020 as well - glad to see you've come full circle back to our community! 😊
Speaking of community, we have many different ones here on the blockchain, devoted to all kinds of interests. Here's a link so you can check them all out - Hive Communities. I see you're already well acquainted with the awesome Scholar and Scribe community, and I think you'll find these interesting as well -
LeoFinance
Hive Gaming Community
STEMGeeks
Also, as Hive can sometimes be quite confusing, the newly launched Newbies Guide should be helpful to you, as it is a growing repository of useful and easy to understand posts about how the Hive ecosystem works. For instance, there's a post in the collection called 3 things Newbies should do in their first week on Hive that you might find helpful.
Please be aware that Hive is a bit different from other social media platforms since you are monetizing your blog, so it is important not to include content that you don't own without sources (and it shouldn't exceed 50% of the post). For more information, check this post - Why and How People Abuse and Plagiarise by hivewatchers.
I'm sure @dibblers.dabs will continue to help you as you begin your Hive journey (and this sounds like an awesome project to start on Hive), but if you have any questions, feel free to hop into the OCD Discord server and we'll do our best to answer them, and again welcome to Hive!
oh my how the time does fly! nice to see you Traci! thank you for all of these lovely resources as well.
Hey dude! Good to see you here.
Here’s to future innovation in the space :) 🍻
Hey! Welcome to Hive and glad to see you got your intro post up! We are looking forward to working with you guys to create some amazing content and tools for writers! Super happy to be able to involve Scholar and Scribe in the PageDAO community and start creating some traffic between ecosystems. Lets keep building!
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Ola @epicdylanblog, Welcome to Hive!Excellent introduction.
Here you will find a very healthy network.
Where you have freedom of speech and receive a lot of support for your effortin creating content.
I hope to see you flying through the communities and staying forever in Hive!
Nice to meet you!
Boelter hugs straight from Brasil!I invite everyone to participate in the communities: HiveBR, MusicHive and SkateHive.
In addition to being a content creator, I am a Moderator and Curator in these communities.
Let's exchange ideas and evolve together.
hey, very nice to meet you! this is going to be so much fun. :)
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Nice post, really loved the intro..
Welcome! I'll kick a Hive Power delegation your way to help you get traction with more comments and posts. You'll find a few communities here dedicated to fiction, so if your experience is mainly limited to Splinterlands, you'll find a lot more waiting out there in HIVE.