I'm drgone, I run a hackerspace, now turned digital fabrication lab in Seattle, WA. I've been lurking without an account on steemit for a few months checking out @haejin and finally pulled the trigger to create yet-another-account-on-the-internet to thank him. I had no idea that this would cause a problem.
There is a huge discussion on steemit right now about the validity of @haejin's rewards, and whether or not his followers are real people or bots. I don't know about the rest of the crowd, but I'm definitely not a bot.
Cryptocurrency is something of a touchy subject for me. Back when bitcoin first started, I totally missed the boat. It wasn't like I hadn't heard of it, been offered it, or had the resources to throw into mining it. I , like many other reasonable people found problems with the company it kept. Shady exchanges, blatantly criminal behavior and the sheer zealotry of the followers made me uncomfortable, and there wasn't really much that was going to change my mind. People offered to pay me in bitcoin, and even in retrospect, turning it down was the right answer at the time. I needed to pay bills, and getting paid in an investment opportunity wasn't a viable option.
Now the situation has changed. There has been enough public adoption and soak time for most people to realize that cryptocurrencies aren't going away. They're an interesting technological invention that can solve a wide range of very narrow problems. It's hard to say what problems will benefit most from throwing blockchain tech at them though, and there are still lots of shady actors out there. I decided finally to throw a couple of bucks into the pool rather than being the casual observer, and unfortunately, even though the projects I liked looked solid, they lost money. It didn't take long for me to figure out that I just didn't know what I was doing as a day trader. Sure, the buy low sell high concept makes sense to me, but HOW does that work?
Enter Haejin. Somehow I found this guy, on a google search from a coin I was losing money on. He had pointed out that it was about to bounce up long before I picked it up. I bought near the high, and sold it after it started dumping. This guy was either a pump and dump participant, or he'd picked up on something. I watched some of his videos, and I started playing with some disposable income. So far, with BTC going to the moon, or dropping like a stone, my haejin picks (and picks I've made using his methods) I've been able to keep my investment growing. With the coins I had picked up prior and made bad trades with, they're still waiting to recover. If you've been wondering whether you're making good trades or bad trades and haven't been keeping track, check out http://cointracking.info/ and load in your CSVs. It's way easier than making a spreadsheet, and it'll give you a good idea on what you're doing.
I don't know if Elliot Waves are real or not. A friend who I explained this to told me it's all woo, and yeah, nobody can predict the future, but so far, this ponzi is paying. I'm up 100% on my portfolio of alts, and I'm not stressed about BTC movement any more.
I don't think I'm going to start blogging on steemit, I'm not really in a blog state-of-mind anymore. I did that for a good 10 years, but I'm here, I'm doing a #introduction and I guess I'm part of the community now. I don't know if I buy into the whole mission statement, but I'm going to upvote and downvote on occasion, and I'd like to state for the record:
I AM NOT A BOT
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