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GET RICH BY BLOGGING!
Back in 2016, in the early days of the blogging platform Steemit – when it still looked like an awesome new blogging platform rather than a massive Ponzi scheme – certain key accounts were flinging money about in an apparent effort to bring in new users.
One of my first posts got a $400 payout. Although the whole thing looked a bit suspect, I didn’t look a gift horse in the mouth – I just went “choice mate, thanks a lot” – https://steemit.com/photography/@sift666/my-obsessive-polaroid-photo-fetish
Next I started learning about crypto currencies, and by early 2017 was hanging out to get started. So I cashed out some of my Steemit earnings and bought Bitcoin. They were only US$1000 back then so US$400 bought 40% of a Bitcoin.
Cryptos went nuts that year, and by the time Bitcoin went up over US$15,000 I was getting sweaty and nervous. I managed to cope with the stress until they hit US$17,000, then I sold the lot and breathed a sigh of relief. They actually peaked for a short time at US $19,000 but $17k was an awesome point to ditch them.
So 40% of a Bitcoin went up from US$400 to US$6800. Convert that into NZ$ and it became NZ$10,300. Next I used that money to buy gold bullion, back when it was $NZ1700 an ounce, so that $10,300 soon went up plenty more.
Later when Bitcoin dropped back from US$19 to US$5, I bought some more Bitcoin at US$5000, and that worked out well too. I just waited for that nervous sweaty feeling to come back, and then headed back to the the bullion shop – https://www.mygold.co.nz
