RE: Ask Steemit: How did you first hear about Steem? And tell us the story behind your Steem username
I first found Steem after I made a good amount of profit on ripple when it shot from a couple pennies to closer to 30 cents. I bought Steem on a whim with thoughts of day trading it. It went down so I looked more into it than my simple glance when I bought it. Shortly after I signed up for Steemit and sent my Steem of for safekeeping and to give myself a little power to do things. Since then I study much more before buying any coins, but I am really happy with that initial 'mistake'!
As far as my name. It's hard to find names that aren't taken. This name I have been lucky to be able to get most places. It's a play on HRPuffNStuff that has grown on me. Where did you get your name? You only answered the first half of the question in your post!
Ah nice. Yeah I think I read quite a few stories of people accidentally joining Steem after initially intending to trade it.
That's a good question re my username. I think I might right a post about it to explain my username as people often confuse me for nextgencrypto or Bernie when I join new chat rooms. In short, I was trading stocks at the time and there was a new tech company that got RTO’ed called Nextgen something. So when I was browsing Steemit for the first time I saw many futuristic sounding usernames and so went with my current name. I never thought I would still be here after two years. If I knew, I would have put more thought into the name.