Hello steemers, I am a mother, daughter, investor,cook, friend, and I have found the most interesting hacks
I would like to introduce myself. I am Sonia.
Mother: 2 sons, one recently turned 11 and going to middle school, and one 14 and on his way to boarding school
Daughter: both my parents are still living. My father is 70 just recently got diagnosed with stage 4 duodenal cancer. He is a Vietnam Veteran. My mother is 68 and complains of arthritis in her knees, but she recently joined Curves.
Investor: I prefer Index investing, my favorite is the NASDAQ. Recently I have discovered REITs and I think they are a good idea. I occasionally trade options too, but I limit myself to covered calls.
Cook: I have taken a few cooking classes and with 2 boys I try to cook at least 3 times a week. I am almost always looking for a new recipe to try. I specialize in Southern dishes because I am a CAROLINA GIRL!
Blogger: I have my own blog which features encouragement and prayers for your career.
Click here to go to my blog. Please note I have blogged for a few months--- Life has been happening--, but I have a lot of content because I have had a blog for a long time.
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I suggest your father begin taking 80% concentrated Curcumin power (preferably with piperene added for maximum absorption) mixed with coconut milk daily. I take a tablespoon or more daily. I am not a doctor but you can google for some medical studies on its efficacy for gut related cancers and disorders. I am not giving medical advice, just sharing my personal knowledge and experience.
Can you share with us how you discovered Steemit and what motivated you to try it? Have you historically been a crypto-currency and blockchain enthusiast?
P.S. I grew up in New Orleans. A white boy who was impromptu dancing in the Zulu parades in the early 1970s before that became mainstream and commercialized as it is now. Since you are my age, I suppose you understand that I was called "white boy" 40 years ago.
One more question to you. I went to your blog and You have many posts on investing in STEEM Power. I am interested...can you point me to beginner posts on how that works. Can you point me to posts that explain how beginners make the investment?
I wrote one blog post which was intended to present the case for blogging for fun with the potential that the small rewards could compound over time. I wasn’t intending to encourage people to buy more STEEM on the exchange market and power it up to STEEM POWER. I think you put it best, that safest is to invest the STEEM POWER you earn from the site. We’ve seen far too many newbies lose money investing on risky altcoins and generally the rule is don’t invest in what you don’t entirely understand.
The math behind the compounding of STEEM POWER (SP) is more complex (than I originally thought when I wrote my prior blog). It depends on the ratio of STEEM to SP in the money supply. When the SP to STEEM ratio is 9, there is no compounding gain. When higher the compounding is a negative variable interest rate and when less than 9 a positive one. The 90% interest rate that I had assumed is probably not realistic.
Steem is complicated system to analyze from an investment perspective. Hopefully some others will write some unbiased blogs which delve into this more.
I am quite new to idea of crypto-currency. I have been in IT my entire career---however I find myself always trying to catch up to the latest technologies. I noticed that several businesses started accepting bitcoin for payment. This forced me to research bitcoin and other currencies. I bought a book Bitcoin for Dummies. Then, I read an article this morning about steemit on finance.yahoo.com. This was the first currency that I saw allowed you to earn without making a significant investment. Just make a post and you earn. I saw that and I decided to give it a try...why not? And I just love the idea of being an early adopter...finally I am participating in the cutting edge!
I have a blog so I wanted another platform to share my blog posts too. It was a no brainer for me to blog for pennies, when I usually blog for free. Maybe someone will see my posts and vote for them. I hope to add more content soon. I want to contribute to the community.
Thank you very much for sharing. This is very helpful feedback to those of us who are investigating the marketing potential of Steemit. I expect some of us will be discussing your reply to me over at Bitcointalk.org in the Altcoin Discussion section. For example, you will notice @smooth is a whale here (look at his Wallet). We are trying to gauge if Steemit can cross the chasm from “blockchain nerds” to the general population.
I’m a computer programmer and since 2013 a blockchain technology researcher.
Hi @anonymint
I really appreciate your concern for my Dad. He is slated to participate in a clinical trial at Duke. I will tell him about the curcumin. We need all the help we can get.
Also thanks for the link and the advise about BitcoinTalk.org....there is a lot going on there.
Let's keep in touch.
Since you are an expert at this...where would you suggest the newbie person start? Algorithms and hashing etc. I learned about them in school, but I really need something simple to digest.
I tried reading bits and pieces of the white paper...that contains some very good information, but I get the impression that steem is still in beta state and there is some tweaking still going on.
I would like to suggest a tag just for beginners or those interested in the basics of blockchain
and how steem fits into the who crypto currency family.
The faq was a good start, but it does not give the explanation why.
Also the whole encryption key/password security issue is not for beginners.
If you need a newbie to test ideas on....let me know. I am always interested in learning more. I am not exactly a geek, but I am not the average general population chick either.... I guess you could say that I am a hybrid of geek ( because I have a masters in CS...(from way back in 1994)) but I am just a regular CAROLINA Girl trying to keep pace with technology too.
Thanks for the updates!
Best wishes for your father. Seriously very high dosages of concentrated curcumin entirely shrunk tumors of some pancreatic cancers according to a clinical study I read online. It is a long shot, but it can also help sooth the inflammation as well. It is one of the most powerful natural treatments you can reach for and I think it has been tested along with chemo and been beneficial. But I maybe not yet tested for his specific cancer type. If the prognosis (% survival 5 years out, etc) for his cancer at stage 4 is not good, then my stance would be might as well try everything I can. I have been in a desperate but only chronic (i.e. not terminal) health quagmire also related to my gut (not sure if it is a tumor or not), but not so definitively critical as your fathers’.
I see your rewards for this blog just jumped to $600+ because that whale I mentioned has upvoted your post. So you will see that current vote weighting algorithm for Steem is votes x votes, i.e. squared. So if a whale (with 1000 times more SP weight than the minnows) upvotes a post that had 5 times less culmulative SP vote weight, then the post’s rewards (and to some degree site ranking) are boosted approximately 5 x 5 = 25 times. Also the system is still being actively developed and so these algorithms might possibly change. I am not one of the developers of this system. They are for example @dan (@dantheman), @ned, and @theoretical.
Well if you can handle us males fighting and insulting each other (apologies for that), some of the discussions in the Altcoin Discussion forum of Bitcointalk.org provide expert discussion.
I also heard the white paper needs to be updated. But I think the fundamentals will not change significantly. But reading the white paper does not insure we understand it entirely. I read it quickly in June, read it again in July, and still made some mistakes in my understanding of all the implications of the design.
I am going to ask some others if they could reply to suggest to you some learning resources.
I will definitely remember you and your offer to help on testing. I agree on needing more beginner’s information and well organized for them.
Edit: the learning resources I am aware are really not very concise and well organized:
https://medium.com/zapchain-magazine/the-best-places-on-the-internet-to-learn-about-bitcoin-a4733f9f3ac7
Curcumin works wonders for inflammation!
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Pic is very small. Blog Link?
Just added it.
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I would recommend you to visit my first post on steemit. It's about taking action and prepare yourself for success instead of waiting for whatever God to help you out. I have nothing against on the OP but the only one who's gonna change your life is YOU.
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Hello Sonia welcome to Steemit. Glad to have you here.