Light At The End Of The Tunnel

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Where I come from, it is very unbelievable to tell someone there is a social media platform that rewards its users for writing about their lives, sharing their thoughts and engaging with people.

Usually, from our part of the world all it takes to convince someone into any new venture is to talk about money. But that was not the case the me. I was told all these but why was hive different?

Prior to me registering for hive, I was with my friends on this platform that gave us trading signals to trade on and make profits. We had what we called levels which were 8. The owner or whoever he is was called Suresh and we usually traded at 12pm, 3pm, 8pm. SO what happened was that he would give us these signals to either trade buy or sell which is also long and short.

Of course, knowing a bit about cryptocurrencies, I very much distrusted the platform. It had scam written all over it. When I was sent an invite link for this CG platform as it was called, I told myself I would not join but after hearing how much 2 of my friends made I decided to join but with a small amount. You could call it peer pressure 😒.

Hehe, I bet you know what comes next. I got greedy after seeing how much I could earn. I added a few dollars to my investment which grew even bigger. Eid was approaching and just I planned to use the money for some stuff, the platform crushed. You could trade alright and make deposits but no withdrawals.

Suresh told us to hang on and keep trading because the site had a problem and it would soon be restored. All that was a lie.




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Being very upset with myself for falling victim to something like this I foolishly tried to make my money back by joining another ponzi scheme. I did not even last a week in that one and I got scammed. Remembering all this makes it even funny.

After all these, I said to myself I was going to stay away from anything crypto related for a while because quite frankly, I was angry and disappointed at myself. It was during this time, my friend @depressedfuckup came with hive.

He pitched hive to me and just because I did not want anything to do with crypto and for him not to worry me I created an account. I just did that so he would leave. Sorry Zo haha. I did my own digging after some months and already having an account made exploring the hive platform a lot easier.

I realized hive was more than just dumping your post and expecting rewards but also a great place to connect with people from different parts of the world and learn a lot of stuff. I saw my friend for more tips and he helped.

Unfortunately for me when I picked myself up from the ponzi schemes, it was school examinations time and I could not immediately start blogging. I kept hive on hold and finished my exams.

After my exams I started my hive journey and soon realized the platform has good tokens aside hive and hbd for people to invest in. I have made small investments in the hive engine tokens which I hope will significantly help my portfolio.

To summarize, I joined hive through my friend. I did not join immediately because I was in a slumber and was skeptical since from where I come from, we do not usually here of platforms like these. Any one involved in an online venture is labelled a scammer or a “game boy”.


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Since joining, I have enjoyed my time here and hope to be here for a very long time.

This is an entry to @ecency-star contest which you can find here. Having missed out on the last one because of procrastination, I said to myself I was going to make an early entry this week hehe.

Thank you.



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Lol I’m just glad that eventually you came back. I’ve told a lot of people about Hive (and currently still telling many), but most either don’t go far enough as creating an intro post, or they create an intro post but fall off after the intro.

I’m trying really hard to forget CG, but it seems the story just keeps popping up because at any point, one of us is reminiscing the scam of our lives. Lol maybe we’ll be able to put it behind us for good in a year or something?

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It’s really hard to forget CG bro. It has become a big part of our financial life.

To be on a platform like this takes a lot of dedication and motivation. Maybe the people you’re speaking to aren’t just motivated enough at the moment

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Our stories seemed similar. I have been somewhere before I came to hive and I still have the token of the platform. It is worth nothing again.
I am glad that I found Hive. The reward system is quite appreciative.

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It does sound similar. What platform is that if I may ask?

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Great post. We all can't forget about CG. Suresh eer🤣🤣🤣

Good luck in the contest

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😂 we can never forget. Thank you bro

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