Dolphin Hood has Arrived

in Hive.IO Community4 years ago

June 10th, 2020

Dolphin Status Achieved

Today was my third power down of steem, and today that power down has allowed me to reach the second plateau in my Block Chain life. I now have 5000 HP. I remember it like it was only yesterday, but it was almost three years ago. Looking at and dreaming of the day I would reach Dolphin Status. Back then 5000 Steem powered up, meant a pretty hefty vote from Dolphins, today, not so much.

A lot has changed over the course of the three years I have been active on the Block Chain. I myself have changed a bit over the course of the three years, the first year I did a lot of reading, and ogling over other peoples pictures. I wanted to do picture post, but all I had was a smart phone, that was my start though, that got me going on my photo journey through the Block Chain.

I got a nice brand new Nikon D7500 Camera a couple Christmas's ago, and have been having fun with pictures and words since then. Every post I felt needed a picture, and I really did not want to use other peoples pictures, the problem was solved. I am by no stretch of the imagination a professional or even an amateur photographer, I am just a back yard photo kind of guy, and those are the ones I like to see.

So since every post needs a picture:
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It is not a very pretty picture, it will never win any photo competition, but I think it fits well with my travel down the Block Chain road. There have been some tight spots in that journey. I have been hit by a full deck of cards in down votes on a simple question early on.

Like the Dandelion, coming up through the cracks of pavement and bricks I continued, I did not give up. It would have been easy to do, all the other Social Media outlets I tried were just not really what I wanted to participate in.

The Block Chain however was different. The content was real, while some of it was people trying to impress other people with how smart or how pretty or how brainy they were, there were even more just ordinary people, people just sharing little tid-bits of life, sharing their backyard view through pictures.

There were also some professional people, real authors who were serializing their books to the readers on the Chain. This was what first attracted me to the Block Chain. A free peek so to speak of stories published, of stories being written, of help being sought, of just plain old sit around the campfire and tell a story. I loved it, I still do.

Back to the flower, as it struggled up through the cracks, I also struggled, i also like to think I bought a little bit of beauty into the Block Chain via one or two of my post. I feel that over the course of time I have blossomed a little bit, and as the dandelion goes into its next phase, I hope that I have set free a few seeds for people to think about.

I know there have been a lot of post that have made me think, the authors have spread their fluff and stuff and some of it takes hold and in time the seeds are planted and sprout anew. Spreading joy, wonder and thoughts through the winds of the Block Chain.

Dandelion seeds don't need much, just a breath of fresh air and they are carried off to heights and depths unknown. That is the Block Chain, there is so much potential for people, it just takes a little bit of time, plant the seed, let it grow.

I want to thank each and every person that has helped me to reach Dolphin Status, it was a long road, it was hard at times, but my seed found a resting spot somewhere along the way and then it planted itself and began to grow. Thank you all for the nurturing and caring enough to help my growth and expansion.


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Congratulations 🎉 reaching dolphin status ❤ @bashadow! :-)

Thank you, it was a long road. Your next.

Congrats. I still have some months to go, but hoping by the end of summer I will be joining you.

I also want to learn more about taking pictures. I bought a decent dslr camera, but have quickly learnt that the camera doesn't make up for the photographers lack of skills, lol.

Next stop will be Orca for you and hopefully I will be close behind you then as well.

If I could buy the most expensive camera system on the market, the best lenses, and gyroscopic controlled tripod, I would still be just a backyard type photographer, but I do like it, the DSLR does help, and I am slowly learning how to take better pictures, mostly by looking close at the pictures of others that I like to get a better feel for composition.

I look forward to the day I am an Orca.

WELL...!!! Congratulations, my old friend...😁 I can hardly wait for my 'next' up-vote from a new Dolphin (hint, hint)

That sounds good, and thanks.

Congrats.

Thank you.

Hey, @bashadow.

Congratulations on the achievement. I'd like to say it's all downhill from here, but so far, it's still been uphill. :)

Even so, who knows what kinds of things lie just beyond the horizon that will aid us all on this HIVE journey were on. May you continue to see success, achieve whatever it is you hope to achieve on HIVE, and have fun in the process.

Onward and upward.

achieve whatever it is you hope to achieve on HIVE

I actually have no idea what I want to achieve other than have a place to have fun and share things, who knows maybe one day it will be a supplementary income. It, for the most part, has been fun.

Thanks and up or down hill my ride will continue for awhile.

I am fond of dandelions.

Congrats on the dolphin status ! 🐬🐬🐬

I think dandelions are underrated. Thank you.

You are "almost" there.

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Just traded some LTC for HIVE myself to push myself past the 10MVEST marker. Using traded STEEM to reach dolphin just doesn't feel right, with the whole blockchain heist and all, so I'm pumping those (mostly) into #creativecoin stake at the moment instead.

You are almost there. I think if you power up the liquid HIVE, you should just about crosh the 10MVEST treshold.

Using Steem to reach dolphin is pretty much the only use case I have for Steem. I don't have a KYC account, likely will be a long time before I have one. To me Steem is a useless except for converting to another token, and for me all other tokens are useless because I have no intention right now of learning how to withdraw any tokens or convert to US Dollars.

What Justin Sun did to Steem and the Community did not feel right to me. So I have no issues at all with people trading/using their Steem to make Hive, I have no issue with people double posting on Steem and Hive to make more Steem to buy more Hive Tokens, just as I have no issue with people posting the same content to their Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, or telegraph or what ever other Social Site they use. It is their content, they can do with it what they want.

I have two more power downs on Steem to do. I had a lot of fun on Steem, I learned a lot on Steem, I will always have more fond memories of Steem than the two and a half months of bad memories caused by Justin Sun and his Corporate Hostile Takeover.

Congrats for your level up & cool that you still support newcomers by the way! 😉

Thank you, not an easy thing to do with no crypto experience, but the Hive Fork and transferring over from steem has help me a lot.

Yes indeed, I also changed some steem to hive with the help of my sister @lizanomadsoul. It's awesome that we have our own hive chain, now. 😎

It's a long grind but it's an accomplishment, congrats!

Thank you, it has been fun for the most part.

Very good news! Congrats! You did very well indeed. An inspiration to others!
Thanks.