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The day before yesterday, I witnessed an interesting glitch of Poloniex that has given me 1 second of being a rich man with 997 bitcoins (the post is here, and you can still make me closer to that dream). Very few people around me knows about bitcoins and all, I have no one to share except dear Steemians. So I spent like 15 minutes writing it up just for sharing the fun.

I did not expect it to reach a currently eighty dollar something payout level at all! Higher than those posts that I spent hours arranging photos selected from my trips, or contemplating ideas and trying to organize it in an interesting and neat way … 

My post payouts have been quite alright lately, not really comparable to top or even second tier bloggers (by a digit at least!), but enough to make me grateful for being blessed (see those posts by new authors? hang in there guys!). The point is - what makes them, my own posts, different from each other in terms of payouts?

This fun and impromptu post obviously grabs more attention from readers or curators … 

If you think - it might be just one whale that accidentally sees it and upvotes it… you cannot generalize it…. Yeah, good for you, you’ve got the essence of Steemit! :)

Record High Pageview for Me!!

However, no, I have further evidence - the “pageviews” (something that is not on the blockchain, probably a Steemit UI stats). This post has generated 126 pageviews so far!! The highest number from my own posts to my memory!! (this number is not accurate for some much older posts as it was introduced half way and been broken for a few time). Even compared with my recent posts with higher payouts, the pageview is under 100 and sometimes less than 50.

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Obviously everyone loves to be generally rewarded by higher payouts. But over the past months of blogging, pageview has always been a secret measure of my own satisfaction from blogging other than payouts. Because it means someone does read your post!! And that makes me feel good!

And now it is this post that seems to achieve the climax of this index … What does it mean?

For now, my conclusion is - people are really attractive by keywords like getting rich, wealth, investment … 

Naturally. This is a blog-and-get-paid site and people come to blog and … yes, get paid or get rich, even better. Nothing really wrong about it.

But if we, as bloggers, have to write something about getting rich, so we can get rich…. Doesn’t it sound a little bit … unsustainable?

Honestly, I don’t know. That’s why I wrote this piece up. Maybe I will write more about money related posts, maybe not.

A Powerful Concept from Ned

But I recall that our captain @ned brought this exciting term to our attention eight months ago - Attention Economy !! Yes!!

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Please check this post by @mrosenquist if you are not familiar with this history ..

https://steemit.com/steemit/@mrosenquist/attention-economy-of-steemit

To be honest, I haven’t seen anything relevant being implemented since this term was brought up. Maybe the secret weapon is still waiting for the best timing to come out. It doesn’t matter.

But, with the attention I am getting from my previous post, it seems most convenient to attract those who want to get money from this site, but then we will become more money centered and post more about it … and then … as I have asked earlier ….

Doesn’t it sound a little bit … unsustainable?

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茶館緣由與開張請見…

🍵 老道茶館 🍵－請上坐，喝杯茶，說點事 🍵 LAODR Tea House [beta]🍵 170324

先前茶館帖請見 #laodr-teahouse 標籤內… 

For English customers, see here… 

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今日話題：追求財務自由？

看到昨天steemit社區的 @matt-a 說他剛辭職，邁向自由業，準備實現財務自由 (link)，令人好羨慕！我知道這裡很多人都是自由行業的，也有很多人想這麼做，但畢竟不容易….

幣價雖然今天跌，但最近還是上漲趨勢，也給人更多想像空間了！

今天就聊這個吧！

• 你是自由業的話，分享一下？成功失敗都行！


• 你想要這樣做的話，分享想法？


• …

本日開店：@deanliu ，歡迎光臨，準備茶水去了….  但下午沒空，所以…. 

本日店小二：@oflyhigh     

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歡迎光臨！上茶囉！

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Read carefully, for 1 second, not in 1 second. LOL!!

When I use Poloniex today, in one split second … I saw this and got stoned for just 1 second.

I have 997 Bitcoins and only 0.178 Steem, and the price of Steem is 2,670 BTC!!!

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And the world returned to normal as it was… before you even realize it…

The real amount of BTC I have is …. 0.17. Not too bad… really. But I still miss that second… 

Hope I can dream about it tonight. :)  

Just sharing for fun. Oh, how to do it? Just switch between different coin markets and you might get it!

photo from pixabay and poloniex.

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A week ago I wrote a post for letting more know about the existence of a welcoming bot - @welcomebot and it seems it has welcome 1953 new users now!! Only in 9 days! Incredible and well done! 

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It has also slightly changed its avator from red heart to a blue one with Steem logo.

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I have promised in that post that 

Liquid Rewards Sharing: 1/3 to @welcomebot , 1/3 to the new user from whom I learnt about this bot (will be a surprise for him), and 1/3 keep for myself. 

And the payout is confirmed now. The liquid reward is $37.302 SBDs. 1/3 of it is about $12.5 SBDs

The question is … who is this “new user from whom I learnt about this bot” that will get these SBDs? 

The answer is …. @pamanbear who just joined this month!

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Here is his introductory post and here is the latest post. Vid is his name. Vid is living in Sydney Australia and works in the area of art and design. He didn’t know about this little surprise. I am sure. As I have offered to help him a little bit during his early stage on Steemit. So we had some conversations on Steemit.chat already. 

I haven’t told him yet. So… 

Congratulations Vid! I hope Enjoy your time here! 

Since I will be earning more from this post, I will increase the money to $15 SBDs each. So, please continue supporting @welcomebot and maybe upvote @pamanbear ‘s post if you like it. We haven’t had the fortune to see his art post yet… So, Vid, what are you waiting for? :)

Last, as always… to the moon!

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the first and last photos from pixabay. 

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The key to what I state in the title is …. You have to believe that Steem has a bright future. If you don’t, maybe this post isn’t for you because the confidence is all that matters.

A Simple Calculation on An Old Post

Okay, you are still reading! Great. Let me show you why. This morning when I was taking a little time out to re-live my old Steemit times (going though old posts and comments…), I saw this one with 100% SP - the #2 of my [Luxury Hotel Series] (which I haven’t dished out even the second hotel yet.. lol). Out of curiosity, I decided to check how much it had earned for me. No, not the payout number shown below as - first, it is the total payout, not the author’s cut and secondly, I wanted to know how much SPs (Steems in shareholder form) it had generated at that time.

[along this process I also discovered a very useful tip for blogging. you may check it here if interested]

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Finding your reward from old posts isn’t an easy task at all. Not possible on Steemit.com as I realized after trying that it only offers up to one month old reward record [correct me if I am wrong]. So, I try, as a muggle, to find other sources. Seems not possible on Steemd as it has too many transactions and no search function.

Steemdb.com by @jesta seems to be my final hope? After I looked it up, bingo! It didn’t let me down. Thanks again to these great developers! … without whom, Hermione can only be a pure muggle, not a witch. :)

So I have got the number! 

With a total payout of $12.7. At that time, Steem price is about 0.000157 btc, or $0.115 USD. Guess how many SPs did that post earn (again, it is 100%SP post)?

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Steem Roller Coaster, Anyone!?

So, what’s wrong with low Steem price!? If you have faith and the commitment to it. As I said above, all that matters is your faith and endurance. $12 post at that time wasn’t anything special (but I have been and still am grateful), not special today as well. But it is so precious to have generated so many Steems for them to grow later until today. This is the magic of time and crytocurrency. I think. 

Steem price is like the roller coaster ride. Up and downs are normal rather than exceptions. You don’t need to be a trader to profit, you might lose big. Just hang on and enjoy anything you see and feel during the journey. Don’t get off. This is once a life time opportunity. No matter how others might be gaming the system, secretly robbing the rewards, or earning disproportional rewards … let it be. It’s the reflection of our versatile world. Focus on yourself. Earn $1 today, it might become $100 tomorrow. 

As long as you believe, during this crazy ride. fun, is’t it?

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As Steem price grows back to its old level, it might goes up. To the moon yeah!! Or down to the hell again. But what I have shown is that we don’t have to be sad, we should even embrace it. As long as you have what? _ !  Yes, you’ve got that. :)

$0…. $4! … $3 $2 $1 …….. $0.5 …… $0.3…….$0.1!! … $0.07!! OMG

….  $0.1.. $0.2.. $0.5… $1!… $2!! OMG …. 

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Keep Your Faith and Let Time Do the Trick

As a mundane and ordinary blogger/muggle like me, you can just let TIME be your friend and let it do its magic. Keep blogging, commenting, interacting, curating, networking and learning … Don’t worry about the price. The price is the value discovery process for outsiders. If you have already discovered its value and believe in it, then leave the discovery activity (aka price) to others. 

You will be rewarded by all kind of true values - friendship, knowledge, freedom and yes, monetary income. Sometimes, you’ll just have to wait. It ain’t feel like waiting at all to me. Almost a year for me. 

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Well, thanks for listening to my mumbo jumbos! I hope somehow someone out there is reading and benefit from it so my reward is justified. Tell you a secret - I am not gonna sell it anytime soon… 

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Okay, let me skip the process of nagging about how Steemit used to be blah blah blah … The fact NOW is - you cannot edit a post older than 7 days. So you, the author, would be just like anyone else - a reader. What else? No one can touch it after 7 days! Says Steem blockchain. 

Are you going to show us the secret way to bypass the blockchain and alter it!? (with excitement~)

Of course not, you silly. Nobody, really, nobody can mess with blockchain ok!?

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However, today as I dig through my old piles of posts (purpose of which is blogged here), I found out a surprise!! You can literally keep the editing status of the post even after no matter how long! This post of mine is 7 months old so it’s like from the Jurassic Period of Steem and it still works (I must had left it that way during my last editing)! You still cannot edit, but you will have access to “copy and paste!!” [woohoo! the holy grail of the internet age]. This is so important to us, the muggles, right!? my fellow muggles!? :)

Follow me and I will show you … 

See this post of mine on Nov 22, 2016. Almost 7 months ago.  [it was quite a hard time for Steem actually… not like lately]

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When I clicked it today, I saw the following status (you won’t see this as a reader) … What!? What’s wrong? Looks like I am still editing!! I can add texts however I like and move things around … and I can switch it to the Raw HTML mode too!!

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BUT!! This is just an illusion. When you really try to save the changes, error message appears (voice from the blockchain God!)

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Still, we don’t really want to edit old posts… that doesn’t earn me anything, does it!? 

We just want to copy from our old posts our maybe signature, maybe useful image links or something I always like to quote, etc… and paste it to our new post. So this, be it a bug of Steemit or not, is cool to have at the moment.

BUT!! It is important to remember - once you click the CANCEL button, this status is gone forever!! FOREVER!! No~!!

So be very careful if you want to keep it that way for later use. It’s like the trust from a woman - once you break it, you can never get it back….

And another reminder - check those recent posts near the 7 days mark and if you might copy them in the future, keep it in editing mode!!

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Steem on to the big ocean~~~ 

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