{"id":14437,"date":"2019-07-19T19:02:40","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T07:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/?p=14437"},"modified":"2021-09-11T19:05:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T07:05:11","slug":"how-i-made-twelve-and-a-half-grand-for-a-blog-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wordpress\/how-i-made-twelve-and-a-half-grand-for-a-blog-post\/","title":{"rendered":"HOW I MADE TWELVE AND A HALF GRAND FOR A BLOG POST"},"content":{"rendered":"

GET RICH BY BLOGGING!<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

Back in 2016, in the early days of the blogging platform Steemit – when it still looked like an awesome new blogging platform rather than a massive Ponzi scheme – certain key accounts were flinging money about in an apparent effort to bring in new users.<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of my first posts got a $404 payout. Although the whole thing looked a bit suspect, I didn’t look a gift horse in the mouth – I just went “choice mate, thanks a lot” – https:\/\/steemit.com\/photography\/@sift666\/my-obsessive-polaroid-photo-fetish<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Next I started learning about crypto currencies, and by early 2017 was hanging out to get started. So I cashed out some of my Steemit earnings and bought some Bitcoins. They were only US$1000 (1) back then so US$404 bought 40% of a Bitcoin.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Cryptos went nuts that year, and by the time Bitcoin went up over $15000 I was getting very sweaty and nervous. I managed to cope with the stress until they hit $17 000 (2) then sold the lot and breathed a sigh of relief. They actually peaked for a short time at $19000 but $17k was an awesome point to ditch them.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So 40% of a Bitcoin went up from US$400 to US$6800. Then convert that into NZ$ and it becomes NZ$10300. Next I used that money to buy gold bullion when it was $NZ1700 an ounce, and now it is up to NZ$2100 an once, so that $10300 went up an extra 23% and become NZ$12669<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The next gamble is seeing if some more Bitcoin bought at US$5000 (3) can be timed for sale that well again – I’m just waiting for that nervous sweaty feeling to come back, and then it will be time to zip over to the the bullion shop – https:\/\/www.mygold.co.nz<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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