I've had plans for a couple weeks to get my first taste of #hivepud...

I wanted my first time to be special, and originally planned on doubling my HP. For once though, the universe wasn't completely against me, and I got a great deal by buying in today! I did have a bit of trouble with the whole ordeal, but adversity only makes the end result sweeter, right?

Buying HIVE with fiat isn't exactly the easiest thing to do.

I was having a lot of trouble buying in this morning. I'm pretty sure there's no place I can just buy HIVE directly with a debit card, so I wanted to buy Litecoin to swap for HIVE with @blocktrades. Something about my debit card just wasn't having it, and I kept getting processing errors. I don't think Bank of America wants people buying crypto with their cards...

No bigs. Where there's a will, there's a way.

I know that I can buy crypto through Coinbase with Paypal, and despite that not being my favored route for a number of reasons, I guess I'll have to eat the fees on this one. Still, HIVE is sitting around $0.15 when I bought in, so I'm still winning. However, this means I have to leave my house to deposit cash into my Paypal account. This means an $2.50 ATM withdrawal fee, and a $3.95 deposit fee at the Dollar General down the street. 🤦‍♂

Think about the sweet deal, Sweeney. Wu Sah

Okay. So I deposited $150 at the store, then bought 3.1 Litecoin for $145. Trading it for HIVE was super quick and smooth as always thanks again to @blocktrades, and within a few minutes, I finally converted my fiat to HIVE.

I got 923 HIVE for that $145!

Like I said at the start of this post, I originally planned on at least doubling up. My current Hive Power is still only a shamefully meager 343.582, so I knew it wouldn't be too hard to do. With what I got, though, now I'm tripling my current Hive Power!

In over 3 years, my Steem Power never hit 1,000.

I've always used STEEM/HIVE as money, and have withdrawn a very large majority of my post earnings over those years. I've never been one to save money, no less invest money, and Steemit never pushed me over that line despite it having such an affect on my life that I felt it deserved a permanent spot on my hands to look at while I type... Hive is different, and we have a real opportunity here to make this platform everything we once envisioned and more.

I believe in the power of HIVE, and for the first time in my life, I'm determined to save as much money for the future as I can. This will be the first time I've invested so much directly into buying and staking HIVE, and I'm ready to start putting in more than I'm taking out. I know 1,000HP isn't HUGE or anything in the grand scheme, but I'm honestly proud of myself for this accomplishment, however small anyone else may think it is. This is my first big step toward being a Dolphin, and I'm not going to hold my breath or anything, but it would be amazing if I were in a position to be able to double or triple down again next month! I'll just have to play that by ear 😅

I'm so happy to be able to take part in Power Up Day!

With rest of the HIVE I got, I'm going to pump up my @dcitygame to make this little stack grow and contribute to next month's PUD! If you're not playing dCity yet, you're truly missing out!

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