Road to Hero Rank + My Bitcointalk story (motivation & Journey).

[nelson4lov]

Hello Everyone, If you're reading this, say hello to the soon-to-be hero member of the community. 🙏

I'll keep the thread as short as possible, wouldn’t want to bore y'all with long talks.

On becoming a member:

In late 2016, I picked an interest in bitcoin, then I did a couple of Google searches about bitcoin and this forum was in a lot of the results so I got here and read some threads. I even got to read the one made by the man himself, Satoshi. The movement sounded interesting so it didn't take long for me to become a member of bitcointalk. I became a member of this wonderful community on November 14, 2016. As a new member, I barely knew anything about key terms like bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, blockchain etc.

With time, I got familiarized with some concepts, terms and nitty-gritty stuffs, too. Becoming a hero member has been one of my goals since I joined the community. It has taken me years to achieve it due to the fact that I got admitted to a university to study computer science so majority of my time was spent on books. That is also the reason why I was inactive for several months. Right now, my school workload is a bit reduced so I'm still on track with my goals.

Bitcointalk Services-  My first freelance gig

Like everyone else,  this community has been an integral part of my life since joining. I've learnt and experienced so much. Thanks to the earning opportunities on the forum, I was able to get myself some web development courses to learn and practice. On June 28th, I got a pm from the OP of this thread about working on a web project and God so kind, I got my very first freelance gig here on the forum and the feeling was aaaamazing! Since Bitcoin is spearheading the next generation of financial system, it's important to know that we can get skilled up in blockchain/crypto and be able to benefit from everything bitcoin offers to us. A lot of companies pays their employees with bitcoin and other cryptos. It's happening!

Motivation and Highlights:

Bitcoin is a movement, one that I'm glad to be a part of. The next couple of years would be phenomenal for everyone currently in the space. Being part of the next financial evolution  alongside other strong believers and enthusiasts has been one of my biggest motivation till date.

Some threads I was opportune to write:

• How to know if your email address was part of an email breach: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5201569
• Bitcoin's historic events from 2018: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5224282
• Tools for your trading toolbox: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5256505
• How to use different order types: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5267221

Gratitude:
I want to say thank everyone  who has played a vital role in my time here on the forum, whether you pointed out a mistake I made, merited me etc, I want to say a big thank you for bringing me a step closer to my goal.

To everyone else looking to get to higher ranks, just keep persevering. With time, everything will fall in to place.

Next steps:

To become more involved with the community and contribute to more open source projects (crypto-related) with my coding skills!

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[SquirrelJulietGarden]

4 years of works and you will get it soon. I admired you on what you did, your contributions, your dedication, your patience to not give up, and all your works you provided in OP.

Your plans to develop more inspires me too.

Congrats in advance and hope that I will get that rank next four years.

I don't have much smerit so only one for you.

[Charles-Tim]

To be sincere, you have really tried on the forum, I will like newbies and junior members to really emulate people like you, I like people ranking up, it is a good thing I believe every members of the forum will like. I will encourage you to continue contributing on this forum, I always respect all quality contributors, they are all helpful especially for beginners and people that have just started knowing about bitcoin.

[c_atlas]

Great thread, I'm studying math and computer science and am pretty motivated to rank up in the forum as well so I definitely appreciate your reflection! Best of luck on your open source journey, I think it'll be a great endeavour.

[Cadaver20]

Another inspirational story for Beginners. After almost 4 years of struggle, you are now on the verge of your next rank "Hero member".

Becoming a hero member has been one of my goals since I joined the community.

I don't think you have to stop being a hero member.  You have to be a real hero. The forum expects a lot from you.

Anyway congratulations in advance and a little push to your next rank.

[Assface16678]

The good day right now I see again another member who achieves another rank because all of it's hard work and I'm looking forward to your content and contribution.

I hope you will going to the road to legendary even it takes months I think you can achieve this. Advance congratulations to you.

To the members especially newbies I encourage you to see this as a motivation to earn merits as a reflection of the good members.

[CryptocurencyKing]

In four years, your still a Sr. member and is just about to get an up grade! A lot of persons will fall off on the way, or feel contented with where they are. It's really amazing the years of work in trying to understand a thing more better and yet, your still in the process, even when your yet to see the rewards of your long term effort. That's some of the lessons the forum teaches. It's all about patience. How much devotion your ready to put in the unknown and uncertain. Testimonies like this is quite useful in to others as per possibilities and settling for less is a zero option and to owner of OP as per responses received.
It's a good one and your surely doing wonderfully.

[sujonali1819]

Only 6 merits are left to celebrate your next wave. I will help you by giving 1 merit   (generally I sent 1 merit)
Btw you are really very near to the gorgeous feelings that I have felt it when I ranked up last time. Newbies/bounty hunters should learn from these threads.
Congrats to rank up. You deserve it so you are going to get it.

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

Big congratulations brother, I remember when I was about the full member rank when I first encountered you on the forum. Without doubt you have done quite well for yourself ranking up to this level. I know this would had come sooner if not for the real life issue you had to tackle first that took most of your time. At some time when I noticed some reduction in your activity, I remember reaching out to you and you explained everything. Just hope everything is going well now and that which you wanted, you have achieved.

Just gave you the remaining 4 merit to rank up. Congratulations once again. Can't wait to see you celebrate the legendary rank, you deserve everything you've achieve and will be achieving soon.

[Smartvirus]

Hero you are indeed. Congrats mate.
It's really an exciting believing that you can archive a thing and you finally do. 2016-2020 it's way much time! In fact, it's long enough to start and finish a course/program in a tertiary institution. That tells you how serious bitcointalkforum is.
It takes patience, devotion and enthusiasm towards Bitcoin to be able to persist and build a fortune for you. The good thing about the forum is that, you don't necessarily need to have it all figured out to be here, neither do you need all the above virtues to be here, the forum teaches you. The odds of you going through successfully always rests with you. Firstly,
The work required is doubled at each increase you get. Patience!
It doesn't get easier, you get tougher. Devotion!
The higher you go, the harder it becomes. Enthusiasm
These would always see you through.
Congrats once more on your new rank @Nelson4lov.

[GeorgeJohn]

Congratulations bro for your new achievement in community, just recently I noticed that life in these community alway been rotating until it gets to a certain point the user want through determination,engagement, and Hardworking,everyone have to give himself encouragement and hope because know hope is lost.op started from newbies, Jr member, member, full member, sr member and today is a hero member, it's obvious to sight of beginners that " a journey of thousands Mile's started with a step" and never believe without multitude on your back know hope or you will never make it.
Just Think Big And Start Small
Once again I congratulate you is not easy to accelerate.

[taufik123]

Congratulations to those of you who have made new achievements in this forum.
Being a productive and contributing member in this forum is a good thing and not many members have been able to survive until now. I also joined this forum in 2016 where during those years there were still not many scam projects and Bitcoin news was still not crowded.

We have passed many historical events until now, so that we are able to achieve the highest rank well. Starting from an easy ranking increase to implementing a merit system that should make us try even more to reach the highest rank.

2016-2017 has been a good year for bounty hunters and many successful projects. but entering 2018 until now there are many fraudulent projects, ICO and IDEO scams so these are very dark years.

Once again, congratulations to you for reaching the Hero Member rank.

Next steps:
To become more involved with the community and contribute to more open source projects (crypto-related) with my coding skills!

Hopefully your next step can be helpful developer and coder contributors to this forum. because skiing coding is a skill that is needed at this time.

[pakhitheboss]

By the end of this month, I also hope to reach the Full Member rank. I got highly motivated by your thread and I hope you contribute more of such inspiration topics to this forum.

Congratulation to you..

[ScamViruS]

Big Congratulations to you for your rank up. You are now a hero member. This journey of yours was not a day or two at all, for four years you were involved with the community which is a really great experience. Newbies should be inspired by your success.

There are many new members who quit bitcointalk because they can't rank up, but they don't want to contribute to the community. Without contributing to the community, expecting something big will not give you good results. I am also dreaming of becoming a hero member oneday. Hopefully my dream will come true.

Congratulations to you again.

[Mysally]

I have your story, it is amazing and motivating. I congratulate you and I will work hard to become someone like you in the future.

[nelson4lov]

Your plans to develop more inspires me too.

Congrats in advance and hope that I will get that rank next four years.

I don't have much smerit so only one for you.

Thank you, I do appreciate. It went a long way to help me. No matter how long it took me, it was definitely worth it.
 

Big congratulations brother, I remember when I was about the full member rank when I first encountered you on the forum. Without doubt you have done quite well for yourself ranking up to this level. I know this would had come sooner if not for the real life issue you had to tackle first that took most of your time. At some time when I noticed some reduction in your activity, I remember reaching out to you and you explained everything. Just hope everything is going well now and that which you wanted, you have achieved.

Just gave you the remaining 4 merit to rank up. Congratulations once again. Can't wait to see you celebrate the legendary rank, you deserve everything you've achieve and will be achieving soon.

Thanks bro. It took a long time but it was definitely worth it. Being a Hero member now, I just feel fulfilled. It's been a long time coming. My next goal now would be to achieve legendary rank. Thanks a lot for your support thus far. I really appreciate.

I have your story, it is amazing and motivating. I congratulate you and I will work hard to become someone like you in the future.

Thank you. I'm glad to hear my story inspire you. Just put in the work. With time, everything would fall into place.

[bakasabo]

Even though I'm not in a rush to get a new rank, ranking-up happens in itself and such topics motivates me to go forward or at least plan to do something useful and not just wait.

I never paid much attention to forum ranks. Getting Member happened unexpected, simply by chatting here. Later I figured out I'm in 15-20 merit away from Full member rank. Now, all of a sudden, I'm 21 merit away from Sr.Member. And frankly speaking, after getting Full member I thought that Sr.Member is something far away.

Congratulations nelson4lov. Now you just need to do last hard step to get Legendary

[Lorence.xD]

OP's topic about e-mail breach is pretty helpful, I used it on my e-mails (Personal, Business, School) to see if I became an idiot and got my mail breached. Heard about the site from a Twitch Streamer Kitboga that specializes in Scambaiting. Anyways, good job ranking up OP.

Here is the site: https://haveibeenpwned.com

You can use it to check suspicious e-mails as they can be stolen e-mails.

[nelson4lov]

Congratulations nelson4lov. Now you just need to do last hard step to get Legendary

Thanks a lot, Bakasabo. I do hope you achieve your next rank up pretty soon. It only gets better with time. Goodluck. Thanks for stopping by to celebrate this achievement with me

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OP's topic about e-mail breach is pretty helpful, I used it on my e-mails (Personal, Business, School) to see if I became an idiot and got my mail breached.

Yes, I've found the website to be helpful but these days, I prefer to use Firefox monitor: https://monitor.firefox.com/ to check. Recently, Google chrome integrated a data breach checker into chrome browser too. Either service is good so far you take the necessary step after the discovery.

I want to take a moment to appreciate everyone who supported and joined me to celebrate my hero member rank achievement. Those I could quote and those I couldn't quote, I appreciate everyone. Thanks everyone. This is me being grateful ❤️🙂🙂🙂

[erikoy]

Congratulations, that is one of a kind achievement here in the forum after the introduction of rank and merits. As we all know that ranking up is difficult especially to the average poster. This is one of the best thing that happen to our account seeing it grow in rank. But the journey does end for you still have to continue the other road which is the road to become a legendary user. Continue to help and inspire others to do as well especially to the newcomers, newbie and low rank users of bitcointalk forum.