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Topic: Steemit and STEEM are not Dead - page 2. (Read 506 times)
And just btw, Steemit just made a Greeters Team.
They are trying to start over after the War with the Bitsharestalk.org based Witnesses.
They are trying to start over after the War with the Bitsharestalk.org based Witnesses.
STEEM is not dead, but it is slowly dying. The number of steem users is slowly going down IMO. Their main competitor medium is way ahead of them in terms of users.
Medium and Reddit are there main competitors. Although medium has an edge in terms of the number of published article per day but Reddit has a lot of user and interaction daily. Steemit is slowly dying because there is no or only few good content creator out there. There log in method too was very hassle, If you forgot your account key, your steemit account was already loss and there is no way to recover it. I stop using it because its very hassle to login my account on any device you need your account key to sign and there is no way to memorize it unless you are using it regularly.
It is the best way for non Tech Savvy people to earn Crypto.
The Password is a barrier, but it is money, so I can see why they didn't want everyone's password to be "pa55word"
STEEM is not dead, but it is slowly dying. The number of steem users is slowly going down IMO. Their main competitor medium is way ahead of them in terms of users.
Medium and Reddit are there main competitors. Although medium has an edge in terms of the number of published article per day but Reddit has a lot of user and interaction daily. Steemit is slowly dying because there is no or only few good content creator out there. There log in method too was very hassle, If you forgot your account key, your steemit account was already loss and there is no way to recover it. I stop using it because its very hassle to login my account on any device you need your account key to sign and there is no way to memorize it unless you are using it regularly.
I think it's dead for more than a year. We used to use it a lot but payrates dropped down significantly. Then they changed curator system and only a few people could earn money, others work for almost free.
I wish it remained same as its first months, fair curators, good writers etc. Now it's just a big hole in crypto-currency industry.
I wish it remained same as its first months, fair curators, good writers etc. Now it's just a big hole in crypto-currency industry.
We have to rewhale it.
BLURT is about to have a Bubble, if we all invest in BLURT, we can then wait until it is $1.00 each and then buy STEEM at $0.15.
And if you buy 25,000 BLURT at $0.02 it's like $500.00
25,000 BLURT becoming $1.00 makes $25,000
Now, $0.15 STEEM means each $1.00 Buys 6+ STEEM, so $1,000 is 6,000+ STEEM, $25,000 is 150,000 STEEM.
And with 150,000 STEEM you could set your account on Auto Curate, and then invite other people to earn Upvotes from you. Then make a Scot Bot, have them earn Tokens, use your curation rewards to Buy Back Your Own Token, and sell it at higher prices. Create STEEM Communities to center your efforts.
The same exact concept can be used for BLURT and HIVE.
It is not "dead" but it is really not alive neither. I understand that you wrote a lot of stuff to help people, and this was definitely one of the best methods of making money back in the day without actually spending any money, we all (people who were around back those days) wrote to make money, instead of equipment and other stuff we had more like a "proof of writing" situation and also quality decided on how much you made.
For a while it turned into a SEO place where everyone wrote and you spent money on others to give you money, you gave them 10 bucks and they gave you 5 bucks on steem to make you more famous in order to not need it in the future to make money. But much better methods came up for making money and steem just got boring over course of years.
For a while it turned into a SEO place where everyone wrote and you spent money on others to give you money, you gave them 10 bucks and they gave you 5 bucks on steem to make you more famous in order to not need it in the future to make money. But much better methods came up for making money and steem just got boring over course of years.
Well, I am all for forms of Crypto that can be used by anyone.
What would you say is "better" than STEEM together with its clones? And by better do you just mean in terms of profit as STEEM waned, or do you mean easier?
I think it's dead for more than a year. We used to use it a lot but payrates dropped down significantly. Then they changed curator system and only a few people could earn money, others work for almost free.
I wish it remained same as its first months, fair curators, good writers etc. Now it's just a big hole in crypto-currency industry.
I wish it remained same as its first months, fair curators, good writers etc. Now it's just a big hole in crypto-currency industry.
It is not "dead" but it is really not alive neither. I understand that you wrote a lot of stuff to help people, and this was definitely one of the best methods of making money back in the day without actually spending any money, we all (people who were around back those days) wrote to make money, instead of equipment and other stuff we had more like a "proof of writing" situation and also quality decided on how much you made.
For a while it turned into a SEO place where everyone wrote and you spent money on others to give you money, you gave them 10 bucks and they gave you 5 bucks on steem to make you more famous in order to not need it in the future to make money. But much better methods came up for making money and steem just got boring over course of years.
For a while it turned into a SEO place where everyone wrote and you spent money on others to give you money, you gave them 10 bucks and they gave you 5 bucks on steem to make you more famous in order to not need it in the future to make money. But much better methods came up for making money and steem just got boring over course of years.
The STEEM community does not like Justin Sun at all, I can feel it by the way they manage to show opposition to the acquisition by making a hard fork. Now all the STEEM supporters are going to Hive.io to continue where their blockchain and crypto activities. I am not really sure how the hard fork will affect STEEM but based on the stats, STEEM still has good market cap which many people are still invested into the coin. We will see how this all works out in the coming months and years.
Here is a Simple Method you could use without too much effort.
First, Buy BLURT now. Sell BLURT at $0.50-$1.00+ (it could go as high as $5.00-$20.00) or just keep it as BLURT Power and earn Curation Rewards until Sell time.
Then Sell and use proceeds to Buy STEEM or HIVE at near $0.15. Wait for BLURT to drop, Buy more BLURT. Sell BLURT at Market spike,
Repeat
First, Buy BLURT now. Sell BLURT at $0.50-$1.00+ (it could go as high as $5.00-$20.00) or just keep it as BLURT Power and earn Curation Rewards until Sell time.
Then Sell and use proceeds to Buy STEEM or HIVE at near $0.15. Wait for BLURT to drop, Buy more BLURT. Sell BLURT at Market spike,
Repeat
On Ionomy you can sell STEEM Backed Dollars earned in your Steemit Wallet, you get BTC. You can then trade that for BLURT.
https://ionomy.com/en/markets/btc-sbd
https://ionomy.com/en/markets/btc-sbd
SBD & HBD ---> Blurt Power
Curate and Continue until Blurt is $0.50 or $1.00
Cash out 1/3 Blurt at $0.50-$1.00
Buy STEEM Power at $0.15 or so
Be a Steemit Whale. Help new people earn SBD to buy BLURT.
It is like Built-In Buy Support, we just suggest to everyone "Hey, you know you can buy BLURT with your SBD/HBD earnings?"
Curate and Continue until Blurt is $0.50 or $1.00
Cash out 1/3 Blurt at $0.50-$1.00
Buy STEEM Power at $0.15 or so
Be a Steemit Whale. Help new people earn SBD to buy BLURT.
It is like Built-In Buy Support, we just suggest to everyone "Hey, you know you can buy BLURT with your SBD/HBD earnings?"
Here is how we are going to be creating Earnings that are not like Wages, but like an Oil Well
1. Blurt, Hive, Steemit + Minnow Support + Canna-Curate + Steemit Communities (APPICS, DLIKER, PunicWax, etc) + Hive Communities
2. SBD + HBD ---> Blurt
3. Blurt + Steemit + Hive + Canna-Curate on Bitcointalk
4. Steem-Engine Tokens + Hive-Engine Tokens + Steemit Communities + Hive Communities + Scot Bots
5. TRON TRC20 Tokens + Bounty0x
5. Blurt ---> STEEM Power
6. STEEM Power to Steem-Engine and Hive Engine, back and forth continuously selling Tokens and STEEM as needed for Liquid, or buying BLURT, etc..
7. DTube Clones
8. Blurt Forks
9. Several other Blockchains
We can also start trading Gold and Silver for Currencies, once a few people do that the value will basically be backed by Gold, and the person selling Gold for Blurt at $0.02 makes tons of earnings on the Blurt Moon Ramp.
1. Blurt, Hive, Steemit + Minnow Support + Canna-Curate + Steemit Communities (APPICS, DLIKER, PunicWax, etc) + Hive Communities
2. SBD + HBD ---> Blurt
3. Blurt + Steemit + Hive + Canna-Curate on Bitcointalk
4. Steem-Engine Tokens + Hive-Engine Tokens + Steemit Communities + Hive Communities + Scot Bots
5. TRON TRC20 Tokens + Bounty0x
5. Blurt ---> STEEM Power
6. STEEM Power to Steem-Engine and Hive Engine, back and forth continuously selling Tokens and STEEM as needed for Liquid, or buying BLURT, etc..
7. DTube Clones
8. Blurt Forks
9. Several other Blockchains
We can also start trading Gold and Silver for Currencies, once a few people do that the value will basically be backed by Gold, and the person selling Gold for Blurt at $0.02 makes tons of earnings on the Blurt Moon Ramp.
You both have no idea what you are talking about. Steemit is just getting restarted.
I do not think there's a point dropping so many messages or threads about steem or steemit. Nobody certainly cares about it.
If we list potential worthy tokens for investment, steem wouldn't make top 100. One single reason why steem is relevant is because, potentially it is a very good blog site and articles are well represented there. Stick to this and always do your own research when it involves investment
If we list potential worthy tokens for investment, steem wouldn't make top 100. One single reason why steem is relevant is because, potentially it is a very good blog site and articles are well represented there. Stick to this and always do your own research when it involves investment
STEEM is not dead, but it is slowly dying. The number of steem users is slowly going down IMO. Their main competitor medium is way ahead of them in terms of users.
This is going to be a deep dive into the History of Steemit's emergence in the Crypto world, and the emergence of the Crypto world itself so everyone can understand where Steemit is now.
Image from:
https://truthingrace.com/2012/08/23/under-new-management/
### The Birth of an Economy
I first heard about Cryptocurrency around 2008, when a friend of mine mentioned something called the "Silk Road", and I had no idea what either of these things were and had 0 understanding of what a Cryptocurrency is. That may be where you are now, or you may have some experience with Cryptocurrency. A few years later, maybe 2011, there were now news articles about the Silk Road again. After reading an Article, I went to reddit did the whole Onion Browser thing, and used the URL to get to the Silk Road. Where I saw the Bitcoin symbol for the first time. It was being used like a $ Symbol, so I was confused.
฿ 6.00
So I highlighted the symbol, and copied it into Google. And a bunch of discussion on a Forum called Bitcointalk.org appeared. So I started reading. I learned about Satoshi Nakamoto, and Cryptocurrency, there was a community goal that was an extension of Satoshi's initial release of the code as Open Source, the goal was that everyone would use Cryptocurrency. It would be a Decentralized currency, not issued as Fiat by a Government. When I first got there, Bitcoins were $5.00 each. Soon after they were $30.00, then $100.00. Some people said it was a Bubble and it would "be affordable again", and this was when everyone traded on MtGox, and trading platform which was an Acronym for "Magic the Gathering Online Exchange", and you had to use a Money order to buy them. Some people began to theorize that Bitcoin was going way up, that one day we would no longer trade Bitcoins, but much smaller segments of the Coins, and these smaller pieces were dubbed "Satoshis".
Then there was Butterfly labs, and the mining farms. It no longer became feas ible to mine with a laptop or number of laptops, and the Graphics cards that had been being used for mining were also being overtaken by the ASICs.
Litecoin was created. Then it was overtaken by ASICs, so Feathercoin and DOGE were created. Eventually came the CryptoNite Algorythm, to counter ASICs and weaken them, Monero is a CryptoNote based coin like this.
### Steemit Emerges
Then Ethereum. A Blockchain Cloud, with dApps in place of Apps. Ethereum is Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS). Bitshares was maybe created before this, but is more of an Organizational Blockchain to be used like a cloud to run 1 or a few websites, while Ethereum is more Decentralized. Bitshares hosts Assets on OpenLedger, these are Token Currencies, not mined but created and owned by the creator, to then be distributed like stocks, or coupons, or tickets, etc. These are then traded on the OpenLedger platform like Cryptocurrencies.
Bitsharestalk.org is similar to Bicointalk.org and is kind of where the ICO trend incubated, and was where the Steemit Witnesses came from. Bitshares was created by Dan and Ned, on what they named the Graphene Blockchain. Their Public release of this Blockchain is called OpenLedger Fabric. IBM uses it. And they used Graphene to create Steemit.
Steemit is a Graphene Blockchain, which can and should be copied into any website model. Any Forum or City or Charity, etc, could launch a Graphene Blockchain to run their website, have Witnesses and Nodes, a Currency, and Voting. Any website could reward their users with a currency like STEEM.
About 3 years ago, the Anarcho-Capitalists came to Steemit. They are like Libertarians to the extreme, and believe the Sidewalks and Roads around you should be Private property, to be used by you as the owner sees fit and for whatever fee they deem appropriate. No Public Property, just Anarchy and Capitalism. And Dan and Ned seemed to approve of this, creating an environment that switched from the most profitable posts being those about Steemit.com or STEEM or trading Crypto, to Anarchy Podcasts and Philosophy against Taxing anyone at all ever. It was a big change, and it was not for the better. I then left the platform.
### Under New Management
Ned then sold Steemit INC to Justin Sun, who founded TRON. And based on what I read from 7 months ago, Ned must have fully and completely implied that Justin had full and complete control of Steemit, without ever having told him about the situation where all the Witnesses, which can be seen as a Board of Directors (BoD), were Bitshares people.
Steemit is a Delegated Proof of Work Staking Chain. I will break this down.
Delegated = Voting, you Upvote posts, you Vote for Witnesses, etc
Proof of Work = Bitcoin itself is a PoW chain, this simply means there is mining. So Delegated Proof of Work means that the Mining is Voted on. So not everyone can Mine STEEM, only Witnesses who are Voted for can mine STEEM.
Staking = This can be equated with Interest. STEEM has Interest associated with Holding it.
So now Delegated Proof of Work Staking Blockchain makes more sense.
So now that Steemit is "Under New Managment" I wanted to explain where it is now. When Ned sold Steemit INC it started a War with the Witnesses and eventually they forked Steemit. This means a new STEEM currency and Blockchain were created, starting from before Justin owned it, and enough people began using it to make it viable. This Platform and Currency are called HIVE. So now there are basically 2 Steemits.
### These are the new Steemit Greeters
>Achievement 1:
@fendit - for Spanish speakers and other
@tocho2 - for Venezuelan newcomers.
@randulakoralage - for Indian subcontinents and other
@tarpan - for Bangladesh newcomers.
@beautychicks - for African continents.
@njaywan - for African continents.
@radjasalman - for Indonesian newcomers.
@cryptokannon - everyone
>Achievement 2:
@rishabh99946
@kiwiscanfly
@leveuf
>Achievement 3
@beautychicks
@njaywan
@kiwiscanfly
@leveuf
>Achievement 4:
@neerajkr03
@njiatanga
>Achievement 5:
@yohan2on
@neerajkr03
@sapwood
@leveuf
>Achievement 6:
@neerajkr03
@yohan2on
@sapwood
@leveuf
>The Greeter Fairy Team
They will be guiding the newcomers that is still outside of the Newcomers Community, into the Newcomers Community and also introduce you to the programs that we The Steem Greeters Team currently have for newcomers and the Steem Community.
@belenguerra
@girolamomarotta
@besticofinder
>The Greeter
They will be greeting you and introduce you the programs in the Steem Community and also by The Steem Greeters Team.
@toufiq777
@edlili24
@adeljose
>Curators for 500SP Minnow Support Program
@rex-sumon
@edlili24
>We looking forward to guiding you in your journey to get to know Steem Ecosystem better.
>Kind Regards,
The Steem Greeters Team.
*updated 21/9/2020
https://steemit.com/hive-172186/@cryptokannon/the-steem-greeters-team-introduction
### The Old Hardfork and how it applies now
When Steemit first launched, the Rules were different. It was called Steemit Beta, which means it was a test launch. The main users were those from OpenLedger, and as it launched they decided it was going to be more of a Blog Platform than Reddit is, even with it being named after Reddit. But a few problems emerged, a big one was that people did not think it was fair that posts paid out in 24hrs, so their posts hardly got any time to collect views and earnings. So a new Blockchain was forked from the old one, and the Witnesses elected to migrate to the new chain. The new rules made payout take 7 days, and a second payout at 30 days if new votes were gotten after the 7 days. Then they also made it where if you post 2x in one day on your blog, your earnings for both are added together and divided by 2. If you post 3x, they are added up and divided by 3. They also added the follow feature so you have followers and people you follow. I believe these rules still apply, but I am not sure if posting in Communities divides your payout, or if posting in multiple Communities does, or multiple times in one Community. If you know please share in the comments.
### Communities
Mentioning Communities, these themselves are a new feature put in place by the TRON team. Communities are meant to be places of Collective Wealth, where we can come to find like minded people who can vote on our content. So they are like Reddit Subreddits /r/ which then makes the trending page more like the Reddit front page, where we independently vote and raise each other to "trending" within our groups, which translates to trending in hashtags and friend's lists, which eventually translates to front page trending. So now Steemit will seem like a much much much larger place once we have 10,000 groups to choose from. With 10,000 groups you might join 100 good groups, and never know about 100 other ones, that is how this will grow the Steemit community.
And, this creates a new posting Topic:
Directories
Each user has a little directory on their profile, here is mine
https://steemit.com/@punicwax/communities
You can also write Directories.
Here is the link to find communities
https://steemit.com/communities
If you want to vote for your first Witness, I would choose this guy. He distributes 50% of what is mined to his Voters.
https://steemit.com/@exnihilo.witness
Steemit Nursery (2 Month Incubation for New Users)
https://steemit.com/hive-172186/@cryptokannon/steemit-nursery-community-for-newcomers
Minnow Support program
https://steemit.com/hive-172186/@cryptokannon/500sp-minnow-support-program-for-newcomers
New Comers Acheivements
https://steemit.com/hive-172186/@cryptokannon/achievement-tasks-resources-and-materials-newcomers-retention
https://steemit.com/hive-167622/@steemalive/how-to-become-a-full-member-of-steemalive-community-the-steps
The Community Support Program
https://steemit.com/the1000daysofsteem/@steemitblog/1000-days-of-steem-the-communities-support-program
https://steemit.com/hive-148497/@alikoc07/steemfoods-community-established-join-us-and-earn-steem
### Posts about Steemit from the past
The STEEM White Paper
https://steemit.com/steemit/@marsresident/the-steem-white-paper
STEEM for Noobs
https://steemit.com/steemhelp/@aem/steem-for-noobs
https://steemit.com/steemit/@cryptogee/welcome-to-steem--introduce-yourselves
Cryptocurrency and Taxes
https://steemit.com/money/@marsresident/you-do-not-have-to-pay-taxes-on-cryptocurrencies-until-you-sell-them
How to Submit a Post
https://steemit.com/steemhelp/@nanzo-scoop/steemit-essentials-how-to-submit-a-blog
Introduce Yourself
https://steemit.com/journey/@marsresident/introduce-yourself
Voting and Witnesses on Steemit
https://steemit.com/steem/@marsresident/vote-for-steem
Voting on Comments
https://steemit.com/steem/@steemship/buried-treasure-make-money-upvoting-reply-posts-on-steemit
Tools for Buying, Selling and Calculating STEEM
https://steemit.com/steem/@marsresident/tools-links-for-steem-users
How to Spend Your Time on Steemit
https://steemit.com/steemit/@marsresident/steemit-time-guide-using-your-time-wisely
Using Tags
https://steemit.com/steemit-ideas/@nanzo-scoop/tags--best-practice--top-or-bottom-of-the-post
Economics 101
https://steemit.com/money/@marsresident/474mst-economics-101
Minnows, Dolphins and Whales on Steemit
https://steemit.com/steemit/@crypt0/steemit-whales-dolphins-and-minnows-the-importance-of-steem-power-on-steemit
How You Can Help Get STEEM in the News Using Just Your Email
https://steemit.com/steem/@marsresident/how-you-can-help-get-steem-in-the-news-simply-using-your-email
How DogeCoin Overtook Other Currencies
https://steemit.com/steem/@marsresident/how-dogecoin-overtook-other-cryptocurrencies
STEEM’s USD Value will Climb Throughout the Year
https://steemit.com/steem/@marsresident/steem-s-usd-value-will-climb-throughout-the-year
How STEEM Can Become the #1 CryptoCurrency
https://steemit.com/steem/@marsresident/how-steem-can-become-the-1-cryptocurrency
Steemit Could Replace Your Full Time Job
https://steemit.com/steemit/@marsresident/steemit-could-replace-your-full-time-job
Buying Gold and Silver with CryptoCurrencies
https://steemit.com/money/@marsresident/gold-silver-and-the-steem-community
Using HTML to Live Up Steemit Posts
https://steemit.com/steem/@xeldal/how-to-liven-up-your-steem-posts-with-markdown
Mining STEEM
https://steemit.com/steemhelp/@joseph/mining-steem-for-dummies
Github Archive for For STEEM App Developers
https://steemit.com/steem/@marsresident/github-cryptocurrency-app-creation-archive
Creating Your Own Currency
https://steemit.com/steem/@marsresident/make-your-own-cryptocurrency-video-tutorial
Steemit Beta
https://steemit.com/steemit/@marsresident/what-steemit-beta-means
Steemit and Non-Profit Organizations
https://steemit.com/steemit/@marsresident/steemit-and-501-3-c-organizations-or-even-local-governments
Image from:
https://truthingrace.com/2012/08/23/under-new-management/
### The Birth of an Economy
I first heard about Cryptocurrency around 2008, when a friend of mine mentioned something called the "Silk Road", and I had no idea what either of these things were and had 0 understanding of what a Cryptocurrency is. That may be where you are now, or you may have some experience with Cryptocurrency. A few years later, maybe 2011, there were now news articles about the Silk Road again. After reading an Article, I went to reddit did the whole Onion Browser thing, and used the URL to get to the Silk Road. Where I saw the Bitcoin symbol for the first time. It was being used like a $ Symbol, so I was confused.
฿ 6.00
So I highlighted the symbol, and copied it into Google. And a bunch of discussion on a Forum called Bitcointalk.org appeared. So I started reading. I learned about Satoshi Nakamoto, and Cryptocurrency, there was a community goal that was an extension of Satoshi's initial release of the code as Open Source, the goal was that everyone would use Cryptocurrency. It would be a Decentralized currency, not issued as Fiat by a Government. When I first got there, Bitcoins were $5.00 each. Soon after they were $30.00, then $100.00. Some people said it was a Bubble and it would "be affordable again", and this was when everyone traded on MtGox, and trading platform which was an Acronym for "Magic the Gathering Online Exchange", and you had to use a Money order to buy them. Some people began to theorize that Bitcoin was going way up, that one day we would no longer trade Bitcoins, but much smaller segments of the Coins, and these smaller pieces were dubbed "Satoshis".
Then there was Butterfly labs, and the mining farms. It no longer became feas ible to mine with a laptop or number of laptops, and the Graphics cards that had been being used for mining were also being overtaken by the ASICs.
Litecoin was created. Then it was overtaken by ASICs, so Feathercoin and DOGE were created. Eventually came the CryptoNite Algorythm, to counter ASICs and weaken them, Monero is a CryptoNote based coin like this.
### Steemit Emerges
Then Ethereum. A Blockchain Cloud, with dApps in place of Apps. Ethereum is Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS). Bitshares was maybe created before this, but is more of an Organizational Blockchain to be used like a cloud to run 1 or a few websites, while Ethereum is more Decentralized. Bitshares hosts Assets on OpenLedger, these are Token Currencies, not mined but created and owned by the creator, to then be distributed like stocks, or coupons, or tickets, etc. These are then traded on the OpenLedger platform like Cryptocurrencies.
Bitsharestalk.org is similar to Bicointalk.org and is kind of where the ICO trend incubated, and was where the Steemit Witnesses came from. Bitshares was created by Dan and Ned, on what they named the Graphene Blockchain. Their Public release of this Blockchain is called OpenLedger Fabric. IBM uses it. And they used Graphene to create Steemit.
Steemit is a Graphene Blockchain, which can and should be copied into any website model. Any Forum or City or Charity, etc, could launch a Graphene Blockchain to run their website, have Witnesses and Nodes, a Currency, and Voting. Any website could reward their users with a currency like STEEM.
About 3 years ago, the Anarcho-Capitalists came to Steemit. They are like Libertarians to the extreme, and believe the Sidewalks and Roads around you should be Private property, to be used by you as the owner sees fit and for whatever fee they deem appropriate. No Public Property, just Anarchy and Capitalism. And Dan and Ned seemed to approve of this, creating an environment that switched from the most profitable posts being those about Steemit.com or STEEM or trading Crypto, to Anarchy Podcasts and Philosophy against Taxing anyone at all ever. It was a big change, and it was not for the better. I then left the platform.
### Under New Management
Ned then sold Steemit INC to Justin Sun, who founded TRON. And based on what I read from 7 months ago, Ned must have fully and completely implied that Justin had full and complete control of Steemit, without ever having told him about the situation where all the Witnesses, which can be seen as a Board of Directors (BoD), were Bitshares people.
Steemit is a Delegated Proof of Work Staking Chain. I will break this down.
Delegated = Voting, you Upvote posts, you Vote for Witnesses, etc
Proof of Work = Bitcoin itself is a PoW chain, this simply means there is mining. So Delegated Proof of Work means that the Mining is Voted on. So not everyone can Mine STEEM, only Witnesses who are Voted for can mine STEEM.
Staking = This can be equated with Interest. STEEM has Interest associated with Holding it.
So now Delegated Proof of Work Staking Blockchain makes more sense.
So now that Steemit is "Under New Managment" I wanted to explain where it is now. When Ned sold Steemit INC it started a War with the Witnesses and eventually they forked Steemit. This means a new STEEM currency and Blockchain were created, starting from before Justin owned it, and enough people began using it to make it viable. This Platform and Currency are called HIVE. So now there are basically 2 Steemits.
### These are the new Steemit Greeters
>Achievement 1:
@fendit - for Spanish speakers and other
@tocho2 - for Venezuelan newcomers.
@randulakoralage - for Indian subcontinents and other
@tarpan - for Bangladesh newcomers.
@beautychicks - for African continents.
@njaywan - for African continents.
@radjasalman - for Indonesian newcomers.
@cryptokannon - everyone
>Achievement 2:
@rishabh99946
@kiwiscanfly
@leveuf
>Achievement 3
@beautychicks
@njaywan
@kiwiscanfly
@leveuf
>Achievement 4:
@neerajkr03
@njiatanga
>Achievement 5:
@yohan2on
@neerajkr03
@sapwood
@leveuf
>Achievement 6:
@neerajkr03
@yohan2on
@sapwood
@leveuf
>The Greeter Fairy Team
They will be guiding the newcomers that is still outside of the Newcomers Community, into the Newcomers Community and also introduce you to the programs that we The Steem Greeters Team currently have for newcomers and the Steem Community.
@belenguerra
@girolamomarotta
@besticofinder
>The Greeter
They will be greeting you and introduce you the programs in the Steem Community and also by The Steem Greeters Team.
@toufiq777
@edlili24
@adeljose
>Curators for 500SP Minnow Support Program
@rex-sumon
@edlili24
>We looking forward to guiding you in your journey to get to know Steem Ecosystem better.
>Kind Regards,
The Steem Greeters Team.
*updated 21/9/2020
https://steemit.com/hive-172186/@cryptokannon/the-steem-greeters-team-introduction
### The Old Hardfork and how it applies now
When Steemit first launched, the Rules were different. It was called Steemit Beta, which means it was a test launch. The main users were those from OpenLedger, and as it launched they decided it was going to be more of a Blog Platform than Reddit is, even with it being named after Reddit. But a few problems emerged, a big one was that people did not think it was fair that posts paid out in 24hrs, so their posts hardly got any time to collect views and earnings. So a new Blockchain was forked from the old one, and the Witnesses elected to migrate to the new chain. The new rules made payout take 7 days, and a second payout at 30 days if new votes were gotten after the 7 days. Then they also made it where if you post 2x in one day on your blog, your earnings for both are added together and divided by 2. If you post 3x, they are added up and divided by 3. They also added the follow feature so you have followers and people you follow. I believe these rules still apply, but I am not sure if posting in Communities divides your payout, or if posting in multiple Communities does, or multiple times in one Community. If you know please share in the comments.
### Communities
Mentioning Communities, these themselves are a new feature put in place by the TRON team. Communities are meant to be places of Collective Wealth, where we can come to find like minded people who can vote on our content. So they are like Reddit Subreddits /r/ which then makes the trending page more like the Reddit front page, where we independently vote and raise each other to "trending" within our groups, which translates to trending in hashtags and friend's lists, which eventually translates to front page trending. So now Steemit will seem like a much much much larger place once we have 10,000 groups to choose from. With 10,000 groups you might join 100 good groups, and never know about 100 other ones, that is how this will grow the Steemit community.
And, this creates a new posting Topic:
Directories
Each user has a little directory on their profile, here is mine
https://steemit.com/@punicwax/communities
You can also write Directories.
Here is the link to find communities
https://steemit.com/communities
If you want to vote for your first Witness, I would choose this guy. He distributes 50% of what is mined to his Voters.
https://steemit.com/@exnihilo.witness
Steemit Nursery (2 Month Incubation for New Users)
https://steemit.com/hive-172186/@cryptokannon/steemit-nursery-community-for-newcomers
Minnow Support program
https://steemit.com/hive-172186/@cryptokannon/500sp-minnow-support-program-for-newcomers
New Comers Acheivements
https://steemit.com/hive-172186/@cryptokannon/achievement-tasks-resources-and-materials-newcomers-retention
https://steemit.com/hive-167622/@steemalive/how-to-become-a-full-member-of-steemalive-community-the-steps
The Community Support Program
https://steemit.com/the1000daysofsteem/@steemitblog/1000-days-of-steem-the-communities-support-program
https://steemit.com/hive-148497/@alikoc07/steemfoods-community-established-join-us-and-earn-steem
### Posts about Steemit from the past
The STEEM White Paper
https://steemit.com/steemit/@marsresident/the-steem-white-paper
STEEM for Noobs
https://steemit.com/steemhelp/@aem/steem-for-noobs
https://steemit.com/steemit/@cryptogee/welcome-to-steem--introduce-yourselves
Cryptocurrency and Taxes
https://steemit.com/money/@marsresident/you-do-not-have-to-pay-taxes-on-cryptocurrencies-until-you-sell-them
How to Submit a Post
https://steemit.com/steemhelp/@nanzo-scoop/steemit-essentials-how-to-submit-a-blog
Introduce Yourself
https://steemit.com/journey/@marsresident/introduce-yourself
Voting and Witnesses on Steemit
https://steemit.com/steem/@marsresident/vote-for-steem
Voting on Comments
https://steemit.com/steem/@steemship/buried-treasure-make-money-upvoting-reply-posts-on-steemit
Tools for Buying, Selling and Calculating STEEM
https://steemit.com/steem/@marsresident/tools-links-for-steem-users
How to Spend Your Time on Steemit
https://steemit.com/steemit/@marsresident/steemit-time-guide-using-your-time-wisely
Using Tags
https://steemit.com/steemit-ideas/@nanzo-scoop/tags--best-practice--top-or-bottom-of-the-post
Economics 101
https://steemit.com/money/@marsresident/474mst-economics-101
Minnows, Dolphins and Whales on Steemit
https://steemit.com/steemit/@crypt0/steemit-whales-dolphins-and-minnows-the-importance-of-steem-power-on-steemit
How You Can Help Get STEEM in the News Using Just Your Email
https://steemit.com/steem/@marsresident/how-you-can-help-get-steem-in-the-news-simply-using-your-email
How DogeCoin Overtook Other Currencies
https://steemit.com/steem/@marsresident/how-dogecoin-overtook-other-cryptocurrencies
STEEM’s USD Value will Climb Throughout the Year
https://steemit.com/steem/@marsresident/steem-s-usd-value-will-climb-throughout-the-year
How STEEM Can Become the #1 CryptoCurrency
https://steemit.com/steem/@marsresident/how-steem-can-become-the-1-cryptocurrency
Steemit Could Replace Your Full Time Job
https://steemit.com/steemit/@marsresident/steemit-could-replace-your-full-time-job
Buying Gold and Silver with CryptoCurrencies
https://steemit.com/money/@marsresident/gold-silver-and-the-steem-community
Using HTML to Live Up Steemit Posts
https://steemit.com/steem/@xeldal/how-to-liven-up-your-steem-posts-with-markdown
Mining STEEM
https://steemit.com/steemhelp/@joseph/mining-steem-for-dummies
Github Archive for For STEEM App Developers
https://steemit.com/steem/@marsresident/github-cryptocurrency-app-creation-archive
Creating Your Own Currency
https://steemit.com/steem/@marsresident/make-your-own-cryptocurrency-video-tutorial
Steemit Beta
https://steemit.com/steemit/@marsresident/what-steemit-beta-means
Steemit and Non-Profit Organizations
https://steemit.com/steemit/@marsresident/steemit-and-501-3-c-organizations-or-even-local-governments
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