Steemit is a social media platform where everyone gets paid for creating and curating content. It leverages a robust digital points system (Steem) for digital rewards.
Type of site
Social news community
Available in Mainly English. Content is available in several languages.
Website www.steemit.com
Registration Free. Mandatory for editing.
Users >170,000 (as of May, 2017)[1]
Launched March, 2016
Current status Active
On July, 4th, 2016, Steemit, Inc officially launched Steemit, a social media with virtual currency rewards that runs over the Steem blockchain. On March 15, 2017 Dan resigned as a head of technology and a marketing team was announced with Mitchel Loureiro (@zuvarnic) and @andrachy. Frank Rimalovski, Andrew Haines and William Mougayar (@wmougayar) are advisory board members while @cass, Jeffrey Paul (@sneak), James Calfee (@jamesc) and Valentine Zavgorodnev (@val-a) are a few of the staff members.![Steemit-big.png]
Market Cap: $503,410,276,956
Steem Dollars (SBD)
Steem Dollars $8.53 USD (-15.10%)
0.00065716 BTC (-1.32%)
Market Cap
$36,199,018 USD
2,788 BTC
Volume (24h)
$3,248,480 USD
250.16 BTC
Circulating Supply
4,241,835 SBD
Why Steem/Steemit Has Value (Opinion Piece) — Steemit
First of all, is doing something new and innovative. It is built around a social media platform which consist of three individual currencies.
Here some references...
^ Source: Steemd (Steem blockchain explorer)
^ Steemit Social Media Platform Pays Its Users, Sees Massive Growth; bitcoin.com; June 9, 2016
^ a b c d e Steemit: The Disruptive Blockchain-Based Media Community, Investopedia, July 26, 2016
^ "Steem White Paper" (PDF). Retrieved 23 March 2017.
^ "Steem Whitepaper August 2017" (PDF).
^ "Final Review of Steem Economic Changes". Steemit. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
^ "SteemData". steemdata.com/stats.
^ "Social Media Blockchain Steem Issues $1.3MM Payout To Steemit Users". THE DASH TIMES. 2016-07-05. Retrieved 2016-08-10.
^ Steem, coinmarketcap.com.
^ New Social Media Platform Steemit Experiences Growth Since Launch, Coindesk, June 9, 2016
^ Steemit cypto-currency sees huge boost in market cap, The New York Business Journal, July 13, 2016
^ Strauss, Neil. "Can This Social Media Site Make You Rich?". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
^ "The Social Network Doling Out Millions in Ephemeral Money | Backchannel". WIRED. Retrieved 2017-11-28.
^ https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@davidpakman/the-david-pakman-show-is-now-on-steemit
^ "New Digital Currency Steem Provokes Doubt of Market Observers - CoinDesk". CoinDesk. 2016-07-23. Retrieved 2017-11-28.
^ "New Digital Currency Steem Provokes Doubt of Market Observers - CoinDesk". CoinDesk. 2016-07-23. Retrieved 2017-11-28.
Also try Busy.org as client / platform / interface for the Steem blockchain.
https://busy.org