Video Series For DTube/Steemit Beginners

in #dtube7 years ago (edited)


I’d like to create a collection of short videos explaining the basic concepts of Steem and Steem apps, and I’m curious what you think some of the most important topics would be. Right now I’m planning on making videos for:

  • What’s the difference between Steem and Steemit?
  • What’s the difference between Steem, SBD, and SP?
  • How does Steem create money out of thin air?
  • How does upvoting work? When I upvote someone does it give them my Steem?
  • Does Steem have miners? What’s a miner?
  • What’s a Smart Media Token (SMT)?
  • How does DTube use Steem? And what’s IPFS?
  • What are curation rewards?
  • How is the price at the bottom of a post calculated?

If there are any other topics you think would be helpful for someone new to this platform (of if you’re new yourself and have a question), please let me know in the comments!

After creating all of these and posting them to DTube, I’d like to package them together into a longer video, or possibly create a course on Udemy. Let me know what you think. 😀

Thanks for watching!


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Thank you I've been trying to learn a little more about Smart Media Tokens, I want to be an early starter for one of these SMT sites that might be the next Steemit.

Yeah it's exciting to think about what SMTs will do for this platform. I'm looking forward to learning more about them too!

Thanks for watching :D

The very first one should be:

  1. How to log in to DTube and Steemit
  2. Where do you find all those super really long passwords.
  3. Can they be changed
  4. How does it work just to log in?
    I had the hardest time figuring this out and all the videos that I watch there is ALWAYS at least 2 people that say dtube is great but I cant sign in. I cant up vote. It is extremely annoying when there are ZERO simple steps to tell you how to do it. Like first you have to log into steemit with that ridiculous long password and then when you go over to DTube you need another ridiculously long password that is someplace in your channels wallet that is on the steemit blog of your channel! Seriously it's so dumb and they wonder why people are using Bitchute and Minds.com. It is just WAY to complicated. But that's an idea:>}

Yeah there's definitely room for improvement with the user experience stuff for new users. That's a good idea to make a video about it, thanks!

Please cover all of them and more

This post is quite helpful for beginner Jeff.

Keep going on creating some video series for beginners, As you know everyday people SIGN UP on Steemit and they don't know about Steemit, Your this post will help them.

Yeah I really hope it is helpful!

Thanks for watching 🙂

thanks @jeffbernst has been memppsting your video, i am still a new user of steemit.
and i was wondering, when can, my post can get alot of upvote in my post? like someone else's post
whether it affects with steempower or does not affect steempower,
how do i go
because I am still a beginner or still a low level to get more upvote?

Your steem power definitely doesn't stop you from getting more upvotes! Part of the reason users with a bigger following or more steem power get more votes is because people are trying to earn curation rewards. One great way for new users to get bigger upvotes is to post on a site like DTube, because you might get an @dtube vote 😀

Good luck and let me know if you have any other question!

thank you very much @jeffbernst,
the info you shared is very useful to me, and i will try your suggestion,
warm regards from aceh @syamsud

u have done a great video...its really good

Thanks! :D

I'm very new to all this so yeah , please teach us :)

Welcome to Steem! :D

Yes please make the video series. I look forward to watching them.

Thanks for watching! I hope the videos are helpful 🙂

wow great blog and thanks for sharing this video.

Thanks for watching!

Looking forward. Need all the topics. Still have lot to learn here. Thanks

Thanks for watching! Let me know if you think of any additional topics I should cover 🙂

thank you for bringing up an idea like this, for me as a new meber i think this topic should be very useful to me and other begineers 'What’s the difference between Steem, SBD, and SP'

Thanks for watching! Yeah it can be a bit confusing in the beginning 🙂

Hi @jeffbernst, I really like your idea and I have followed you to make sure that I get to see your videos when they come out! You mentioned making one video on how Steem "creates money out of thin air" and I have looked into this a bit but haven't come up with a satisfactory answer. Essentially, what I have found, is that Steem releases new tokens every time a new block is generated, but that doesn't really answer where those tokens receive their value from. What I'm assuming is that Steem is counting on the fact that the quality of the content generated on the platform will drive up viewership and that will, in turn, drive up the value of the tokens for investors, but ??? I'm not really sure about that. In any case, great idea for a series of videos and I look forward to seeing them. Thanks!

Oh yeah, also a video explaining witnesses might be useful.

Good call on making a video about witnesses!

I definitely want to do some more research before I make the video about how Steem creates value. But from my understanding, the price for pretty much all cryptocurrencies right now is set by speculation in the market. Steem is currently at about $3.50 because that's what supply and demand has dictated.

Like Bitcoin, there isn't much you can use Steem or SBD for, but as the market grows for products and services that can be purchased with cryptocurrencies, the value will be based less around speculation. With Steem, there's the potential for markets to open up that take SBD for goods or services. Also, as the platform grows, people might be willing to buy Steem less as a speculative investment, and more as a way to increase their visibility on Steemit or DTube and earn more curation rewards.

Here's an interesting quote from this article that take a look at what goes into the value of bitcoin:

Bitcoin's value depends on "transactional" and "reservation" demand.

It is important to note that the total market value of a currency, its "monetary base", is driven by two things, transactional demand and reservation demand. We can think of Bitcoin's average daily "float" as the analog of our economy's M1 money supply - the currency needed to satisfy transactional demand for goods and services. Similarly, we can think of the Bitcoins which are "hoarded" by speculative investors as the currency needed to satisfy reservation demand for secure long-term savings. Combined, Bitcoin's float and reserves comprise its total monetary base, which is similar to our economy's M2 money supply (M1+money in savings deposits, money markets, etc).

So the monetary base relies on both consumers and investors who believe that the Bitcoin technology will power a certain volume of economic exchange today and in the future. Speculative investors in particular have shown an extraordinary willingness to buy BTC, leading to a much larger monetary base than would otherwise be expected for a currency with bitcoin's transactional volume.

And that's ok! As long as the transactional demand for Bitcoin continues to grow exponentially in the coming years, the balance between Bitcoin's float and its total monetary base will likely reflect that of other global currencies. (To learn how Bitcoin enters into circulation, read, "What is Bitcoin Mining?")

If you find anything that explains all of this stuff well please let me know!

Thanks for watching! 😀

Absolutely, if I find any good source information for you I'll pass it along.

Nice video :) thank you for your work!

Thanks for watching! :D

This is wonderful! I’m ready to dive in fully and learn, so I truly appreciate this, Thank you!

I hope the videos are helpful!

Let me know if you think of any other confusing topics! :D