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RE: "I'm new here. Can you explain Steemit to me like I'm 5?"

in #steem7 years ago

For me personally, I didn't know about the promotion thing and I didn't know the difference between hot and trending. Other newbies will find pretty much everything useful, from the basic navigation to the explanation of whales, dolphins etc.
What I'm missing (maybe that would be a "next steps" post :)) is if there is a strategic way to manage the three "currencies". If it's good to have a lot of steempower and I don't want to invest my own money - what's the best way to get more steempower (besides posting a lot)? Should I just convert all my earnings into Steempower in the beginning, when I'm getting started to increase future earnings, or is that a bad idea/not necessary? Also I'm wondering why my wallet shows two amounts (one in brackets) under steempower. So those are the things I still have difficulty understanding :) Maybe fodder for your next artice :)

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I'm guessing that the amounts in brackets are the expected additions to the account (since it only pays out weekly). In other words, it is an estimate of what will be added to the account at the end of the week. But perhaps someone can verify this because I'm a real noob here. In fact, so new that I don't know how to use those 4 keys shown in our accounts. I tried using the post key to log in and post and I got a message saying something about that being a public key and I needed a different key. Perhaps someone can answer that question too?

Yeah dude! For Sure! I'll see what I can do with this!