Great course content so far, @paulag! I love it! I'm pretty new on Steemit but I'm starting to understand things enough to know my way around. It helps that I have had a technical understanding of blockchains for some time.
One thing I would suggest for your course is to remove the advice to power up 100%. This is currently bad advice as long as the market value of SBD remains above $1. New users can grow their accounts more quickly by exchanging the SBD for STEEM on the internal exchange.
This helps new users, but it also helps our platform, as the SBD's utility as a dollar-pegged debt instrument is currently compromised. This may be a great thing for rewards, but it hurts credibility for the platform at large. If all that value goes into STEEM instead, the price of STEEM will rise and we will all enjoy higher payouts and vote values organically.
Aaaah thanks for explaining that, that actually makes sense
there are always exceptions to the rules. I do not see SBD staying above $1 for every. It is meant to be pegged to the us$ and in week 2 of the course this is covered in a lot of detail