@stellabelle I am especially grateful for all of your ideas, pointers and encouragement... a few followup questions:
Why do people want to become Steem Witnesses and what are the upsides and downsides?
I notice on the Whales list a couple of exchanges like polo and bittrex appear. Are these the actual exchanges? How do we know? What are we to make of the amount of currency they hold?
Are there any people who are making a solid living just through Steemit?
(these are open questions of course to anyone who wants to answer)
Yes. I and my friend @ogochukwu from Nigeria, this platform has been of great help. He recently bought a Hp laptop from money gotten from Steemit. and so many other like us.
you can get more info about your questions if you check out steemit white paper. Its a 44 page presentation about steemit. you are welcome.
@arizonawise