Steem thought - staying on top of Steem terminology

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Steem & Steemit related terms

Steem is derived from the word esteem meaning to regard something or someone with great respect and admiration. The word esteem originates with the Latin word aestimare, 'to estimate' value.

As the community around Steem and Steemit grows and our culture evolves, we will find many ways to build our identity and define it. It is an exciting and fun process to be a part of. The following list of terms and meanings may well change;

Steem - is the native unit of account within the Steem network. It is also the name for the Steem blockchain, or 'Steemchain.'

Steemchain - is the Steem blockchain that records all of our digital interactions and is also the network of people connecting with each other.

Steemit - is the social media web application with the functionality that enables us to generate content and connect with each other.

Steemer - everyone that uses Steem or Steemit.

Steeming - the act of engaging with the Steemchain and fellow Steemers by building, reading, writing or even thinking about Steem.

Steem on - is to continue Steeming.

Steemologist - an expert in all things related to Steem.

Steememe - is well, a meme about Steem.

Steemdependence Day - this is the day, on the 4th of July 2016, when the first Steem generated rewards were disbursed and the world changed forever.

Steem train - one of many phrases that describes the idea of joining a growing Steemchain and contributing to something with great potential.

This list of terms is not complete or definitive! Please feel free to add more terms or steememes!

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This is an amazing set of terms. Really appreciate that you put all of these together. So many people get confused because there are so many words that are similar. By breaking down every term, you showed that it's not that hard to understand Steemit. Looking forward to read more of your posts. Keep it up.

Self eSteem - using crypto to power up your Steem Power

Wow thank you so much! I'm new to this website and this really helped me!

Steemster - Hipster steemer

Love it of course!

Reallly, this is love :D

we needed an steem dictionary, and now thank you we have it

steem'ushka- grandmother from Russia who's steeming,steemmeming, steemvodking)

Ha fantastic!

I wish I thought of your post

Add the #steemengine!

Thank you for posting. Hope you get this to snowball to the top!
I up-voted you too... BTW, should steemit let us steemers advertise using steem? Be sure to tell everyone you know to come vote here at: https://steemit.com/steemit/@kingtylervvs/if-steemit-ever-does-decide-to-advertise-there-is-only-1-way-it-could-work-in-my-opinion-debate

This is a democratic community decision.


Awesome comment!

SteemAddicted - any of us.

This will definitely be great help for all of the newcomers here.

nice post, if you use h3 for the terminology it is better readable

Thank you for the suggestion!

Steemtools - a growing collection of tools for Steemit.

http://steemtools.com/

#steempreneur : You. The serial game-theoretic strategist taking on financial risks in the hope of more steem.

should add other terms used in Steem such as a "whale vote"

love your thinking - all steemers must have a 'steem-gene'??

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