Steemit , a new social media platform where everyone gets paid to post online, has been released in beta. In the age of multiple social media platforms, many of them entrenched players, how will new users react to Steemit? Background of Steemit
Steemit is a relatively new company, founded in early 2016 by Ned Scott and Daniel Larimer.
Ned Scott earlier worked for Gellert Global Group, a family-owned private equity group which holds many North American food companies.
Daniel Larimer is the founder of Bitshares, which has the 11th largest market capitalization amongst all cryptocurrencies. The concept
Steemit is powered by blockchain technology and uses a new cryptocurrency to reward users who upload articles, images, commentary, etc.
Other ways users can get paid is through sourcing and up-voting popular content. The earlier a person up-votes a post that becomes popular, the more is the reward.
Users are paid half in ‘Steem Power’ (a vesting currency) and half in Steem Dollars, which can be exchanged for US Dollars.
CTO Dan Larimer says to CoinTelegraph: “Steemit is a brand new way to recognize contributors online, especially those who join our community early and stay long term. New users will be given a portion of Steem when they sign up and those who initiate or improve the quality of discussions, through persuasiveness, clarity, grammar and formatting, will be upvoted faster and more appropriately rewarded.” How is multiple account creation prevented? One of the banes of rewarding users for posting is that people try to game the system by creating multiple accounts.These accounts can be used to post/vote multiple times and thereby manipulate the popularity of posts.Steemit tries to control this by requiring users to register through their Facebook accounts. Concept is not new The concept of sharing advertisement revenue with users is not new. As early as […]
