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Steem, SteemDollars and Steem power explained
« on: November 24, 2017, 02:12:14 PM »
Steem – Is the basic cryptocurrency used to power this whole system. It’s like the bricks used to build Steem Dollars and Steem power (will be explained in a moment). You can buy and sell Steem, speculate on it’s price or convert it to Steem dollars and Steem power. But if you’re not looking to speculate on the price or if you’re not cashing out your Steemit earnings, you don’t need to deal with Steem directly.

Steem dollars –  This is the currency of the Steemit platform and is also known as SMD. This is what people send to one another when they upvote posts on Steemit. The reason it’s called Steem Dollar is because 1 Steem dollar represents any amount of Steem required to reach 1 USD depending on the exchange rate at that time (more or less).  However unlike Steem, you can not use Steem dollars outside of the Steemit platform. You will first have to convert your Steem dollars into Steem and only then you will be able to convert that Steem into Bitcoin or USD.  The reason Steem dollars were created is because the founders wanted to peg the value of Steem in some way to the US dollar, so that people will be able to trade inside Steemit but not be afraid of exchange rate fluctuations. This way if you trade, for example, 100 Steem dollars you know you’re giving away 100 USD worth of Steem. 

The Steem dollar is just an IOU, a promise – if and when you decide to cash out of your Steem dollars, you will get however many Steem it takes to get to that value in USD. There’s also an interest acquired on any Steem dollars left in your account (currently 10% a year). This is done in order to incentiivize people to leave their Steem dollars in their account. 

Steem power – Also known as SP in short, is basically a token symbolizing how much influence you have inside the Steemit platform. If you have a lot of SP your upvotes will count more and will award different authors SP and Steem dollars as well. 

Powering up – means getting more SP either by upvotes or by buying it via Steem. 

Powering down – means liquidating your SP into Steem.  SP can be powered down for Steem in a long process that takes 2 whole years. SP is considered as a “long term investment” in the Steemit platform. That’s why other than taking a long time to cash out it also bares a very high interest rate, encouraging people not to power down.

Steemit user must know 3 reward terms
The 3 reward term on steemit

Steem Dollar
STEEM
Steem Power
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Re: Steem, SteemDollars and Steem power explained
« Reply #1 on: November 29, 2017, 11:35:13 PM »
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Re: Steem, SteemDollars and Steem power explained
« Reply #2 on: December 04, 2017, 01:49:07 AM »
Great post. I was wondering what these are as I recently joined Steemit. Thanks for explaining the reward system.
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« Reply #3 on: December 04, 2017, 07:21:57 AM »
Thank you for speeding up my learning curve...just wondering aloud the similarity to Teethers..

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Re: Steem, SteemDollars and Steem power explained
« Reply #4 on: May 10, 2018, 09:36:06 PM »
Steem – Is the basic cryptocurrency used to power this whole system. It’s like the bricks used to build Steem Dollars and Steem power (will be explained in a moment). You can buy and sell Steem, speculate on it’s price or convert it to Steem dollars and Steem power. But if you’re not looking to speculate on the price or if you’re not cashing out your Steemit earnings, you don’t need to deal with Steem directly.

Steem dollars –  This is the currency of the Steemit platform and is also known as SMD. This is what people send to one another when they upvote posts on Steemit. The reason it’s called Steem Dollar is because 1 Steem dollar represents any amount of Steem required to reach 1 USD depending on the exchange rate at that time (more or less).  However unlike Steem, you can not use Steem dollars outside of the Steemit platform. You will first have to convert your Steem dollars into Steem and only then you will be able to convert that Steem into Bitcoin or USD.  The reason Steem dollars were created is because the founders wanted to peg the value of Steem in some way to the US dollar, so that people will be able to trade inside Steemit but not be afraid of exchange rate fluctuations. This way if you trade, for example, 100 Steem dollars you know you’re giving away 100 USD worth of Steem. 

The Steem dollar is just an IOU, a promise – if and when you decide to cash out of your Steem dollars, you will get however many Steem it takes to get to that value in USD. There’s also an interest acquired on any Steem dollars left in your account (currently 10% a year). This is done in order to incentiivize people to leave their Steem dollars in their account. 

Steem power – Also known as SP in short, is basically a token symbolizing how much influence you have inside the Steemit platform. If you have a lot of SP your upvotes will count more and will award different authors SP and Steem dollars as well. 

Powering up – means getting more SP either by upvotes or by buying it via Steem. 

Powering down – means liquidating your SP into Steem.  SP can be powered down for Steem in a long process that takes 2 whole years. SP is considered as a “long term investment” in the Steemit platform. That’s why other than taking a long time to cash out it also bares a very high interest rate, encouraging people not to power down.

Steemit user must know 3 reward terms
The 3 reward term on steemit

Steem Dollar
STEEM
Steem Power

You seem really knowledgeable on steem.. do you know how much steam power it takes to actually start accumulating curation rewards?  Could you do a beginner's guide/post on that? 

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Re: Steem, SteemDollars and Steem power explained
« Reply #5 on: May 12, 2018, 02:36:01 PM »
Steem – Is the basic cryptocurrency used to power this whole system. It’s like the bricks used to build Steem Dollars and Steem power (will be explained in a moment). You can buy and sell Steem, speculate on it’s price or convert it to Steem dollars and Steem power. But if you’re not looking to speculate on the price or if you’re not cashing out your Steemit earnings, you don’t need to deal with Steem directly.

Steem dollars –  This is the currency of the Steemit platform and is also known as SMD. This is what people send to one another when they upvote posts on Steemit. The reason it’s called Steem Dollar is because 1 Steem dollar represents any amount of Steem required to reach 1 USD depending on the exchange rate at that time (more or less).  However unlike Steem, you can not use Steem dollars outside of the Steemit platform. You will first have to convert your Steem dollars into Steem and only then you will be able to convert that Steem into Bitcoin or USD.  The reason Steem dollars were created is because the founders wanted to peg the value of Steem in some way to the US dollar, so that people will be able to trade inside Steemit but not be afraid of exchange rate fluctuations. This way if you trade, for example, 100 Steem dollars you know you’re giving away 100 USD worth of Steem. 

The Steem dollar is just an IOU, a promise – if and when you decide to cash out of your Steem dollars, you will get however many Steem it takes to get to that value in USD. There’s also an interest acquired on any Steem dollars left in your account (currently 10% a year). This is done in order to incentiivize people to leave their Steem dollars in their account. 

Steem power – Also known as SP in short, is basically a token symbolizing how much influence you have inside the Steemit platform. If you have a lot of SP your upvotes will count more and will award different authors SP and Steem dollars as well. 

Powering up – means getting more SP either by upvotes or by buying it via Steem. 

Powering down – means liquidating your SP into Steem.  SP can be powered down for Steem in a long process that takes 2 whole years. SP is considered as a “long term investment” in the Steemit platform. That’s why other than taking a long time to cash out it also bares a very high interest rate, encouraging people not to power down.

Steemit user must know 3 reward terms
The 3 reward term on steemit

Steem Dollar
STEEM
Steem Power

You seem really knowledgeable on steem.. do you know how much steam power it takes to actually start accumulating curation rewards?  Could you do a beginner's guide/post on that? 

about curation rewards you can read it here how it works mate: https://www.altcoinstalks.com/index.php?topic=1420.0

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Re: Steem, SteemDollars and Steem power explained
« Reply #6 on: May 12, 2018, 06:30:02 PM »
Also Steempower is very important for Bandwitch, if you making post, or like, or exchange sbd>steem and so on, for any action you lose bandwitch, so if you ahve a lot of steempower you can do a lot of actions.
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Re: Steem, SteemDollars and Steem power explained
« Reply #7 on: May 16, 2018, 08:08:14 PM »
Also Steempower is very important for Bandwitch, if you making post, or like, or exchange sbd>steem and so on, for any action you lose bandwitch, so if you ahve a lot of steempower you can do a lot of actions.

Thanks for clarifying about the bandwidth thing.. I always saw the amount but didn't really understand that was what it was limiting (and more importantly how).

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Re: Steem, SteemDollars and Steem power explained
« Reply #8 on: May 20, 2018, 12:16:42 AM »
Useful to know for people that are new to the platform. Would have been easier if everything was just based around steem rather than create these dollars and powers to complicate things.
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Re: Steem, SteemDollars and Steem power explained
« Reply #9 on: July 23, 2018, 02:07:53 PM »
Great! I didn't know about the 10% interest it earns per annum.
I wonder if this was just a typo error but Steem dollar is now called as SBD and not SMD..
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