Steem (STEEM)

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Steem is a social blockchain platform that focuses on decentralized applications, an example of which is the popular Steemit publishing platform. Launched in 2016 by EOS founder Dan Larimer and Ned Scott, STEEM is one of the earliest examples of a social and content-focused platform that employs cryptocurrencies and the blockchain. 

Steem’s mission is to empower communities by giving them smart tokens to incentivize users to help grow communities and foster participation.

Steem’s most prominent application, Steemit, is a publishing platform where content creators are rewarded with the cryptocurrency token STEEM for the quality they produce. There is also a stablecoin available on the network called Steem Dollars (SBD). Both tokens can be traded on an internal decentralized exchange. Transaction fees are replaced by the inflation rate of the token.

Several other decentralized applications have already been created on Steem. Other dapps include Steem Engine, a platform for issuing and trading Steem-based tokens; DTube, a decentralized platform for uploading and sharing video material; SteemPress, a WordPress plugin connecting WordPress and Steem; and more.

The Steem team is currently focusing on developing Smart Media Tokens, which will “will allow anyone to create their own token...and use those tokens to fundraise, monetize content, and grow their own social communities.” This is intended to help communities in the content creation space to launch their own tokens to support themselves and establish mutually beneficial mini-ecosystems.


Steemhunt: Be the Hunter, Don't get hunted–Reviewing the 'BestDApp'.

10 Dec 2019 6 minute read 1 comment Dzoelx

  Unarguably one the biggest features of the blockchain technology is the ability to build decentralized applications and create smart contracts on the blockchain, probably the most mind-blowing ability of the blockchain technology, not only are the...

Cryptocurrencies Replacing Fiat By 2030: A Lesson For Steem

8 Dec 2019 4 minute read 5 comments TaskMaster

  The acceptance of cryptocurrency is slow. Bitcoin is over 10 years old and there are still, proportionately speaking, very few users globally. Many use the idea of a slow acceptance rate as a sign that it is a failure. This is not exactly the case....

Steem Downvotes: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

7 Dec 2019 4 minute read 2 comments Juan Molina

Image Source   Much has been said about downvotes, but: How does the common user perceive it? Since the creation of Steemit there are the so-called "Flags". The perhaps indiscriminate use and at the discretionality of this resource generated the fa...

Powering up!

6 Dec 2019 1 minute read 6 comments cryptomaniacsgr

Good evening people! It's been awhile since my last purchase of Leo tokens, if i remember well that time i have brought 600 Leo for around 0.16-0.17 Steem. Today i placed a buy order for 155 more and i'm quite happy to see my investment growth and st...

Life Splinter Experience

6 Dec 2019 2 minute read 0 comments dexpartacus

  The life symbol in the Splinterlands is very strong, as indeed inside all of us, we have only one life, as far as I know, and I think we must try to live it to the maximum and in the best possible way.All our choices reflect our actions, even a...

Struggling on Steemit? Give Steemleo a try :D

6 Dec 2019 1 minute read 2 comments trumpman

Just spend the last 15 minutes selling various shitty steem engine tokens I got for free to buy myself some more tasty steemleo.. Nothing, special, just a couple of dozens. But hey, it's free!  And I just i figured it's a good time to shill steemleo...

Steem Communities Beta is now available to the public!

5 Dec 2019 1 minute read 4 comments Treeπ

Steem Communities Beta now public! Well, this one is pretty self explanatory (haha!). Steemit has made their beta website, that was previously password protected, available to the public! You can access the beta at https://beta.steemit.com/. You can...

A Soliers Journal (page 4)

5 Dec 2019 3 minute read 0 comments RECKLESSJAMES

A Soldiers Journal (PAGE4) Suddenly I awoke in a cold sweat, As I sit and think on what I have bear witnessed too. I can't help but wonder what these dreams are about and why do I keep soaking my bedding, But I had no time to worry about this For tod...

SteemNova 2 Released!

3 Dec 2019 1 minute read 0 comments fervi

Finally I managed to release the second version of SteemNova's popular Steem game. SteemNova 2 is a free (and open source) browser game inspired by the game Ogame, which is a multi-player tactical-strategic game. Our task is to develop the mother pla...

Publish0x Advantages over Steemit

2 Dec 2019 2 minute read 8 comments LeftAntiPC

I've been using Steemit for nearly two years now, but I can't help but notice that Publish0x is doing many things better than Steemit. In fact, Publish0x often does things much better, despite Publish0x being a much younger site. I've only been u...