What is steem?

in hive-185836 •  3 months ago 

What is Steem?

Steem is a blockchain-based social media platform that rewards users with cryptocurrency for creating and curating content.

Key Features:

  1. Decentralized: Steem operates on the Steem blockchain, ensuring censorship-resistant and transparent content sharing.

  2. Cryptocurrency: Users earn Steem tokens (STEEM) and Steem Dollars (SBD) for posting, commenting, and voting.

  3. Community-driven: Users curate content through up voting and commenting.

  4. Rewards: Content creators receive 75% of rewards, while curators receive 25%.

  5. Various platforms: Steem powers multiple platforms, including Steemit, Steepshot, and DTube.

Benefits:

  1. Monetize content
  2. Decentralized control
  3. Community engagement
  4. Censorship-resistant
  5. Innovative incentive structure

Challenges:

  1. Volatile cryptocurrency market
  2. Limited mainstream adoption
  3. Complex user interface
  4. Scalability issues

Steem Tokens:

  1. STEEM (main token)
  2. Steem Dollars (SBD)
  3. Steem Power (SP)

Use Cases:

  1. Blogging
  2. Social networking
  3. Content creation
  4. Community building
  5. Micro-tasking
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