Haha that's awesome @whimsicalfawn. The more we get regular people to hear about crypto the bigger the market will become. There is a whole world for you to get involved with in regards to other coins like bitcoin, litecoin, and ethereum. I got into it myself a few years ago because a friend told me about it. :) I don't have a blog but I do write posts on reddit, here, and twitter. Currently I try to break down the really technical stuff in laymen's terms so that it's easy to understand. Let me know if you have any questions.

Btw I saw your blog and it looks really sleek. Are you on twitter?

Lastly for Steemit, the upvotes count like $$. The more upvotes a post gets, the more $$ they get. Also it's like a popularity/reputation thing as well. The more popularity/rep you get (called steempower) the more $$ your upvotes and posts count. And it's good to resteem/upvote posts because you also get a portion of the steempower/steemdollars that each post gets. So if a post get's like $100, the author gets $50 and every upvote/commenter gets a fraction of the rest of the $50.

Hope that helped!