Fintech Steemit Migrating Servers To Amazon Unveils Ambitious Blockchain Roadmap

Steemit, creators of the world’s fastest growing decentralized social media platform, has unveiled today what it describes as a “comprehensive roadmap” detailing improvements to its blockchain, company structure and website. As part of its plans Steemit is to migrate its servers this first quarter to Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world's largest hosting provider.

Steemit plugs into a robust blockchain database called Steem, which distributes rewards in cryptocurrency (digital points - Steem), with real value to the users who bring the best articles, commentary, creativity, images and videos to their site.

Also of significance in their Roadmap for 2017, the rising fintech innovator that has attracted over 120,000 registered users in around six months, is creating 'native' Steemit apps for use on mobile iOS and Android.

Founded by Ned Scott back in January 2016 alongside blockchain and crypto pioneer Dan Larimer, Steemit currently has close to a million monthly unique visitors per month. That figure puts it with its registered users as one of the largest and fastest growing blockchain end-user applications.

It now intends to automate the deployment of its software into Amazon Web Services and Elastic Compute Cloud, providing for what is touted as “self-healing, automatically expanding”, High Availability hosting service as site traffic grows. Concurrently a “feature-heavy” redesign to improve Steemit's aesthetics and functionality is being initiated.

As such users will soon have access to free 'drag and drop' image hosting, comment moderation for post authors, community namespaces and moderation (similar to subreddits), achievements (similar to video game milestones), user insignia, mobile notifications and an easy to navigate status bar