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Apologies if it's improper to post a new story, but we cannot find the answer to this question: what, exactly is "powering up" and what does it do for you?
It requires an investment with Bitcoin, which we understand - we are familiar with cryptocurrency, just not the intricacies of the Steem platform. This is the most relevant post we could find on the subject:
https://steem.io/getinvolved/paid-to-curate/
Thank you kindly in advance.
There are three tokens used on the platform. Steem is the speculative currency traded on exchanges that you buy/sell and is created daily from mining done by witnesses that secure the network.
When you deposit steem into your account, you can power up. This upgrades your steem into steem power. Steem power takes 104 weeks(2years) to convert into steem so it encourages long term holding. When someone upvotes your post, you get steem power that the platform encourages you to hold until you cash out in weekly payments and you also get steem dollars, a token pegged to the equivalent of 1USD in Steem. Steem Power is your voting power and the more you have, the more influence your votes on posts have.
This is a basic understanding, but I strongly recommend you check out some of the great youtube videos steemers have posted that explain the currency in more detail, as well as the economics of the system which is also important as some optional but recommended extra learning.
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Thank you for your profound explanation.
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very good explanation i thank you
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Can you reference a video or two you recommend? Thank you.
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Here you go:
The whitepaper should be the first thing you read. This guy has a good explaination here and also more videos on steem on his channel.
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Thank you so much, very helpful
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i just watched his video, excellent
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Thank you for your insightful video.
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#bitinformant this is a really great video. Watch it and tell me your thoughts
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a lot of these videos are really helpful to me i know little about it
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Thank you very much for this post. It was very insightful!
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thank you very much for this post. It was very informational.
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Interesting! So if I for instance would upvote this post you would get steem power?:)
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i upvoted your comment lol
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Thanks for this answer @nurev here is my upvote and I will follow you
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You need to get STEEM somehow. You can do it by earning Steem Dollars and buying STEEM on the internal market or you can buy STEEM on an external exchange. Then you click on the arrow to the right of your STEEM amount and hit power up!
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i'm trying to do that right now, just followed you
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Thank youuuuuuuu. Sadly I'm so poor I think I cannot afford this. But I'll think it over.
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me too but not give up.....!
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great information I am looking for all the help I can get here. Thanks
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Thank you for this answer
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great question. don't apologize for posting anything, fuck the thought police
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