SMT, SBD, SP, WTF? The journey of a week old Minnow
So it's been a whole entire week of being active on Steemit
(although I created my account over a year ago - don't judge me),
and I wanted to do a post on what I've learned so far on the platform.
I know some of you might hardly believe it, but I'm far from being an expert.
With that said, maybe I can help my fellow minnows along on their Steemit journey.
A lot of this is knowledge passed on from whales that I look up to.
So get comfy, pour yourselves a big glass of Wild Irish Rose, and let's begin!
In no particular order:
Blockchain
If you don't quite get what blockchain is, the video below should help.
Alternatively, the lovely @stellabelle has a thorough post on blockchain that's really easy get your head around, you can find it here.
Reputation
Law 5: The 48 Laws of Power
Your reputation is determined by the number of upvotes you receive from fellow Steemians. You can also lose reputation by having your comments and/or posts flagged by those with a higher reputation score.
SMT, SBD, SP, WTF?
Curating
Powering up/down
Vests
Vests are the meat and potatoes of your Steemit account, its true value.
It's all about increasing vests, since vests go up in value over time.
Unfortunately, you don't see vests in your wallet, but as @cryptoandcoffee
mentions in his post on vests,
you can verify your number of vests by going here:
Ok cool, so how do you increase vests anyway?
Three ways:
What's a witness?
According to the Witness FAQ created by @drakos - (Thank You!)
"Witnesses are elected by the community to witness the production of blocks on the Steem network. In other words, they run and maintain nodes (servers) that generate the blocks containing all transactions (i.e. posts, upvotes, comments, transfers, etc.), which are added to the blockchain."
Be sure to check out the rest of his site for tons more information about the platform.
I wouldn't have known about a lot of this without @valorforfreedom, so be sure to check his Steem School posts.
You can start here.
Alright, now what?
Still here? Okay here are some other things:
If someone wants to follow you, they will.
There's always someone who will appreciate what you have to share.
wow! Kira you did a really good work studying all these basic definitions. It took me much more time. Good luck here!
Thank you so much @anamarena, that means everything!
Still a work in progress of course 😅
Awesome post