Steemit gaining enormous popularity

 

The new York startup Steemit, decentralized platform of social  communication, where users are paid for their activity, experiencing an  explosion of popularity and for the first month of its work, increased  the number of users for 1600%! Currently, the community Steemit doubles  every week and cryptocurrency Steem had a market capitalization of $57  million
 

Steemit was founded in the beginning of 2016 ned Scott (Ned Scott)  and Daniel Larimer (Daniel Larimer). Ned Scott previously worked at the  Gellert Global Group, which owns numerous food companies in North  America, and Daniel Larimer is the founder of the famous company  Bitshares, tokens which have the eleventh largest market capitalization.
 

Recently Ned Scott reported that he is shocked by how quickly the platform Steemit gaining popularity:
 

We worked really hard to improve Steemit and give anyone the  opportunity to earn by creating and overseeing good content. Based on  data from experts and tests of our users, we anticipated higher  activity, but in the end, the results exceeded all our expectations.  About a month market capitalization Steem increased two and a half  times, page views have increased six-fold, and throughput Steemit  blockchain increased to twelve transactions per minute. It's stunning  results and we are pleased that our growing community is actively  involved in interesting and potentially profitable social network.
 

Steemit operates on its own blockchain Steem, and users are rewarded  both for your posts and for participating in voting for posts, images  and comments that become popular. Payment for the activity is done  directly by the token-SBD tied to the dollar, and the so-called "tokens  of influence" STEEM POWER
 

We are proud to announce that Steemit - platform, open source and our  technology allows us to create a bridge with other social platforms  such as Reddit, Twitter and WordPress, and gives you the opportunity to  integrate Steem blockchain as a means of social communication, where  users are rewarded for their work
 

— added Scott.
 

The most popular topics on Steemit turn on the news and politics,  technology and cryptocurrency, art and Hobbies, as well as a special  category of "introduceyourself" in which users write about themselves  and their Hobbies.
Due to the rising popularity and almost ten-fold increase in messages  and votes Steemit integrated cryptocurrency exchanger BlockTrades into  its platform to allow users to exchange the tokens Steem for bitcoin  directly from their accounts.