These two features work concurrently to enable the Steem blockchain to allocate a large portion of the block rewards to both curators and creators using human participation as the mining mechanism instead of utilizing electricity and finding hashes that the proof-of-work mechanism utilizes. In this mechanism, human work is valued here rather than the hash rate of some supercomputer army.

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