Hello kiddies, welcome to another week of steemkids Crypto Academy. The first week of this Steemkids Crypto Academy was a good one, we were happy to see the total number of kids who engaged in it. We also thank our dear parents who helped these youngs see the need to participate in it. A BIG THUMBS UP to all our kids out there.

Last week, we learned about blockchain, what it is all about, and its components. Which the young ones who participated in it really showed they understood the concept of block chain. Today we are delving a little bit deeper to explain our wonderful platform as it relates blockchain. This will help us to have a better understanding of how steemit works.

Proof Of Brain

Proof of Brain is a form of reward in steemit in which individuals who contribute within the steemit ecosystem by creating quality and original content are rewarded. This proof of brain involves two major things:

● There is a pool of coin which is pure dedicated to reward content creator and curators which is known as the reward pool.

● it makes use of a voting system where the crowds wisdom is used to decide and value a particular content, distributing tokens to it based on its assessment.

The two factors mentioned above are used within the steem blockchain to share the major part of the block rewards by the use of human participation as the mining system rather than the normal use of hashes which blockchains make use of.
So unlike in other blockchains where mining is done using much energy in generating hashes, steem blockchain makes use of the human brain power in mining the steem coins.

Users of the steemit platform like us, produce contents within the steemit ecosystem which adds value to the network, creating a material that will attract new users to the platform and at the same time sustains the old users within the platform by keeping them occupied and entertained. Through this way, the cryptocurrency steem is being distributed to many users, in the process increasing the network effect, distributing the coin in the best decentralized way as possible.

So the idea of steem is that users significant contributions to the steemit community must be recognized due to the value it adds within the network.

So kiddies, you can see why it is important to produce original and quality contents, ensuring that our work is plagiarism free, so that our content will add value to the network and be rewarded.

Curation

Like we mentioned earlier, original and quality content are rewarded through a voting system. So that voting system is the curation. Curation is defined as the means or process by which content or post created by users in the steemit network are being assessed, checked and voted.
There are several steps that are involved in doing this

● the content we wrote are sought out

● it is now read by the curators

● it is checked to be sure it is not a copied work(plagiarism)

● then it is rewarded through voting. Sometimes, the post or content is resteemed by others who appreciate the content to attract more attention to the post.

What is needed to do curation

To successfully curate or upvote a quality content, the person doing so must have what we call steempower. Steempower can be explained literally as the power you have to vote a post. This power is gotten when you acquire steem and power it up, without withdrawing all of the steem rewards earned by you. So the more steem you power up, the more steempower you have and the more value your vote or curation will be.

How can we increase our steempower

■ Creating Quality and Original Content

When we create our own contents, others will come and vote or curate on our post. This helps us get a part of the tokens in the reward pool. When we keep adding up these rewards over a long time, our steempower increases, increasing our curating power within the ecosystem as well. In fact, many content writer will be looking for you to curate them.

■ Investment

This is another way we can increase our steempower. We can buy the the steem coin and power it up. This will also help us to increase our curation influence within steemit.

■ Curating other peoples content

We can build our steempower by curating other users quality and original content. In steemit, both the curators and authors are rewarded from the the reward pool. If you have some steempower already, you can start earning additional steempower by curating others.

Advantages Of Building our Steempower

□ Earning of interest

When we build or steempower, we earn a 10% interest of the total reward pool. So this makes it three ways we earn in steemit ecosystem - by being a content creator, curator, and interest earner. This is simply amazing

□ Tron Earning.

The steemit ecosystem introduced the rewards of tron coin in the system. So when your steempower is big and you curate or vote with it, you earn more steem power and Tron coin too.

□ Higher Influence in Steemit

Your influence will be higher when it comes to sharing the rewards from the reward pool because you have a big voting power.

□ Increased followers

Many users in the ecosystem will follow you and will be seeking that you follow them too. Your follower base will increase. Imagine so many person reading through your post. That will be lovely.

Conclusion

You can now see why steemit is unique in every way. All of us have the opportunity to add to the effective working of this ecosystem while being duly rewarded at the same time.
We have also learnt that steemit is the business of steempower. That is the more reason why we need to build our steem power to acquire more influence within the ecosystem and even earn more.

For our lovely steemkids, their is project being carried out in the steemkids community, encouraging all our young ones to powerup and earn liquid steem for doing so. Follow up on the steemkids blog, for the weekly power up event, taking place every Sundays. Participate and be sure to earn.

Assignment

1. What is Proof Brain and How does it Work.

2. Explain what curation is.

3. How can we increase our steempower

4. what are the benefits of powering up.

Homework Rules

Must be a verified steemkid

Assignment should done using your steemkids verified account

Ensure there is no plagiarism.

The post must be in steemkids community.

Kindly tag me in your post

resteem and drop your link as a comment for the post.

use the following tags as the first four tags:

#steemkidscryptoacademy2 #steemexclusive #yourcountry(eg - #venezuela) #steemkids

The number of words should not be less than 200 words.

Entry will be closed at Saturday 25th Sept, at 10.59pm GMT.

Reward Pool

30 Liquid steem to be shared among the participants.

The bests posts stands the chance of being selected for quality posts of the day.

Looking forward to a great time with you all in steemkids crypto academy.

Special mention

@ngoenyi
@goodybest
@mariajruizb
@disconnect
@pennsif