# How well do you understand Steemit. Written by @justiceanietie for @ngoenyi || 11/05/21#

Today am happy to join in this contest #2 on How well you understand steemit. Bellow is my solution to the contest by @justiceanietie for @ngoenyi

Introduction to what you know about steemit

Steemit is a social media and blockchain or site that reward users with cryptocurrency steem for publishing great content on the site. Like uploading articles, images, commentary and so on. Users equally get rewarded by up-voting popular content and through sourcing. Here user determined whether to be voted half steem power and half steem dollar or they can their reward at 100% for SP (steem power). This is a free website and each post is achieved in 7 days and users are rewarded in steem. Note; not all post are rewarded, reward is base on the content of ur post. Because of this rewards, some users my want to have multiple accounts which is prohibited in the blockchain, and if such user is found, he will be down voted.
At the point of registration, each user is given a Private keys which will help him/her in performing transactions to another blockchain. The implication is that, if a user loose his private keys, he cannot recover it. So it is advicible to keep it save.
The company is based in New York City and has it headquarters in Virginia. This is a privately hold company and it's owned by Steemit Inc.

How to earn in steem
How to earn in steem is not far fetch. As its mentioned in the introduction section of this post. The way a user can earn is by uploading good contents like articles, images, up-voting other users post and comment. You can equally post latest news on net but make sure u include the source of the information. A user can still buy steem on the steemit blockchain and when the price increased, he sell and make returns. Infact there are different ways a user earns on the platform. For example at the sand of 7 days when the post reward is achieved, a user earns in Tron, SDB (steem Dollar), steem and Steem Power (SP).

Is Up-Vote guaranteed?
Well here upvote is based on the content of your post and also knowing the community to post certain content and equally following strict rules based on each community you are posting.

Should you stick to one community
Well for beginners, my advice is for you to stick to new comers community, until when you begin to understand how the steemit blockchain works before you can make your choice of the communities u will like to join. This is as a result of building your reputation to enable you to take part in some contest in other communities.

How to sign some up

• open Google search
• type in steemit.com

• Click on Sign Up

• Fill your email address

Screen shorts

• checked the box "I am not a robot"
• and click continue as seen in the above.

**Should you envy others who received Up-Votes when you have not received?
The answer to this question is no. What you have to do is keep on posting and wait patiently for your post will be attended to.

How can you improved in your writing skills
For you to improve in your writing, you need to learn the basic on steemit blockchain. You learn from the post of your ordinators and other published post. Join whatssap group and and do followup on what ever they are doing. Through this, you can improve your writing skills.

**What sacrifices are you willing to make to succeed in steemit?

• one of the sacrifices is to power Up
• contribute steem to the community to enable the community to move on. Or
• donating SDB
• devoting your time to learn everything concerning the blockchain.
• introducing people to the blockchain.

what are your plans toward growing your steem power?
Well my plans is to power up my post for 2 to 3 months from next month and this help to built your reputation, SP and bring followers.
In conclusion, with this a biginner can learn more or have foresight on what steemit is all about and how it works.

My Thanks goes to @steemalive, @focusnow and @bright-obias