Achievement 5 Task 2: Review Steemscan.com // 11th June 2021 // by @chilaw //

Hello Great friends of this platform, it is my pleasure coming to the newcomers community to complete my achievement tasks which i know would help me engage other community tasks comprehensively and efficiently while using them. For this post, I will try and explore and show my understanding on the STEEMSCAN following the questions asked by mentor @cryptokannon.

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Please explain the current Steem price and volumes on date of submission of this review?

As at the time of this post, the price of steem is valued at $0.49 which translate to about 250NGN of my local currency. It has a supply of 384,502,502 STEEM and 7,910,552 SBD. The screenshot displaying the graph also shows the daily market trend and volumes traded on this cryptocurrency coin seen at $0.49 and $20,000.00 respectively.

Please explain What all information is shown under latest transactions and latest blocks section?

THE LATEST TRANSACTION

The Latest transaction as captured in the screenshot have details of the following:

• Block ID
• ID
• Timestamp
• Sender
• Receiver
• Type
• Amount

All these listed details clearly shows us what all that is contained and captured in a single transaction made in the Steemit blockchain. For an individual transaction completed in the network, there must be sender and receiver, a block ID and ID, transaction time seen as timestamp. Also is the type of transaction which varies but include if it was a vote, re-blog, claiming of rewards and amount involved or percentage vote given.

THE LATEST BLOCKS

Just like the latest transaction, the latest blocks have similar details captured in it but this time has to be specific on the miner and block transactions. We have details as follows here;

• ID
• Height
• Timestamp
• Block Transactions
• Mined by

Just as explained for the latter, details still remains so as repeated for ID and Timestamp. The Block transaction shows us the number of blocks while Mined by gives us the name of the Miner in the blockchain who validated that given transaction.

Please explain What all information is shown under Witnesses section and steps to vote a Witness?

• Just click on the "Menu" icon to get a drop-down
• Then click on the "Witness" icon and explore
• The system capture about 200 of this witness in the blockchain with all of the witnesses listed according to their ranking. We have the steemchiller ranked #1 with 126,005 Approval(MV). Other details are also captured in the screenshot.

How TO VOTE a Witness

• Just from the list of options opened already from the witness details, you will see the "VOTE" option as the last option for each of the witness as indicated. Click on the VOTE icon
• Click on the "Continue" icon
• Input your "Username" and "Posting/Active Key"
• Click on the "Approve" icon
• A confirmation transaction screen is shown.
• You can click on the link there to confirm your transaction via Steemscan.

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Please explain What is DApps and mention 3 DApps which you have already used or may use in future as per your interest?

DApps are smart contracts that are built on existing blockchain ecosystem (Especially seen is the Ethereum Blockchain) and run on them to get all of its protocols executed through this network. There are DApps which are built on its own blockchain, others are built and function on other blockchain protocols. Since the emergence of the Ethereum blockchain, DApps has continued to evolve and expand by allowing developers to create more online tools that suit global markets, ans also a more open source protocols that is more resilient and secured to guarantee safety of investors assets at all times.

We have the Bitcoin DApps, Ethereum DApps, EOS DApps, TRON DApps. Currently, this are some of the DApps I have used based on my capacity as a newbie in the cryptocurrency space.

• Brave Broswer
• JustSend DApps (TRON Blockchain)
• JustSwap Dapps (TRON Blockchain)
• 888 TRON (Will love to try out this gambling Casino platform).

Please explain How to use "Quick Convert" and what is the fee charged for different Steem amount for withdrawal?

• Login to the Steemscan.com
• Click o the Menu icon
• From the drop down, click on the "Quick Convert" icon
• The next interface shows and displays how to carry out this quick convert. From here, we can see the following;

a. column for steem amount to be converted
b. Option open for steem convert is USDT, BTC and TRX
c. Fees charged are based on the cryptocurrency we want to change or convert steem to.
d. You are also expected to input the withdrawal address for this transaction

• I will be converting to TRX. So i will input 100Steem and 10Steem respectively as amount of steem to be converted.
• Then click on "Create order" icon

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REMARKS: The same amount of fee was seen to be charged while converting both 100 and 10 Steem respectively. Amount of TRX charged was 6.41006163TRX

Please explain what information is provided by the "Search" feature?

The Search feature in the Steemscan helps the user to keep track or trace any type of transaction he/she wishes to get more details from. This transaction me rewards claimed, Powerup/Powerdown, curation rewards, deleted comments, comments, transfers etc. To have access to the Search feature;

• Click on the the Menu icon
• Then the drop-down will show list of details, click on the Search icon
• All details would be availed. We have transaction ID, ALL (Type of transaction to be searched), Amount from & to, Date from and to, and Type.
• Then if all inputted, you click on the Search button

Thank you for this task @cryptokannon, the experience was worth it as i can quickly convert my steem, know steem price at every point, vote my preferred witness etc and effectively explore the Steemscan.
Thank you all for reading.