Achievement 5 - Task 2: Understanding the Steem Tools: Review Steemscan.com
In continuation in our effort to explaining the steem tools available on the Steem Ecosystem, in this post, we'll be considering yet another powerful and useful tool available to us steemians called Steemscan. Steemscan is a steem exchange tool built on the steem blockchain by @futureshock and @roadrich, for easy and convinient withdrawal of steem earnings. It's used for converting Steem into other crypto cuurencies such as , USDT BTC, TRX.
What is so great about the Steemscan tool is that, with it you don't need to create an account with an exchange to carry out a conversion. With it, KYC is not needed to perform the transaction and it's so simple that even a newbie can use it expressly.
What are the functions of this tool?
Latest Transactions
This feature shows you your recent transactions; latest transactions and blocks. And under latested transactions, it displays a list of block ID, ID, Timestamp, sender, receiver/permlink/Id, type, amount/%/payload. While you have under the latest blocks, it shows a list of block ID, Height Timestamp, BLock transactions and mine, under the latest blocks.
Witness
Screenshot: steemscan.com
This is a feature that shows you a long list of the different witnesses with their information. How to vote a witness, on its interface, head over to witness feature, and there you find a list of the various witnesses with their information. Then you can cast your vote on anyone you prefer.
Dapps
Screenshot: steemscan.com
Dapps are decentralised apps. They're basically open-source software that leverage on the blockchain technology. Though i'm presently using Steemyy however, in the future i plan to use Dapps like HashKings, TravelFeed, Appics and DLikes.
Current Steem Price and Volumes
According to Coingecko, '0.651$ is exchange for 3 Steem, and this amount of USD would buy 40.61 TRX.'
How to use "Quick Convert"
The Quick Convert also known as the exchange, is the fastest way to get your money out to trade, to place order, and to convert.
Screenshot: steemscan.com
Steps to use Quick convert:
- Choose a currency; USDT, BTC, TRX, and indicate how much steem you want to exchange into what currency.
- Fill in your withdrawal address - the address of the currency that you want to get.
- Create order by clicking the button at the bottom.
- Click proceed payment.
- Confirm the transaction.
Charges for Quick Convert include, 1% conversion fee plus a fix fee for the desire currency ( fix fees are usually taken by Steem blochain partners exchange, however fees are applied to a number of existing exchanges at the same rate). These fees are as follows:
- USDT fix fee is 1.0000
- BTC fix fee is 0.0005
- TRX fix fee is 0.0100
Search feature
Screenshot: steemscan.com
The Search feature is used basically to find previous transactions, accounts and witnesses on Steem blockchain. How to carry out search on Steemscan: Select search type, ID, type of additional parametre, amount from amount to, type, date from date to, and then hit search button.
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