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RE: Trying out more creative outlets
Thanks so much. Great first effort. Enjoyed the video and found it helped me as an new user to gain more understanding of why Steemit is unique. I would go lightly with the editing and other bells and whistles. I think what you did was very effective and genuine. Experience gained in future videos will make the whole thing smoother.
Thank you very much! I'm actually glad I menaced to get something across :) It's odd talking to a camera and not a person. Your reply gave me more confidence! Thanks!
My takeaway is that Steemit has no corporate owner/shareholders to reap the value created by the user-created content. Steemit creates a system that allows the user to receive the benefit of the value from the content he or she created. And the extent of that value is judged by the vote of the other users. Am I on the right track? I have been on Steemit for 5 days.
You are very close. Everything you see on Steemit is stored in the STEEM blockchain. Steemit is just a really nice frontend to access the information stored in the blockchain.
There are other frontends like busy.org. Wich is the exact same data you see on Steemit but displayed differently.
The STEEM blockchain makes it possible to get the trust I was speaking about. And eliminates a third party to store the data (like FB). Nobody owns the STEEM blockchain and everyone can build apps tapping into the blockchain (like Esteem).
Only recently they made it all open source. Everyone is allowed to build anything they want on the STEEM blockchain now. They can even copy it and do what they want with it.
Every day there is a certain amount of new STEEM created to be given to the content providers/curators and witnesses. The value of a vote decides who gets what.
This is it in a nutshell.
Thanks so much. Getting much clearer to me. I did not understand that the STEEM blockchain is independent and a Steemit is just one way to access. I'm anxious to keep reading and learning.