Steem is a decentralized social blockchain created by Steemit Inc. about three (3) years ago to grow communities and to make immediate revenue streams possible for users by rewarding them for sharing original an creative content. Steem powers real applications (DApps) and focuses on sustainability and decentralization towards a secure and safe, client-side blogging experience.

Like I stated weeks ago, the unique characteristics of #steem is that it runs fast and free transactions that are built to scale, and are much faster than obtainable for #bitcoin and #ethereum.

Steemhas paid about $60 Billion to users over these three years of existence and has become a profitable venture for DEVELOPERS, ENTREPRENEURS, INVESTORS, EXCHANGES and SOCIAL BLOGGERS.

Today, Steem marks three (3) years of exisitence and has empowered lives, nations though DApps and blockchain-based communities.

EDIT: Image was edited from @Steemitboard's blog

@Uyobong wishes #steem a Happy 3rd Anniversary!

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Facts you need to know

Thanks to @Steemitboard for this awesome history about #steem. Let me quote:

The first block of the blockchain was generated on 2016-03-24 16:05:00 UTC time!

Few minutes later, the very first accounts on the Steemit blockchain were created on 2016-03-24 17:00:03. They were 3 of them: @admin, @dark and @nxt1.

3 seconds later, 4 additional accounts were created: @nxt, @nxt, @dantheman and @administrator

Six days later, on 2016-03-30 18:30:18, the very first post was published on the blockchain and welcomed with great enthusiasm.

We had to to wait till 2016-03-31 14:21:45 to see @ned’s account created and a few days later, on 2016-04-16 20:31:18, he wrote his first post.

For many of us, the Steemit story started in July, 2016. It is at this moment that Steemit really made its first boom with a massive arrival of new users. This was mainly because people received their first payout and realized that they could actually monetize their publication. The number of account jumped up to 100K in September, 2016.

After 1 year of existence, the Steem blockchain had 140549 user (71001 actives)

The second wave came around June/July 2017 when the number of users tripled to 300K and the third one came in January 2018 to raise this number to around 800K.

After 2 years, the Steem blockchain had 879425 users.

Three years later, we have 1230142 registered accounts on the Steem blockchain

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I am glad to say that after three (3) years of existence, out of which I have been a part of One (1), I have enjoyed true value for time and internet usage through blogging on Steem.

I found a beautiful community in @Steemchurch and am glad to identify with over the past one year. @STeemchurch powered by Steem is one of the fastest growing community on the Steem blockchain, and has made laudable marks of love on the lives of the Steem blockchain users and the secular world.

Today, five viable communities – Steemchurch Vensuela, Steemchurch Nigeria and Steemchurch Ghana, @Farms @Sc-telos are the offsprings of @Steemchurch.
Beyond the communities, mega projects with amazing impacts on the blockchain and beyond has been inaugurated and sustained by @Steemchurch. They include:

• Feeding the World with Steem
• Securing of the Bible in the blockchain
• Sharing joy with fun
• Building of infrastructure for the church

What are you waiting for?

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Thanks to @steem.ninja

Read more about #steem

• Steem Website
• Email
• Steem Bluepaper - A high level overview of the Steem blockchain.
• Steem Whitepaper - A technical explanation of how the Steem blockchain works.
• SMT Whitepaper - A technical paper on the proposed Smart Media Tokens protocol.

@Uyobong wishes #steem a Happy 3rd Anniversary!