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The whole idea is a decentralized community, laced with earning crypto for participation; I personally like to cash out my steem to an exchange; currently powering up though for a year or longer to help gain curation, just read the welcome/get started pages thoroughly to get a real hang of this, and potentially earn some steem!

Welcome to Steem Community @ghostgirl77! As a gentle reminder, please keep your master password safe. The best practise is to use your private posting key to login to Steemit when posting; and the private active key for wallet related transactions.

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