"welcome to steemit my friend. Please take note, Steemit requires no initial investment in order to participate. It’s free to use and you’re not spending your own money when you upvote content you like.
Steemit is just the first minimum viable product on Steem, a blockchain-based social economy. The Steem developers have bootstrapped an entire economy, complete with its own crypto-currencies. Steem is peer-to-peer, decentralized, uncensorable and therefore unstoppable."