A brief introduction to Steemit

A new social network based on Blockchain has caught the attention of the technology community as an alternative to traditional platforms like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. On Steemit, likes are worth money, that is, cryptocurrency. “The network pays you when you see value in your content. Each like in the post generates a cash reward for the creator ”, explained Ezequiel Gomes, editor of the Bitcoin Guide and creator of the first Steemit course in Brazil, in an interview during the Blockspot Conference, a cryptocurrency and Blockchain event.

As you earn upvotes, your value increases and your voting power gets bigger. There are great influencers within the network in which one vote is worth three Steem Dollars. This means that it produces good things and gets a lot of likes. That is, if a person with this reputation likes your content, it is good for you too.

The content obviously needs to be authoritative and exclusive to make sense within the network. There are no specific topics and currently we find different information, from cooking to entrepreneurship. The platform itself is in charge of combing posts with robots that detect plagiarism or content translations. Fake news or incorrect information is also not accepted. In these cases, the social network takes care of framing the profile as spam.