• Do you still have friends on the internet?

The road is long, but the Steem community will eventually follow the yellow-brick-blockchain to the Emerald City and in the process overcome the wicked witch of the west.
The Steemit community just needs to over come its fears, stop being cowardly, and find it in their heart to love one another.
Daniel Dan Larimer @dan @dantheman
Founder & former CTO
Steemit

• Is your content censor free?

   It’s the way to beat Facebook. 
   The way to beat them, the way to make a better future 
   for everyone, is  public data.
  
   Ned Scott @ned
   Founder & CEO, Steemit
  

• Is there hope for an open internet?

   This is the new model where data is public. 
   Users should keep this in mind.
  
   Ned Scott
  

• If you’re not paying for it; you are the product.

Scott Goodson, Founder, StrawberryFrog

The real money isn’t in blogging, content generation, or voting.
The real money is found in bootstrapping a digital currency.
Dan Larimer

• Are you anonymized for customer service but targeted for profit?

    The way we’re going to see a better society is a society 
    where people are doing business 
    as if they are in a small town.
  
    Ned Scott
  

• Does any internet business pay you for the content that you provide them?

Once you have a highly functional currency, a robust community and market place, and lots of content to bring in new users, you are ready to start building robust smart contracts and side chains around these assets.
Dan Larimer

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Steemit is a social media platform where everyone can earn rewards for creating and/or curating content.

           Embedded in the Steemit white paper 
           are courses in 
           monetary policy, game theory, 
           venture finance & currency design.

           Naval Ravikant
           CEO, Angelist

Through market discovery & price liquidity, Steemit leverages Steem, a crypto-currency for real value digital rewards.

• Earn crypto-currency without investing your capital in any crypto mining gear.

Cryptocurrency tipping platforms require users to give something up to reward other for their contributions.
With Steem, rewarding others is as simple as voting for a post, such you may on Reddit, or as you would Like a post on Facebook.
Direct-to-authour compensation quoting Steem.io

• Tap into the potential of even being rewarded for your casual conversations.

  The voting rewards algorithm combines a 30-minute window 
  of review opportunity for readers,  with fewer rewards reaped 
  closer to 0 minutes, combined with a wisdom-of-the-crowd 
  factor  that benefits those who vote for posts which end up 
  becoming highly upvoted. 
  
  The earlier that Steem-holders vote for posts within 
  the 30-minute window, the more posters are directly 
  rewarded. 
  
  On the whole, posters earn at least three-quarters of the total 
  rewards for a post &  voters earn at most one-quarter. 
  
  Rewards for posters are distributed as 50% Steem Power & 
  50% Steem Dollars.
  While rewards for voters are distributed as 100% Steem Power.
  
  Ned Scott
  

• Buy gold or anything else.

So I see this creating self reinforcing virtuous cycle where the more people that join and participate and start doing commerce entirely on a blockchain merchants and consumers never having to leave back to the fiat world.
Dan Larimer

• Blockchain undergirded publishing ensures censor-free media.

Basically everything you do on Steemit is public and viewable by everyone else. In fact, posts can’t be destroyed. They can get downvoted and hidden on Steemit, but once you write something into the Steem blockchain, it is there for good and there will always be a way to read it. No one can delete it. Not even the founders, because it exists in the many multiple copies held by miners across the internet.
Ned Scott

Whose side are you on?

Sparta or Xerxes?

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A Steemit Anthology

Latest

• Theme for Steem: Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive

• Whose side are you on Xerxes or Sparta? When was the last time that you got a cheque from Facebook? YouTube? Twitter? LinkedIn? Snapchat? Medium? Google+? Pinterest?

• Thank you for flagging me, Krzysztof Szumny

Philosophy

• Theme for Steem: Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive

• Whose side are you on Xerxes or Sparta? When was the last time that you got a cheque from Facebook? YouTube? Twitter? LinkedIn? Snapchat? Medium? Google+? Pinterest?

• Who have I helped build up today?

• The Steemit Test: What's in my heart?

• Steem, Steemit, Esteem: A Little Badass? Truly Beautiful?

• The world according to Daniel Larimer

• Why I am bullish on Steemit. And its not the monetization of social, censor free media or bootstrapping an anarchistic ecosystem

• Cape Diem. Steemians, will we seize the day? We have an opportunity to beat Twitter. What actions will you take, as an individual Steemian?

Strategy

• As Medium monetizes, are there lessons for Steemit?

• The Steemit Marketing Plan 2017: Good enough is not enough, @zurvanic @andrarchy

• Are there some growth ideas for Steemit from the Facebook F8 2017 developer conference?

• One Lesson for Steemit from Google I/O 2017: Mobile first, before AI first. Steemit needs a mobile app yesterday.

• Fifteen minutes before HF19.....I remembered that eight months ago I too was one of them!

Tactics, How to

• How to succeed on Steemit: Guaranteed

• Forget about making money on Steemit. For now.

• You can make Steemit work for you. How to monetize your Steemit efforts through WAO: Whale Attention Optimization

• The Steemit Daily & Steemit Copy

• Keep your hope alive. Some ideas to jump start your dream. And are you sure that you're fuelling up your Steemit rocket ship?

Voting: Upvoting, Flagging, Whale flag experiments

• Does downvoting a post help build Steemit? Take the survey

• Calling out @asshole

• Thank you for flagging me, Krzysztof Szumny

Fun

• Some roses & flowers for the hardfork

• Why Dad Loved 'Isn't It A Lovely Day?'

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• Theme for Steem: Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive

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• Thank you for flagging me, Krzysztof Szumny

Freedom

• We the people, social media, Trump & Modi

• Ayn Rand channels Mother Teresa. George Soros on charity.

Christian

• H2, 2017: What the Lord has in mind for your new season. 7Rs

• These are the days of the vengeance of our God working on our behalf. Princess Bola Adelani helps you traverse the circumstances that God has set in motion on your behalf.

• Bless the Lord

• Running men. Striding women. Go on; make age give in.

Mene

• How to win your own Diana Widmaier-Picasso designed Menē Golden Egg Pendant

Dubai, Dhows & Disney

• Catching the desert dawn

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