Steem & Steemit

Krzysztof Szumny

@noisy

1. Steemit and Steem

 

2. Economy of Steem Blockchain

 

3. Technical Details

 

 

Steemit

Blogging Platform

which rewards people for creating content and curation

  • free to use 
  • no fees
  • no microtransactions
  • no tipping

Steem vs. Steemit

Steem Blockchain

  • distributed
  • open source
  • public, belongs to all users
  • censorship resistant
  • built-in economy model
  • tokens: STEEM, SteemDollar (SBD)

steemit.com

  • blogging platform
  • built-in web wallet
  • owned by Steemit, Inc (USA, Virginia)
  • can be shut down by authorities

Steem Ecosystem

steemit.com

blogging

busy.org

blogging

messaging

 

eSteem

blogging

mobile/desktop wallet

built-in exchange

 

Steepshot

clone of instagram

SteemTools.com

List of all Steem-related applications and projects

Currently: 120

Economy of Steem Network

Details can be found: https://steem.io/SteemWhitePaper.pdf (44 pages)

How to build an engine for new generation

social media platform

Solution:

Goals:

  • people should be rewarded for their work
  • people should have freedom of speech
  • people should have access to platform

 

blockchain!!!

DAC/DAO

 

Decentralized

Autonomous

Company/Organization

What is a DAC/DAO?

Problems:

  • how to pay them?
  • how to convince people to reward others?
  • how to make paycheck of an employee stable?
  • how to convince investors for long term investment?

Goals:

  • people should be rewarded for their work
  • people should have freedom of speech
  • people should have access to platform

Foundation:

  • recognized employees:
    • block producers
    • developers
  • recognized employees:
    • block producers
    • developers
    • users (content creators, curators)

How to pay them?

  • how bitcoin pay own employees (miners)?
    • how receive block reward in Bitcoin network?
  • block rewards are designed to be spent

Solution:

  • daily weekly reward pool
  • users receive block rewards
    • proportionally to recognized value of their work
      (Subjective Proof Of Work)
  • stack-based voting
  • to prevent sybil attack, rewards curve is not linear:

How to convince people to reward others?

How to make paycheck of an employee stable?

  • Bitcoin is not used as every-day currency because of its volatility, that is why people prefer to receive salary in FIAT rather than Bitcoin.

Solution:

  • smart contract worth exactly 1 USD
    • STEEM Backed Dollar (SBD), SteemDollar for short
  • Precaution:
    • SBD is created only if network debt is less than 2% of Steem market cap, otherwise users are paid with STEEM
    • witnesses can add interest to SBD balances
      • currently 1% APR

How to convince investors for long term investment?

  • cryptocurrency price volatility scares investors
    • panic sale, FUD
  • there is not additional incentive to become a hodler

Solution:

  • Vesting (locking funds) in form of SteemPower
    • SteemPower is a measurment of your influence for network
      • committed shareholder has stronger vote
    • SteemPowerSteem convertion takes 104 13 weeks
    • SteemPower grows as user hold it
      • drastic reduction of STEEM inflation for SteemPower holders

Additional goal:

  • financial investment is not required to be participate in the platform

How block rewards are split after HF 16

  • Fixed annual creation rate of 9.5% (aka. inflation)
    • Allocate 75% of the created Steem to the Reward Fund.
    • Allocate 15% of the created Steem to the Vesting Fund as interest on Steem Power.
    • Allocate 10% of the created Steem to the Witnesses.

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How rewards from posts are split?

  • 25% of post rewards are distributed among curators
    • people who early identify valuable content earn the most
  • 75% of post rewards goes to author(s) of a post
    • 50% in form of SteemDollars
    • 50% in form of SteemPower

http://bytemaster.github.io/

Accounts Worth To Follow

@steemitblog - official Steemit blog

@ned - CEO of Steemit, Inc

@zurvanic - Steemit VP of Marketing

@andrarchy - Steemit Community Manager

 

@busy.org - official Busy blog

@ekitcho - CEO of Busy.org

 

Skilled Developers among community:

@xeroc, @abit, @jesta, @gtg

 

Mine account: @noisy

 

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