Steemit is a social media platform where anyone can earn STEEM points by posting. The more people who like a post, the more STEEM the poster earns. Anyone can sell their STEEM for cash or vest it to boost their voting power.
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It's a shame that Ned sold out the chain to Justin. It's a good thing we could fork it to make Hive. It's much better now.
Steemit is a great was to publish your created content or support another with upvoting. I am happy to have joined this community and see it grow
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See it is so simple!
I can't believe we had such a hard time trying to explain what Steemit is..
We should just show people this!!
Hopefully, you @steemit can add WYSIWYG editor in the platform when posting articles and edit it, and for comments as well.
Thanks
@steem Can you please reset my account as someone stole it on October14 of 2018. They have been using the steem and it is still delegated to @ verdato and @ fudurian. I do not know if they are the guilty parties or not. It is in a power down right and appears to be continually. I have all original keys and information. please help ! The account is @jadabug ( I set it up for my daughter to blog and she would like to use it. )
Love being here Steemit! If you got some extra Steem, send it on over, I would like to be a Whale on here. :D
Congratulations @steemit! You received a personal award!
Happy Birthday! - You are on the Steem blockchain for 3 years! You can view your badges on your Steem Board and compare to others on the Steem Ranking
Do not miss the last post from @steemitboard:
Happy Birthday! The Steem blockchain is running for 3 years. Vote for @Steemitboard as a witness to get one more award and increased upvotes!
Congratulations @steemit! You received a personal award!
Happy Birthday! - You are on the Steem blockchain for 3 years! You can view your badges on your Steem Board and compare to others on the Steem Ranking
Do not miss the last post from @steemitboard:
Happy Birthday! The Steem blockchain is running for 3 years. Vote for @Steemitboard as a witness to get one more award and increased upvotes!
Happy birthday in advance. It's amazing how much Steemit has grown in such a short time.
Hi steemit, I am a newcomer to the steemit world, my experience is still minimal, supporting the blog f21steem to vote, thank you for visiting me.
Really this is great information about this @steemit account and power of this whale account. Thanks @themarkymark for sharing post about rich steemit power whales.
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@steemit, tvoja objava je dobila 100% upvote od @teamslovenia!
Kako dobiti upvote?
⚫ Pridruži se nam v Discord strežniku!
⚫ Uporabi TeamSlovenia upvote bot!Kako lahko tudi ti pomagaš, da bo @teamslovenia bot močnejši?
⚫ Delegiraj steem power - 50 SP - 100 SP - 500 SP - 1000 SP - Po želji!
⚫ Sledi upvotom od @teamslovenia - Navodila
Ta projekt podpira Steem Witness @fbslo - Glasuj zdaj!Hi please i need your help, i need pay mortage in my bank. Do you may voted in my post's please?
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@steemit Are you the real steamit? If you are , concentrate on posts making...i think you are are very lazy. 😄
It's Proud to in STEEMIT
I'm in Love this Earning Platform! THANK YOU @steemit
Hey steemit I am a beginner honestly I don't know how to start. So if you can help me , if you like my content please follow and upvote ,thank you. @rrs007
Hey steemit I am new at this if you can help me out if you liked my content please follow and upvote . @rrs007
VYo! So am here to talk about @steemcamp that recently occurred, one question I need to ask is why do u set up a competition when you already know the winner, that's why they keep saying Nigerians are frauds @michealcj you just destroy a good thing u started.
First of all am sure @steemit sponsored the program called @steemcamp and you had to tell all your contestants to sell tickets and pay 20thousand naira to your account for the finale,and for the semi finals they paid 3thousand naira, how heartless you can be not knowing that some people are coming all the way from abj,port harcourt, owerri,lagos,enugu etc i thought being sponsored was so they wouldn't pay anything else but then you made them sweat to pay.
Then to the @steemcamp competition what business does the organizer have with the contestant, why do u keep having meetings with @princessVanessa who came second and was also begging @steemboard for assistance when its obvious she stays in that same city, and cypher,why did u endager youths life when you already know who the winner would be? You should have just called them and giving them the money than waste their time,resources and starve them,right now you guys abandoned them to be beaten by mosquitoes while y'all chilling.
The contestant who won slept with @michealcj and his organizers, we are tryna fight corruption in Nigeria but people like you makes it difficult. The rules where for everyone to come on the said date which was 1 July 2018, and behavior and all what not will be judged but some people came on the 3rd and you allowed them come in, what manner of competition is that.
I don't mind if I get flagged here but I will fight for the truth no matter what. if you don't have an idea on how to put up a show ask questions than behave so low showing us you can do anything for money. Am calling names cos am not scared to stand out for what is right. I just pray other's can come to this page and speak their minds,so @michealcj will stop using this platform to extort money from @steemboard.
Steemit is one of the coolest platform for writers i have ever seen . It is fun and awesome !!
Wow, Could this be the Genesis Post / Genesis Block?!
Great to be here, lets kick some centralized (you know what)!!! Greetings from Mexico, here is our special #introduceyourself video https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@layra/3zsy72td Saludos @layra
Awesome to see the original @steemit post two years later.
How far we've come....
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Thank you so much for make a good platform.I most like it,I think it's platform competation google, facebook,youtube,raddit one day.I l ove it so much.
So glad to be on @steemit . For all the newbies please read my popular guide steemit.com/steemiteducation/@shadowolfdg/an-introduction-to-steemit-a-step-by-ste
Can't remember if I'd ever replied to this post. If not, here I go! It's been almost 2 years since I discovered steemit, and I hate to sound like a cliché, but it's quite seriously changed my life. Thanks all!
Hi everyone.. Indeed!! Follow me and I'll follow you back for sure!! https://steemit.com/@ritikagupta Thanks :)
Orgulloso de estar aqui una comunidad facinante a la cual me uno con gran alegria!!!
I'm impressed by everything this site has to offer their users! Great press and great reactions of those whom have come to generate or curate content.
It really tell's the truth! steemit the only platform who gives best reward by posting!
Proud steemit user here 😊😊
Realmente me asombra el poder de votación que tienen, Estoy trabajando en difundir Steemit en español, espero me puedan apoyar con un Voto
Really Steemit is amazing.. I love steemit.... Thanks for this Awsome platform 💙💚💛🧡💜
Is there an individual behind this @steemit account or is it a gestalt like function for the site?? Meta indeed.....
Steemit is actually the best thing to have happened as far as social media is concerned
Steem On Guys!!! ✌️✌️✌️
Hi, I just followed and upvoted you :-) Follow back and we can help each other succeed! @hatu
Thank you steemit, i just joined this platform for a few days and i am happy to have a steemit account, many things i can learn here from how to write, courtesy and best friend, i love this peace loving platform, i hope steemit will go forward and growing all in the world.
Hmmm. So there is actually an account that represents the platform, this is interesting.
The exchange rate of STEEM should be called ENTHALPY
from the term used in Thermodynamics...
Steemit is the best platform, thank you for your creation they are great.
steem on
Looking at transactions and I am curious why you gave @misterdelegation over 5 million steem power last month @steemit?
Looking at transactions and I am curious why you gave @misterdelegation over 5 million steem power last month @steemit?
I guess it will be an honour to write the first post on steemit. Beyond all the drama happening, I believe steemit is an opportunity and I'm glad I made it. So I leave my mark here after 5 months and some days after finding steemit.
@learnandteach01
I am sisir hasan. I try my best for success my life. i love steemit. Steemit is great.
Congratulations for your success, you have that deserved you !!
Thank you for that's premiers donations, resteem, voted. Thanks for them!
I'm sure you have a big heart my steemian friends!
Help us please !
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Hai @steemit , welcome to steemit..Rules to follow. 1.Dont ask for upvotes in others posts 2.Dont spam others comment box. 3. Follow me lol..!
@steemit Hey, I've been here on Steemit for some time. The journey has been bumpy, but well worth it. This is my first time ever trying to blog or share details of my experiences. I get tons of satisfaction sharing my love photography. Steemit is awesome :) Best wishes, - @splendorhub
📌 I believe steemit will grow more than facebook. I realize the benefits that it gives the steemians, 1 day not far from steemit will be the world's largest network !💯💯💯
so... Im pretty new on the platform and still couldn't find the way to get higher upvotes without a bot or a Curie vote... Do you have any recommendation? I would prefer not to fall into the voting bots thing...
@steemit I have had an exciting an meeningfull time on steemit in the past 30 day's and learned a lot.
Estimated Account Value The estimated value is based on an average value of Steem in US dollars. $234,335,385.93
I was amaized by this figure and hope to achieve somewhat a tenth of that equivelant. Thank you for this amaizing platform and the invative thinking to create such a network.
Very nice excellent post! If you want to support me in my last publication, it would be a great help to my regards
I feel like I am at a concert with a whole lot of people who I do not know, but we share the same passion. LOL
It's amazing to be on Steemit... 😊😍😘🕶👔💎💓💋 do not forget follow, votes and comment my account @salda thank's
Is there a suggestions account? I'd like to see DELEGATED, UNDELEGATED and TOTAL amounts separated out in the Steem Power section of the wallet page.
Really excited to be a part of this community. Ready to share my photography and exploration of Alaska. I hope you enjoy it :)
Hello I am a artist from South Africa, I have been making digital art for 3 years every day, I am trying out Steemit and would really appreciate your support with a Upvote or even a follow. have a super day @debart
Thanks for the concept. This will be a major concurrent to the established youtube, facebook, twitter and Co...
Year .10.2.2018 please guys, wake me up when year it been 2050 , really wanna know where is the steemit :D
hello steemit! You are rich steem power, if you can donate me for upvote of my post. Also i can help everyone upvote when many steem power.
Hello @dan, @ned, @steemit, @misterdelegation We need your support to Steemit Turkey. My name is @mburakolgun from Turkey. I'm IOS Developer and Programmer.
Altough it has not been so long since i met Steemit, i though, as software developer, a that we need to have our own platform as a Turkish society. I started to work on a website that can be a reference for users from Turkey and I am delightful as I am sharing Steemitr project which I have been working on for a while. We are aiming that project to meet new users from Turkey who searched Steemit, to generate high quality contents of ours, to help each other and to provide an area which will contributes you after a while.
Please browse for project presentation. Thanks
@steemit -- I just found this interesting place after I used your handle for a tag in a comment to my goddaughter @tecnosgirl, and she told me that doing a tag this way actually led to another person's account. I thought that it either led to the main page of this site or else to the administration.
Anyway...being rather #curious / #inquisitive / #nosy...I decided to see where the tag led and found this discussion.
Now, I'm curious about this @craig-grant guy and will have to check him out when I'm done here.
Will be back here to check this thread at different times.
Just one more question to @steemit: When will you be writing something new?
I am off to learn about steem, steem dollars, voting, delegating, witnessing, curating, powering up, powering down and just about everything else that I thus far am totally oblivious to since becoming a newb here.
Will I officially be a #steemian once I have mastered the steemy arts?
That's cool Mr. Steemit / We are having a blast on the STEEM blockchain ///
PEACE !!!
Now I can feel less frustrated for not making more than $2 in every post lol :D
I am trying to add value to this platform but unable to do it properly because of low steem power. I can help steemit grow in my locality if I get enough support from steemit community. Help me @Steemit @Freedom @Steem @Dan @Ned @blocktrades @val-a @mottler @abit @databass @hendrikdegrote @jamesc @ben @michael-b @val-b @ranchorelaxo @proskynneo @thejohalfiles @smooth @xeldal @roadscape @created @arhag @jamesc1 @michael-a @sponge-bob
Excited to be part of this community! I'm going whale mode in a few months. #MARKMYWORDS
steemit is a phenomenal idea. i love how everyone can share their information and get the value they deserve. awesome idea
What a wonderful platform. Hoping to build some steem power soon. Just getting started
I anted to leave my message in this post for the eternety. 2 years later this is working! congrats @steemit and all the team, people and users behind!
hahaha, who imagines that the first (and only) post of steemit would be this xD a link to the whitepapper at least, right?
A little late to the party, but I'm very glad to have finally made it over to Steemit. I'm bringing my Youtube and other social media followers with me, in an attempt to help grow the platform even more!
I love Steemit and I have started playing with it for two weeks! Any suggestion to make my AC to be more popular to others? Or how should I contribute in boosting the spread of Steemit? : )
I am grateful I found steem and wow you're lucky to have username as the platform @steemit
Joined 5 days back and I am grateful, thankful, excited and happy to have found it and be part of this.
Hi @Steemit.
Im trying (as many venezuelans) to become a whale. being a whale for venezuelans right now is a great opportuniy to help people. Or even if is not me, here in #steemit there should be an employment hashtag..
We can pay for better policeman, pay for cleaning the streets, Even pay for better education. Right now in venezuela 1SBD is half a salary.
And yes, this could work for another places but right now i only know people that can be helped in Venezuela. This is a really powerfull toll.
with great power comes great responsibility (Ben Parker)..
PS. let me know if you see this to post my plan on how to take the most of steemit and help others..
I'm new to steemit and still getting my head around it. Seems great so far though! :D
Thank you @steemit! You've build such a great community and such a great opportunity to join changes!
thank you for providing us with such a platform. 1 100% upvote from you could pay off my house!! wink wink!! have a good day
...what is this account? I see that it holds 70 million steem, and apparently gets sent steem from poloniex regularly... I can't figure out for sure what it's FOR, though.
Does anyone think that Facebook might be in the running to purchase (or perhaps copy) Steemit? With Mark Zuckerberg's recent comments about decentralization I just wonder where we're headed.
It is 77th day on Steemit for me and it started to earn money. I am so grateful for Steem. It rewards people for being their true selves. It is true freedom.
Its quite interesting to have stumbled on this post! What's more interesting is seeing that the now almighty Steemit made just $1.70 on her first post, even with 325 votes! It certainly must be rewarding to look back at your first post @steemit and see all the progress you've made since then! Thanks for this platform...Bigger things to come in 2018!
Wow... See what I just digged up. So Steemit did a short intro post. Where are your pictures? Hahaha
Steemit is indeed life changing and it never cease to amaze me! ☺🌟 Thank you very much @steemit! 💚
I LOVE STEEMIT! I'M TELLING EVERYONE I KNOW ON THIS PLANET ABOUT STEEMIT! I'M SPREADING THE WORD! TWO THUMBS UP! STEEM TO THE MOON! :)
Steemit is such a wonderful way to do what I love and share it with other: writing! I am so grateful I found this platform recently! Words can not describe how Steemit motivates me to keep on writing and living my dream! Thank you SO much dear Steemit Community! <3
hey you are steemit owner, i lost my steemit password, can you restore my password, i tried to recover my account but can not. please
Steemit is probably the best social media platform right now.i am loving it.....please upvote my posts..
I'm still trying to figure all of this out but I'm enjoying the process! Glad that this is even possible thanks to the day and age we live in.
I just want to leave this comment here for historical purposes.
. . . . . . . . Yeah, done. :)
Not sure if this is the right place to ask. I was just wondering how some people got a huge following without making a single post or a comment.
Steemit is wonderful, its a bit difficult to be noticed in the beggining but for places like Venezuela with the spiral sinking economy its really a life saver, just a few $ can make the difference from being dead or not... thanks for making this page ♥
How can this post be two years old when only steemit came into existence in march 2016
It is awesome to be on Steemit. These first few months have been very exciting. I'm hoping one day Steemit will surpass Facebook.
How could I have missed this post?!
Leaving my mark here as we're witnessing the evolution to a decentralized world!
We are just happy to finally be here. The protocol and platform we are building falls right in line with the type of innovative and free-minded thinking on steemit and the community has welcomed us and inspired us in many ways.
How about some posts from steemit with explainations why steemit works so fucking bad. Is there an other account for communication with the users?
Good morning, please, I need to verify a transaction made in which I made a shipping error. I send my steem to a bitcoin portfolio in bittrex and I need my steem to be returned to my steemit portfolio, this is the transaction made
yesterday Transfer 14.298 STEEM to bittrex 1bNaaF85GokZCmWfoRRQPFkfEGeRaLoKe
Appreciating the attention, greetings and thanks
Good morning, please, I need to verify a transaction made in which I made a shipping error. I send my steem to a bitcoin portfolio in bittrex and I need my steem to be returned to my steemit portfolio, this is the transaction made
yesterday Transfer 14.298 STEEM to bittrex 1bNaaF85GokZCmWfoRRQPFkfEGeRaLoKe
Appreciating the attention, greetings and thanks
Hi, I need steemit power, not just for myself but to help fellow steemians have better experience on steemit.. Can't power up because I haven't made enough sbd to power up and I hardly get votes... Please send me power up you hardly us the one you have
I’ve been here two weeks and it’s not so much the app as it is the people . in such a small amount of time the amazing people that I’ve met is where the true value of this place is.
**i'm very happy cause join on steemit i hope my steem power be up day to day :)) thank you steemit love you we hope steemit the best forever **
Hola buenas noches, inicie hace una hora, subi mi publicacion de presentacion y me di cuenta de que esta trasnparente, como si me la fueran Baneado!! que pasa quiero rspuestas de ustedes @steemit @lince ..muchas gracias! Hello good evening, I started an hour ago, I uploaded my presentation publication and I realized that it is trasnparente, as if I were banned !! What happens I want to answer you @steemit @lince .. thank you very much!
We are the biggest steemit community from the biggest destruction place by TSUNAMI in aceh and still exist on steemit with poor of skill, poor of education..Please support ACEH STEEMIANS
Creating an environment infused with love is extremely important in both community building and healthy social interaction. Those two are the main advocacy of Steem, so without even talking about love, it is the currency that supports spreading love throughout the internet, throughout the world. Steem is the currency of love.
I have tried many things online, but steemit has to be the easiest to learn. I'm very happy that I made the decision to join.
So cool! This would be the very first post in steemit, I had to comment, 2 years ago!! @steemit
Pls @steemit I like to ask what is the use of he STEEM transfered recently to steemit2 and misterdelegations tobe used for?
nice
see this link ineed your advice https://steemit.com/photography/@muliadi/macro-shot-photography-2017921t175728227z
Haha, it's funny to see how much Steemit has grown from this initial introduction post. It's a bit sad to see that @steemit's first/only post introducing the service gained less than $2 in rewards, but it's amazing to see how much Steemit has grown since then, with many posts gaining hundreds of dollars.
yo @steemit u r the most amazing thing i have ever known u changed my life i know u will change many more thing u gonna change the peoples views about internet and social networking thanks bieng part of my life
Would it be possible for you to vote up my post or comments so I can get my reputation score out of the negative?
I'm glad to be here! I look forward to writing great stories and interacting with a fun audience :)
I just want to ask you for help as many honorable popes, I created a UPVOTED COMMUNITY program, but as you can see in my post when promoting upvoted community, not having seen my post, I want to ask you to look at it even for a while my post HERE !!!
my program wants to help the minnows in steemit but see i do not have enough steem power, i just a minnow too, i have to give them 100% reward every post but my post limit is so fast so i can not upvote many post minnow other. at least I just want you to catch a glimpse of my post so minnow just as I can grow. I am very grateful to the pope like you @steemit
Such A Great Platform Its Amazing Steemit Fail all platform like FB instagram And More platform very soon Steemit growth very fast 1 million people join in 3 month Its super I LOVE STEEMIT!
Great platform I Love Steemit so much i share my photography I Love This platform
Really??! Just one post?. This account should be the reference for all of steemit users i hope that you will activate this account to help us understand the platform more . Thanks 🙂
Minnow here. Allow me to swim around here and admire this massive whale. :)
(Is this really the very first post of the platform? Wow.)
@steemit Woow ... it's amazing ... i'm really happy to be on the steemit ceiling a lot of new challenges to see.
Steemit is really an amazing place if it used ethically. Best social site ever . big thumbs up @steemit .
Hello @steemit, I am a new bie here. I hope you can support me. Thanks a lot. Regard from Bireuen, Aceh, Indonesia.
@bahagia-arbi
Hi,
I'm arriving on Steemit, and wanted to thank you for this place. Also it seems we need some help for begining (most of post lost themself in the mass due to the nivel), maybe giving a hand is possible from you ?
Anyway, thank again for this social plateform, the lucky potential i give and all the connexion around the world it make possible.
Good continuation @Steemit @Freedom @Steem @Dan @Ned @blocktrades @val-a @mottler @abit @databass @hendrikdegrote @jamesc @ben @michael-b @val-b @ranchorelaxo @proskynneo @thejohalfiles @smooth @xeldal @roadscape @created @arhag @jamesc1 @michael-a @sponge-bob
........... **@Permatek
It's good to comment on the first post on steemit even after 508 days! :) This is history in the making.
Majority only read "can earn STEEM by posting' and "sell their STEEM for cash". Steemit will be more interesting if everybody concern in "social media", "people who like post", and "boost voting power".
@Steemit @Freedom @Steem @Dan @Ned @blocktrades
Despite the account name, I am not whale. Wish I was but I am not. Hopefully someday when I do
100 Push-Ups 100 Sit-Ups 100 Squats 10KM RunningEvery single day. I will probably become a whale.
Thanks for your role in making Steem! @coincentral has launched on Steem with a unique eco-subsystem of services to increase the liquidity, security and profitability of Steem assets and 40+ cryptocoins!
Steemit is the bomb!!!! Someday I will be the greatest whale in a sea of dolphins :P haha @steemit
Steemit is a social media platform where anyone can earn STEEM -True story
@Steemit @Freedom @Steem @Dan @Ned @blocktrades @val-a @mottler @abit @databass @hendrikdegrote @jamesc @ben @michael-b @val-b @ranchorelaxo @proskynneo @thejohalfiles @smooth @xeldal @roadscape @created @arhag @jamesc1 @michael-a @sponge-bob
Dear Founders and Power Whales, I am trying to raise some "VC" Steem Power and invite you to:
- See my Introduceyourself post and then
- Invest in @Cyberspace by delegating any amount of Steem Power you see fit.
Thanks in advance for your support in any form be that SP, STEEM, SBD or some good pointers/links!
@Cyberspace
Though I still do not know where the money comes from, Steemit is a great social media platform for anyone who can earn their money and financial freedom wherever they are in the world by posting. Thanks Steemit and Many Years!
@steemit I think steemit has great potential as a pioneering social media with several issues to address for needed improvement. Steemit.com doesn't have many user friendly features that are common among most social media, such as easy to search past posts (the resteemed clutters up every members' profile page). Filtering or better yet, separating resteemed posts from authors' posts is urgently needed and there are other issues such as security, censorship abuse, and the popularity meme. Upvotes Chasing Whales meme is overwhelming minnows. One possible response is to hide the upvotes and the payout counters until the 7 day timestamp expires so other considerations about the post could enter the readers' decision making process.
There may be other issues that need to be addressed and there certainly are many possible responses to choose from, I am certainly looking forward to the advances steemit.com and other 3rd party blockchain programmers will take to make steemit even better - wishing you success! 👍
I think that steemit will be the first social network in the world because it has the potential to be, it is a new concept different in the world in the social networks, it is time to invest a deep money And time Thank you for this post:)
Great platform. Definitely going to use this. Definitely going to invest in this.
I was here at the first post on Steemit. A little late perhaps, but I'm here now.
Thank you for your post and guiding for steemit. I want to boost steemit community in Japan. Regards David
Great post @steemit 😃 I love it here. I need 70million steempower soooo bad!!!!!
*Just a Little Something to Think About.*
That's not to say there is not good people here doing good things. More so to say Just Be Careful In Here.
Public Service Announcement
The danger of a system that allows the haves to trick the have nots, and using a repetitive cycle of
1) Recruit 2) Convince to invest 3) upvote at 1-30% voting power 4) once those posts (or any others) reach an impressive potential payout, flag it with mid to high voting power FLAGs 5) Kill Shot - habitually/constantly upvote self with high to 100% self-voting power.The More You Know (Bing!)
How to Lose Newcomers and Alienate Your Followers (With One YouTube Post).
Be Careful Out There Kids!
The Internet Can Be A Dangerous Place. And then there's Steemit Inc. & it's "Big Dogs".  You can choose to take the next thing I am going to tell you any way you wish. You can call it spam. You can say it's an attack piece. You can even agree or disagree with it until you're blue in the face. You can read it, watch the video posted within it, and decide, "Hey, that sounds great! I want to try that," or you might say to yourself (what I consider to be the ethical thing to do), "Wow! That's just wrong!". No matter what you choose to do, or not to do, after watching the video, I believe you might owe it to yourself to read what follows after it (especially if you are new here and are thinking about investing your money into the steem system). Please watch & LISTEN to what is being said in this video. And know what he is saying is not theoretical, it can be done (and probably is being done, if not by bots then by people who only use steemit in the way he describes the bots could do it).  Video Source: Courtesy of @craig-grant's YouTube channel "Craig Grant".  
Did you comprehend what is being explained here? And before anyone decides to defend the producer of said video, I will say now that I understand he is using the term "hypothetical" to soft sell the concept that this is not something that he is actively participating in. To leave the observer to believe this is just an idea in his head and nothing more. And yet he is encouraging potentially thousands and thousands of people to attempt to code and run such a bot. If you think this is good for the blockchain, think again. Think of it this way. Your new to the steem platform and don't really understand the game. After the first week or two you're struggling to understand why you aren't getting much exposure, how your posts only pulled in a small SMALL portion of what you see others pulling in. In addition, you start noticing single upvotes worth anywhere from $1 up to $40+. So your thinking to yourself, "How can I reap such rewards and have that kind of voting power?" and decide to look into it. Chances are all the other steemit blogs on the subject tell you, "BUY STEEM! Invest more than your time and content. In order to increase your voting power, and your potential for exposer in the process, you have to put your money into it". Excited in the idea of such power and profit, you immediately purchase hundreds (or, even worse, thousands) of dollars in BTC to exchange/trade for STEEM. And you do see an immediate increase in voting power and a slow increase in exposure as well (more followers, potentially more upvotes from others). Sounds great, right? Not exactly. Enter @craig-grant, and other malicious Whales or even bots now. You know all that money you just put into this thing? Well, guess what. The majority of it goes right into the rewards pool and is being sucked up by these kinds of accounts by a thing called self-upvoting. You see, these accounts have been around for a lot longer than most of the rest of us. This whole project began with 0 users around 4-11-2016, and by 7-09-2016 it had approximately 10,00 Registered Users (and at that point less than half of them were active - and today it is gaining new users by the hundreds and thousands each day, approaching a total user base of almost 250,000). @craig-grant joined somewhere around June 2016 or sooner. These are the folks that pumped a bunch of their own money into the start-up platform and blockchain. Sounds like we should be thanking them, right? Some of them, YES. Yet some of them, NOT AT ALL. In fact, we should all be researching them - and praising them or calling them out when appropriate (it's not a transparent system for nothing people, would you hand a pile of your hard earned cash to a complete stranger on the street based solely on their promise it will make you more influential and wealthy? You know, because BLOCKCHAIN. I doubt it). What I believe these accounts/users are doing is baiting all us newcomers into investing real fiat currency. And then using techniques described in this video they are draining the rewards pool with malicious intent with their so-called right to self-upvote.
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"If You Can't Beat Them, Join Them" and concentrate all your voting power on yourself (self-upvoting) and upvoting a selected group of your friends who are doing the same thing - being sure to give out just a few pennies here or dollars there to a Red Fish or Minnow so you can justify bragging how much you help others and are good for the community as a whole. And even then, if your lucky you just might break even or see a bit of profit and success. But keep in mind these other users are a lot older and more powerful than you, so they will always get a bigger piece of everything than you (bearing in mind you only invested a little bit, investing some insane amount like $500,000 would be a game changer for all those fools). OR Respectfully reserve your upvotes for others posts and comments while only upvoting very little of your own. If you're lucky you just might stay ahead, but your content better be out of this world. Even so, with some Whales habitually self-upvoting they are still not leaving much in the rewards pool for the rest of us no matter how good our content is.
Same user @craig-grant here in this next video, this time explaining how to maximize his profits by flagging (takes the value of his upvote power AWAY from a post - essentially taking any money people like you & me many have contributed to the post and putting it back in the rewards pool, where he and his kind can drain it from with their powerful self-upvoting value). He even says he flags not because he thinks it's spam or undeserving yet because it's profitable and popular [but not his?] !!! WT_ !?!?!
If you agree or disagree, please be a part of the conversation and voice your opinions in the comments. And please be sure to  & even give it an  if you can "spare some change". Here I am, those who will defend this concept of "earning". And I'm not afraid. So blow me (blow me a kiss).
Video Courtesy of Mutoid Man.
Hey...this is a humongous wallet...one upvote from this account is worth thousands of dollars according to this: http://www.steemdollar.com/dollar_per_vote.php?name=steemit
Welcome to STEEM !
it is nice to see a idea, that become reality. steemit will have a big future. I'm sure of that ;-)
Dude send me 2000 steem, sharing is caring and I'll push this company til the end.
Godbless.
I am trying to save this mare - please vote me up!! I love Steemit such a great way to share information and talents.
This mare deserves a home!
https://steemit.com/life/@whitedolphin/i-need-your-help-horse-rescue
Hello Big Whale,
Can you direct me to a tutorial on how to contribute to Steemit. I have been a member since Dec (had to wait 3 months), but never got involved until I got laid-off, which was 10 days ago.
Thanks
@watchout2017
Domi
This is my big asking whether someone can put LIAIKE my cats, blogs and even better would be a donation would advance saaks. Thanks famous cats who made donations. BIG THANKS IN ADVANCE @urmokas
This is my big asking whether someone can put LIAIKE my cats, blogs and even better would be a donation would advance saaks. Thanks famous cats who made donations. BIG THANKS IN ADVANCE
old post, starting the steemit like today. my quote of the day "Anyone can sell their STEEM for cash or vest it to boost their voting power."
You can also vote on your posts if you want.:) As in when you reply to other posts. Those are posts you can vote yourself up on.... :)
Thank you for posting. We all LOVE steem!
I up-voted you too... BTW, should steemit let us steemers advertise using steem? Be sure to tell everyone you know to come vote here at: https://steemit.com/steemit/@kingtylervvs/if-steemit-ever-does-decide-to-advertise-there-is-only-1-way-it-could-work-in-my-opinion-debate
This is a democratic community decision.
Hello @steemit, I'm asking you to support my idea, in a new development STEEM. It will attract tens of thousands of people: https://steemit.com/openheart/@jennamarbles/first-steem-crowdfunding-we-can-make-this-world-better
http://steem.com/@bittrex/transfers how this user can have these tranfers without any activity?
Glad to see this live and working! Excited to see where the community goes and excited to be able to use this through a gui instead of the command linne! :D
