Steem (STEEM) Reaches Market Cap of $68.50 Million

Steem (STEEM) traded up 0.4% against the dollar during the 24 hour period ending at 10:00 AM ET on March 22nd. Steem has a total market capitalization of $68.50 million and approximately $13.04 million worth of Steem was traded on exchanges in the last day. In the last week, Steem has traded 2.9% higher against the dollar. One Steem coin can now be bought for approximately $0.14 or 0.00000161 BTC on exchanges.

Here’s how related cryptocurrencies have performed in the last day:

• Arweave (AR) traded 9% higher against the dollar and now trades at $7.17 or 0.00008517 BTC.
• Bitcoin (BTC) traded down 0.1% against the dollar and now trades at $84,144.26 or 1.00000000 BTC.
• Dogecoin (DOGE) traded up 0.9% against the dollar and now trades at $0.17 or 0.00000200 BTC.
• UNUS SED LEO (LEO) traded down 0.5% against the dollar and now trades at $9.71 or 0.00011534 BTC.
• Litecoin (LTC) traded 2.1% lower against the dollar and now trades at $91.09 or 0.00108206 BTC.
• Bitcoin Cash (BCH) traded 2.2% lower against the dollar and now trades at $323.54 or 0.00384337 BTC.
• Monero (XMR) traded up 2.6% against the dollar and now trades at $215.11 or 0.00255534 BTC.
• Ethereum Classic (ETC) traded 1.1% higher against the dollar and now trades at $17.82 or 0.00021172 BTC.
• NyanCoin (NYAN) traded down 2.2% against the dollar and now trades at $2.40 or 0.00008809 BTC.
• IOTA (MIOTA) traded up 2.1% against the dollar and now trades at $0.18 or 0.00000216 BTC.

Steem Coin Profile

Steem (CRYPTO:STEEM) is a proof-of-work (PoW) coin that uses the PoS hashing algorithm. Its genesis date was March 24th, 2016. Steem’s total supply is 505,514,627 coins. Steem’s official message board is steemit.com/@steemitblog. The Reddit community for Steem is https://reddit.com/r/steemit and the currency’s Github account can be viewed here. Steem’s official website is steem.com. Steem’s official Twitter account is @steemit and its Facebook page is accessible here.

According to CryptoCompare, “Steem.it is a blockchain-based social media platform where anyone can earn rewards by posting relevant content, curating quality content by upvoting and by holding Steem based currencies in a vest fund, which generates interest.There are three main currencies in Steemit: Steem, Steem Power (SP) and Steem Backed Dollars (SBD).Steem is liquid and can be bought in an exchange and converted into steem dollars or steem power.Steem Power is basically Steem that is locked in a vesting fund for 3 months. Users can use steem power to upvote content and get curating rewards.When a user upvotes content his steem power gets depleted and then slowly regenerated. Steem Power holders recieve interest from their holdings. The more Steem Power a voter has the more revenue he'll generate for himself (in form of SP) and for the content creator  (In SBD).There is also an incentive to upvote content early, as the rewards are distributed according to time. The earliest votes gets the biggest share of the reward.Steem Backed Dollars are there to protect content creators from volatitlity and can be traded for roughly 1 usd worth of steem, in order to cash out from steem. Converting Steem backed dollars into STEEM takes 5 days. Users also recieve interest from holding SBD. TSteem is a proof of work currency with a scheduled blocktime of 3 seconds. Steem PoW mining is done in rounds of 63 seconds by 21 miners (witnesses). 19 of the miners are pre voted, one is the other with the most computational power, and the last one is selected from a queue of witnesses that did not get on the top 19 voted witnesses.90% of the block reward is allocated to a vest fund to reward curators and PoW miners, the other 10% are made liquid in the form of steem and are used to reward content creators. Steem gets converted to Steem Backed Dollars and sent to the content creator.”

Buying and Selling Steem

It is usually not currently possible to purchase alternative cryptocurrencies such as Steem directly using US dollars. Investors seeking to trade Steem should first purchase Bitcoin or Ethereum using an exchange that deals in US dollars such as GDAX, Changelly or Coinbase. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Bitcoin or Ethereum to purchase Steem using one of the exchanges listed above.

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