Steem Price Hits $4.19 on Top Exchanges (CRYPTO:STEEM) Posted by Caroline Horne | Feb 14th, 2018
Steem (CURRENCY:STEEM) traded up 1.8% against the dollar during the 24 hour period ending at 6:00 AM ET on January 30th. Steem has a total market capitalization of $1.
04 billion and $17.
55 million worth of Steem was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. Over the last seven days, Steem has traded 9.8% higher against the dollar.
One Steem coin can now be bought for about $4.19 or 0.00047582 BTC on popular exchanges including Poloniex, OpenLedger DEX, HitBTC and Upbit.
Here’s how other cryptocurrencies have performed over the last 24 hours: Get Steem alerts: Bitcoin (BTC) traded up 3.
6% against the dollar and now trades at $8,842.92 or 1. BTC.
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) traded up 3.
3% against the dollar and now trades at $1,259.32 or 0.14314900 BTC. PACcoin (PAC) traded 27.5% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0000 or 0. BTC. Counterparty (XCP) traded up 9.
5% against the dollar and now trades at $32.45 or 0.00368092 BTC. Crown (CRW) traded 2.
7% lower against the dollar and now trades at $2.63 or 0.00029885 BTC. Namecoin (NMC) traded 5.7% higher against the dollar and now trades at $2.63 or 0.00029840 BTC.
Unobtanium (UNO) traded down 1.
5% against the dollar and now trades at $146.01 or 0.01655940 BTC. ATBCoin (ATB) traded up 3% against the dollar and now trades at $0.41 or 0.00004690 BTC.
CHIPS (CHIPS) traded up 19.6% against the dollar and now trades at $0.38 or 0.00004284 BTC. Terracoin (TRC) traded 7.5% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.
20 or 0.00002327 BTC.
Steem Coin Profile
STEEM is a proof-of-work (PoW) coin that uses the SHA-256 hashing algorithm. Its genesis date was July 4th, 2015. Steem’s total supply is 266,361,383 coins and its circulating supply is 249,387,289 coins. Steem’s official website is steem.
io .
The Reddit community for Steem is /r/steemit and the currency’s Github account can be viewed here .
The official message board for Steem is steemit.com/@steemitblog . 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. T Steem 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
Steem can be bought or sold on the following cryptocurrency exchanges: Upbit, OpenLedger DEX, Poloniex, HitBTC and Bittrex. It is not presently possible to buy Steem directly using US dollars.
Investors seeking to acquire Steem must first buy Ethereum or Bitcoin using an exchange that deals in US dollars such as Changelly, Gemini or Coinbase. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Ethereum or Bitcoin to buy Steem using one of the exchanges listed above. Steem Steem .
