Steem Price Reaches $0.13 (STEEM)

Steem (STEEM) traded up 2.4% against the dollar during the 24 hour period ending at 11:00 AM Eastern on March 14th. One Steem coin can now be bought for approximately $0.13 or 0.00000157 BTC on major cryptocurrency exchanges. During the last week, Steem has traded down 8.4% against the dollar. Steem has a market capitalization of $66.68 million and $14.27 million worth of Steem was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours.

Here’s how similar cryptocurrencies have performed during the last 24 hours:

• Arweave (AR) traded 11% higher against the dollar and now trades at $6.64 or 0.00007885 BTC.
• Bitcoin (BTC) traded 3.3% higher against the dollar and now trades at $84,397.08 or 1.00000000 BTC.
• Dogecoin (DOGE) traded 3.8% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.17 or 0.00000206 BTC.
• UNUS SED LEO (LEO) traded down 0.4% against the dollar and now trades at $9.68 or 0.00011504 BTC.
• Litecoin (LTC) traded 3.2% higher against the dollar and now trades at $91.59 or 0.00108797 BTC.
• Bitcoin Cash (BCH) traded up 0.3% against the dollar and now trades at $332.51 or 0.00395004 BTC.
• Monero (XMR) traded 0.2% lower against the dollar and now trades at $206.70 or 0.00245547 BTC.
• Ethereum Classic (ETC) traded up 3.2% against the dollar and now trades at $18.35 or 0.00021795 BTC.
• NyanCoin (NYAN) traded down 2.2% against the dollar and now trades at $2.40 or 0.00008809 BTC.
• Bitcoin SV (BSV) traded 2.6% higher against the dollar and now trades at $34.31 or 0.00040756 BTC.

About Steem

Steem is a proof-of-work (PoW) coin that uses the PoS hashing algorithm. It launched on March 24th, 2016. Steem’s total supply is 503,655,986 coins. The official message board for Steem is steemit.com/@steemitblog. Steem’s official website is steem.com. The Reddit community for Steem is https://reddit.com/r/steemit and the currency’s Github account can be viewed here. 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 possible to buy alternative cryptocurrencies such as Steem directly using U.S. dollars. Investors seeking to trade Steem should first buy Bitcoin or Ethereum using an exchange that deals in U.S. dollars such as Gemini, Coinbase or Changelly. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Bitcoin or Ethereum to buy Steem using one of the aforementioned exchanges.

STEEM/USD price chart by TradingView