In a recent "Beyond Bitcoin" podcast somebody  made it really easy for me to understand the token relationships and roles in the Steem economic system.

There are 3 basic characteristics that a "Money" should have are:
1- A medium of exchange
2- A unit of account
3- A store of value

In the Steem economic system these characteristics of money are separated into 3 different and related tokens.
1- A medium of exchange = Steem
2- A unit of account = Steem Dollar
3- A store of value = Steem Power

Looking at it from this perspective, you can easily see the true genius of the Steem system.

I made a [post](https://steemit.com/steem-help/@fran2k/steem-network-asset-classes-steem-steem-power-and-steem-dollar-explained-in-one-chart) regarding this topic. ![](https://img1.steemit.com/0x0/https://ipfs.pics/ipfs/QmcD92oakBiGWr5Uu5tvy3a45zqPVKUT7dhr8RCm4RjPmz)

Make an IRL typo, get $1000 for it, sick life :) 

Haha jk andrarchy, that video and your visual breakdown is really terrific. I'm slowly but surely starting to understand all the inner workings of Steem, and your videos are really helpful. It's a better way to learn for me than reading the white paper or whatever.

Talking to a camera is oddly difficult in my experience, lol. I'm consistently impressed by your videos. You have a rare combination of great thinking combined with great communication and camera skills. Really valuable.

Principles of STEEM is a digital commodity and that is  long term commitment .

Maybe (next time) you can put it as a comment below your post?
Or put a screenshot from the video first (so that it acts as a thumbnail) and then other images and the video itself.

This is the best visual. Thanks for this post I know a lot of people will benefit from this since many do not know how the monetary system and steem works. Thank you @andarchy!

Awesome, very clever; thank you!!

I think I found a hack about images. Use an HTML img tag for the image you want as a thumbnail. Use markdown formatting for the other images. The one with the img tag should be the thumbnail. Use SteemImg.com for easy access to HTML and Markdown code for images.

great job on this one, Andrew.

I confess, at first, I thought it was going to be similar to a few of your others... though soon enough, a series of mini "ah-ha's" was triggered to yet further deepen my understanding of the whole system.

love the way you are able to break down key concepts simply and communicate straightforward to really drive home fundamental points that shed light on it all from different angles.

also appreciate your acknowledgement of the *beliefs*.

keep up the good work. ;-)

(comment intended for the First Principles video - mixed up these posts, crossing over on devices)

An image that is wrapped into an h1-tag will become the thumbnail image of the post. So I would try to h1-tag the element that is shown as thumbnail in your previous post and then add the image of this post to it w/o an h1-tag.

You cunning gay. To what to spread it a separate post?

Let

well, lets be clear.  You could have simply linked the image in the original post.  Or you could have just selected another thumbnail and put it in first.  Or you could have linked it in comments.

Of course  that way wouldnt have made you additional money.  This is a great example of the problems with curation on this site, and the low value/no value posts that have the currency in freefall.

All good @andrarchy I find whiteboards easier to read anyway. If you are anything like me, you probably find jotting notes quicker and easier on a whiteboard than to type it with a keyboard.

Why to publish one image in a separate post? You want more money from bots?

You are rather clever to load him on Imgur, and to place the reference here. You try to justify the greed with very silly arguments. You not the idiot?

Fucking STEEMIT! you upvote of 90% of bots. 1 shitty picture, and 112 votes. Come into "NEW" hundreds of posts with unique contents don't collect also 5 votes. Because of your greed.  Remember my words and understand if your post appears above, someone's post appears below. Selfish, greedy, bastard.

Actually I find the image much more useful to me, the the post with the video. Unfortunately I am far away from civilization right now, so I can't watch the video, and this post, as well as some comments in the post with the video provided me with enough valuable information, that I upvoted accordingly. :-)