Glad to have people like you filling us in who are newer to cryptocurrency. It's really reassuring to know that steemit is on the same track as bitcoin. Bitcoin is the gold standard, but steemit has the true potential to bring the masses to crypto and introduce them to bitcoin as a legitimate form of currency instead of only connecting it to the silk road and illegal activity and super volatility.

That's good to know. The information on $USD in the White Paper was very useful too. For anyone that missed it;

(Extract from page 36) https://steem.io/SteemWhitePaper.pdf

From August 2008 through January 2009 the U.S. money supply17 grew from $871B to $1,737B, a rate of over 100% per year and then continued to grow at about 20% per year for the next 6 years. All told the money supply in the U.S. has grown by 4.59x over less than 7 years. During that same time, the value of the dollar relative to goods and services has fallen less than 10% according to the government's price index18. This real-world example demonstrates that supply is only one component of price.

This. Many people don't realize how inflationary BTC was and still is. The difference is that Steemit has found a much, much better way to distribute the inflation.