Steem (STEEM) Price Tops $0.0699 on Major Exchanges

Steem (STEEM) traded up 3.9% against the U.S. dollar during the twenty-four hour period ending at 7:00 AM ET on January 4th. One Steem coin can currently be purchased for approximately $0.0699 or 0.00000077 BTC on major cryptocurrency exchanges. Steem has a market capitalization of $36.53 million and approximately $4.77 million worth of Steem was traded on exchanges in the last day. Over the last seven days, Steem has traded down 3.7% against the U.S. dollar.

Here is how related cryptocurrencies have performed over the last day:

• Arweave (AR) traded 3.2% higher against the dollar and now trades at $3.96 or 0.00004345 BTC.
• Bitcoin (BTC) traded up 1.8% against the dollar and now trades at $91,252.31 or 1.00000000 BTC.
• Dogecoin (DOGE) traded up 6.7% against the dollar and now trades at $0.15 or 0.00000166 BTC.
• Bitcoin Cash (BCH) traded up 2.1% against the dollar and now trades at $648.63 or 0.00710813 BTC.
• Zcash (ZEC) traded 0% lower against the dollar and now trades at $508.02 or 0.00556719 BTC.
• UNUS SED LEO (LEO) traded down 3.4% against the dollar and now trades at $8.93 or 0.00009781 BTC.
• Monero (XMR) traded up 1.9% against the dollar and now trades at $435.68 or 0.00477442 BTC.
• Litecoin (LTC) traded 1.4% higher against the dollar and now trades at $82.49 or 0.00090394 BTC.
• Ethereum Classic (ETC) traded 3.2% higher against the dollar and now trades at $12.79 or 0.00014018 BTC.
• NyanCoin (NYAN) traded 2.2% lower against the dollar and now trades at $2.40 or 0.00008809 BTC.

About Steem

Steem (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 536,113,693 coins and its circulating supply is 522,267,379 coins. Steem’s official Twitter account is @steemit and its Facebook page is accessible here. Steem’s official website is steem.com. 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.

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.”

Steem Coin Trading

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

STEEM/USD price chart by TradingView