Thank you @taskmaster4450 for your continued generosity and patience with me. I honestly really do appreciate the time you put into your comments. Your handle might be taskmaster4450 but you'll always be taskmaster1 to me.
Thanks for the tip on steemnow.com - I just had a look and while there are a lot of zeros, the voting power percentage is definitely useful. I've been going through all my old posts and upvoting all the good comments.
I intend to purchase Steem on my next pay day. I just noticed you can't buy Steem Power... just Steem the cryptocurrency. I assume I can buy it on the Bittrex exchange and send it across to here... I didn't realise Steem is essentially Steem Power... it kinda makes sense now that I think about it.. but again, a lot of the newbie guides divide these resources up into 3 very separate categories.
Thanks again! You've improved my life on SteemIt by so much percent! Maybe even 65%.
Actually you can buy steem power through blocktrades. You need some crypto before that....I would suggest picking up LTC then sending it through blocktrades...BTC is just getting too slow and costly.
I actually didn't know this. Since I won't use bittrex anymore, I've been waiting for Binance or smaller exchange I use to add it. As soon as holiday spending is over I'll throw $150 in .
I'm sorry, I'm getting confused again... you can buy Steem and Steempower in Blocktrades? Steempower is useful for this platform right? Steem is just to trade as a cryptocurrency?
Steem Power is just steem locked onto your account. You can only convert it back into steem slowly over the course of several weeks. So its a commitment to the platform, and thus the one that affects your upvoting power.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Okay, that was the missing piece! Thank you so much, that actually really helps it all click into place now. I actually really like that concept, it stops people just trading Steem in and out of the platform on price action movements.
No problem!