I think you are in for one exciting ride on Steemit! It runs very deep. For example, here are some tools that people have created with this platform. and it is only the beginning:

http://steemtools.com/
https://steemit.com/tags.html/trending
https://steemstats.com/#/

I'm working on redesigning science to be open, transparent and incentivized...

https://steemit.com/science/@transhuman/a-proposal-for-an-incentivized-synthetic-biology-system-subchain-on-the-steem-blockchain-platform

Welcome to Steemit!