When: Tuesday April 17, 6:30pm-10:00pm Where: the Institute Bar 549, N. 12th St. 2nd Floor, Philadelphia LINK: https://www.facebook.com/events/199022507369713/ Program for April Philly STEEM meetup A brief overview of Steemit.com and STEEM sites will be given. Phil Knirck ( @knircky ) will be talking about the development of his Steem-Bounty program running on Steemit. Dan Fishman – will be speaking about high lights of the Steem Creators Conference in Las Vegas this past weekend. Matt Rosen ( @yabapmatt ) will be discussing ways to improve earnings on Steemit and other STEEM sites and a bit about the operation of the witness program. About the STEEM Blockchain Meetup STEEM is a cryptocurrency and blockchain that supports a number of decentralized social media platforms and apps. While most other blockchain projects are still developing and exist mainly in theoretical terms, STEEM is an excellent example of the power of a functional project. It allows users to reap the rewards for posting popular content in the form of STEEM and STEEM Dollars cryptocurrencies. Unlike Facebook, Youtube, Reddit and other centralized platforms which benefit exclusively from the massive financial rewards created by the content their users publish, the STEEM blockchain directs most of the rewards to the users. Also unlike Facebook and other massive social media companies, there is no user data captured or sold to marketers, very little central oversight takes place and the rules and guidelines are determined by the community. There are many sites built on top of the STEEM blockchain which cater to different types of content creation. SteemIt.com is a blogging platform similar to Tumblr and also has features of Reddit. DTube is a video platform similar to YouTube. Steepshot is a photo-sharing app similar to Instagram. Utopian.io is a platform specifically for rewarding contributions to open-source software projects. Plus many more! Steemit.com is the most popular of these sites. It’s recently been ranked by Alexa.com as one of the top 1000 visited web sites in the US. With still under one million users, it’s a relatively small community with lots of opportunity for new users to earn STEEM income. The amount of the rewards a user earns can range from a few cents up to hundreds of dollars for a single post. Steemit.com, as a community has a very high level of engagement, so for those users who are consistently active, it's possible to earn some nice extra money, a steady second income, or for a few really successful users the equivalent earnings of a decent full time job. (It’s also a great way to start participating in the world of cryptocurrencies without using money out of your own pocket!) The earnings in STEEM and Steem Dollars can be traded for goods and services on the Steemit Marketplace, or on crypto-currency exchanges where they can be sold for US dollars, or other global (fiat) currencies.. The purpose of this meet up is to create a casual forum where Steem users from around the Philadelphia area meet each other face to face in order to create real world connections. This meetup is an introduction to this platform for new users, more advance topics for current / veteran users and also general crypto/blockchain discussions for everyone. We will also be generating new, free accounts so new users can become active right away! If you're not yet using Steem, it's the one of the greatest (and possibly the best) models to date to effectively implement the ideas, and principles of crypto and blockchain into an elegantly functioning economy. And it's a lot of fun, so please join us!