I do not know the origin of the steemit, but I know that steemit is a new way for us to write the article just like Blogger on a regular site, but if on a regular site we create a blog and write articles and paid by google directly in the form of money which is transferred to our account, it is different with steemit, where we are paid directly but not in dollars or dollars, but in the form of Steem Dollar which also has a value that is not less high with the US dollar even higher than US Dollar...