Good day steemians. Today was actually a great day. Enjoyed every bit of it.
We had a steemit meet-up in the city of Uyo, Akwa-Ibom state at a cinema!
The theme of this meet-up was:
"THE STEEM BLOCKCHAIN AND STEEMIT 101".
The goal of this meet-up was to get to. Know more about the steem blockchain and the steemit platform.
We were about eight who arranged it and only one of us was not on steemit (good for him as he was highly saturated with a lot of information).
About the Steemit blockchain
The blockchain is a concept really vague to a lot of steemit users who are on the platform and it is something that every user should be acquainted with because the platform is hosted on the blockchain.
The blockchain is a ledger system as well but a digital open source one which is not hidden from anyone. Meaning transactions made on the blockchain are open to all and unalterable. It records all transactions ever executed and these data are distributed in a database.
This database is actually updated on a regular basis and these updates are done in batches called blocks. Blocks are also created by miners(for the bitcoin blockchain) and witnesses (for the steem blockchain). Then this new blocks created are incorporated with the previous ones to form chains and this gives it the name blockchain. It was originally termed block chain by Satoshi Nakamoto who was the creator of the blockchain hosting bitcoin but in time the term evolved to blockchain.
After so much lecture about the blockchain, 
The steem blockchain was launched in March 2016 but it has beat transaction records and is currently the top BLOCKCHAIN on bloctivity.com. It also boasts the fastest transaction speeds, as fast as 3seconds. All these features have made the steem blockchain one of the favorites and a mass adoption of the currencies hosted on it.
He further explained the basics of the steemit platform, highlighting it's features. He also talked about it being a social media platform and it's uniqueness too.
It is a social media network with a difference because users can actually earn on it which is really something rare.
In addition, he talked about the concept of upvoting, following, commenting and other basic knowledge needed for a steemit user to have a nice experience.
It was actually a day to remember. We conversed, had fun and also diviced an approach to make people know more about thisn amazing platform with wealth opportunities embedded in it.
