of the Steem blockchain, and hopefully
encourage more interest in how it works.
steemd.com, like steemit.com, is a front-end for
the Steem blockchain. But instead of being
meant for posting, commenting, and voting, it is
more technically oriented towards being an
explorer of the blockchain. It can show you raw
blocks, transactions, and other otherwise hidden
data about posts, accounts, and the network
itself.
A quick glossary note: Steem is the
decentralized blockchain network and Steemit is
both the name of the current flagship front-end
website and the company Steemit Inc which has
built it and continues to be the primary
maintainers of it, as well as being holders of the
majority stake of Steem Power.
steemd.com is coded and run by Steem witness
referring to it as "steemd.com" and not simply
"steemd" because steemd is the name of the
Steem node software.
I have used Steem and steemd.com since April
and I know my way around it. To bring Steem(it)
users up to speed with the technology behind it, I
have written this guide.
witness list, distribution page, and "create
account" which links to steemit.com with a
referral code. In the left column it shows the
most recent posts on the Steem network, with
the newest ones first. In the right column it
shows Steem network information and statistics.
This info box shows most of the info/stats that
will output when you use the info command in
the command line cli_wallet .
Below that info box, it shows the current week's
median price of SBD/STEEM. This is the
approximate USD/STEEM price feed set by
Steem witnesses, on a rolling weekly median.
Underneath that, there are the streems, where
you can view posts under certain trending topic
tags.
If you click the account name [1], you will be
taken to the account's page https://
steemd.com/@accountname . This page shows
most of an account's history in reverse
chronological order going back to its creation. If
you click the timestamp [2], you will be taken to
that post's individual page where you can also
view its comment replies. If you click the small
link icon [3] in the upper right of the box, you will
go to the post's steemit.com page for easier
reading and voting. And here's where the
exploration starts! If you click the advanced
mode [4] link, you will get to see extra details of
each post and comment.
Tip: If you're on any post page on
Steemit, you can change the URL from
steemit.com to steemd.com to view it on
the explorer. For Chrome users, there is
also this simple bookmark method from
Switch Between Steemit.com and
Steemd.com or Greasemonkey script for
Firefox .
Advanced Mode
When advanced mode is clicked, it will show
more info about each post and comment. This
setting will stay the same with a browser cookie,
and can be disabled by clicking the advanced
mode link again.
you comment and vote cli_wallet commands [5]
in case you want/need to vote or comment like a
hardcore hacker. ;) Click the "your-acct" link in
either command to change the default name to
your account name. This setting will stay the
same as well.
Below the post on the right is a column full of
technical data regarding the post. Some of the
labels' meanings you can infer and the rest of it
is outside the scope of this guide, but now you
know where to find it! We'll go to the vote
details [6] next.
voted, listed in order of voting. It shows the
weight of each vote (this determines curation
rewards), the rshares contributed from each
vote, the percent of voting strength that was
used, and the network timestamp for the
transaction.
In terms of the weight percent (wgt%), you'll
notice that if you add the column up, it doesn't
add to 100%. But when you add the author_
curate_reward from above, it totals to 100%! The
author curate reward is the amount of curation
rewards donated to the post author by reverse
auction. Votes made in the first 30 minutes of a
post's existence donates a portion of the voter's
curation rewards to the post author,
proportionally to the time from 0 minutes old. For
instance, a vote made at a post age of 15
minutes donates 50% of the voter's curation
rewards.
Account Page
A steemd.com account page is a powerful tool
for viewing almost all activities of a Steem
account. The only blockchain activity I can think
of that it doesn't track is block creation.
statistics about the account. It's the same info
you receive when you use the get_account
command in cli_wallet, but arranged much nicer.
One particularly useful thing here is highlighted
with a red box: the account's voting power.
When you make a vote in Steem, assuming it's at
100% strength, it will deplete 0.5% of your
current voting power. The math is tailored to
give you about 40 votes per day without seeing
depletion of this power over time. People that
are voting manually and casually generally don't
need to think about this. The voting power
mechanism is in place to minimize the effect of
overvoting.
At the right you see a feed of all blockchain
actions relating to your account. Both
transactions made by the account and most
transactions that affect the account (like
comment replies, votes for posts/comments, or
transfers of funds) are listed. In the upper right
it shows the account's Steem Power,
denominated in the internal Steem unit of (M, for
million]VESTS) and amounts of liquid STEEM and
SBD currencies.
Each Steem account on steemd.com gets a
unique avatar, generated based on the account
name. These used to be robot icons from
robohash.org. I hope those will come back some
day! This is/was mine Image
Also shown is the account's metadata, owner
key history (useful for seeing possible account
breaches), authorizations/keys, then witness
data, and finally the account's witness approval
votes below everything else:
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