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Who are the whales?
Whale the term was originally used on bitcoin network for those users with higer influence on the market it is also the same case for steemit. Whales are people of high influence on the steemit blockchain, they are people who single upvote can give you up to a few dollars they are called whales.
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But first let view the 3main categories of people we have on steemit
Let's start with minnows I'm quite sure 70% reader's of this post are actually minnow. Why do i say that maybe it because i'm also one (so don't get fustrated we are all one(minnows). I join steem july 2018 so don't look down on me just yet, back to what we talking about minnows are steemians (active user of steemit either whale or even if there is any term like crayfishes so far you a active user you are a steemian/steemit to me) with less than 25000 steem power(SP)
Dolphins: are steemians with more than 25000(SP) an upvote from a dolphin will earn upto 50cent.
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Whales:as I explained earlier are steemians with the greatest influence on the blockchain. One upvote from a whale cod earn you up to $10(imagine 10 whales upvoting you post isn't that gonna be great yeah but wake up pal remember who you are and stop been Joseph the dreamer in the bible cause there are like 0.001% that that's gonna happen but never say never) the main advantage of a whale upvote is that they put at the top of the trending/hot post where you will be more visible to more whales, dolphin and minnows like me therefore giving you a higher percentage of getting more upvotes.
The highest population of the steemit block are minnows which I feel are often side tracked but yet the minnows still wage wars against eachother to get the whales attention and upvote I personally think the steemit network should create a better play field for the minnows who aren't that rich to invest huge sum of money on the block(just imagine before you can get up to a million steempower through blogging only bro it a long way).
In case you still confused on what we mean by steemit power and it's advantage stay tuned for my next post where I will explain in full
What steem power is?
How to earn or buy steem which can be powered up to become steem power?
Stay tuned
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