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Starting with Steepshot FAQ

If you are new to Steepshot, this guide will help you to understand the platform, find out the most commonly asked questions & answers, learn how to get started.

Sections:
• What is Steepshot?
  Steepshot is a blockchain-powered censorship-resistant social platform that you can use to share photos with your family and friends. On top of that you can earn crypto rewards for everything you curate, and when others engage with your activity!
• How does Steepshot work?
  Steepshot is the first photo-sharing Steem powered application. All rewards are generated by the Steem blockchain. Steem is a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin. Every day, a fixed reward pool is distributed among all users on the Steem blockchain. By upvoting content you can control how much every post should receive. Users on Steepshot will be rewarded with STEEM and SBD (Steem dollars) which can be exchanged for fiat currencies, reinvested or held on to.
• What is Steemit?
  Steemit is one of the social media websites, which pays its users with the digital currency known as Steem for posting blogs, commenting and upvoting content.
• How do I create Steem account?

  If you don't have a Steem account, you can easily create it.

  If want to have instant account creation you can use paid tools like [SteemCreate](steemcreate.com) and [Blocktrades](https://blocktrades.us/create-steem-account)

  If you aren’t OK to pay for account creation, here’s a way of doing this for free.

  First of all go to http://www.steemit.com and click “Sign Up”. Fill out your email address, check “I'm not a robot” and click “CONTINUE”. This will bring up the following page asking you to check your email:

  

  In some cases people have waited 7 days or even more before their account has been activated. So please be patient. Check your email for a message like this:

  

  Click the link and it will open the following page in your browser:

  

  Select your country and enter your mobile phone number on the next page and click “CONTINUE”. Check your mobile phone for a text message with your code.

  

  Enter the confirmation code into the browser window and choose “CONTINUE”. Fill out “Account Name”, “Generated password”, “Re-enter Generated password”.

  

  Check “I understand that Steemit cannot recover lost passwords”.

  Check “I have securely saved my generated password”.

  Click “CREATE ACCOUNT”.

  

  You account has been successfully created!
• I have Steem account. How to login to Steepshot?
  To log in you need your Steem account. Go to the wallet on Steemit, in the permission section you will find the keys, hit the button to the right that “Show private key” then put in your username and a private key on Steepshot.

  https://steemit.com/steemit/@steepshot/video-guide-how-to-log-in-to-steepshot-using-the-steem-account

• How do I change my profile picture and/or other user profile information?
  Adding a profile picture is not supported for now in Steepshot but you can do that on Steemit. It is a bit different from the other social media or blogging platforms. So it may seem hard for new Steemians.

  Click your circle icon of your account on the top right corner.

  

  Choose “Settings” and update all the fields, or the ones you want to.

  

  Let's see each step in details:
  1. Profile Picture URL: Here you need to enter the URL of the desired image.
  2. Cover Image URL: The same procedure as above.
  3. Display name: Write your name or the one you want to be your account name os Steemit and Steepshot.
  4. About: Put here some lines about yourself, you hobbies, interests, etc.
  5. Location: Write the name of your city and/or country.
  6. Website: Here you can put down any links to your social media profiles.
• When is the IOS app available worldwide?
  The iOS app is ready and available for beta testing. It is closed, but if you want to get access, please send your request here: steepshot.org@gmail.com
• How to create a post?
  1. Just click “Create post”
  2. Enter a title
  3. Add tags simply by typing them with spaces in between
  4. Now you can add description to your photo (optional)
  5. Click the button “Create new post”
• What number of hashtags is allowed?
  Steepshot platform allows you to add more than 5 tags. The number of tags is limited to 20. We think that this amount is quite enough for almost any user.
• Why is there a 5 minute waiting period between photos?
  This is a blockchain level restriction in Steem and is very important for Steem, which pays for the content. This is necessary to limit spam attacks, cheating money bots, etc. Since we use the Steem protocol, we also accept such rules.
• Why am I getting less and less money on my account?
  Your amount in the tokens (STEEM, SBD) remains unchanged if you do not perform any transactions. However, STEEM/USD conversion rate is highly volatile, so your estimated account balance in USD may bounce up & down.
• Does Steepshot compress images?
  We don't accept images larger than 10MB, AND if the image is larger than 1MB we automatically compress it to be less than 1MB. Any image of size less than 1MB will be stored as is without any modifications.
• How to get more upvotes?

  First of all you need to understand, that a great amount of upvotes would not help you to earn a lot of money. It’s because SP influences author payouts, not upvotes count.

  It is better to focus on high-quality content. Try to improve constantly and you will be rewarded sooner or later.

  Another important thing is to use correct tags. Avoid using the most popular ones (steemit, steem, etc), it only will make your post disappear very fast.

  And don’t forget about the best time to make a post. Steepshot is being used by a great amount of people from all over the world, it means that they have different time zones. Try to check what time is the most profitable for you.

• What is the Power of Like?
  Each time you press the heart button, you spend a part of your voting power. It is constantly rebelling (recharging). The value of each of your likes depends on the Power of Like and your amount of Steem Power combined. Do not regret giving your Like Power to someone, but think who is more worthy of it! Power of like on the profile page:

  
• Is there a fee for using SteepShot?
  Steepshot is taking 15% of author rewards for its service.
• What are the copyright terms of Steepshot?

  Steepshot is built on top of Steem blockchain and is using IPFS network for decentralized images storage. When you create a post in Steepshot the unique IPFS hash of your picture is stored in Steem blockchain together with account @username, creation date and other user info.

  This information is publicly available, so you can technically prove to anyone that you are the person who stored this image at this specific timestamp. Copyright is a legal term, so if someone succeeds in connecting the technical proof with the legal world, creating a precedent, Steepshot becomes a platform where authors are granted exclusive rights for their pictures' use and distribution.

• Do my actions on Steepshot affect my bandwidth usage on Steemit?
  The bandwidth transactions of your account are on the Steem blockchain. The Steepshot app generates upvote transaction in Steem each time you upvote a post or engage in some way.
• Why does my account value fluctuate so much?
  The value or your account is based on the current value of Steem, Steem Power, and Steem Dollars. These fluctuate all the time with market trends, so your account value fluctuates the same way and shows you the value in real-time.
• I'm not able to post, comment, upvote, follow, ..., because my bandwidth (Steem Power) is too low?
  In Steem your bandwidth reflects how many transactions your account is able to generate successfully in a fixed period of time. In order to solve this issue you can do two things: increase your bandwidth by powering up liquid STEEM or just wait some time for the system to let you create transaction further.