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Yes, instead of paying the miners who secure the network like in Bitcoin, Steemit pays us to post comments and upvote.

I thought they earn from traffic at first but this explains better

I’m glad you get it now :)

It's human psychology and incentives. It sounds "wrong" that we're getting paid for comments and upvotes. If I make a sale at work and create value, I get paid commission. Same concept. Steemit gets better content, more views, more people in the ecosystem, we all get a cut.

Steemit sure as hell won't have a commission check bouncing, that much I can say.

Cause you’re helping the plaform to find whats good and whats bad. You get rewards for that.