STEEM Monsters Is An Epic Blockchain Trading Card Game

by Will Long | Oct 24, 2018 | Blockchain Technology, Cryptocurrency, News, Steemit, Video

STEEM Monsters is a badass new game on the STEEM blockchain! The digital, role-playing, trading card game was created by Jesse Reich.

“Collect and trade cards on the blockchain! Level them up and then compete in individual and Guild PvP Tournaments and EPIC BOSS FIGHTS!”

You can buy cards now on steemmonsters.com! Previously users could only purchase cards with the STEEM cryptocurrency, but now STEEM Monsters is accepting both credit cards and PayPal.

STEEM users are buying these cards up like crazy as they could be worth a pretty penny in the future. We think the card game is pretty revolutionary. We have yet to see someone else create this type of game on a blockchain.

How To Play STEEM Monsters:

A cataclysmic event, known as The Splintering, violently reshaped a once peaceful landscape into six separate kingdoms.

The world was thrust into chaos and war as the inhabitants of the six known Splinters fought for control of what became known as the Splinterlands.

An ancient prophecy foretells of a hero who will reunite the Splinters against the Greater Enemy, saving the world from a near inevitable doom.

Could that hero be you? Choose your Summoner, choose your Monsters, and prepare for battle! The player who builds the best team will find glory on the Battlegrounds, fame on the leaderboards, and fortune in the Grand Tournament!

Why Blockchain?

FAST AND FREE

The Steem blockchain has transaction speeds of about 3 seconds, can handle thousands of transactions per second, and zero transaction fees! Unlike other blockchain platforms, that means the only cost is the cards themselves. You can play, buy, sell, and trade at lightning speeds and…for free!

PROVABLE SCARCITY

Thanks to the full transparency of the blockchain’s distributed ledger, it’s easy to see how many of each different card exist in the entire game. So unlike in games like Hearthstone, you can see exactly how rare, and valuable your cards actually are!

TRUE ASSET OWNERSHIP

With the blockchain, your cards are actually yours, and they can only be transfered with your private keys. This means that even the creators of the game cannot take them away from you and you are free to buy, sell, or trade them just like physical trading cards!

VERIFIABLE RESULTS

All of the battle results, and the cards contained in Booster packs, are generated by a published algorithm based on unpredictable data from the blockchain itself. This means that no one, even the creators, can tamper with battle results, or give certain players better cards in packs.

Source: steemmonsters.com

STEEMMONSTERS.COM

Check Out STEEM Monsters On Kickstarter

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STEEM Monsters Videos:

Make Money with the STEEM Monsters Trading Card Game

STEEM Monsters Pack Opening

STEEM Monsters (Token Fest 2018)

Hearthstone on a Blockchain? An interview with STEEM Monsters

Learn More About The STEEM Blockchain

Follow Bitcoinshirtz.com Founder On DTube & YouTube!

by Will Long | Jun 22, 2018 | blog, News, Steemit, Video

Hi there! Thanks for visiting my website! My name is Will and I enjoy designing Bitcoin and crypto t-shirts. Another passion of mine is making videos! Recently I have been putting more effort into uploading videos to DTube and YouTube.

DTube is an app on the STEEM blockchain for uploading and sharing videos. It’s pretty awesome and you can start earning a profit on your uploads immediately. YouTube, in comparison, requires content creators to have 4,000 watch hours in the previous 12 months AND 1,000 subscribers to be REVIEWED to join the YouTube Partner Program. And if approved, then you can start getting paid.

Personally, I think DTube is a game changer and the site has seen some sweet improvements as of late. More on DTube:

D.Tube is the first crypto-decentralized video platform, built on top of the STEEM Blockchain and the IPFS peer-to-peer network.

The Type Of Videos I Love To Make

I enjoy making a variety of videos, but primarily I focus on travel experiences, videos about my cars, fitness, snowboarding, and drone flights.

These are some of the top videos on my channel:

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Brand New Summer 2018 STEEM Apparel!

by Will Long | Jun 22, 2018 | BitcoinShirtz, Cryptocurrency, New Designs, Steemit

Summer is here and we have released a plethora of new STEEM apparel options for all the dedicated Steemians out there. Our favorites are the floral and camo designs!

Each design can be printed on t-shirts, hoodies, and tanks.

We don’t blame you for HODLING your cryptos during the dip and you can easily pay in fiat on our Teespring store. To pay via crypto simply submit an order through our website form.

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Bitcoinshirtz Summer STEEM Designs:

2016 & 2017 Bitcoinshirtz STEEM Designs:

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Busy.org Takes The Steemit User Interface To The Next Level

by Will Long | Mar 22, 2018 | blog, Cryptocurrency, News, Steemit

Busy.org is one of the best ways to post on the STEEM blockchain. The open-source project is an alternative Steemit user interface. Steemit.com is the most well known website or block explorer and is just one way to interact with the STEEM blockchain. Front-end interfaces allow users to see notifications for mentions, new followers, comments, and upvotes.

Other STEEM block explorers and apps: ESteem.ws (designed for mobile), D.Tube, DSound, Zappl, and DMania.lol

Awesome Features On Busy.org – The Best Steemit User Interface

The STEEM price is featured on the side in a very clean interface. Vote power and upvote worth are also seen on the account homepage. Posting is made easy with their built in editor, wherein you can save multiple draft posts. Users can get a free upvote from the Busy account for using the busy tag.

Busy created its own page to monitor your activity, you can easily filter by criteria that you specify. You can also easily search through your historical activity

Whenever a post is about a specific cryptocurrency, Busy.org will recognize the crypto name of the coin and list the current price to the left of the page.

Busy now has a referral program. You can find your shareable link in the settings on Busy. You can share it to receive a 10% of post rewards for 1 month from the new Steemians who you bring on.

Try Busy.org!

More About Busy:

At Busy.org, “we believe in wisdom of the crowd, open decision-making, taking a collaborative and transparent approach, that’s why all our work is open source. Everyone is free to contribute, by all appropriate means to accomplish our mission. Not only coders but also designers, writers, translators, testers, marketers, advisors, etc. We’re partnering with @utopian.io to incentivize and reward open source contributions on Busy.org.” (Check on Utopian)

Source: @busy

New STEEM App, DMania To Compete Against 9GAG And Other Meme Sites.

by Will Long | Mar 21, 2018 | blog, Cryptocurrency, News, Steemit, Video

DMania is one of the newest apps on the STEEM blockchain. The project aims to build a website to compete against 9GAG and other internet meme sites.

9GAG is popular online platform and social media website for collections of Internet memes. It was launched back in 2008.

As of November 2017 the meme site had over 223 million visitors with the following breakdown: 11.03% from Germany, 5.55% from the United States, 4.40% from France, 4.19% from Brazil and 3.99% from United Kingdom – Wikipedia

There are heated debates on Steemit right now about DMania being a positive or negative for STEEM. Is DMania for plagiarism and stealing others original work or creativity or harmlessly sharing images and data online?

Are jokes worth money? The comedians who make a living making people laugh would say yes.

We Think DMania is a cool and interesting project in the Steemit blockchain ecosystem. We shall see if it gains traction and attracts high volume of website traffic. 9GAG certainly does.

dMania – Create Funny Memes And Earn Steem

Other STEEM Apps Worth Checking Out

D.Tube is the first crypto-decentralized video platform, built on top of the STEEM Blockchain and the IPFS peer-to-peer network. D.Tube is a great alternative to YouTube for content creators and they get paid in STEEM!

Because of the decentralized nature of IPFS and the STEEM blockchain, D.Tube is not able to censor videos only users censor through the power of upvotes and downvotes.

D.Tube runs without advertising, giving a better user experience. D.Tube also uses IPFS peer-to-peer networks. IPFS is a protocol that enables decentralized file storage.

Busy.org is one of the coolest apps for STEEM blockchain. We highly suggest it. The latest release allows for DTube videos to embed in posts on Busy.

Busy.org is an open-source social network and communications platform that includes a variety of rich features and functionalities.

An open platform for an apps ecosystem: Busy’s goal is to build an all-in-one platform and allow many apps and features to flourish on top of the Busy social media platform. We are offering an open-source and secure social network layer to bootstrap any Apps (like Facebook Apps does, or WeChat services), games, community tools, marketplaces for good or services, using Steem.js API, SteemConnect and the Busy.org ‘framework.’

An open-source project and vision, and an alternative interface to Steemit.com: we believe in wisdom of the crowd, open decision-making, taking a collaborative and transparent approach, that’s why all our work is open source. Everyone is free to contribute, by all appropriate means to accomplish our mission. Not only coders but also designers, writers, translators, testers, marketers, advisors, etc. We’re partnering with @utopian.io to incentivize and reward open source contributions on Busy.org. (Check on Utopian)

Steepshot is an open source Web app for lifestyle sharing based on Steem blockchain. It’s similar to Instagram, but you post on the STEEM blockchain. Check out their Steemit Page or visit steepshot.io

How To Buy Gift Cards & Visa Cards With STEEM

by Will Long | Mar 6, 2018 | blog, Cryptocurrency, News, Steemit

Steemit is a wonderful website that allows content creators to earn cryptocurrency for their posts. STEEM Cards is now open for business, and you can purchase gift cards and Visa cards with STEEM, or STEEM Backed Dollars! You can also use BTC ETH and LTC.

Some of their gift card options include Amazon.com, iTunes, Best Buy, Steam, Domino’s, ADIDAS, Xbox e gift card, The Home Depot, Dell e gift cards, and much much more!

This is very exciting for the people working very hard on Steemit to produce top quality content. Exchanging crypto for things you need just got way easier thanks to STEEM Cards.

More on Steemit and why you should join if you haven’t :

Steemit.com is the world’s fastest growing decentralized social media platform. Steemit connects to a robust blockchain database called STEEM. This blockchain database distributes rewards in cryptocurrency to the users who bring the best content (blogs, comments, videos etc.) to the Steemit site.

Check Out STEEM.Cards

Steem.cards uses SteemConnect 2.0

“The goal of SteemConnect is to make signing into any application that leverages a Steem Account as easy and intuitive as signing into any ordinary website.”

“SteemConnect is the ideal solution for making it easy and safe for users to sign in to 3rd party Steem applications and for developers to build and scale these applications. It’s a layer built on top of the Steem blockchain that allows you to connect to authorized apps and transact in a secure and convenient way.”

SteemConnect won’t just be a layer that streamlines the user sign up and sign in processes, it will also enable developers to add Steem features to their existing websites. Using SteemConnect, web developers with no history of blockchain development will be able to conveniently and securely add features like: tipping, voting, and comments.

– @steemitblog