The History of Steemit.

Steemit is a blogging and social networking website on top of the Steem blockchain database. The Steem blockchain produces Steem and Steem Dollars which are tradeable tokens users obtain for posting, discovering, and commenting on interesting content.

Steemit, Inc is a privately held company based in New York City and headquartered in Virginia. The company was founded by Ned Scott and Dan Larimer, creator of BitShares

On July, 4th, 2016, Steemit, Inc officially launched Steemit, a social media with virtual currency rewards that runs over the Steem blockchain. On March 15, 2017 Dan resigned as a head of technology and a marketing team was announced with Mitchel Loureiro (Hive account@zuvarnic) and Hive account@andrachy. Frank Rimalovski, Andrew Haines and William Mougayar (Hive account@wmougayar) are advisory board members while Hive account@cass, Jeffrey Paul (Hive account@sneak), James Calfee (Hive account@jamesc) and Valentine Zavgorodnev (Hive account@val-a) are a few of the staff members.