Hello: I'm new to Ecency and Hive

Electronic-terrorism, voice to skull and neuro monitoring on Hive and Steem. You can ignore this, but your going to wish you didnt soon. This is happening whether you believe it or not. https://ecency.com/fyrstikken/@fairandbalanced/i-am-the-only-motherfucker-on-the-internet-pointing-to-a-direct-source-for-voice-to-skull-electronic-terrorism

I use Ecency to post to Hive aswell. It’s a website, mobile and desktop application that improves your experience on Hive. Hive is a blockchain on which we place our blogs. But also music and art in any shape or form. If you are interested for more info Android download : https://android.ecency.com, for iOS: https://ios.ecency.com, for desktop: https://desktop.ecency.com apps that helps you to connect, and that’s what we do here !
You can also earn to promote and boost your content. Again If you are interested https://ecency.com just some extra information in this early start of your journey here! Last hive.blog is an option too.
Good luck with with hive experience and I Will See you around and may you find here what you are looking for. Just remember that all good things come in good time and never giving up is THE key to big succes on the Blockchain. Also you could join the the Terminal discord, as I said before we help there with problems or questions, for free don’t worry. Or visit @heyhaveyamet for more new arrivals, all are in the same phase that might be helpful or reassuring. Newbie exposure in the beginning very important.
Let me know if this was helpfull or if you need more help, see you in Discord
the Terminal. Here is the invite again its totally free,
https://discord.gg/XZGPGpz
Greeting from the Netherlands
@ Brittandjosie

Good luck to you as the new arrival, may hive become your new life !

Hello, @appalachiancrypt! This is @traciyork from the @ocd (Original Content Decentralized) curation team - and yes, I found you after our Twitter conversation. 😂

To answer your second question (the first should be covered by the last bit of my reply), the dollar amount under each post is what the author and curators (meaning the people who upvoted the post) will split 50/50 when it pays out 7 days after it was published. Currently one HIVE = $0.55 USD, so definitely actual money.

Not at all confusing, right? Don't worry, once you wrap your brain around it, it's pretty easy to understand. In other words, If I can figure it out, anyone can, especially since I still used to ask lots of silly questions myself. 😊

Now for the rest of my usual welcome message...

We noticed you shared your first post here on Hive - congratulations and welcome! It would also be awesome if you could do an introduction post, so our community can get to know you better. For an example of what an intro post is like, you can check out this one by my friend & curation team member -

Keeping Up With the Buzz - My Introduction to the Hive Community.

Speaking of community, we have many different ones here on the blockchain, devoted to all kinds of interests. Here's a link so you can check them all out - Hive Communities . Based on your Twitter bio, I'm guessing you'd enjoy checking out the LeoFinance community, and probably the Ecency one as well (I think the pinned posts there might be helpful for you).

Also, as Hive can sometimes be quite confusing, the newly launched Newbies Guide should be helpful to you, as it is a growing repository of useful and easy to understand posts about how the Hive ecosystem works.

Since you're new, you may run into an RC (Resource Credits) error when trying to comment/post because you don't yet have enough Hive in your account yet. For assistance with a temporary delegation to get you started, be sure to check out the Gift Giver site.

For now, @lovesniper will follow your account and we are looking forward to seeing your intro post. Also, please mention (also known as tagging) @traciyork & @lovesniper in your intro post in order for us to be notified, so we can consider your post for OCD curation. Lastly, feel free to hop into the OCD Discord server if you have any questions!

Welcome 🙏🏼 @appalachiancrypt - you will never look back.

!ALIVE
!BEER
!PIZZA

You Are Alive and have been rewarded with 0.1 ALIVE tokens from the We Are Alive Tribe, and it's paid for by the earnings on @alive.chat, swing by our daily chat any time you want.

Congratulations @appalachiancrypt! You have completed the following achievement on the Hive blockchain and have been rewarded with new badge(s) :

You received more than 10 upvotes. Your next target is to reach 50 upvotes.

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Check out the last post from @hivebuzz:

Hive Power Up Day - September 1st 2021 - Hive Power Delegation

Hello!

There's a lot to figure out! 😅 Ecency is one of the many apps that run on the Hive blockchain. Your Ecency account is actually a Hive account that can be used to log in to all sorts of things - many blogging interfaces as well as several games!

The dollar amounts under people's posts are what people have earnt on that post. Basically, if someone upvotes a post or comment it's rewarded based on how much Hive Power that someone has -- I've voted on your post and my vote is worth 36 cents. After 7 days, the post will payout 50/50 to the author and to the people who voted on it. So say a post has $10 on it.$5 will go to the author of the post, and the other $5 gets split amongst the people who voted for it. 🙂

It's in crypto. The $HIVE cryptocurrency, which can be converted to actual money. You can also keep it in your account, power it up, and accumulate a bunch of power with which to vote on other peoples posts with!

There are no silly questions! The other commenters have already given you some helpful Discords and things. I hope you're able to figure it all out. 🙂 It's all a learning curve, but worth it! 😃

Welcome. You are being officially followed now :)

Check out https://leofinance.io/. It's on #hive too, of course.

As for your questions ... You'll have many of these at the beginning :)

The amounts are the current dollar value of the earnings. Half of the earnings go to the author and the other half to all the voters/curators. How much it depends on how strong they voted.

For posts about finance any crypto, LeoFinance is your friend.

General posts - @ecency.

Check out communities and tribes and games and lots of stuff - here are some starting points - https://hive.io/eco

And here are some nice basic tutorials.. fifth tab - https://hivebuzz.me/@appalachiancrypt

That should get you started. I am curious how fast will you learn :)

Here is a bit to push you along

@tipu curate

Upvoted 👌 (Mana: 48/68) Liquid rewards.

An excellent welcoming post, bravo :)

It is actual value of crypto rewarded for that post. Half goes to curators and other half goes to you.

From that half, which goes to you 50% is usually in form of vested Hive Power, which most notably increases your voting power and other 50% in form of Hive backed dollars, which is native stable coin exchaneagable for liquid HIVE.

Thanks @ervin-lemark! The main part of the reply was put together by the @lovesniper curators (mostly @ybanezkim26, if memory serves) and then we add in little bits of our own stuff as the need arises. It's been working pretty good so far. 😊