Welcome ladies and gentleman to the history of steemit.

I thought I would help Ned out, as no wiki page exists. Source for the image above. March 23, 2016, 01:13:52 AM, I do believe that is the same day dantheman made his account on here.

I feel it only fair to lay foundations towards my final article with "proof of fact" if you like, so nothing can be called in to question by anyone. Everything is date stamped, so there simply can not be ANY argument. You make what you will with regards to the opening image and what the words say, that is not for me to do.

The alpha testing for steemit involved 150 people, that applied via here Join us on Slack! http://steem.herokuapp.com smooth kindly supplied me those two links.

Unique Miners at Launch, each line represents unique individuals and their handles
bavihm, mn12defgj1, dantheman, root, admin, administrator, moderator, steem, steemit
dark, thisisnice, nxt, mr11acdee, cloop3, chana, hunter, danea, brayden, mottler, arsahk, darah, fminerten3, batel, faddy3, erihn, erath, biggest, abdul & scam.

I do not yet have a complete list.

With regards to the 150 individuals that applied and formed the basis for steemit as we know it now, post Alpha testing (April 2016). Some of the individuals one would assume, though not be able to conclusively prove, would or could be friends and or family members of the original developers or ned/dan. That though is pure speculation unless confirmed by them.

Early adopters pre alpha testing, are people like berniesanders (join date March 26th 2016 pre Alpha) and smooth (join date 25th March 2016. Bear in mind Alpha testing did not start until April 2016.

Of the original 150 accounts, it would seem a lot were steemit accounts, like admin 24th March 2016, administrator 24th March 2016, steemit 1, steemit 2 all the way to steemit 70 March 24th 2016. There was also charlesmanson and a lot of nextgencrypto accounts created in March pre alpha testing.

I am offering no thoughts as to any of the above information, I am simply trying to lay out the steemit start, as it can not be found anywhere else on the internet, including wiki. This post is just a historical facts stamp/date line.

This is a foundation post only!

In April 2016 Steemit had launched an alpha testing, helped by more than 150 early adopters. As specified by Ned Scott in the same interview, the uniqueness of Steemit stands on the fact that everything that is done on the platform (posts, comments and voted) sit directly on the blockchain.

Full source here.

I shall be back with more foundation posts shortly, have a perfectly pleasant weekend.