Steemians are open to a lot of opportunities mostly in the crypto world and this is because our platform is blessed with a lot creative and helpful people as well as professional industry leaders.

Excluding the monetary gains, I have gain more knowledge and venture into more business orientated activities ever since joining steemit than I have while just doing my normal facebook and Google search.


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One of the interesting ideas I got introduced to and got to understand it real value on steemit was Bitshares. Though it was quite complicating at first, but as usual I found my way around it like I have been doing with other platforms. 

I have no regret ever since discovering Bitshares and that’s why I think it will benefit you too if you understand Bitshares and start using the platform.

### So What is Bitshares?

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Well Bitshares is a lot of things put in one thing. 

Bitshares is first; a Decentralized Autonomous Company (DAC) that offer crypto and blockchain related financial services worldwide among which include:

**Decentralized Exchange:** Bitshares is a decentralized exchange  (direct opposite to central exchanges like bittrex and poloniex) that’s built on graphene blockchain and offer fast, reliable and secure financial trading experience to traders with minimal fees that are divided among members.

**Crypto Wallet:** Bitshares can serve as a wallet to store your wealth of cryptocurrencies and tokens under one secure roof on the blockchain where no third party or a single company operating from kitchen would be in charge of your digital assets. So if you have a growing portfolio of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin STEEM ETH, DASH and a lot of them, you can have them safely saved on Bitshares otherwise graphene blockchain.

> <center>Your Cryptocurrencies are not safe until they are saved on a decentralized exchange like Bitshares. 
Kazeem Olabisi </center>

Below is a simple note explanation of Bitshares as widely and popularly used in explaining Bitshares to non-techie 

<center>Bitshares is a software


Bitshares is a network 

Bitshares is a ledger 

Bitshares is a company 

Bitshares is an exchange 

Bitshares is a bank

Bitshares is a currency 

Bitshares is a community and off- course Bitshares is a country .

Bitshares is a fast and versatile payment network

Bitshares is a blockchain platform using proof of stake</center>  


###  Advantages of Using Bitshares as a Steemians

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**Easy Registration Process:** everything about Bitshares is easy if you understand how the system works. Unlike centralized exchanges where you need to go through complicating verification process before you can make transactions, Bitshares offer you the opportunity to get started by just choosing a username and a password and you are good to go. Very easy to register, easier than opening an email address. 

**Memorable Wallet Address:** unlike bitcoin or ethereum, your BTS address is a name like your steemit user and not a long alphanumeric combinations. So if you ask for my BTS address to gift me some BTS or any other crypto, I can easily say: Bania19

**You can easily create your own coins, tokens or digital asset:** this feature is referred to UIA User Issued Asset. I can create my own coin maybe Baniacoin on Bitshares that has value that I chose to place on it and will be trade-able on Bitshares exchange against other cryptocurrencies.

**You will be able to participate in different offers and projects on steemit:** I got a bitshares wallet when I needed to participate on BuildTeam monthly  pot auction. And ever since then I have came a lot of projects on steemit like Whaleshares and Beyondbit  that require i have Bitshares account to participate.

**You can Make Money:** as a crypto trader or as an aspiring one, you could begin your trading journey or enhance your experience by trading cryptos on Bitshares. Or speculating on the Bitshares token, trying to buy low when the price is down and selling high when the price is picking up. 

  
You can think out other reasons and make that decision to open a Bitshares wallet account today by clicking on this [link](https://bitshares.openledger.info/dashboard). 


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