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The before can not be attibuted by any smarts of my part. More like dragged kicking and screaming. It was explained in an old blog post starting at about the 5th paragraph down...

https://steemit.com/steemit/@novacadian/observations-of-a-fairly-noobish-steemer

Just gave it a read and an upvote- very interesting way to get started in the space!