Introduction Hello everyone. This is @lauramica and I'm here to share with you our Wednesday Travel Digest. This time, our featured posts take us on a walk along the Great Wall of China, a stroll through

Effective immediately, BlockTrades will no longer support customers trading cryptocurrency. Instead we will entirely focus our business on its founding purpose, the development of blockchain-related software.

Due to increasing regulatory uncertainty with regard to cryptocurrency in the US, BlockTrades is no longer offering trading services to US citizens and residents. We will keep existing accounts open for

The updated software had problems processing customer transactions successfully, so we've temporarily shut it down until we've fixed the issue. I expect the problem to be fixed tomorrow, and we'll process

Below are highlights of some of the Hive-related programming issues worked on by the BlockTrades team since my last post. Hived (blockchain node software) work Optimization of Resource Credit (RC) calculations

I thought I'd write something more about one point from @blocktrades recent post because certain aspects of related code were news to me despite them being important. Might be useful to pass that knowledge

Why am I writing this post? I recently unvoted all the proposals that I was voting for (unvoted on a temporary basis only) so that the @hbdstabilizer would receive more funds to fight the price spike in

Apparently the datacenter in France where blocktrades.us was located has burned down. Fortunately, you can still use our backup site, until we can restore blocktrades.us tomorrow. EDIT: there was a problem

Hived work (blockchain node software) Lately our blockchain work has focused on the hived plugin that injects operations, transactions, and block data into a PostgresSQL database (for use by modular hivemind

In my previous post on this topic, I discussed some of the ways we rate the truth of information. One of the key points of that post was that much of our information rating is based on the opinions of

Why this post now? In the past I’ve mentioned in passing that my primary goal working on Hive was to build a reputation and information rating system that I feel could have a dramatic impact on how we

Apparently there have been a couple of people asking about how we go about hiring programmers for BlockTrades work and I was asked to write a short post to describe the process. No blockchain experience

Introduction Hi everyone, it's @lizanomadsoul here with the Sunday edition of the #traveldigest. Another day of great places and stories around the globe to read about! This time we have great stories

This is just a quick update on some of our work on HF24 this week. As always, this is a fairly detailed report, so you can skip to the end if you just are interested in our updated expectations for the

Several people have asked me recently what’s the “vision” for the Hive network. For me, that question has two answers. Personally, I want to use it to launch Hive-based applications for

Generally speaking, I’ve found it best to just ignore posts by Steemit Inc and the new Steem witnesses, as they often are just contradictions of their own past statements and claims, and thus need no active

Well, it's official, BlockTrades is no longer accepting Steem on our site due to the upcoming "secret" hardfork. Please do not send Steem to our site from this point onwards, as there is a high

While reading through the current proposals list for Hive, I once again noticed that we have a lot of "long term" proposals that hang around in the list, but will likely never be approved. While

This proposal is a request for funding to pay for the work done so far and in the near future for development of the image server cluster that provides images (pictures) to hive.blog, peak.com, and other

A lot of our customers have been asking for us to find a way to re-enable selling their Steem to our site, so we’re going to re-open our service under a new account called silly-einstein and see how it