The Paranoid are Secure I like to consider myself as very security conscious. I mean, com' on. I'm a mathematician. By definition, that means I am paranoid. So, when this hack occurred, I didn't know if

Liquidity Rewards Recently, we were told that the Steem network would provide liquidity rewards for market makers. The reward is hourly in the form of 1200 (liquid) STEEM. Essentially, liquidity points

In The News Recently, I read an article on The Intercept and learned that the United States Government released data on the number of non-combatants killed by drones over the past 7 years. Hypocrisy or

Vermicomposting Vermicomposting is a composting technique to use (mainly) live worms (and other critters that will take up shop in your worms' maintained home) to decompose organic matter into beautiful,

Chaos Theory What a seemingly strange name for a discipline! What is this chaos to which mathematicians and scientists make allusions? Maybe they're living in a grand illusion? And, no, I am not speaking

Previous Classes Week 1 Last week, we were introduced to the basics of group theory. We defined a group, which is a set of objects with certain properties (most notably with an operation we call + or *,

The heart of the Amazon rainforest is under threat. A huge new mega-dam could flood an entire area around the Tapajós river, destroying the home of Indigenous People and rare wildlife. But one Indigenous

I will be writing a series of posts that will introduce the necessary background of cryptography in a (hopefully) understandable way to anyone. The goal of these posts will be to lead an interactive online

Energy Landscapes Imagine you are viewing your surroundings. You look around and notice MOUNTAINS and valleys. In front of you, there's a flat plain with a BUMP in the distance. As you move closer, the

Introduction Mining cryptocurrencies is a difficult endeavor for those who are not technologically inclined. Often, one needs to build a GPU rig, learn how to navigate a unix environment, install dependencies,

Homebrewing Tales I was fortunate enough to live in Colorado during my graduate school years. Living in Fort Collins allowed me the opportunity to test out 6 different breweries when I first arrived and

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton violated federal records rules through her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state, a State Department audit has concluded. "At

STEEM Autovote Bot Introduction STEEM Autovote is a simple autovoting solution for STEEM users. Features include : Simple, customizable YAML configuration file Allows users to monitor multiple accounts

I have created a proxy voting richlist that will display total STMP as the sum of users who have chosen to proxy their vote to a particular account. The list is updated every 10 minutes. Check it out!

For United States citizens, or other peoples in the jurisdiction of the US who are required to pay US taxes, the laws regarding cryptotoken investments, mining, etc. can be confusing and seemingly

In the latest saga of Craig Wright claiming to be Satoshi, Bitcoin core developer, Gavin Andresen, tells WIRED magazine that he was wrong to blog about Wright. However, Andresen still believes Wright is

STEEMGRANT This is the second of a series of posts regarding my proposals to enhance the STEEM community in a manner that is in line with the concept of Mutual Aid Societies (MAS), and one direction in

A Mutual Aid Society Based on Scholarships to Allow for Continuing Education Mutual Aid Societies (MAS) have long been around in the existence of government sanctioned and registered co-operatives and

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Today I will be providing a simple tutorial on how to use the GPG command line tools to clearsign and verify a message. This will assume that you have gpg

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hello, world! Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Matthew Niemerg (www.matthewniemerg.com), and I am an avid supporter of STEEM. I urge you to review