When I started the experiment I chose VGTU with a purpose. It's a very stable project and CPU only. Since September last year I never experienced any issues. The only interruption in the data gathering

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I won't go as far as Rasmus Lerdorf who stated: "I actually hate programming, but I love solving problems". Over the years I have worked with several different programming languages in several

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During the last three weeks nothing much interesting has been happening so I didn't make an update and just continued gatherig the data. About the experiment If you want more background on the experiment

A while ago I made a post about giving up on steem. Writing the post helped me to get a clear view over all aspects. From time to time it's good to take a step back and evaluate. Negative vs positive aspects

Today is a big day for SteemMakers: we've finally added functionality to the site that allows authorized reviewers to add posts themselves. This takes a lot of work out of my and other peoples hands and

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For the past half year I have been running and documenting a gridcoin mining experiment. Gridcoin crunchers and readers following along have an understanding of what it is all about and of motivation for

Every couple of days, depending on my own mood and enthusiasm more or less frequent, I go through the process of copying the data from the VGTU server to my own excel sheets to then produce the charts

In 6 months I have reached level 63 and +400 followers. I've accumulated a nice amount of steem power and some cash. Every single one of those achievements just happened. As I explained in my introduceyourself

Time flies, it has been two week since the last update so let's have a look at the data evolution. Purpose of the experiment I continue this experiment because it provides interesting facts. The ones who

Just now I was checking the position of my beloved gridcoin on coinmarketcap. I always take a look at what other coins rank around it and by coincidence I noticed mooncoin. The name was like clickbait

SteemConnect In a previous post I explained how I'm exploring the integration of SteemConnect in the SteemMakers website. Part of this integration is required to enable client side functionality such as

Herd behavior is the tendency for individuals to mimic the actions (rational or irrational) of a larger group. People are often not aware of how much this behavior influences them. There are a couple of

SteemConnect You probably are familiar with websites that allow you to login with your Facebook, Google LinkedIn, ... account. This is very convenient for the user, no need to manage many different accounts

Gridcoin is one of the very few crypto's which is showing clear bullish signals. Gridcoin is a smaller altcoin and if the market takes such a big hit it is no more than normal for it to be affected as

Let's start with the bad news. Somehow the host on which I do this logging crashed last weekend. Unfortunately in such a way that I even did not get a notification. Since this host is not doing anything

It's that time again... Here's the time-line of crypto crashes, how you can understand them and how you can predict them. Note this is not financial advise, just my opinion. Finally I get to say that myself,

Without any further indication steem is now listed on Binance. They are based in Hong Kong but service a global market and many crypto enthusiasts are moving there because of the super low fees and the