I wont rehash the issues that come from whales having so much voting power. There are technical security reasons for there being whales. So it is a bit of unstoppable force vs immovable object... However,

In the last hours price recovered to .002777 on healthy volume. Now we had a similar upmove last week, but the longer term downtrend overwhelmed it It has been a one way slide for the last month, so we

since they stole a SuperNET graphic to put on their blog.swiscoin.com They have never contacted me, they dont have permission to use any SuperNET graphics, they need to remove it ASAP. I have never heard

had to rework the tx construction and signing code so now can create any standard or custom bitcoin transaction using JSON. dealing with p2sh scripts with if/else conditionals that have pay to hash and

A lot of people are reluctant to lock their funds for 2 years in SP and rightly so, that is something you need to think through and make sure you are comfortable with before you do it as there are no

I have a rather simplistic solution for acceptable bot behavior as to making comments, which is the most annoying form of bot spam. Now, there is nothing that forces a bot writer to conform to this, but

"As with proof of existence in time, an “event” is defined by a hash H. Perhaps it’s a hash of a photo you at the Great Wall of China and you want to prove you were there, rather than downloaded an

Everybody here loves steemit, for obvious reasons. However, we are still a very, very small minority and what is needed is to have hundreds, or even thousands or speciality categories. I know bikini model

With bitcoin protocol there is a way to setup an atomic swap between two parties. What that means is that either the swap happens with both parties getting their half, or everybody gets all their funds

Steemit is just about one month since the July 4th beta release and already I have lost count of the number of updates, just in the last 2 weeks to the steemit.com site. Clearly many things are still not

today I am seeing name (6) in many of the links to people's accounts, but not sure what it means.

My jl777 account is now in the top 300 of the richlist! If to combine all the funds in my taker marketmaker account it would get me close to the top 200. Not bad for someone who didnt have time to look

I decided to use an alternate ranking method so we can see a more egalitarian rank for all the posts. Not saying this is better than the current, it just gives a different view for the posts. To make it

After having read countless complaints about the whales having too much power, I decided to make an alternate ranking. To make it simple I just have 4 categories, with corresponding weights. The

The trinity of STEEM, SBD and SP is not so easy to understand, especially since SP doesnt really exist! Well it of course exists, but it is derived from what is called VESTS. There are a lot of them so

I havent confirmed all the details, but better safe than sorry: GDAX appears to be toast and indirectly coinbase might also be at risk. If you have any significant amounts in coinbase, it would be safest

I am running a witness node using the crypto777 account. I have been campaigning to improve the liquidity reward points system as it hasnt been optimal. However, the current suspension creates some significant

We want to reward market makers for providing liquidity, but the problem has been that the algorithm's used so far have been toys. Very easy to break and only looks like the real thing as abit has repeatedly

Without the liquidity award, the market volatility creates too much risk, it seems taker was arbitraged by some other bots and what little profits it made is gone. Its one thing to run a low spread bot

b2c4c3bc liquidity_reward owner "taker" payout 1,200.000 STEEM I do admit it is quite exciting to get one of these, it sure wasnt easy to make a competitive bot that doesnt selftrade. I am happy