I met a Galapagos Tortoise: It's over 200 kilograms and it's older than any human being I know (120+ years old). The lifestyle of a tortoise is slow and steady - you may know some humans with the same

This is building in Quito houses the Central Bank of Ecuador. Do you know what goes on here? Actually not much since Ecuador transitioned to using US Federal Reserve Notes ( It's an interesting sight to

Hello all. I am at my best when I write and post every day. So it's been discouraging that I have not posted more frequently. I become refreshed by the thoughtful comments and reading my followers blog

This post builds on the excellent introduction of the mission of Accra Credit Union: a global decentralized credit union. Operated on multiple blockchain platforms and owned 100% by members. Humans are

The BTS DAO accracreditunion achieved its first round-trip loan service over the past 24 hours. Loaning the smartcoin: bitCNY to "dao-street". The full amount plus the daily percentage rate (DPR)

Accra Credit Union shall lend 500 bitCNY to “dao-street” at a rate of 5% A.P.R. Term of days to be extended by agreement of both parties. Day 1 to begin today August 4 at 2 pm UTC. The following stake-holders

Proof of donation - BitShares Charity Group Greek Fire Victims Relief Campaign... until Aug 2nd As I siad in my latest post about the BitShares Charity Group Greek Fire Victims Relief Campaign here I show

Do you ever feel overwhelmed with how much information is out there at our digital fingertips? Usual waking hours be damned, I could easily stay up late into the night learning some new fact or lesson

A quick thank you to everyone on BitShares who supported this Flash infrastructure worker proposal. The proposal reached sufficient votes and will be satisfied on a six month contract. It is great to see

Hello everyone, Over the last few weeks, a few of us at BitShares have been discussing a charity group & fund and the best way to implement it. Driven by the news of Monday's wildfires in Greece that

How many satoshi do you think minimum wage would be calculated from Venezuelan Bolivares? Hyper Bitcoinization incoming? IF you have not heard of hyper-bitcoinization it is theoretical monetary situation

In this video, I talk with author and economic analyst John Sneisen about the most recent SEC decision on Bitcoin as they deny the proposed Winkelvoss ETF. Interestingly, the SEC commissioner, Hester Peirce

Thank you for all of your support while I have been away from Steem for the past week. I took the New York bar exam and now that it's over I hope to return to the great discussions we've been having. I

Cash, Card, or Crypto? PalmPay enables any business to accept one or more Cryptocurrencies at Zero Cost. Accepting Cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Steem, Dash, Bitshares...) and market-pegged Smartcoins (bitUSD,

🚀 The rocket is fueled and ready for launch, THE COUNTDOWN HAS OFFICIALLY BEGUN! It's been a long road to bring the concept of Whaleshares from an original idea to an active community of people over 6,500

Twentix is a crypto token that makes use of contracts on bitshares (BTS) to follow the asset worth of larger cryptomarket. It's value is ustained with BTS as determined by price-feed oralces with reference

The BitShares community is amazing. I suspect there is also some overlap between BTS hodlers and silver stackers. Therefore DaoStreet is offering a unique opportunity to combine your interest in BitShares

That's right, FarmerD in Canada wants to buy you a beer in China. Why ... because BitShares is amazing!! and because I can, and because it will be fun, and so why not? Here's the story Last week @kimchi-king

BitShares is an open blockchain protocol that has a native decentralized exchange (DEX) that processes more transactions than any other DEX. In fact, BitShares processed more transactions than any other

Do you read? If you do, what do you read? Magazines? Books - fiction / non-fiction? Tweets? Over the next few days I want to share some of the books that have had a big impact on me. Most are non-fiction.