The last month was also a testing phase for us (as well as the witnesses and other developers). As a result, we can ensure a smoother hardfork as a few bugs were actually identified and solved. Hard fork

It is currently July. The hardfork date is 4 weeks away 🙂

And I'm assuming that it defaults to trusting the mutes of the author (especially for users who are not logged in) @jarvie?

The Steemit team actually did the the Marshmallow 'build a tower, build a team' excercise at our last 'all hands' meeting (prior to getting to the actual 'business' stuff of course). It was quite interesting

Thanks - we actually have been looking into this and I believe the hold up is with uphold (pun intended). If you're not familiar, uphold is a centralized exchange/wallet service and our account has not

Yes, it would - and the solution might not be quite as simple as one would think. It would require some discussion as to what the best way to implement it would be. The issue that would need a creative,

I think the best way to address this problem is to bring it out into the open - if they are against this change, get them to say it (and why they are against it) on a public featured post.

Gamification in the UI is indeed a great idea and certainly makes things more fun.

We've talked a little about adding steem account names to that page and I believe we will probably be doing that. Thanks for your suggestion @jaki01!

Yes - answered on that thread 👍 🙂

That's an interesting idea, you should talk to the witnesses about it. In general, I think we are in favor of at least getting this discussion started as something to maybe be implemented in a future hardfork.

Every vote counts I’d say, thanks for your continued participation and dedication to Steem @coingecko!

Nice, steem on!

I think what we need and the feature you are probably waiting for is Communities. Right now what we have is sort of like one giant community, but with the only 'moderation' feature being the visual effect

I hear people like sports a lot. It's worth a shot! I also wouldn't mind seeing some billboards someday.

@jondoe see my response to @oldtimer asking a similar question on this post but in another thread.

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This is dPos. Those witnesses would also need to be voted in with massive amounts of stake in order to 'take control'. Simply running a large number of witness nodes would not achieve that effect. Why

Sure @oldtimer, just some quick napkin math based on some stats that were in his post: Back in 2015, it was stated that graphene-based blockchains (this was referring to Bitshares specifically which Steem

Welcome to Steem and Steemit! Glad you made it here.