@Ned is still on the board, but @elipowell has taken over the day to day operations as Managing Director. You can read more about it in this post and this post. There are also a few external articles like

8kb which is also the current blockchain limit

Our AWS bills are not anywhere close to $600k/month, nor have they ever been. Production is currently around $25k/month. This is down about 87% from this time last year thanks to important technological

Hmmmm - why more than 8? 🙂 In all seriousness, using lots of tags dilutes the effectiveness of using tags to sort and find content. I believe the main reason people wanted the ability to use more tags

I'm curious to know which part of the signup process they got stuck on - this type of information will be helpful when we can focus on signup/signin again (likely sometime after our current set of priorities,

Interesting idea about a 'Steem OS' Linux distro. I don't think that would be something on our roadmap, but, since almost everything we develop is open source it would be entirely possible for someone

Nice, great job to you guys as well!

8 - however, only the first 5 tags are indexed (this would be the same on other interfaces as well). So only the first 5 are relevant when displaying content by tags.

Hah! I wish. We have a fair amount of followup work to do in relation to SMTs which includes library and some front end support. Also on the front end side we’re finishing up and polishing the communities

Yep. This 🙂

On the blockchain, communities have a numerical identifier - so no name squatting issue. I think you are operating under the assumption that communities are exactly like tribes, but, they are actually

Nothing is planned to change about the mechanics of the base STEEM token with the roll out of SMTs - this statement just means that Steem will no longer be a one-trick-pony. If others wants to launch a

Yes. As we get farther into the testing phase, we will likely run a UI for creating SMTs as well as (a bit later) an updated testnet condenser. Before doing a UI we first need library support which we

This is actually the first example listed for use cases on the SMT website, Take a look 🙂

@bluefinstudios it is not possible to prevent people from withdrawing any of their own stake, no. Something like that would require a hard fork, and, that would likely be a very controversial topic - even

Thanks for your continued commitment to Steem and for onboarding your friends Jacob!

Nice review @firepower. I pretty much agree with everything you've said here - Joaquin Phoenix really nailed this role. As others have said, this really wasn't a superhero movie at all and was something

It's more about reaching out to those who are not checking Steem daily, rather than the ones who are

Yes, we did 👍

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