Mark Cuban is an investor, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, and chairman of the HDTV Cable network AXS TV. He's also got a great blog and has been known to engage via email with anyone who reaches out with

3 months ago, @tuck-fheman called for an ELI5 Steem changelog. We still don't have one. Why we need a changelog At the end of the day, a protocol is a set of commonly agreed upon rules. Steem is a protocol

To me, Steem is more than just a new technology platform; it actually represents the evolution of a multi-decade process in trying to get content creators paid online. My excitement about Steem stems from

In June, I visited La Maison du Bitcoin in downtown Paris. There's a few blockchain related companies there and they also sell BTC in an OTC market. When I was working out of the space, a handful of people

I consider myself to be a huge Bitcoiner. I dropped out of business school to join Coinbase 3 years ago and have been one of the most passionate advocates of Bitcoin since. After years writing lots on

Everipedia is a crowdsourced link, comment, and knowledge aggregator. Background Wikipedia has a limited number of contributors and topics. I once tried to create my own Wikipedia entry and got denied.

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There's an interesting dynamic that I've noticed on Steemit lately: bots are taking over curation. Many Steemit users who have lots of Steem Power (aka whales) aren't manually curating content; they're

Open Collective is creating an easy way for groups of people to raise money and pay for things transparently. Background When I first heard about Open Collective, I thought "not another crowdfunding

There's not a more beautiful place in the world than Sardinia in August. Here's a shot from the Promenade in Porto Cervo (via Prisma). Follow me on Twitter Watch me discuss why I'm excited about Steemit

Chronicled offers both an open registry for the internet of things and an app that makes it easy to register products on the open registry Background A widely discussed application of a blockchain is to

9 years ago, a 13-year Canadian by the name of Justin Bieber started posting videos of him singing on Youtube for the world to see. This was the first video he ever posted: A new global platform for video

Lot's of people are complaining about downvoting on Steemit. This complaining is unwarranted -- if you compare Steemit to existing social networks, Steemit is a major improvement when it comes to the

I don't like to spend money on consumption. A wedding is one of the most expensive forms of consumption and for a while I struggled with the idea of having a wedding that cost a lot of money. But doing

Currently, Steem Power and Steem Dollars are rewarded for great blog posts on Steemit. But Steem is a protocol, similar to TCP/IP (protocol underlying the Internet) and SMTP (protocol underlying email),

Flagging posts (aka downvoting) is quickly becoming an important behavior on Steemit. In the most notable downvoting to date, @berniesanders downvoted a @dollarvigalante post, knocking his payout down

New technologies tend to attract people looking to get rich quick. Greed is often the primary motivator for early adopters because there are not practical reasons for most to adopt new tech (e.g. the network

I've been on Steemit for a month now but have yet to meet a fellow Steemian in person. That needs to change. I'm hosting a meetup at the Runa Capital office in Palo Alto on Wednesday, August 24th at 5:00

The key metric to measure when tracking the success of Steem is transactions per day. A crypto token combined with a social network has never existed before and the monetary incentives a crypto token provides

The Steem token supply is important because it's how content creators get funded - it's the glue that makes this whole ecosystem work. But I've seen surprisingly little written about the token supply of