Discussion with Steemit Inc's Ned Scott, Elizabeth Powell & Michael Vandeberg & Dan Notestein from Blocktrades - 31 January 2019 [recording]

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This discussion, hosted by @pennsif, with Steemit Inc's Executive Chairman Ned Scott, Managing Director Elizabeth Powell and lead blockchain developer Michael Vandeberg @vandeberg, along with Dan Notestein from @blocktrades was broadcast on MSP Waves on Thursday 31 January 2019.

Ned and Michael gave a full update on the RocksDB developments to reduce witness node memory requirements. This is now entering its final testing phase.

Dan from @blocktrades then joined Ned in an extensive discussion about the proposal for the Worker Proposal System for Steem. They are currently refining the proposal and looking for comment and input from the community.

Elizabeth gave an update on progress on advertising and other current activities in Steemit Inc. Ned finished with a brief commentary on the future powerdown plans.

The discussion lasted a little over an hour.

The interview was co-hosted by @teamhumble.

This took place in the hour immediately before the sixth State of Steem Forum covering Communities, Content, Curation and Retention.

The recording of the Forum is available here...

• https://steemit.com/dtube/@pennsif/pdws7sdc

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This recording is also available on YouTube

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[ graphics from @pennsif // music from @davidfar ]

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