​ Carving the Steem reward pool into use-specific segments, as the comment reward pool does, limits the scope of Steem. Steem is more than Steemit. It's more than a blogging platform. It's more than a

Cryptocurrency is smart money. But the name cryptocurrency isn't friendly to your mom, the guy behind the counter at the grocery store, or the manager at the bank. Cryptocurrency At best, it's an awkward

Too much... radiation This song starts slow but stick with it and you'll be rewarded. I loved this song the first time I heard it, and when I went looking to find a download way back when, I found out

This was Another Heaven's debut show, played at the Triple Rock. Ali Jaafar, the singer and guitarist, is formerly from a band called Hollow Boys which recently broke up. He took the music and formed a

I took some photos of one of my favorite bands performing. You may recognize this band already because I've posted a couple other Strange Relations shows before (1, 2). It was a cold night but a good show

I was at a show the other night and a dumb little thing caught my eye so I took a photo. I've probably been spending too much time in the modern art gallery honestly. Nevertheless the geometry of the white

Went to a great show last night and brought my camera. Posh Lost, a local band with a dreamy post-punk sound opened the night. The lights for most of the set were almost pure blue so I wanted to go monochrome,

Catrinas was recommended to me by another local Steemian who had been to their Oakdale location and when I looked it up, I saw amazing user review scores. 4.9 on Google reviews, 4.8 on Yelp and a solid

Here's a post to explain what I've been up to involving Steem lately. Steemcleaners Though I have dedicated a lot of time to fighting abuse on Steem since before the July payout, I didn't join Steemcleaners

Taqueria La Hacienda makes the bold claim to have the best tacos al pastor in Minnesota. Do they live up to their self-hype? Let's find out. This taqueria started from humble beginnings in a small Mexican

When there's an opportunity, I'm mixing sriracha sauce in with ketchup for potatoes, eggs, and anything else I might eat with either sriracha or ketchup. Sriracha sauce's flavor is too intense for some

Breaking news: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has announced today that they will deny the formerly planned easement underneath the Missouri River at the reservoir known as Lake Oahe. From Star Tribune

Hey Hive community. I've met a lot of you online already but if we haven't, consider this an introduction. I came to Hive as a miner fairly early in its life. I created my account by mining on April 23rd

Using steemd.com I will show you some secrets of the Steem blockchain, and hopefully encourage more interest in how it works. steemd.com, like steemit.com, is a front-end for the Steem blockchain. But

There was a special sort of show happening last night, and I felt compelled to attend. I've never seen Low perform and their lead singer and guitarist Alan Sparhawk was doing a solo set, before a full

and I overdosed a thousand times a second until I collapsed into a tesseract and got my ass eaten out in the 4th dimension. Title and etc stolen from their t-shirt. It was not too far off. Tongue

The proposal for changes to the Steemit economy would abruptly change STEEM inflation to 9.5% APR, including a reduction of witness (including miner) block creation rewards to 10% of the new yearly inflation.

You may have noticed some people using avatars today. I believe @rossenpavlov was the first to post about it here but I wanted to post CLI instructions and figured there could be more grandma-proof visual

I wasn't sure what I'd find but I went out to try to get some shots of some microfauna before the cold of the coming winter sets in. A bee shelters from the sun inside a rose, grooming his antennae. Then

Dr. Octoped is a jumping spider with mad rhyming talent. Today he's showin off his crib. This jumping spider is too pimpin for a ghetto web. He's got a balla crystal he lives on. He made it big coming