I was thinking the other day, that if the SPS is a decentralized board of directors, maybe it should just go ahead and hire a CEO or COO for the blockchain in order to have someone creating a strategy

With the addition of SMTs, I think conversations will migrate naturally to the tribes and communities. In the end, Steem will be either (i) a reward token for "the Steem cheerleading tribe";

I think this: You could even set the Author you are highlighting as the beneficiary. should become customary for almost all curation posts. With a few exceptions, I have been trying to avoid voting for

@steempeak (steempeak.com) has settings to let you filter out categories.

I agree with you about the SPS. That's a good point, and I hadn't considered it until this post. Just 'cause you got me curious, I checked against the closing prices on coinmarketcap. Here's what I found,

This is all taking place while we are at or near the bottom of the alt-coin depression. Or at least, we hope so. ; -)

I've been thinking that they should just get rid of SBD. The peg has never worked. Seems like it's mostly just a bunch of extra complexity for the new user to try to get their head around. In principle,

Long term thinkers have the humility to realize that they cannot know all the different problems that will be faced by future generations, and that money that's wasted on one problem can't be used to solve

No one is talking about reversing climate change. Actually, the authors of the paper I cited were talking about reversing climate change. And they shut down their program when they realized it was impossible.

lol. Guess that's why mom always told me not to talk about politics or religion. ; -)

What It Would Really Take to Reverse Climate Change - Funded by Google and published by IEEE. No idea who peer reviewed it. The main weakness I see is that they hand-waved away their main conclusion with

Nice! We had some local Steem visibility in our county last week, too!

Thanks for thee comment! We're very proud of his hard work. That's crazy that you can't get to the daily local's web site. We always hear about the Great Firewall of China, but I was unaware that Europe

Many of my posts are about Steem. Not a topic that will bring the masses Googling towards us. This is one of the primary reasons that I have been publishing my #rsslog series of posts since about March

Shady Maple is awesome... It's a bit of a drive, though, so we don't get there as much as I'd like.

Right. Beneficiary settings can go to any Steem account that you want to support (or @null to burn Steem/SBD). It's almost like tipping, but you don't need to have any liquid steem and it doesn't have

Well, their vote is only rewarded if it's ratified by a bigger voter that follows them, otherwise they just waste their voting power. Some of them actually appear to be pretty good at predicting the posts

There's a good TED talk on the topic: Why we get mad -- and why it's healthy. I wrote a short article about it back in June, here. The TED speaker tackles the subject from a different perspective, but

Thanks for the post! I included it in my daily science & technology post for tomorrow (under @remlaps-lite). But I'm confused by this: There is no evidence that people with a lower IQ are more likely

Ah, now that you mention it, I have heard of Australian rules football, but it slipped my mind. I was always confused over whether that's the same thing as rugby or not. PS. Looks like you have your own