Everybody has an equal opportunity to earn it. It's possible by writing good content and getting rewards. These rewards are however decided by a few wealthy token holders (whales). Which in theory have

Why is it a bad thing that Steem and its founders mined so many in the beginning? What you are saying is that they intentionally gave less information to others to give themselves an unfair advantage at

Wrong! Here is my proof apart from the prediction:

Great I am going to check out your post. The issue is that it says 0.99$ - 1.01$ in the whitepaper which is not correct as outlined above.

That's easy. Just go to the Front Page or Hot area. Most Authors here are regularly upvoted by the same whales - often at the same time. @smooth has been voting for @ dragonslayer109 for over 20+ past

It is hard to say. @laonie is a big investor in steem and made this post about other bots he found. What matters though are "whale bots" like @smooth as they give you a sizeable payout and make

Prediction confirmed. @smooth upvoted after ~28 minutes for ~$350: Post Created at 13:53:51 UTC @smooth upvotes at 14:21:24

Prediction: @smooth upvotes this in about 30 mins from start of this post

It is a great idea and I fully support it! I will start blogging german whenever #deutsch gets big enough ;)

Hi @fabio, I am German just like you ;) - living in the UK atm. I enjoy your work on Deutschland - posting in English just has a higher reach so I will keep doing that. I guess it's the same for many of

Maybe you are the first! Than this is great and you got first mover advantage. @fabio is doing some initiative like translating popular posts to german in #deutsch

There are some users who actively push other languages. I think this is the effort we need. @abit is upvoting a lot of #cn and @fabio is active in supporting #deutsch

Hi @webosfritos, any inflation is okay in my opinion as the market will adjust accordingly anyways (e.g. by constantly lowering the price). Marketcap is what counts.

How Many USD Authors Really Get per Article – Steem Dollars Explained / 2016-07-03 / @riensen / / How much SBD is actually earned (-SP and -Curation) and how to convert them to STEEM (blockchain conversion

The problem I see with this is that: It cannot be verified that the private key is not accessed in the closed-source components of the application It cannot be verified that the open source component was

Looks cool! Is this open-source?

I am a frequent user and love the tool! I have one feature request: I want to see how much VESTS a user makes on average per top-level post (not comments!). This would be a helpful analytics especially

See also this newly created a Bug Report. There is an on-going discussion on how to fix this issue with the steem Devs: Both Hot and the Vote Count can be easily manipulated to make an article more visible

Yes there is another benefit: Bait Dolphins and Whales to vote for you, because they assume high support from a lot of (poor) users. After all, the vote count is quite prominently placed below your post.

You just need to find a block to register an account using JSON-RPC. No need for reddit / FB account. Keeping these flaws under wraps just helps those which already use these attacks. Instead we need to