I have resigned from Steemit, Inc.

Hey all! This certainly has been an interesting week for me. With the announcement of the acquisition and the press releases, it surely has felt like a whirlwind. I am still learning details alongside

Hello my fellow Steemians! The last few days have been rough. I have been pretty quiet about everything. There hasn't been much for me to say because I am in the same boat as most of you. While I knew

Hello Steemians. As the Head of Communications for Steemit, I apologize for my silence over the last few days. As my teammate @vandeberg said in his post, we’ve been in much the same boat as you all with

There comes a point in every adventure... ...where even the most legendary of heroes becomes lost, grows weary, and perhaps even forgets why they set out in the first place. It can be a time of disorientation

Hello Steemians, we’ve been doing a lot of video interviews recently (you can see the last one here), but today we wanted to try something different with our Senior Product Engineer, @roadscape. What follows

Dear friends and family, Although many details of this fateful day have only become clear to me during the last year and half of research into the incident, the story is something I have been aware of

I distribute daily Hivemind database snapshots. This is a quick tutorial to restore that database into a fresh new server. I have completed these steps on a fresh Digitalocean droplet (8vcpu, 32gb ram)

If you don't have a private steemd, the initial sync. time of the Hivemind takes around 6-7 days. This is indeed quite a time to wait. In order to make that process faster. I have decided to distribute

Hello Steemians, we are excited to announce that Steemit’s APIs are now powered by Hivemind! By routing most of the social APIs to Hivemind, we are able to dramatically shrink the size of the full nodes

I'm very excited to announce that State of the Dapps has officially added Steem as their 4th blockchain project. Just yesterday, Steem Apps was launched. And with it, also an API to make it easier for

In as soon as 7 days (2018-12-07 23:00:00 UTC), the api.steemit.com endpoint will begin to route select steemd methods directly to hivemind. If you rely on this endpoint for any of the methods below, you

Steemit launched a testnet for HF20 so that upcoming features and changes could be tested ahead of time. It will be used to test upcoming features and hardforks like RC changes and SMT's. Accounts and

FAQ To be updated as questions come in. 1. What happened to the robots?! The service (robohash) which provides them was causing pages to load far too slowly. We've switched back to using "identicons"

Today we launched Steemit’s Testnet which will enable developers to try out HF 20. This post is oriented toward Steem developers and witnesses who are already familiar with the topic. If you’re curious

Hello Steemians! In our previous post outlining the changes that would be coming to the Steem blockchain with Hardfork 20 we also shared that we’ll be releasing a Testnet which would “give developers the

Comparing the tx throughput of STEEM, BTS, ETH, and BTC blockchains. Interesting inverse trend between STEEM and BTS/ETH recently. Records TransactionsDateRatePrevious Record STEEM1,840,5152018-04-1321.30

Hello Steemians! This is @roadscape, member of Team Steemit, and developer behind hivemind - the backend service which will soon introduce next-generation APIs and Communities for Steem. Now that it’s

Just as I was about to announce the winner of my recent contest, I found out that he had a severe accident. This was last night. This is hard to talk about. I'm still in shock. This can't really be happening.

On Joe Rogan's podcast today with Tony Hinchcliffe they were talking about blockchain. Joe mentioned that Andreas Antonopulos (@aantonop) has been on his show before and that he himself although he does