Thanks for the info. It seems to me we're going to see an interesting struggle between the current 'trusted institutions' and 'trustless blockchain'. Banks and other centralized payment options like paypal

Nice theory... The only thing I was able to come up with is that the supposed good LORD god said: you cannot have knowledge or I will punish you, but there, I put it right in your view so I dare you! And

Yup, I see your point. Great chat indeed, following you now :-)

I'm not too worried about forks or the huge amount of ICOs we're seeing. To me it's part of the development and adoption process. Although many people seem to be motivated by greed (getting rich fast without

Thanks for your very thoughtful reply! I think segwit is a bandaid. It covers the wound, but doesn't stop the bleeding, although it slowed it down a bit. Quite a few devs saw that too, and that's why bitcoin

Very nice overview of interesting factors. I disagree however that the current low transaction fees and the smaller pool of unconfirmed tranasactions are a good sign. The fees shooting up in december created

Hi @freegardens - it's a bit of a short intro you wrote here, but I think it sounds good enough for me to like to be involved. I can write about ecology, water management, our own experiences and background

Hey @mountrock I only got about 370, and plan to hold them for a while. You can check out their exchange at Or this page I do have to say I'm a bit taken back by their lack of progress on the client side.

Holy crap, I think I feel you man! It's like the "make love not war" hippie generation who are now the biggest war mongers in power. My generation is still standing at the sidelines while they

The older I get, the more difficult this subject becomes to me, and then again sometimes it doesn't and experience makes it easier to actually feel I do know something, and I choose NOT to do anything.

Best of luck! I'm looking forward to reading more!

I've been lurking around and posting / replying here and there. Still I'm wading through lots of crappy stuff, because steemit sends the message that your star will rise for two things: engaging bots and

Only through bringing up thoughts we can have (a bit of) influence. I understand your doubts about downvotes. It's complicated I guess. But I don't agree that self upvoting is important to whales. Seriously

You're into #permaculture too :-) ... Nice, following you too now.

The other thing that still strikes me as probably outdated is self-upvoting. I'm sure there were good reasons when steemit was still in its early phase, but now more and more people enter and participate

Upvoted and resteemed... I sure could use some help :-)

Thanks @zoeyartanddesign , following you too! Let's unfuck the world :-)

Very nice to see about unfucking the world :-) !! I try to do that too, through publishing my thoughts. Like here The only problem is getting people to actually read it... Being a newbe isn't easy :-)

Hi @caitlinjohnstone, have been following you on medium for many months, but could never comment, probably because I'm not a paying member. Great to see you here. I love your way of thinking and writing.

I think you're right when writing "living in a world of illusions and expectations of the future and setting myself up for disappointment." When I read your writings in general I recognize the