This quote from @trafalgar perfectly sums up steem current state of affairs There is a clear incentives mis-alignement on this platform and very few people/devs seems to give a damn about it.I do though,

The advent of SMT's will undoubtably disrupt the current paradigm. The role of STEEM within the ecosystem will grow considerably and it will increasingly resemble a reserve currency. What is a reserve

Let's do some quick math. Youtube payout is about 2 USD per 1000 views. A brand new steem account with no activity has a vote worth about 0,002 USD which is effectively equivalent to 2 USD per 1000 views,

A question that I've always had in the back of my mind is why most authors are not rewarding their audience..and I still don't have the answer. So you mak ask why am I not upvoting my comments? Because

BUT BUT....Unsustainable ponzi mouahaha The fact that we don't have major advertisers on steemit yet doesn't mean the system isn't ready for it... People like @vincentbriatore is the reason we can still

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Ok I'm sure by now you already know this, but I was amazed recently when I watched a video of @ned on oracles were he explains how they could allow steem to reward real world actions. This could potentially

Debunking the myth that rewards in the pool are scarce Have you ever wondered how steem is going to pay everyone when there is hundreds of millions of people using it? Surely if rewards in the pool were

If you use the blockchain to build on the old system you need to rethink your strategy because sooner or later you are going to be irrelevant. Innovation means creating new business models..steem is innovation

Wasn't this account supposed to fund steemit/steem projects? The reason I am asking is that they havn't spent any of the steem in that account for 2 months...So it seems abit weird considering we are right

Just watched @dollarvigilante's talk at steemfest. I agree totally with him, the 3 key things are: Marketing ( steemit still uses old logo on twitter account, another fail sadly, we are very bad at this...)

Just came accross this post from @davebrewer and wanted to give my opinion on this. To me EOS is competing with ethereum not steem, let me explain why. Even though EOS will allow steemit type app to be

Those posts below caught my attention The first post has earned a whopping 19 cents. This artwork to me deserves at least $10 for the time spent doing it and also taking into account the final result which

I think it looks pretty good, especially night mode but a few things caught my eye. The welcome page still uses old logo and color. Some button still uses the blue color The effect when hovering vote button

The article they've retweeted is completely inaccurate.

There have been a lot of discussions lately about the curation incentives which are clearly not working as intended... same content and authors trending everyday, no rewards for discovering good content

When the whitepaper came out I was not sure what to think of it. Initially my reaction was negative actually because that's not the idea I had of steem as a protocol. The vision I had is that the steem

Minnowbooster abuser still at it

Steemit.com getting DDoS'ed