Now DrugWars has hammered home the “Ponzi in Steem”, let’s see how one can maximize passive returns. As a minnow, earnings and thus STEEM are automated hard to come by. That is unless you start investing

Not that long ago I compared the popularity of apps on the Steem blockchain to Ethereum dApps popularity. In that post, the focus was mostly on SteemApps with a content or media specific focus, like @dlive,

Welcome to the first issue of theSteemObserver’s newsletter, theSteemCrunch. This newsletter will regularly be sent out, and also crossposted to the Steem blockchain, as we collect at least five interesting

Earlier today my attention was drawn to a tweet by blockchain researcher Kevin Rooke in which he notes how few active users the most popular dApps on both the Ethereum and EOS network have. The data used

The Internet has always been the information highway and has democratized access to information and thus knowledge. Asking questions, answering questions, and sharing knowledge is an integral and historic

One of the things Steemians love doing most is to define what Steemit is. As the Steem blockchain keeps evolving, often that also results in people poorly understanding the role of Steemit in the current

After Vice.org, in the most enjoyable n00btastic way, decided to fork the Steem blockchain and roll out its own blockchain, the Steem blockchain has a new adult entertainment kid on the block. While registered

Shortly after I wrote about Storify’s impending paid only move, an article by The Verge’s Kaitlyn Tiffany caught my attention: TinyLetter is a perfect platform and it is probably not dying. The article

Some days ago @cryptoriddler released a diagram render of how the reputation ranks are spread among all Steem accounts. At the time of publication there were more than 530,000 Steem accounts (according

When social media truly started to pick up pace and eventually grow to pivotal portions at the beginning of this decade, many new social media tools saw the light and received huge amounts of venture capital

Steemians are no exception to the behavior most beginning bloggers suffer from. Usually, both want to know about their statistics and the popularity of their content. For traditional bloggers that usually

The problem! When browsing through the reactions of my post: Lets make #introduceyourself great again!, I discovered that many users actually would like to support some newbies – However they feel that

Not all Witnesses know everything. Good evening Fellow Steemians, this account and the Discord Channel that accompanies it, is built with the sole purpose to prevent the unfortunate events that took place

Those among us who have been online a little longer already, and have over the years ventured across multiple social networks, of course, know the issue. Know the problem because it's as inherent to the

Two days ago, Blockchain Technologies Corp. and Steem Inc. announced their new collaboration in the form of a new fund of USD 20 million, in order to kickstart development and growth new ventures built

In recent times many words have been written about upvote bots on the Steem blockchain and how they may, or may not, be harmful to the Steem ecosystem. The arguments, obviously, go both ways and to be

Some weeks ago, when I wrote about several Steem(it) projects for Steemians to track their perfomance, I wrote: We have no problems with ads ourselves, and may or may not use ads on some of our projects,

Lately I’ve been having lots of conversations about how Oracles can impact Rewards Pools in Smart Media Tokens (SMTs). People are interested in ways to leverage Oracles to create very unique communities

Commitment pays off! Utopian.io has just got 1 MILLION Steem Power Delegation from @ned, bringing Utopian.io over 2M Steem Power! THANKS @NED! Last Important Delegations @ned - 1M @freedom - 730K SP @transisto

Not that long ago, Steemian @elear, announced a new service built on the Steem blockchain, Utopian. The announcement landed with a splash and since the service, in its most basic form, has captured the