With recent events, DPoS (Delegated Proof of Stake) has received quite a bit of attention. It's become obvious to many people that voting for block producers is important. Let's put on our blockchain designer

Hello, world. I'm a blockchain designer. I helped build the Steem blockchain. I left the company Steemit, Inc. in December 2018. I'm simply another member of this community now. I've been quiet for quite

As noted here, the 100% voting power equilibrium point is being reduced from 40 votes per day to 5 votes per day in version 0.14.0. Among the core developers, I was a strong proponent of this change. In

I've been working steadily over the past couple days on one of the routine housekeeping tasks that's been neglected of late, namely, getting our Github issue tracker under control -- sorting, opening,

User @spartanza wrote a thought-provoking post here about the possibility of using some sort of content ownership registry to deal with image plagiarism. This might be a fruitful direction of thought,

@jholdsworthy asks here: why there's so much negativity out there from some people about steemit I don't know anything for sure, and these opinions are my own. But here's my best guess: If you get

Some users have asked why anyone would use the 7-day Steem Dollar conversion function when they can trade their Steem Dollars on the market instantly. I'll explain in this post with a simple example. This

In this post, @bestmalik asks, "How much Steem Power makes an upvote worth $1.00?" The answer is, "It depends." Here are some of the things it depends on: Variable exchange rate: Internally

I'm going to try something new with this post: Sharing small specific howtos to help other developers integrate code with Steem. Today we'll look at processing blocks as they come in. We can actually get

In this post, user @steemitpolitics asks, "What if people start selling their votes?" For the TLDR answer, take a look at my favorite webcomic: First, votes are soft rate-limited -- you have

This is the sixth post in a series about the Steem reward system. Please read my disclaimer. For previous posts, see my blog. This post is a mathematically intense post. In order to follow everything in

This is the fifth post in a series about the Steem reward system. Please read my disclaimer. For previous posts, see my blog. This post is a mathematically intense post. In order to follow everything in

Introduction This comment led me to realize that we don't really have good documentation on how to use Steem API. So this post is going to fix that! The Steem full node is called steemd, it is responsible

This is the fourth post in a series about the Steem reward system. Please read my disclaimer. Previous posts: 1 2 3 This post is a mathematically intense post. In order to follow everything in this post,

This is the third post in a series about the Steem reward system. Please read my disclaimer. Previous posts: 1 2 I took a break from this series of blog posts because there's been an incredible acceleration

This is the second post in a series about the Steem reward system. Please read my disclaimer. Previous posts: 1 Each upvote is assigned a number of R-shares by the system based on the account's Steem Power

This is the first post in a series about the Steem reward system. Please read my disclaimer. Scroll down to the "Conclusion" section of this post for a TLDR version. The goals of this series

Welcome to the theoretical Streem. (That's what the steemd alternate block explorer calls a category.) Please read my disclaimer. The focus of this Streem is going to be my explanations of the mechanics

Disclaimer All content posted by this account: Is not a statement of the official policy of Steemit, Inc. (or any other company) Is not a statement of the consensus of the Steem development team (or any

Finally trying out the posting function on the website after working with the guts of the backend for a while! This account has a posting key distinct from its active/owner keys. Does it work? Yes. Yes