Our chain was dying but the tech and social aspects had potential. A top crypto figure with a lot of pull comes in and invests big. We break our own DPOS rules to pre emptively fuck him in the ass because

Okay I'm feeling somewhat confident again after seeing the effects of the EIP taking place. Time to come back home! And yes, rest assured that my witness setup is secured and updated accordingly, as always.

Hello ! As you probably know hard fork 21 is now live and with it comes a 25% downvote pool. One main benefit of this is the ability to fight abuse without losing out on your own curation. However, it

What are the Economic Goals ? To get people to vote in a way that honestly reflects their own opinion of a post's appeal with as little negative side effects as possible. Honest voting is imperative for

Finally, it's here. Check out the recent @steemitblog post in regards to Steem's EIP (Economic Improvement Proposal) Like @trafalgar, the only thing that has been plaguing my Steem-related thoughts over

Hello Steemians, today we would like to disclose our public support for a proposal that we believe would improve the economic incentives built into Steem. The Steemit team recently met to discuss this

Help Me Fix Steem's Economy! While most people would agree that something is wrong on this platform, many can't quite pinpoint exactly what the problem is. This is known as the Steve Buscemi's face effect.

Ohad Asor, creator of Tau Chain/Agoras, has recently published the long awaited blog post detailing his vision for what very likely is the most ambitious project in the crypto space: Tau. Tau will accelerate

Why New Year's Resolutions Are Bullshit I love New Years, which is a strange thing for me to say, because I don't really love anything - not my friends, not my family, not Raymond, nothing. Or it could

Something Revolutionary In the Crypto Space The overwhelming majority of new crypto projects out there fall into 3 main categories: A pure currency with a twist, be it anonymity, speed, no transactions

Why Do People Play the Lottery? Insecure people are always actively on the lookout for reasons to look down on others to feel smart about themselves, which is why I find a certain satisfaction in never

Can We Change The UI to Display Rewards in USD? Currently, the UI displays rewards in Steem Backed Dollar (SBD), which is deceptively low as the currency, which is meant to be pegged to the USD, is currently

Note: After asking for your opinion regarding shorter content in my last post, I've reduced my posting frequency on my @traf account from about 5-8 a day to 3 or less. I hope people find this acceptable.

Is There Any Room For Short Content On here? EDIT: Seems that people have more of an issue with the frequency of the posts rather than the quality. Most do seem to think that there's a place of short content

Top 8 Reasons Why Steem Will Succeed Well, it's been a while since I watched a live stream of anything that didn't require a subscription fee and wasn't best enjoyed with my trousers unzipped, but I honestly

How Important Are IQ Tests? Let's face it: we've all tried out an online IQ test or two, then retook them a few times until we got a score we were happy to share on Facebook. I mean, I for one have an

Contest Rules In this piece I've hidden some truths buried under a mountain of bullshit. One lucky person to spot at least 3 truths will win 50 SBD! The winner will be chosen by me; I'll favor answers

Check out @traf for original memes, one liners and other short comedy content created by my evil conjoined twin brother. We're so closely conjoined, in fact, you could easily mistaken us for a single regular

A Few Words From Trafalgar I'm alive. I wish I could be more active on here, but I have a lot of things to attend to in real life lately. Typing up one of these articles is more time consuming than it

By 2019 Trump will be Zapping about how high his IQ is