In crypto currencies and blockchain technologies Sidechains are considered the holy grail to form a super network based on multiple cryptocurrency networks and their user base. Side-chains are often referred

To all Python developers that would like to use Steem programmatically and didn't know how to do it: I am glad to introduce a command-line tool and library to build custom apps specialized user interfaces

Replying Of course you can also reply to posts quite easily using piston. All you need is (again) the identifier of the post you want to reply to. Note that if you want to reply to a comment of a post,

Voting With piston voting becomes extremely easy and we encourage every user to vote regularly, not only because we would like to see more payouts for our posts, but also because you profit from curation

Adding keys to piston In this tutorial, we learn how to add a private key to piston and enable its use for posting new content and upvoting existing posts. We here assume that you have already created

Congratulations you have succesfully opened the piston-cli quickstart post on the Steem network. The applications has used the parameters read @xeroc/piston-cli-quickstart where read tells the application

Someone is attacking DAO There is an attack going on against "theDAO". A recently discovered recursive-split attack can be used to to initiate ether-sends before the contracts burns them. Buy

0.4.1 Release 0.4.1 New: - [various/API] deploy logging infrastructure - [transactions] override transfer operation with example script - [API] Monitor changes to an asset with GrapheneClient - [base]

Similar to centralized exchanges where the administrators have full control over your balance, issuers of a User-Issuer asset on BitShares can decide to claim this control for their own assets. By this,

The bitUSD is a premium asset that comes with a strong "peg" to the U.S. Dollar. The underlying mechanics ensure that it does not sell below $1 worth of BitShares equity. What is a bitUSD? The

BitShares comes with a very powerful account management infrastructure. Very sophisticated account control structures become possible as you can find in the docs. However, I would like to show you how

0.2 Release 0.2 New: - [UI] Allow enable, disable of markdownification - [fix] add voter to vote() - [examples] add examples - [steem] allow to customize upvote/downvote - [stream/comment] for easier bots

As we have seen from the Ethereum/MakerDAO Team (MakerDao Exchange, Howto) making an asset tradable brings confidence to investors and proofs seriousness to the public. Of course, making an asset tradable

In crypto currencies, one of the many holy grails is connecting several blockchains together to allow cross-blockchain transactions also referred to as 2-way peg, or side chains. The still unresolved technical

The following as an article I posted on bitshares.eu in March. Since jekyll has no integrated discussion feature, I thought, I'd share with the bitshares/steem community. Dear OpenBazaar community, I have

Dear Steemians, since the upvote bot was not received well, I'd like to present another way of using the piston library for bots: A @-notification bot in 30 lines of code from piston.steem import Steem

ping @xeroc

Dear Steemians, Upvote bot in less than 10 lines of code from piston.steem import Steem import os import json steem = Steem(wif=os.environ["WIF"]) authors =