Hi there, in a nod to 
1. Why Steem is Unique in the Cryptosphere - @l0k1
The article looks at what makes the top 7 unique. It is for beginners but helpful. He compared the currencies and draws insights such as thisIn Dash, also, the marketing for the platform is also taken care of by the developers.... Steem, by contrast, farms this work out to each and every account, people can promote, or demote, the system as their opinion dictates. This is a model that resembles the Open Source community...
He also has some new ideas
My idea allows for the possibility of a possibly fragmented, garbage-collecting chat system, that distributes chats through a blockchain, while not requiring massive storage to keep it, by expiring old posts.
See the whole post to read more and follow him at
2. Whats New in Bitcoin Core 0.13.0 - @densmirnov
Technical paper but well formatted and thorough. This is the other end of the spectrum from the first post.The most significant code change is the inclusion of the segregated witness (segwit) code in preparation for an upcoming soft fork. This release will not activate segwit, and if segwit is activated, this release will not act any differently,...
Also he provides detailed comentary on:
- Compact block relay
- Fee filtering
- BIP32 HD wallet support
- More intelligent transaction selection for mining
- Official builds for Linux on ARM
For example
By eliminating the bandwidth spike that occur
Faster propagation of blocks across the network, by dramatically reducing the amount of data that needs to be transported when a new block is found
3. 27 Altcoins Being Removed from Poloniex - by @stealthtrader
This is a news piece but I found it helpful. Perhaps some of this volume will find its way to Steem. Dash is on the list. EDIT ( dsh in on list not dash) It's nice to get this news in a timely fashion by adding stealth trader to the feed.
4. Welcome to the second decade of the 21st Century. The arrival of Bitcoin, Monero and the Economic Singularity!By @crazyflashpie
A thought piece on ramifications of monero.The existence of a fungible digital money like Monero is a big deal because Monero is Money and Money is Energy.
Some interesting takeaways.
I'm fascinated to see how to this all will play out. From 2000-2010 we saw digital packetized information networks(the internet) go mainstream and change society. We now have packetized value and a way of hiding it from plain sight via Monero.
