One of the potential benefits of the new app token business model, in which the developers issue tokens that have a utility within the application or protocol, is that it helps solve the cold start problem.

It’s expensive to produce high quality, researched journalism. For media companies to produce quality content on a daily or weekly basis, they must hire and employ full time teams of editors and journalists

Since it's possible for witnesses to generate blocks without solving a proof of work, what is the reason for including one miner generated proof of work block per round instead of just relying entirely

The white paper specifies how the newly generated steem is allocated amongst holders of steem power (~90%) and content producers/curators/service providers (~10%), but as far as I can tell it doesn't indicate

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