<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:04:42 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@mjhomb/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[delete]]></title><description><![CDATA[delete]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/eos/@mjhomb/for-gov-s-stake</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/eos/@mjhomb/for-gov-s-stake</guid><category><![CDATA[eos]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[mjhomb]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 26 Oct 2019 05:56:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eos and Block Producer Verification]]></title><description><![CDATA[EOS is secured by 21 producing nodes with standby nodes always at the ready to step into a producing role. Critically it is assumed that each node is running on independent server infrastructure. In EOS]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/eos/@mjhomb/eos-and-block-producer-verification</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/eos/@mjhomb/eos-and-block-producer-verification</guid><category><![CDATA[eos]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[mjhomb]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Aug 2019 13:42:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/4i88GgaV8qiFU89taP2MgKXzwntUGAvkoQiKU7VxyD37q9X9YvDPuZAqWHKcA21snASAsB5xD5HQoetA6kbwAGaBjywzJegW73GUqdeCKFbUxVWVhreYqSRBQz?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[delete]]></title><description><![CDATA[delete]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/blockchain/@mjhomb/algorand-and-eosio</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/blockchain/@mjhomb/algorand-and-eosio</guid><category><![CDATA[blockchain]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[mjhomb]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 22 Jun 2019 02:46:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Non Playing Character]]></title><description><![CDATA[I was depressed With a heavy, expanding yet silent heart And mistook these symptoms For the human condition Dear Wojack]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/poetry/@mjhomb/non-playing-character</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/poetry/@mjhomb/non-playing-character</guid><category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[mjhomb]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2018 11:31:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/3zpz8WQe4SNGWd7TzozjPgq3rggennavDx3XPY35pEAVnpqEafLFotqTfBeVkYpZT2t3K9crn6ivmKZxZyi4rA9o47YjK9uNzcBg7MoGEVxYBiBCWv6NC1yRXLditgNSSQnn3DQ5CwxUepqC76fx?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Audience]]></title><description><![CDATA[Such a stage           So many plots           First rising           Then fading away           Now crashing over against one another           In this mesmerizing inscrutable play           The theatre]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/poetry/@mjhomb/the-audience</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/poetry/@mjhomb/the-audience</guid><category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[mjhomb]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2018 06:07:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7258xSVeJbKkzXhyseBP4PYz11eBDT8sW2oR1a4vfVFS6HYCzRhL8rTsuGBXAGeBA7iJ6uQuqZDZCu9gPJ9EHCxtfbkdj3hm5wXoG7hDNu3eYnYCmyszHML9YvLWbo9zTFmfFb7ehFyFC?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deleted]]></title><description><![CDATA[Accidentally duplicated]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/eos/@mjhomb/3a7ddy-manifesto-for-a-governed-blockchain</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/eos/@mjhomb/3a7ddy-manifesto-for-a-governed-blockchain</guid><category><![CDATA[eos]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[mjhomb]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2018 09:45:42 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manifesto For A Governed Blockchain]]></title><description><![CDATA[Human political, cultural and economic life are at a crossroads. The so called elite, through knowledge and power asymmetries, dominate all three spheres of human endeavour. Our governance institutions,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/eos/@mjhomb/manifesto-for-a-governed-blockchain</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/eos/@mjhomb/manifesto-for-a-governed-blockchain</guid><category><![CDATA[eos]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[mjhomb]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2018 08:15:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/6VvuHGsoU2QBt9MXeXNdDuyd4Bmd63j7zJymDTWgdcJjnzhWnYsVYpszFEcqZ7vSk4t2c33GfvvrGPNkGSeAh2y8MjmAcry9Jwm8qMa9JZiU9vycTzQJFK2WjupBBc?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fraternity! The Markets Are Not Free!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Is it possible for one to be both an anarchist, or more precisely a voluntaryist and a socialist? Do you think it's possible? Well I know that is. Because that is I. No cognitive dissonance neither! No]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/politics/@mjhomb/fraternity-the-markets-are-not-free</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/politics/@mjhomb/fraternity-the-markets-are-not-free</guid><category><![CDATA[politics]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[mjhomb]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2018 12:56:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/EEEoA8oLaAxsTkPYAARp78o5cJA1o6Chv9x98TzCFT6v5G1mSHu83yVTWpfffEKz1feAmHV31Xyt4iLmpwW1SFKTGZaeQixPhnBcp2KJFEud6pa6Xm221bN2jHU8doCeRRDmxxhPdLUKyxBQA5eox?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flowers As Messengers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Many attribute the evolutionary success of our species, of us humans, to our ability to abstract Nature. Abstraction rather than fitness. Through abstraction we are able to roam the world. This abstraction]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@mjhomb/flowers-as-messengers</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@mjhomb/flowers-as-messengers</guid><category><![CDATA[writing]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[mjhomb]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2018 07:25:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/JvFFVmatwWHRfvmtd53nmEJ94xpKydwmbSC5H5svBACH81BXrfcBQVcTxvsVQdva1mNbLRWJdZ2Z6BpydyF1sfun2WThQiTndgmtqGQGsviNs6bXhEtBWVhGTiQT6E1LKGSPDD8Jp6?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[delete]]></title><description><![CDATA[delete]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/eos/@mjhomb/in-defence-and-praise-of-the-crypto-snowflake</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/eos/@mjhomb/in-defence-and-praise-of-the-crypto-snowflake</guid><category><![CDATA[eos]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[mjhomb]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2018 07:03:45 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eos - Who I Am Voting For]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anticipation As June approaches I, like many others, am finding my anticipation around the launch of the Eos main chain reaching fever pitch. For some reason I increasingly see the mainnet launch, due]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/eos/@mjhomb/eos-who-i-am-voting-for</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/eos/@mjhomb/eos-who-i-am-voting-for</guid><category><![CDATA[eos]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[mjhomb]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2018 13:10:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/3jpR3paJ37V8t3d5gG8YxUrFtTrvhgCDjjN8jFs77kWFSx7Tv4h1wkWmq1DGN8boAb2NxBvgerqRhgWBd6RPtkcACYsTX7mRajBgbsoQSTuTZKckGz2cx5pt2ppibiUCJPava?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eosit - Why Eos Needs To Be A Social Media Platform Too]]></title><description><![CDATA[I have been following the Steem versus Eos controversies with great interest. The cryptoverse is so fractured and parochial. Understandably so. There is too much to know. Consensus algorithms, scaling]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/eos/@mjhomb/eosit-why-eos-needs-to-be-a-social-media-platform-too</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/eos/@mjhomb/eosit-why-eos-needs-to-be-a-social-media-platform-too</guid><category><![CDATA[eos]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[mjhomb]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2018 10:49:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/3jpR3paJ37V8t3d5gG8YxUrFtTrvhgCDjjN8jFs75uAp9SmuSqNko86t5VTVoDZc9k2oAJuf6Hq7jtZumCzimt8yHQ9Wvzn9fR1txiVZRAuvf5vSeiJ5UXGo4PZccEiKGwtpv?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[DPoS - An idea to incentivize informed voter participation]]></title><description><![CDATA[I've been reading the Eos governance chat on telegram. It's a great channel! The discussion recently turned to voter participation and how to incentivize it. For background on that see Dan's article Anyway]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/eos-project/@mjhomb/dpos-an-idea-to-incentivize-informed-voter-participation</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/eos-project/@mjhomb/dpos-an-idea-to-incentivize-informed-voter-participation</guid><category><![CDATA[eos-project]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[mjhomb]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 09 Dec 2017 03:31:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?]]></title><description><![CDATA[I keep thinking of Gauguin's Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? when I look at this photo. I have no answers to any of these important questions though search as I might. The similarity]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/onephotoeveryday/@mjhomb/where-do-we-come-from-what-are-we-where-are-we-going</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/onephotoeveryday/@mjhomb/where-do-we-come-from-what-are-we-where-are-we-going</guid><category><![CDATA[onephotoeveryday]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[mjhomb]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 14 Oct 2017 10:08:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2N61tyyncFaFnNFKLegVvzmsrMAExSDXzsHdqwaiRi3BpMnv3qSma8nb5T6JoHsjNpHzsWpENpap9GwZfXKer9sQ7npc1LVJ7EmpPc2itGFK5BojUfRaYhTSy5ADJfAcoR9aYG6m7zZL?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[delete]]></title><description><![CDATA[delete]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/eos/@mjhomb/dpos-versus-pos-should-humans-vote</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/eos/@mjhomb/dpos-versus-pos-should-humans-vote</guid><category><![CDATA[eos]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[mjhomb]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 07 Oct 2017 03:22:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Name]]></title><description><![CDATA[Born to an Eastern mother and a Western father the boy was christened with two names. The names, as the two cultures, sounded as different as Om from Rat-a-tat-tat. A simple vowel sound against a string]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/story/@mjhomb/name</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/story/@mjhomb/name</guid><category><![CDATA[story]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[mjhomb]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 15 Apr 2017 04:40:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/368La1qZAv72FqVwi1Et2LrexGk5UkK3zoADVBeXZweLYfmtJkiFYThk2RSSQRAJihWHGmkMZaSs5AN6P17tKeR4?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[William Eraserhead]]></title><description><![CDATA[Justification Recent events in my life got me thinking about a book that I read in my youth. In hindsight it seems to me that my life has mirrored the biography of X whose life journey this novel describes.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/story/@mjhomb/william-eraserhead</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/story/@mjhomb/william-eraserhead</guid><category><![CDATA[story]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[mjhomb]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 08 Apr 2017 06:49:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/hgjbks2vRxvf3xsYr6qQ7dm31DuBHGui8pKMdEVPxhLfEeEoVMPfUw4vRj2vBU6daMw7CcwXvQc3wLuhCSrr8wXBbU?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remembering and Forgetting]]></title><description><![CDATA[I was reading the obituaries the other day when I noticed a lovely dedication to Margaret who I learned had passed on. The dedication was from her granddaughter Sarah. I don't usually read the obituaries.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/story/@mjhomb/remembering-and-forgetting</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/story/@mjhomb/remembering-and-forgetting</guid><category><![CDATA[story]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[mjhomb]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 01 Apr 2017 06:23:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/MG5aEqKFcQi6ksuzVh6JJptBJCL6eFwx2gvRnpcRhTRKgmTKc5WMfwDzSmx2h3q2nEQWZGQ9d5nrTNYCXXHD6bqjcWZxqGGqt?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mars and Jupiter]]></title><description><![CDATA[A youngish lady, early thirties, walks through the carpark of a convenience store. As she walks she feels a small tremor in the earth. She detects a slight shifting of the earth as she walks through the]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/story/@mjhomb/mars-and-jupiter</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/story/@mjhomb/mars-and-jupiter</guid><category><![CDATA[story]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[mjhomb]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 25 Mar 2017 04:39:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2YRZBi4FZVHeQQfitmdxPPgLtSu1HuSyXtTCpRF9N1ZcMUXDB7ptaErLLYmPtTmUzqk2cgMAHkRx98fT1kqMHYUo9qqjcSf5KoL?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anonymous Upvotes?]]></title><description><![CDATA[I've been on steemit for a while now and have been following the various debates around curation rewards and the like. I actually had a few thoughts the other day! I really did! Not that they are necessarily]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/steemit/@mjhomb/anonymous-user-upvotes</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/steemit/@mjhomb/anonymous-user-upvotes</guid><category><![CDATA[steemit]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[mjhomb]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 19 Mar 2017 04:29:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>