Bitcoin, a brief non-technical history.

I created this community as a censorship free place to discuss all things Bitcoin. I've seen what happened at r/bitcoin and am concerned other subreddits could fall victim in the future. I wanted this

BTCC announced they are ceasing all trading on 9/30 per the Chinese government's direction.

One of the many great things Steemit has is censorship resistance. Unfortunately, other sites like Reddit, don't have that feature. Today a friend discovered that R/litecoin is censoring criticism of the

Image Credit: I’ve seen a number of posts lately about flagging and how we fix it. Arguments ranging from increasing the power to flag posts to eliminating flagging. I’m against censorship but do appreciate

I’ve always enjoyed being prepared for the things life throws at me. A few years ago after a large snowstorm we lost electricity for 7 days. We are a family of 1 adult and 2 children. It was an eye opening

The price of Steem is coming close to the $1 USD mark. It briefly dropped below it on some markets. My first though was if it drops below $1 USD it's time to convert Steem Dollars to Steem. I have to assume

“Experts say you should have enough money to cover your expenses for between 3 and 9 months” While you are employed: First, congratulations and great job. If you’re employed and planning ahead you’ve set

I know the Estimated Account Value is an average but new accounts are showing over $9,000 when they hold very little steem power. Anyone know what the problem is?

I’m hoping my experience will help others, it’s certainly eye opening to take a hard look at your spending even without job loss looming. I’ll cover my plan of attack here then go into more details in

Based on some quick math I can pay out more in steem rewards than I hold in steem power over the course of a year. I'm basing this on: The value of my current pay out X 10 upvotes a day x 365. Great!!!

HF19 may have tipped the scales a little too much. I've always been excited about giving people a few $ per post. Imagine my surprise when my vote was worth $20 usd! Wow!!! That's real money at 10 votes

Twitter users, please go vote for Steem. This would be great for us.

DigiByte has become the first cyrptocurrency to activate SegWit. This happened just moments ago so it's time to tune in and watch the results. I'm a supporter of increasing the block size on BTC but I'm

As the fork away from Blockstream and the Core programming team looks more likely what happens next? I see three likely scenarios, what’s your thought? Core developers continue to support the minority

Has anyone used the location/traffic application Waze? It's a great app that relies on users reporting accidents, obstructions, delays, police activity and more. After you report something other Wazers

Today the internet's DNS system came under attack. There are lots of news stories covering it so I won't go into details here. I immediately started looking for solutions. One of the first results was

I've been watching the rate at which steem grows, and it's active user rate. I'm using to view this. Does anyone know of a site where historical data is kept? I'd like to do some weekly analysis on

Today I saw the first Steemit.com clone, it crashed on launch though. It's based on Ethereum but clearly a copy of the Steemit model. People know Steemit is the next big thing and are trying to cash in.

It's raining here and I'm jamming out to Nathaniel Rateliff and the Nightsweats. I had never heard of them but saw them at last week and ran out and bought one of their albums. To be completely honest