Motivation On #bitshares, market-pegged assets, aka MPA, aka #SmartCoin s, can suffer a "black swan" event. A black swan occurs when the least collateralized short position has insufficient

I know about the theoretical usefulness of #Steem. Censorship-resistant publishing is a great tool and important for freedom and democracy. But obviously, that's not how Steem is being used. I know about

I just noticed the #steem #mining queue length has grown to ~140 - that's about 30 more than yesterday, which implies that hashpower increased by a factor of 2^8. According to mining slots 99-135 are now

History Several weeks ago a group of BitShares users decided to modify two significant parameters of the bitCNY asset on the BitShares blockchain. BitCNY is one of several #SmartCoins with a decentralized

Yesterday I initiated a transfer of 400 STEEM from my #openledger account "ops.cyrano" to this steem account. So far, the STEEM haven't arrived yet. The @openledger account shows only one transaction

Hi, I hereby confirm that I've registered as "cyrano" on steemit.chat (formerly known as cyrano.witness on steem slack, @pc_cyrano on telegram). Will post PGP signature in a couple of days, don't

I suppose all of you know about upvoting. Upvoting is what gives a post monetary value. Upvotes are to distinguish valuable content from... less valuable content. Downvoting is equally important for the

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I hereby confirm that my witness(es) "cyrano", "cyrano.witness", "cyrano.witness2" and "cyrano.witness3" were not

There's a proposal being voted on by the #bitshares committee that will modify the so-called settlement "guarantee". The proposal currently has a majority of votes, and if things stay that way,

...or the contract will outsmart you. tl;dr: So-called smart contracts are software built into a #blockchain. The problem with that is, very few people can read and understand the precise conditions of

We're still low on reliable seed nodes, see . If you want to run a seed node you should apply this fix to avoid crashes: And please use port 1776 for the p2p socket. That will make your node reachable

I'm trying to extract stuff from the STEEM database using HTTP RPC API calls on steemd. It works nicely most of the time, but sometimes I receive garbled responses, and I've already crashed my steemd a

The classes declared in these headers provide the complete definition of the Vaporware protocol WTF?

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi! On steem I'm known as cyrano, and I run cyrano.witness. Please vote! :-) (I'm also pc on bitsharestalk.org and I run the bitshares witness "cyrano",

Cyrano is the business under which bitsharestalk forum member 'pc' is operating. pc had an elected worker delegate in the days of BitShares1. Since BitShares-2 was launched he has been operating his witness