The etiquette on Steemit is very much defined, and enforced, by the users with the largest investments in the platform. They have the most to lose if Steemit fails, and the most to gain if it does well.

I'm not suggesting going back entirely - just returning the flag curve to n^2. The upvote curve is great as a linear n as it gives more weight to the upvotes of almost all users (all users bar the heaviest).

This most commonly happens to 'random' people (those not involved in the heated debate) if they buy upvotes for their posts. Some very heavy whale accounts flag posts that buy upvotes under specific

You're missing the point I think... @cm-steem is saying you are trying to buy the removal of a project, and you have straw-manned that argument into if some people are willing to sell their voting right

So, despite you linking a source, it's not cool to plagiarise the entire article... Here is the source, which @Cheetah also found.

Should Sourcefinder Be Delisted? All things considered, yes.

It will still be paid out, but the prize distribution has changed from the original challenge. As per the link @fortex posted, it is now: $1000 to the winner $1000 to the winner's team (or to the winner

As far as I know, breaking a code this hard has not been done It was actually done by the same project. They have already decrypted two messages at shorter key lengths, the only difference for the third

But it's actually demonstrating that the algorithm is secure. Except, we already know exactly how secure the algorithm is. The breaking of this code will effective yield a single data point on a known

I would argue that Bitcoin Utopia actually had more utility than Moo! Wrapper. Neither should be whitelisted though...

While I see where you are coming from, the cost of brute forcing something can be readily calculated without even beginning to attempt the decryption. You make a good point about decentralised compute

I agree with this - there is historical value in the messages, which helps build a picture of events during the war. Using useful hill climbing algorithm (mixed with brute force method, BTW) If you look

It has immense significance in terms of digital security, which relies on prime factorisation. The Collatz Conjecture effectively explores in what ways the prime factorization of a affects the prime

Correct. The original challenge was discontinued in 2007, and has effectively been replicated by a new entity.

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Not only that, but negative results from these projects would be useful too Great point. The ongoing running of these projects i meaningful even if they are never brought to a satisfying conclusion.

I will add here that we also keep an eye on the price feed manually. Just recently the bandwidth of our node ran out and stalled the price feed for a short while. The update interval has since been increased

It looks like someone making a point about the rampant reward pool abuse going on. Have a look at their comment history.

Super relevant profile picture.

I was under the impression that the link between those projects is distributed.net, as per the Moo! Wrapper website: Note that we have intentionally left Distributed.net OGR-project out of scope since