I recently took a trip to Castle Town, an abandoned settlement in the Castle Mountains in Montana, USA. Despite its current condition, the town had an interesting past. In the 1880's, numerous mining claims

Here are a handful of pictures I took while on a walk north of Harlowton, Montana with my dog Luna.

I love the idea of people being able to exchange value freely with anyone from anywhere in the world. This is one of many ideas that interest me in regards to cryptocurrency. But what if governments start

As Bitcoin nears $3,000 , I wonder if it may be a good time to pare back. And if so, what other coins offer more potential? With the current high transaction fees and relatively slow confirmation time,

From the dash.org website...

From what I understand, the interest rate is set by consensus of the active miners, or witnesses, and is not related to pegging SBD to a roughly $1 equivalent of STEEM. The pegging is set by the blockchain

For some time now I've effectively been unable to use my steemit account. I kept getting the error message: "Bandwidth limit exceeded. Please wait to transact or power up". I would wait for a

Living out of a tent and travelling for almost a month now, I've been thinking about the value of travel (among many other things). Finding balance with technologyAs someone who generally spends a lot

On part of a road trip through the northwest (USA), my girlfriend and I camped in Glacier National Park for a few days. While cool and rainy, it made for some interesting views. We saw a small grizzly

image I’m currently a part-time teacher. Previously, I managed a group home for boys. I’ve also been an investor for over ten years. Psychology and philosophy were my primary studies in college. I’ve become

image The U.S. dollar has been drifting lower year-to-date, falling rather abruptly after the worse than expected job report last week. It may be a good time to add to gold/silver, or other commodity related,

In addition, Steem has made big moves over this past day. Market cap is up roughly 50%!

I came across this on Youtube today. An interesting take on the political dynamics that are playing into Venezuela's current problems.

I'm wondering what effect large scale adoption of the Steem platform will have on it's blockchain size. Will it ever need to be compressed or truncated in some fashion? I've read concerns about Bitcoin

Perhaps others have suggested this, but I was thinking it may be neat to have a feature in Steem that allows users to search for posts containing specific words or phrases within a post. The post topic

I'm new to Steem, more or less, as of today. I had read about it roughly a month ago and liked the concept. For some reason the website wasn't working correctly on my computer at the time and wouldn't