We are excited to announce that we have begun the soft roll-out for MIRA. MIRA is a cutting-edge scaling solution that we developed for Steem and stands for Multi Index RocksDB Adapter. It leverages

Hardware Changes I have added an additional seed node which can be reached at lafonasteem.com:2001 Originally I intended to retire my original seed node but I will be leaving that up a little longer to

(Photo credit: Dan Taylor - CC BY 2.0) Hi Steemians! I found out about Steemit literally yesterday, via my friend Neil Strauss. I am an established author (three books published by major publishers) but

Now that the dust from hardfork has settled, I thought I would take opportunity to update everyone. With the new requirements associated with v0.16, I decided to move the witnesses to dedicated servers

I have worked to promote the causes of Edward Snowden regularly. I cannot sign this official petition since I am not in the USA but thought about it.... ...maybe we can use Steemit to make a difference

Greetings Steemians, It has been a while since I gave an update so here is an overview of what I have been working on. Price Feed/SBD Conversions With the concern over the SBD in the past few weeks, I

Most Australians believe that homes are the ultimate, rock-solid investment. We’ve had 25 straight years of economic growth here in Australia, so many people assume we are a recession-proof culture and

The second painting that I'm giving away to one of my followers, who is attending SteemFest, is 'Miss Lily'. She's a sweet lady with a lot of inner secrets. Some people say there are many sides to her

One of the funnest parts of having our annual Halloween parties is creating the invitation that we send to all of our guests!  Costumes, makeup, and lots of editing go into creating these spooky images!

This crazy video clip from the National Geographic TV Show, Brain Games, illustrates how random behaviours can become social norms through our human tendency to conform. Conformity is a social influence

Original, talented, active, content-creating musicians are joining Steemit at a great rate. I am a new one, and I see new peers in introduceyourself every day who are original musicians. This excites me,

Billboard season is back, after a short break to get @steemsports off the ground. The @steemdrive billboard initiative is ready to once again start its regular campaigns! For those of you are not familiar

source From the oil embargo of the 1970s to the price spike in 2008 and now again in 2012, interest in alternatives to petroleum for powering automobiles has surged and waned with perfect correlation to

Americans have a bizarre quality now. The vast majority of them readily acknowledge that their government is corrupt and run by corporations. They know this. Don't you? However, when they start to think

Halloween Promo steemcards is now offering and additional 10% off all Amazon gift cards, we already sell our gift cards at 5% off meaning you can now you can get up to 15% off Amazon.com gift cards when

We are currently in the midst of an unprecedented worldwide economic experiment. Since the global financial crisis of 2008, the central bankers of the largest economies in the world have slashed interest

Join us for the World’s First CryptoFinance Hackathon in Oslo, Norway, October 14-17, at Telenor Arena, Fornebu. BitSpace and OsloFintech are hosting a full weekend hackathon and CryptoFinance Summit in

Want to shop locally with steem backed dollars? We're getting local merchants to accept your steem dollars directly for merchandise and bringing in thousands of new users, here's how. Ever look at your

A new article reveals that congress is preparing a bill which will ban Internet voting technology. “In the wake of the DNC server hack and well-documented efforts by states to suppress the vote, citizens

The recent price action seems to be getting the attention of the outside world. I just found this and thought I would share it with you guys :) Enjoy.