Intro I was studying the hashgraph protocol ( and was wondering how to prevent spam as they use "fame" to arrive at the final truth. This would create an incentive to talk as much as possible

Long term rewards for content and content hosts @condra was saying on @steemspeak that he would like to have a mechanism for posts to get long term rewards. @fyrstikken and I went on to develop some ideas

If true then this is probably the single most stupid thing I have ever seen on steemit. Please enable eternal reply options to posts.

Problem The ideal curator is someone who loves the platform and understands what will make it a success long range. A person that thinks rationally about curation with a long-range perspective. We don't

The problem I know of one individual who managed to register ~1000 accounts with about 50 free STEEM power pr account. ~50000 STEEM is in this persons control now. This is a problem because it gives too

Description It should be possible for steem bloggers to specify a section of any blog post that requires a payment to unlock. This require that the section is encrypted and the unlock key is sold on chain.

Sub-steem A sub-steem is like a subgroup on reddit. This allows special communities to have their own private space on the platform where whales from the other groups don't have voting power by default

We all know there is not much incentive to get STEEM and power up if you are just posting content. What if we implemented a max posting reward. For example we cap rewards at 20% of an accounts SP value.

Steemit has some people/whales who don't have the long range interest of steemit in mind. They want out but is locked in for 2 years. This create conflicts and a constant sell pressure. Let people who

Behold the power of machines No job too hard for industry Improving life by mechanical means A force that flows from pure masculinity Fossil fuels the driving force Strength derived by liquid gold Buildings

Some parents are involved in a sacrifice when they choose to have children. If they do it for no good reason, out of duty or as some kind of old age insurance. In my opinion rational parents choose to

A case for differentiated user driven customizable voting incentives Every community is different Let me just compare a breaking news focused community and a philosophy community. The main difference is

If we just upvote #introduceyourself posts without validating the identity of the poster we will encourage people to create fake introduction posts or to steal other peoples identity to earn a quick buck.

Ethereum Classic. Keep the original censorship-resistant Ethereum going! Ideology of ethereum classic "We believe in decentralized, censorship-resistant, permissionless blockchains. We believe in

The token STEEM is created out of thin air. Just like the USD and bitcoin. In fact any cryptocurrency or fiat money around the world is created arbitrarily. The real important question is instead: What

Today we live in a world where government money is used to punish the producers. They are fined with high taxes for creating content and products we all want. The moochers and needy get that money unjustly

Steem power holders suffer a 10% inflation. When adoption slows down they need to offset this loss somehow or they will loose money over time. Some of them will do this by creating great content to get

My post history has a bunch of spam posts created by the hacker. Sorry for the spam. I did have foresight to set separate owner key so I did not get anything stolen. I recommend everybody to setup separate