Bitcoin, a brief non-technical history.

BTCC announced they are ceasing all trading on 9/30 per the Chinese government's direction.

One of the many great things Steemit has is censorship resistance. Unfortunately, other sites like Reddit, don't have that feature. Today a friend discovered that R/litecoin is censoring criticism of the

A week ago I transferred almost 320 steem to @openledger. Apparently, did it the "old protocol" and am not going to be seeing my money anytime soon. It's in limbo and I have contacted support

In light of the upcoming Bitcoin fork, I finally decided to look into exactly what Segwit is, and form my opinions based on the technical and economic realities, rather than opinions and impressions I've

Image Credit: I’ve seen a number of posts lately about flagging and how we fix it. Arguments ranging from increasing the power to flag posts to eliminating flagging. I’m against censorship but do appreciate

Over at the Minnow Support Project, we're getting bombarded with users complaining about the bandwidth problems. Turns out it's not just a UI issue, as @personz figured out. Many users are unable to use

I’ve always enjoyed being prepared for the things life throws at me. A few years ago after a large snowstorm we lost electricity for 7 days. We are a family of 1 adult and 2 children. It was an eye opening

The price of Steem is coming close to the $1 USD mark. It briefly dropped below it on some markets. My first though was if it drops below $1 USD it's time to convert Steem Dollars to Steem. I have to assume

“Experts say you should have enough money to cover your expenses for between 3 and 9 months” While you are employed: First, congratulations and great job. If you’re employed and planning ahead you’ve set

I know the Estimated Account Value is an average but new accounts are showing over $9,000 when they hold very little steem power. Anyone know what the problem is?

I’m hoping my experience will help others, it’s certainly eye opening to take a hard look at your spending even without job loss looming. I’ll cover my plan of attack here then go into more details in

Based on some quick math I can pay out more in steem rewards than I hold in steem power over the course of a year. I'm basing this on: The value of my current pay out X 10 upvotes a day x 365. Great!!!

HF19 may have tipped the scales a little too much. I've always been excited about giving people a few $ per post. Imagine my surprise when my vote was worth $20 usd! Wow!!! That's real money at 10 votes

Twitter users, please go vote for Steem. This would be great for us.

Today, Ether hit $100. I’m sure by the time you’re reading this it will be in The Guardian and the New York Times as a curiosity piece. Our market cap will approach ten billion dollars. By all and any

DigiByte has become the first cyrptocurrency to activate SegWit. This happened just moments ago so it's time to tune in and watch the results. I'm a supporter of increasing the block size on BTC but I'm

As the fork away from Blockstream and the Core programming team looks more likely what happens next? I see three likely scenarios, what’s your thought? Core developers continue to support the minority

step by step instructions on how to set up and mine steem. If like me, youve tried mining unsuccessfully before and have found it daunting and complicated to search through all the out of date mining

Has anyone used the location/traffic application Waze? It's a great app that relies on users reporting accidents, obstructions, delays, police activity and more. After you report something other Wazers