I am going to move my day to day communications to @vandeberg. This is to match my handle on other forms of communication. If you want to continue getting my blog in your feed, please follow @vandeberg.

Hello Steemians, today marks the 1 year anniversary of the launch of Steem. Since then we’ve done a lot, including launch steemit.com. There have been ups (like SteemFest) and downs (like last week). But

While the realm of Bitcoin got even more divided, Ethereum and Monero got trade hyped, while Dash went off a slope, Bitshares went through a test that should attract some attention. And therefore so should

Update on Steem 0.17.0, a.k.a. Simplicity Great news everyone, We are getting close to the release of Simplicity and this post clarifies some of the updates to the proposed changes originally released

No, that's not me. I put a photo of a youngish girl so more people would click on this post. Even though that's not me, that's how I feel after being on Busy.org all day. I'm mostly happy, but a tiny bit

Not Censorship People flagging posts on steemit.com. People removing content from a website that they themselves control (so long as most browsers can access most websites). People disagreeing with you

In autumn 1999, I visited the I.T dept to inquire about the Y2K bug.

Today we would like to present our proposed upgrades to the blockchain protocol for the next hard fork release, 0.17. KISS, short for Keep It Simple, Stupid, is the guiding principle behind most of the

I would now openly vote beg, since this is a decline payout post. This is meant for discussion and making arguments. I'd like for this to be as visible as possible so that people would join the discussion.

Last week, my daughter and I started doing some easy coding projects on Code.org. All the projects are free and you don't have to download any software, either. Since my daughter is currently obsessed

Hello everyone! In about an hour (10am EST), we will be on Beyond Bitcoin to talk about an exciting new project we are working on! We will update this post with a recording of the talk, just in case you're

Who wants steem this Christmas? This post has been translated into: 中文 español Deutsch français português In the spirit of Christmas we want to help you to make somebody’s Christmas special with a little

We all know how popular "fail compilations" videos are on youtube. When someone slips or falls, we just can't help it - it's funny! This concept is so successful that there were even whole TV

Sometimes a Disruptive Technology is in Front of Your Face and You Still Can't See It. Many of the social media professionals who wrote in their predictions for this article, "2017 Predictions for

"A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.” - John Cleese I began Cringe-Worthy Joke of the Week on another social media site that begins

It took about 18 hours all told: 14 hours to sync the wallet and about 4 hours to update our steem transaction scanner for various changes to the steem node software (among other things, a slight change

Blockchain technology has been unable to serve certain markets due to challenges scaling the protocol to handle the required throughput. There are two key measurements that impact blockchain scalability:

We have put the finishing touches on the Steem 0.16.0 release and now feel comfortable requesting that all witnesses who support the hard fork to upgrade as soon as possible so that any issues that are

ENTRY FOR PR/MARKETING BRAINSTORMING COMPETITION @thecryptofiend Think Big. ACT BIGGER! As of now, @Ned has done an amazing job taking responsibility for the entire brand of Steemit.com. But, he is just

Today we are summarizing the changes we have implemented and are prepared to release on Tuesday and hardfork the following Tuesday. If there are any issues discovered this could be postponed. Change is