One of the most common criticisms against delegated proof of stake systems is the perceived lack of decentralization. 21 block producers (per round) might seem very low number, even though it's still very

Three years ago Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 was shot down in Ukraine, killing 298 passengers and crew members. Thanks to open source investigations, we can be quite sure who did it. Open-source intelligence

I haven't been following debates about philosophical differences of libertarian perspectives for years. Instead I've been trying to focus on stuff that is more practical and will benefit real people in

First of all I have to say that while I'm being very critical of the way how marketing of Steemit is done, I'm also thankful that at least something has been done: Steem Park. Congratulations and good

Before we get to the moon, we'll reach million transactions in a day in the Steem blockchain. That's the next huge step. It might not be far away, one peak in the usage of the blockchain and we are there.

Checking out @arcange's latest statistics, I noticed that the Steem blockchain is now processing over 700.000 transactions per day. That's already more than any other blockchain. But what is more important

You might be familiar with the term network effect. Usually it refers to positive outcome when a service becomes more and more beneficial to everybody when new users join in. But there can be also negative

We just got done with hardfork 19 and the next one is already in planning. While it's great to see developers being active, I have to say I'm not fully satisfied with the proposed changes. It's not yet

Some of you might remember that a few months back Steemit Inc hired a VP of marketing. This was a long-waited event because the marketing of Steem/Steemit had been pretty much neglected. We were promised

Usually I'm not surprised by politicians being horrible human beings and criminals. But this time I got a small WTF?!-feeling when I realized that Shiva Ayyadurai (aka V.A. Shiva) is running for the Senate

One of the most underappreciated and undermarketed features of the Steem blockchain is the ability to make quick transfers. The blockchain has three second interval for blocks which way more better than

It seems that interest in Steemit has been steadily going up lately. That means there will be people who would like to create an account. But unfortunately that's not very easy right now which is seriously

Recently I stumbled upon the Flippening Watch. It's a website that tracks how close Ethereum is taking over the number one cryptocurrency place from Bitcoin. We should have something similar to show to

One thing that I like in Bitshares governance model is the committee. It's elected set of users who have power to change blockchain parameters. Although I have to admit it's working very poorly in practice

I just happened to see an article in Cointelegraph which told about a prediction that bitcoin could go up to $250,000 by 2020. For some weird reason nobody seems to be doing any back of the napkin

While the case of Mogul game is pretty much closed now because Matt Trainer ragequit Steem, there seems to be still a few users who didn't like the witch hunt (for example, @thejohalfiles and @onceuponatime).

My scam detector went wild when I happened so see this announcement: Steemit-Based Reality Game Announced: $10 million prize pool 10 million dollar prize pool? Ok... Where is that money coming from? No

A new podcast Masters of Scale is hosted by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman. Only five episodes have been published so far so you can easily catch up everything. "Masters of Scale is an original

This is a point I've been trying to raise several times: to have a good user experience with lots of different languages, users need to be able to define language of their posts and filter posts based

I've been many times a little bit critical about decentralization fanatics who want to decentralize everything as soon as possible. Here are some quick thoughts about decentralization in the case of