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

It seems that the dust has started to settle around Google Memo case. Further discussions still go on, as there seems to be no turning point for underlying social and ideological trends that lead into

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

In this excellent speech, Peter Thiel ( co-founder of PayPal) discusses what multiculturalism and diversity on college campuses are really about: In short, Peter Thiel says that: Multiculturalism has next

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

@samupaha is currently pushing his project #tothemillion and requested a website on Steem.chat that shows the highest amount of transactions processed in 24 hours. Hello Steemians! I’ve created a

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

This year not me, it goes without saying , but a friend of mine, payed a few visits to an online escort forum, for research purposes into what you can learn about society there. And ,with a bit of study,

Steemit has been hitting new milestones every single month since its launch and the results are really starting to show. Let’s look at a few points that I think a lot of people on Steemit take for granted

After some consideration I have decided to put forward my witness application to both help support the Steem blockchain and raise funds for the projects I am working on. The Witness Role Explained For

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

Hello dear Steemeans! First of all, RESTEEMIT if you think this will be an useful feature! We are very new to the Steemit community but we are already in love with you guys! You can check out our

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

If you start powering down, the entire amount of your SP holdings is divided by 13, and then you receive every week one of these 13 installments in your Steem account. The underlying logic of this was

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

This will earn me hate and ridicule, but I'm gonna do this anyway. Rant time. Way back when I first got into bitcoin, it was around $10 a piece, and bought a bunch. It never crossed my mind that we could

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