It's alive! I used to frequent SteemIt a few years ago. It looks like a lot has changed since then. Back in the "Golden Age" of SteemIt, there were thousand dollar posts. Constantly. The right

Being a minnow on Steemit can be tough, your well-crafted posts may get unnoticed and buried in the noise. Accordingly, I made a proposition to develop a new Artificial Intelligence (AI), codename TrufflePig,

I'm not a morning person. I crawl out of bed, rush through a shower and a dog walk before driving to work with my eyes only halfway open. I can't make smalltalk before 10am and a good amount of coffee.

I strive for self-improvement every day. I make promises to myself to sleep longer, work out more, eat better, waste less time... However the biggest hurdle I have is organization. No matter how well I

Hello Steemit peeps! I thought I would take a moment and give my “2 cents” on a topic – commenting. When I make a post on my Steemit blog, I am very excited to get comments on my posts, hoping to get some

We are constantly inundated by the words of snake tongued spineless marketers and salesman that want to convince you that their particular product, which you never needed before, is something you desperately

One of the core features of SteemIt is the community's ability to curate quality content through upvoting and downvoting. The platform relies on user concensus to figure out what posts are quality content

A few days ago I talked about the USD-backed cryptocurrency Tether and why it's becoming a popular intermediary coin on cryptocurrency exchanges. In case you missed it, you can find my previous post here.

Last week I wrote about some of the biggest posters on Steemit and I observed that some of these accounts were spam bots that were automatically generating posts or comments in order to earn rewards. What

This is my entry to #adoptaminnow, an effort started by @whatsup to encourage experienced users to adopt newer users of the SteemIt platform and assist them for the first bit of their long swims into the

Hi Everyone, I have been on Steemit since June 2017. I have found Steemit a great place to post content and also read other interesting content. I have had the opportunity to mingle with a number very

I tried guys. 😕 I tested it. Steemit just isn't the social network I thought it would be. I set out very motivated, made a bunch of quality posts, put weeks worth of work into it, so it was daunting to

You've got a broad crypto portfolio, invested intelligently and diversified among a broad range of cryptocurrencies and tokens. As an intelligent, modern investor you've read up on the various coins and

The massive surge in popularity for cryptocurrencies in late 2017 was largely driven by their volatility. The ability for anyone to invest in an exciting, volatile market with minimal regulation attracted

The Bots Are Not Your Friends I have been querying the blockchain today in an effort to identify abuse of the SteemIt platform. I was expecting to find some serious problems, and the blockchain did not

Post curation is broken. I think a lot of new users can agree with me on that. A single upvote by a whale can make your post more visible than if it were to receive 1,000 upvotes by active community members

It's no secret that I'm not a fan of how SteemIt's reward system works. I feel that it has a number of massive problems including: Incentives for junk posting / voting (Quantity over quality). Difficult

This spring my town was hit by a heavy ice storm that brought down branches and power lines, froze doors shut, and generally wrecked havoc... But it was also beautiful and made for some great photos. Here's

Citing sources in posts is important for a number of reasons, and not just because if you fail to do so you may get a comment from ourselves. Why do we, as Steemit users, need to cite our sources? To produce

Over the past few months, I have speculated that Bitcoin is overvalued as a currency and no longer serves a purpose since better cryptocurrencies have emerged. I argued that its value is largely sustained