Actually, the definition of a Ponzi Scheme is a fraudulent venture that lures investors and pays profits to earlier investors with funds from more recent investors. If they were asking us to pay some sort

I think it won't be much different than in 2016. Obviously, there will be many people whose miners, now barely paying for the power they consume, will be losing money once the reward is halved. But that

Try looking for ASIC-proof crypto-currencies; those where it's not (yet) possible to imitate proof of work with special computing devices designed specifically for mining. The ones I know of are Primecoin

Is it possible to make $.100 per month by mining cryptocurrency on PC or Laptop The decimal point was probably a typo but unfortunately it's much closer to the truth than the other number. If anything

Looks like DTube is down or overloaded. Have you tried DLive ? (Seems quite similar to DTube) Also, bitchute appears to be quite a decent alternative to YouTube.

It's hard to believe, but this is how it works. There is a guy with the 12200 steam power and ~45 reputation, just goes and downvotes everything I post. Each such downvote results in a hidden post and

By the way - is there an abuse team on Steemit? If there is a user that abuses the downvote button (and the enormous power attached to it) or, if there is one that never posts himself, never comments but

Something needs to change, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! 2 things that can be done: Mute should completely ban the muted user from the blog disallowing everything - comments, downvotes, upvotes. If someone out there

Unfortunately, muting someone doesn't prevent that person from downvoting you. Let alone - from going through your blog and downvoting every single post and comment they find. And if the blooger's rep

The biggest flows IMHO are that not only a single downvote could outweigh all the upvotes (if the downvoter has higher reputation and plenty of steam power), but also there's absolutely no way to prevent

At least you have the reputation of 79, so downvotes don't bump it down. For me, I got my rep bumped down from 27 to 8 and then from 32 to 17 just because one professional downvoter didn't like what I

One thing for certain - bitcoin private key is far easier to hide than cash, let alone a bank account. However what happens with these bitcoins - if their value plummets or skyrockets or if they get

You can actually see it right there on your own comment. It's the guy who gave it the first (and only) downvote. His steam power is over 12000 and his reputation is 45; so all those with lower reputation

What surprised me in this whole story is that a single downvote could outweigh several upvotes. I could understand if there were 6 downvotes vs 5 upvotes - the net score would be negative. But when one

Thanks to all who responded. Thanks for your help and for the moral support. Hopefully this works and I can keep posting without worrying about downvoting. Worst comes to worst, I'll just have to register

Thanks again for your help and for the moral support.

Thanks for the advise. I'll try that. There were hardly any rewards (and now, thanks to this SOB there won't be any at all), so that's not a big deal. This freak appears to be looking for and voting down

Someone (or an algorithm written for the same purpose) makes the content more difficult to find. It's someone. A professional downvoter; his nick starts with the "bl", ends with the "oom"

Well, here's the catch - Steemit itself doesn't censor. BUT - if a user with a higher reputation score downvotes your post, one such downvote can outweigh many upvotes from the weaker users and the post