Hey, everyone forgot about Monica. Richard Nixon picked a winner in 1990 when he hired her. Now Monica takes a 90% paycut to be as close to power as possible = as Communications Director she pretty much

The system was designed for the whales to drain ALL the reward pools. Every single thing in this ecosystem is exponentially tilted towards 50 people. It's about as deliberate and honorable as mugging a

Yes, a plutocracy. In real life, plutocratic societies are rife with poverty, illiteracy and disease. The 50 whales that rule over the krill would require an army and a secret police to hang on to power...

Yes, why open a support ticket if it takes one 2-3 days to be addressed.

Random delays from 10-15 minutes to hours are now "normal" for Polo. In the last 48 hours it's happened for me with STEEM, SBD, and NAV. Others have had ETH in "pending" limbo for hours.

Millenials have used the explosion of information to post 500 pics of themselves on Facebook and send 500 retarded texts to each other daily. These are self-absorbed zombies that seem unaware of history

Regardless of STEEM price weakness, the Steemit team is rolling out the platform in a very professional manner. People need to remember that the time frame for building something truly disruptive is 2-3

Other than 2 big spikes (to 10,000 sat in fall 2013 and to 7,000 sat in early 2015)... XRP has been mired around 1000 sat. Even with the recent spike, XRP is trading at 20% of the average price in 2013.

XRP is a network token that allows you to use the Ripple Network. To my knowledge, it doesn't give you "equity" or ownership in anything. Just like ETH allows you to use the Ethereum network,

Dan made it clear that "social media" was a Trojan Horse to build a currency and user base... to support more valuable things like markets, oracles, data, etc. That's why I'm hanging in.

Work like this really makes a difference. It brings new people on board and keeps others from drifting away.

Well, activity finally ticked up today to 5,300/13,400 users (1 day/7 day). Good news. You need to throw out whales and be more specific like... new users + that post + power up significant amounts. Only

Any peg costs money. The cost = exactly that of a Long Straddle (buy one call at the money + buy one put at the money). Since STEEM is extremely volatile relative to most securities... a STEEM peg should

If you look at a someone like @positive, virtually every post he upvotes is a $500 post... so he must have some algo to observe whales voting and game it. And now @furion buys it. Why?

"But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it." Mt 7:14 Preach it, bro!

How much do whales upvote promoted posts relative to ordinary posts? Is more money going out than coming in? Is promotion bringing in new users?

The fat long-tail helps because Steemit seems determined to maintain wide diversity of content (crypto and recipes, etc). IMO, I think specialization would work better initially. But where fat long-tails

Translation: Dan was never a Christian and has not been chosen. Paul sure did a great job building a semantic minefield that complicates Christ's simple message of faith... and results in endless divisions

I went from finding about 20/day to about 4/day in the last 2 weeks. This has got to be GPUs encroaching on CPU mining. Dan typically adjusts the PoW algo in each fork to keep GPUs at bay.

Yes, most church communities have platonic dating which often takes the form of group dating. You meet many more people in this culture... and a broader spectrum of people. It's not for everyone.