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Proposal for reactions feature: separating structured user opinion (both positive and negative) from reward-modifying upvotes/downvotes

Source: Pixabay Motivation and Background I think there is a benefit to separate out some of the concepts that are currently coupled with upvotes and downvotes ...

Proposal to add recovery account and time-locked savings balance features to BitShares

I think it is time for BitShares to learn from its younger sibling Steem and adopt some crucial security features: time-locked savings and recovery accounts. Th...

Witness arhag update: Aug. 9, 2016 to Aug. 18, 2016

I reviewed code changes for hardfork 13 and assisted the core devs in finding issues and iterating on the design of the new mining algorithm included in v0.13.0...

How @supercomputing was able to dominate the mining queue and how the bug was fixed.

On Monday, August 8, 2016, a set of accounts that all started with the name supercomputing dominated the mining queue. People were speculating how this was done...

Witness arhag update: Aug. 1, 2016 to Aug. 8, 2016

I continued work on the will contract / recovery feature that I started the week prior. I finished the design and made a post about it on Friday, Aug. 5, 2016 a...

Proposal for new Steem feature: Deadman switch / Will / Recovering accounts from lost passwords

This proposal discusses a new set of features and operations for the Steem blockchain which allows a user to either eventually regain control of their account e...

Where does the money come from? A look into the economics of Steem.

It seems this is a fairly popular topic on Steem, and I have seen a few misunderstandings regarding how the economics of Steem really work. So this is my attemp...

A response to "Steemit to Update Password Policy"

I originally starting writing this post as a comment to the recent blog post by Steemit called "Steemit to Update Password Policy". But it ended up being so lon...

Can you remember your Steemit password? If so, you are in danger.

Clickbaity title, I know. But this is an important message, so I have to grab people's attention. I hope you read it fully. Are you familiar with that situation...

Repeatedly pressing F5 with the mouse cursor over the upvote button

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Retroactive alternative to v0.8.4

Steemit has released version v0.8.4. That release is identical to v0.8.3 (which does not have retroactive changes to curation rewards) except that it has some p...

Analysis of curation reward difference between v0.8.2 and v0.8.3

I ran some simulations of the July 4th payouts using the v0.8.2 steemd and v0.8.3 steemd. As a reminder, v0.8.2 uses @theoretical's new rule for calculating cur...

My thoughts on the debate currently occurring in the Ethereum community over The DAO hack

I felt like sharing my opinions on the hardfork or no-hardfork debate happening in the Ethereum community now as a result of the hack on The DAO. I think the pa...

Payout snapshot for June 9, 2016

It has been a week since the last snapshot, so it is time for a new one. This is a snapshot as of block 2199289 (2016-06-09T23:08:03 UTC) estimating the July 4t...

Post payout snapshot for June 2, 2016

I have computed a snapshot estimating the July 4th content reward payouts for all top-level posts. This is just the Steem Dollar (SMD) portion of the content re...

A more comprehensive look at current payout distribution

@dan posted a teaser of the top 8 on the reward leaderboard, but what about the rest? After playing around with some scripts, I have more or less recreated the ...

Windows binaries for steem v0.5.0

Now with faster mining! I recently made a change that fixed the hash rate slowdown bug for the MinGW cross-compiled Windows build of steemd. (Note: this does no...

Moderation standard

This is a proposal for a new standard that allows front-end clients to adjust how comments are displayed in the UI (e.g. allowing auto-hiding) based on the mode...

Compiling Steem for Windows (on Linux host)

This is a step-by-step guide on how to cross-compile Steem for Windows on a Linux host. Guide to build Steem for a 64-bit Windows target on an Ubuntu Linux host...

Testing tags

One problem I immediately see is that the tag gets cut off at a hyphen, which means I cannot use the tag steemit-issues Another issue is that sometimes I want t...