mughat

Proof of profits based bandwidth allocation

Intro I was studying the hashgraph protocol (https://hashgraph.com/) and was wondering how to prevent spam as they use "fame" to arrive at the final truth. This...

Proposal: Long term rewards for bloggers and platforms hosting STEEM posts

Long term rewards for content and content hosts @condra was saying on @steemspeak that he would like to have a mechanism for posts to get long term rewards. @fy...

Is it true that the reply option on posts goes away after a while?

If true then this is probably the single most stupid thing I have ever seen on steemit. Please enable eternal reply options to posts....

Reversing the power-down-delay to a power-up-delay.

Problem The ideal curator is someone who loves the platform and understands what will make it a success long range. A person that thinks rationally about curati...

1000 fake accounts squatted by one person

The problem I know of one individual who managed to register ~1000 accounts with about 50 free STEEM power pr account. ~50000 STEEM is in this persons control n...

Feature request: Option to add payment wall for blog posts content

Description It should be possible for steem bloggers to specify a section of any blog post that requires a payment to unlock. This require that the section is e...

Sub-steem ICO's are a golden opportunity

Sub-steem A sub-steem is like a subgroup on reddit. This allows special communities to have their own private space on the platform where whales from the other ...

Max posting rewards for small investors will create an incentive to invest in STEEM

We all know there is not much incentive to get STEEM and power up if you are just posting content. What if we implemented a max posting reward. For example we c...

Let people power down instantly for a 50% haircut.

Steemit has some people/whales who don't have the long range interest of steemit in mind. They want out but is locked in for 2 years. This create conflicts and ...

The excavator will prevail (Original sonnet poem by mughat)

Behold the power of machines No job too hard for industry Improving life by mechanical means A force that flows from pure masculinity Fossil fuels the driving f...

Is sacrifice a necessary part of parenthood?

http://i.imgsafe.org/364b131bad.jpg Some parents are involved in a sacrifice when they choose to have children. If they do it for no good reason, out of duty or...

Steemit needs a way to create unique communities with custom rules and voting incentives.

A case for differentiated user driven customizable voting incentives [](https://www.steemimg.com/image/R2ol0) Every community is different Let me just compare a...

Don't encourage identity theft by up-voting introduction posts without solid evidence of ownership

If we just upvote introduceyourself posts without validating the identity of the poster we will encourage people to create fake introduction posts or to steal o...

Ethereum classic [ETC] is now trading on poloniex.com

Ethereum Classic. Keep the original censorship-resistant Ethereum going! https://ethereumclassic.github.io/ Ideology of ethereum classic "We believe in decentra...

Look at me. I put on makeup.

http://i.imgsafe.org/45d7da7951.jpg...

Steemit skeptic: "But... but.. where does the money come from?". I often hear this question so let me answer.

The token STEEM is created out of thin air. Just like the USD and bitcoin. In fact any cryptocurrency or fiat money around the world is created arbitrarily. The...

The Bitcoin Group #102 - talks Steem vs. Ether and other stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlzTtnrcwl0...

Showerthought: Steem. The currency that reward the productive. Not the moochers.

Today we live in a world where government money is used to punish the producers. They are fined with high taxes for creating content and products we all want. T...

The future of steemit will include ads of some kind. Here is why.

http://i.imgsafe.org/e5ff01a013.jpg Steem power holders suffer a 10% inflation. When adoption slows down they need to offset this loss somehow or they will loos...

My posting key was stolen. But I was thinking ahead!

My post history has a bunch of spam posts created by the hacker. Sorry for the spam. I did have foresight to set separate owner key so I did not get anything st...