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Maximizing Passive Steem Income with DrugWars.

Now DrugWars has hammered home the “Ponzi in Steem”, let’s see how one can maximize passive returns. As a minnow, earnings and thus STEEM are ~~automated~~ hard...

The Spectacular Rise of Steemit Alt-Interfaces Partiko and SteemPeak

Not that long ago I compared the popularity of apps on the Steem blockchain to Ethereum dApps popularity. In that post, the focus was mostly on SteemApps with a...

theSteemCrunch Issue 1: Steem Blast Day and SteemAppstivity

Welcome to the first issue of theSteemObserver’s newsletter, theSteemCrunch. This newsletter will regularly be sent out, and also crossposted to the Steem block...

In a World of dApps the Steem Blockchain is a Major Player Already

Earlier today my attention was drawn to a tweet by blockchain researcher Kevin Rooke in which he notes how few active users the most popular dApps on both the E...

Musing.io, Decentralized Questions and Answers with Crypto Rewards

The Internet has always been the information highway and has democratized access to information and thus knowledge. Asking questions, answering questions, and s...

What is Steemit?

One of the things Steemians love doing most is to define what Steemit is. As the Steem blockchain keeps evolving, often that also results in people poorly under...

Dporn, the First True User-Generated Content Litmus Test for Steem?

After Vice.org, in the most enjoyable n00btastic way, decided to fork the Steem blockchain and roll out its own blockchain, the Steem blockchain has a new adult...

The Steem Blockchain as a "Benevolent" Platform for Internet Services

Shortly after I wrote about Storify’s impending paid only move, an article by The Verge’s Kaitlyn Tiffany caught my attention: TinyLetter is a perfect platform ...

Steem Reputation, to Which Percentile Do You Belong?

Some days ago @cryptoriddler released a diagram render of how the reputation ranks are spread among all Steem accounts. At the time of publication there were mo...

Could the Steem Blockchain Have Saved Storify, a Social Media Timeline Curation Tool?

When social media truly started to pick up pace and eventually grow to pivotal portions at the beginning of this decade, many new social media tools saw the lig...

Stalk Your Stalkers with GINAbot, the Steem Notifications Bot for Discord Users

Steemians are no exception to the behavior most beginning bloggers suffer from. Usually, both want to know about their statistics and the popularity of their co...

Welcome @welcoming, an account for manual #introduceyourself curation!

The problem! When browsing through the reactions of my post: Lets make introduceyourself great again!, I discovered that many users actually would like to suppo...

Oracles - A Steemian Based Witnessing the Witness Group - "Dead Witnesses" And How To Prevent Another BellyRub Incident!

Not all Witnesses know everything. Good evening Fellow Steemians, this account and the Discord Channel that accompanies it, is built with the sole purpose to pr...

Rethinking the Flagging and Downvoting Mechanism of Planet Steem, to a More Democratic Process

Those among us who have been online a little longer already, and have over the years ventured across multiple social networks, of course, know the issue. Know t...

Blockchain Technologies Corp and Steem Inc. Announce $20m Fund for SMTs - A Brief Explainer for Non-Tech/VC Knowledgeable Steemians

Two days ago, Blockchain Technologies Corp. and Steem Inc. announced their new collaboration in the form of a new fund of USD 20 million, in order to kickstart ...

Rethinking The Position of Upvote Bots in the Steem Ecosystem (without SMTs)

In recent times many words have been written about upvote bots on the Steem blockchain and how they may, or may not, be harmful to the Steem ecosystem. The argu...

Why Steem WitnessMinerGate is a Big Deal and Why You Should Care

Some weeks ago, when I wrote about several Steem(it) projects for Steemians to track their perfomance, I wrote: > We have no problems with ads ourselves, and ma...

The SMT Oracles whitepaper.. [call for academics, modelers and deep thinkers]

Lately I’ve been having lots of conversations about how Oracles can impact Rewards Pools in Smart Media Tokens (SMTs). People are interested in ways to leverage...

Utopian: Ned Has Just Delegated 1 MILLION to Utopian - We Have 2M Steem Power NOW!

Commitment pays off! Utopian.io has just got 1 MILLION Steem Power Delegation from @ned, bringing Utopian.io over 2M Steem Power! THANKS @NED! Last Important De...

Why Potential Github Disruptor Utopian.io The Biggest Thing in Tech is Since... Github and the Steem Blockchain

Not that long ago, Steemian @elear, announced a new service built on the Steem blockchain, Utopian. The announcement landed with a splash and since the service,...