Hi there. Some of you know me from HN - this is where the bulk of my effort has gone for most of the last year. The team we’re building at Steemit is downright amazing, and the community around it is what keeps me going.
Think reddit, but on a blockchain (the posts, comments, and votes are actually in the merkle tree in consensus), and the upvotes are real money - that’s where the majority of the token’s inflation (~9% per year, decreasing further over time) goes.
It’s sort of like a censorship-resistant, distributed pastebin. You can put arbitrary json into the blockchain, which gets mirrored to hundreds of nodes, permanently, in three seconds. The Shadow Brokers have taken up blogging on Steemit.
We call it censorship-resistant, but I can’t think of a way to meaningfully redact content already posted to this blockchain that anyone on Earth could practically implement.
Our second annual Steemfest is in Lisbon 1-5 November and hopefully I will meet some of you there.
Think reddit, but on a blockchain (the posts, comments, and votes are actually in the merkle tree in consensus), and the upvotes are real money - that’s where the majority of the token’s inflation (~9% per year, decreasing further over time) goes.
It’s sort of like a censorship-resistant, distributed pastebin. You can put arbitrary json into the blockchain, which gets mirrored to hundreds of nodes, permanently, in three seconds. The Shadow Brokers have taken up blogging on Steemit.
We call it censorship-resistant, but I can’t think of a way to meaningfully redact content already posted to this blockchain that anyone on Earth could practically implement.
Our second annual Steemfest is in Lisbon 1-5 November and hopefully I will meet some of you there.