arhag (67)in #steemit • 7 years agoProposal for reactions feature: separating structured user opinion (both positive and negative) from reward-modifying upvotes/downvotesSource: 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 (aka flags)…arhag (67)in #bitshares • 7 years agoProposal to add recovery account and time-locked savings balance features to BitSharesI 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. These are features…arhag (67)in #witness-category • 8 years agoWitness arhag update: Aug. 9, 2016 to Aug. 18, 2016I 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. I provided a…arhag (67)in #steem • 8 years agoHow @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. Some thought…arhag (67)in #witness-category • 8 years agoWitness arhag update: Aug. 1, 2016 to Aug. 8, 2016I 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 as an official…arhag (67)in #steem • 8 years agoProposal for new Steem feature: Deadman switch / Will / Recovering accounts from lost passwordsThis 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 even if they lose…arhag (67)in #steem • 8 years agoWhere 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 attempt to explain the…arhag (67)in #steemit • 8 years agoA 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 long that I…arhag (67)in #steem • 8 years agoCan 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 when the…arhag (67)in #memes • 8 years agoRepeatedly pressing F5 with the mouse cursor over the upvote buttonarhag (67)in #steem • 8 years agoRetroactive alternative to v0.8.4Steemit 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…arhag (67)in #steem • 8 years agoAnalysis of curation reward difference between v0.8.2 and v0.8.3I 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 curation rewards…arhag (67)in #ethereum • 8 years agoMy thoughts on the debate currently occurring in the Ethereum community over The DAO hackI 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 particular choice to…arhag (67)in #steem • 8 years agoPayout snapshot for June 9, 2016It 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 4th rewards.…arhag (67)in #steem • 8 years agoPost payout snapshot for June 2, 2016I 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 rewards for…arhag (67)in #steem • 8 years agoA 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 list that…arhag (67)in #steem • 8 years agoWindows binaries for steem v0.5.0Now 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 not fix the…arhag (67)in #steem-standards • 8 years agoModeration standardThis 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 moderation of accounts…arhag (67)in #steem • 8 years agoCompiling 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 I have spent…arhag (67)in #test • 8 years agoTesting tagsOne 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 to use the…