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? Daily Crypto News, March, 4th?

March 4, 2019 (updated March 4, 2019) Published by
  • For People To Trust Blockchains, We Need Good Storytelling ;
  • Crypto Companies Still Run Into Trouble Opening Bank Accounts ;
  • Coinbase: Former Provider Sold User Data to Third Parties, Prompting Neutrino Acquisition ;
  • Utah Bill Would Exempt Blockchain Firms from Money Transmitter Act ;
  • An In-Depth Look at Ethereum’s Maker and Dai Stablecoin ;
  • ? Daily Crypto Calendar, March, 3rd?
  • STEEM Trading Update

Welcome to the Daily Crypto News: A complete Press Review, Coin Calendar and Trading Analysis. Enjoy!

? For People To Trust Blockchains, We Need Good Storytelling

On April 10, 2010, Cherie Aimée was rushed to the hospital for chronic shortness of breath. Within minutes of reaching the emergency room, Aimée had flatlined: Her heart had stopped, she was unresponsive for 90 minutes, and CPR did not work.

But Aimée survived. For four months she lived on life support. “I had no heartbeat,” Aimée said during her keynote at Decentralized 2018, “but what kept me alive was a modern, innovative technology.” A Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) sustained Aimée for about five years until she was able to get a heart transplant.

? Crypto Companies Still Run Into Trouble Opening Bank Accounts

Companies in the cryptocurrency industry still have trouble opening bank accounts, major financial publication Bloomberg reported on March 3.

The report cites the complaint of Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO of quantitative crypto trading company Alameda Research, that “the standard answer of ‘just go to your local Chase branch’ doesn’t work in crypto.” Bankman-Fried also added that it is not illegal for banks to serve crypto businesses, but “it’s a massive compliance headache that they don’t want to put the resources in to solve.’’

? Coinbase: Former Provider Sold User Data to Third Parties, Prompting Neutrino Acquisition

Christine Sandler, Coinbase’s director of institutional sales, has defended the crypto exchange’s controversial acquisition of blockchain intelligence firm Neutrino. In an interview with financial news channel Cheddar on March 1, Sandler said that previous client data providers were selling Coinbase user data to outside sources.

As reported, major United States crypto exchange and wallet Coinbase first announced the Neutrino acquisition on Feb. 19, saying it would make use of the startup’s advanced blockchain analytics tools, Anti-Money Laundering and Know Your Customer technology.

? Utah Bill Would Exempt Blockchain Firms from Money Transmitter Act

A lawmaker from the U.S. state of Utah has introduced a bill that would stop blockchain firms from being classed as money transmitters.

Republican senator Daniel Hemmert filed senate bill 213 last week, proposing that any person who “facilitates the creation, exchange, or sale” of certain blockchain-related products should be exempted from the state’s Money Transmitter Act.

The bill also aims to create a legislative group called the “Blockchain Pilot Project Evaluation Task Force” to study the potential of the technology in government services.

? An In-Depth Look at Ethereum’s Maker and Dai Stablecoin ](https://news.bitcoin.com/an-in-depth-look-at-ethereums-maker-and-the-stablecoin-dai/)

Since tether (USDT) bolstered the idea of a working stablecoin over the last few years, there’s been a variety of different types of stable cryptocurrencies that are usually pegged to the U.S. dollar. However, there’s one particular stablecoin that’s been a hot topic of discussion lately called dai, a coin that’s backed by ethereum locked into a smart contract.

The Maker team consists of CEO Rune Christensen, CTO Andy Milenius, President Steven Becker and roughly 18 other leaders. The community is relatively small but has been growing since the project’s inception. Maker and the stablecoin dai community have a blog, a chat forum, and its own subreddit where individuals discuss the nascent ecosystem. At press time, dai is ahead of the stablecoin GUSD with the 55th largest market capitalization of around $89.3 million.

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? Daily Crypto Calendar, March, 4th?

  • Skycoin (SKY)

SkyWire Mainnet Launch

  • Stellar (XLM)

Stellar Blockchain Meetup at AWS Loft 350 West Broadway, New York, NY from 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM (EST).

  • IoTeX (IOTX)

IOTX participates in Allbit’s AxU Project 5 Trade Listing Competition from January 30 – March 4 (KST, GMT+9).

  • NetKoin (NTK)

“Netkoin’s Multi-token wallet will launch in the next beta version of Netkoin’s mobile app which is set for release on Monday 4 March 2019.”

  • IoTeX (IOTX)

“We are excited to introduce you to our first set of 36 Delegate candidates via a fun and interactive Vote & Share Campaign.”

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STEEM Trading Update by my friend @cryptopassion

Here is the chart of yesterday :

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Here is the current chart :

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So today we had a nice bounce from the support line at 0.39$ as expected but we haven’t been able to break the previous TOP. We are now doing a pattern called double top which is a bearish pattern. This pattern will be validated if we break the support line at 0.39$, so nothing is done yet. Just keep that scenario in mind. If that support line creates a new bounce, the double TOP will be invalidated and we should try to break the previous TOP again.

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What does it take to get burned out?

March 3, 2019 (updated March 3, 2019) Published by

What ive seen during my time here are people with very different posting habits. There are those that are very active in the community that post very rarely and then there are those that arent active at all and post very frequently. And then theres everything in between.

Ever since i stopped frequenting Discord i regularly post twice a day which i find pretty awesome considering there were times when i couldnt find myself writing 1 post a week. True story.
At this point in time it is extremely simple for me to come up with a post. All it requires is a second to come up with a title and the rest of the post just flows easily.
Ive gotten so good at piling up words one after the other that i feel i could go on writing a simple post about, basically nothing, indefinitely.

But thats something i feel at this moment. The question is how long can it last?

This isnt a “job” and i am not a “blogger”. Well technically i am, but i wouldnt call myself that.
Its something that i do for fun and glory.
So stopping isnt that hard.
All it takes is not typing Steemit/Whaleshares into the google browser.

What if the price fell lower? Do you still stick around?

Well ive seen the STEEM price go as low as $0.23 while my posts were getting 20 cents on average. haha. And i still piled on post after post. I didnt even care when no one was reading my posts because i wrote for myself. And when my posts got read, and folks didnt like them, got mad and offended, i just flipped them off. (nicely. :D)

For some reason i just never feel like i should skip a day, take a break, and when i do skip a day, its because i was extremely busy and couldnt find a minute in the day.

Now i go and ask a question of the reader. lol

What would it take for you to get burned out? Low rewards? Bot nonsense? Stupid drama? No one reading your posts?

If youre spending time here now during this bear market, im pretty sure there arent many things that can burn you out.

Are centralized exchanges slowing down mainstream adoption?

March 3, 2019 (updated March 3, 2019) Published by

Lately ive been thinking about centralized exchanges a bit more and found that most of them are basically parasites and crooks that crypto has a unfortunate dependency on. Not only that, but i firmly believe that beside being shady and corrupt institutions they are hurting crypto in another way.

They are slowing down mainstream adoption by catering to “big money” instead of project quality and the level of project adoption/user base.

Ive talked about it in previous posts that the majority of the top50 cryptocurrencies on MC have minuscule user numbers. Some in the top 20 with dapps registering circa 100 users in total.

I always point out ETC as the most ridiculous example of market stupidity. A dapp building platform that no one uses, that you can hack with 5000 USD, that is 18th in market cap and is listed on Coinbase.

How is it valued so high and has more then 180 trading pairs with a fair number of fiat pairs and stable coin pairs?
Because most exchanges look for only 3 things.

  1. Volume.
  2. Market cap.
  3. How much you willing to pay for a listing?

When crypto is so dependent on crypto exchanges and crypto exchanges are only driven by short term profit and clearly (as seen from looking at stats by Blockchain Transparency Institute) do not care about the health of the ecosystem then it is safe to assume that they do not care in the slightest about mainstream adoption and the projects like STEEM that are capable of achieving it.

What would happen if STEEM had ETH market cap and was valued at 1 STEEM=46 USD?

Is there anyone here that is going to tell me that there is any shadow of a doubt that STEEM would be hitting 1 million users at this very moment? (if the technicals were in place which they would be with such high dev funding potential)

Is there anything that could change this around or are we left at the mercy of centralized exchanges?
I dont know.
What i do know is that if this continues we could be seeing a massive crash eventually when the market realizes how worthless some of these crypto tokens are.

I didnt buy STEEM just because i thought it would rise in price. I bought it because its one of the few tokens that you actively use.

Let me know what you think. Should we torch all of them?
I say yes. 😀

Ill see you around.

Why wont Ned separate the trending page in two?

March 2, 2019 (updated March 2, 2019) Published by

There have been hundreds of discussions about bots and a broken trending page but after all the talk about incentives, moral corruption, greed what im left asking is:

Why not just separate the promoted content from the organically voted content? Or dont seperate anything. Simply create a organic trending page and leave the current one as is.


Would it really be that hard creating a filter for the various bots that exist? The vast majority is already listed on “steembottracker.com”. You can probably even filter out upvote selling services by following memos.

An upgrade to the system that could follow could be adding “views” to the content listing algo in a smaller percentage adjusted by how fast the user base grows.

Is this really that difficult to pull of?

Who loses from a change like that? Did you take anything away from anyone?

No.

Im fully aware that there are some morally corrupt individuals on this blockchain and that those people would try to abuse the system. But with such a system in place it would be incredibly easy to find those individuals that would act in such a manner.

Steemit isnt Steem. You have freedom @ned to change certain things.

Keep on Steeming.

Steem Price Analysis: Please Don’t Do It Again!

March 1, 2019 Published by

A little over a month ago the price of steem ran up into the low 40 cent area.  It tested the top of this range we have been stuck and then just as it looked to break, woosh we got a bearish u-turn pattern and back down we went to the middle of the range.
New Move, Same Story?
If you look at the daily chart in this post you can see we are right back to that spot again, that same area that is circled in gold from a month ago.
At this point, things are looking eerily similar.
There is still plenty

STEEM on DappRadar? // Maybe soon

March 1, 2019 (updated March 1, 2019) Published by

This morning i taken a look at the STEEM price and the Steemitblog account talking about MIRA and such. While ill be dissapointed if the SMT testnet doesnt launch on 15th of March its still nice to see them communicating with the community about what they’re working on.

So i was browsing a bit through CMC and thought it would be a good idea to look into some other blockchains with Dapp building potential.

Things like LISK (39th in MC), Zilliqa (36th in MC), ETC (18th in MC). What i found out is that barely anyone is using any of those blockchains. The projects ive looked at for most part havent updated their websites for months. The social footprint is extremely small. There are probably dozens of blogs on STEEMIT that get more attention and engagement then most of these dapps reddits/telegrams/discords.

It very much showed me that while we always talk about adoption, the market rarely considers it when determining asset value.

So i went to take a look at “State of the Dapps” once again to do a bit of comparison with EOS and ETH and i have to say that for a blockchain that has its problems and has a 30 times smaller MC then EOS and 100 times smaller MC then ETH STEEM is doing extremely well, looking at the user numbers.

I mean just consider STEEM at ETH market cap. 1 STEEM = $46. Which blockchain could compete with STEEM in users then?

With all the issues facing STEEM i just have to acknowledge how incredibly undervalued STEEM is right now.
And im someone that will point out every single failure of STEEM.

After that i booted up my Discord (Oh, how i love thee) and went on the discord server of another dapp listing site.

DappRadar.

Was interested in seeing when they might list STEEM or if they even were considering adding STEEM to DappRadar. The mod there was pretty nice, considering how many folks must DM them on the daily basis. lol.
Which surprised me honestly.

Why would you want your blockchain added besides EOS/TRON/ETH if your dapp adoption is extremely low? Do you want to show that the most used dapp on your platform of investment choice has 10 daily users? (Just take a look at ETC dapp listing site – dappdirect.net)

This is the response i got to my inquiry.

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Of course, this could be just a vague answer, but the:

“We are actively looking into it”

fills me with some hope.

I love Stateofthedapps but i still think DappRadar has more detailed Stats and is used more. Even if you look at the Alexa rankings, DappRadar is placed much higher. 60k vs 150k.

I really think that we need to have STEEM compared to “the big boys” as often as possible, even if we STEEM isnt leading in most categories, to show that what they have at billions of dollars of market cap, STEEM has at 100 mil.

Ill see you around. 😉

STEEM: Impressive 24h VOLUME

February 28, 2019 Published by

This level of 24h Volume is really impressive. We have passed from 2 Million $ 9.6 Million $ in a few hours!, currently reaching again the 41th position at the total Market Cap.

Someone is buying and in a consistent manner. It does not look as a couple of big orders being processed…

All Exchanges presenting a very consistent STEEM price, no appreciable pumps in anyone, being the Korean Exchanges a Upbit and Bithumb together with Binance the leaders managing the volume flow today.

Now, it would be a very good signal to break the 0.45 USD upper Resistance and not marking a

? Daily Crypto News, February, 28th?

February 28, 2019 (updated February 28, 2019) Published by
  • Singapore’s Wealth Fund GIC Among Those to Raise $300 Mln for Coinbase in 2018 ;
  • Constantinople Incoming: Tomorrow’s Two Ethereum Hard Forks Explained ;
  • Global Demand for Blockchain Engineers Up 517 Percent in a Year, Says Hired ;
  • Bitcoin Price May Rise in March Despite Month’s Bearish Track Record ;
  • Putin’s Order: Russia to Adopt Crypto Regulation by July ;
  • ? Daily Crypto Calendar, February, 28th ?
  • STEEM Trading Update

Welcome to the Daily Crypto News: A complete Press Review, Coin Calendar and Trading Analysis. Enjoy!

? Singapore’s Wealth Fund GIC Among Those to Raise $300 Mln for Coinbase in 2018

Singapore’s Government Investment Corporation (GIC) was reportedly one of the investors to have helped raise $300 million for major United States crypto wallet provider and exchange service Coinbase in 2018. Bloomberg reported the news on Feb. 28, citing anonymous sources familiar with the matter.

According to its official website, GIC — which was founded to manage Singapore’s foreign reserves — has in excess of $100 billion assets in over 40 countries worldwide.

As reported, Coinbase revealed it had raised $300 million in a Series E equity financing round in October 2018, brining its post-money valuation at the time to $8 billion.

? Constantinople Incoming: Tomorrow’s Two Ethereum Hard Forks Explained

In less than 24 hours, the world’s second largest blockchain by market capitalization is expected to activate its sixth and seventh system-wide upgrades, at which point its global user base will be asked to make two near-simultaneous changes to its code.


Known as Constantinople and St. Petersburg, both upgrades will be implemented as “hard forks,” or upgrades that add new rules to the ethereum software that are incompatible with past versions. Both will also take place at the exact same block number – 7,280,000.


Should users decide to upgrade, St. Petersburg will effectively disable part of the Constantinople code discovered back in January to host a critical vulnerability affecting smart contract security. Further, four out of five planned ethereum improvement proposals (EIPs) – the majority of which, according to independent ethereum developer Lane Rettig, will not be noticeable to the average user.

? Global Demand for Blockchain Engineers Up 517 Percent in a Year, Says Hired

This month, the <abbr title=”

Ethereum is a decentralized blockchain platform, enabled with EDCCs, where a software developer can build games, financial applications, gambling applications, utility and logistics software, social networks and more.”>Ethereum community experienced vicious infighting on social media as people reacted to Afri Schoedon’s controversial tweet about Serenity and Polkadot. The alleged verbal violence directed at Schoedon resulted in his exit from Ethereum and a subsequent letter, signed by dozens of Ethereum contributors, calling the community to develop healthier discussion practices and to “protect each other from threats and violence.”


This wasn’t the first Twitter thread in the Ethereum community to turn ugly, but Afrigate renews pressing questions about discourse. How can members of the community disagree or offer criticism in ways that are generative? In light of this recent display of toxic communication, I sat down with Taylor Monahan of MyCrypto to talk about healthy communication in the <abbr title=”

A record or ledger of all transactions that virtually eliminates third-party tampering. While every exchange of value or data is recorded and visible to users, the identities of those exchanging, and what the money is being exchanged for, is kept private. However, the amount of money is public. New blocks can only be added in chronological order (through mining or other means of block validation), and the inherent value and information cannot be compromised. “>blockchain ecosystem.

? Bitcoin Price May Rise in March Despite Month’s Bearish Track Record

Bitcoin could end the five-year March losing streak with solid gains if resistance at $4,190 (high of last week’s inverted bullish hammer) is convincingly scaled in the next week or two.

The cryptocurrency reinforced a bullish triangle breakout witnessed last week with a quick recovery from sub-$3,700 levels yesterday. This “buy the dip” mentality indicates scope for a break above the recent high of $4,190.


The focus would shift to the primary bearish trend seen on the monthly chart if BTC fails to pick a strong bid in the next few days. In that case, the probability of BTC ending March on a negative note for the sixth consecutive year would rise.

? Putin’s Order: Russia to Adopt Crypto Regulation by July

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has instructed his country’s government to adopt federal laws relating to cryptocurrency by July this year. Russia has earlier broadened the definition of “digital financial assets” to include cryptocurrencies. Putin’s latest order resembles one he made regarding crypto regulation last year.


Putin has approved a list of instructions for 47 orders, according to a document posted on the Kremlin website on Wednesday. Among them is an order for the government to work with the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, to ensure adoption of “federal laws aimed at the development of the digital economy.” They include “determining the procedure for conducting civil law transactions in electronic form, as well as regulating digital financial assets and attracting financial resources using digital technologies,” the order details.


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? Daily Crypto Calendar, February, 28th?

Closed Alpha Testnet

“Incorporates over 15M American consumers’ data onto the CyberMiles blockchain,” during Feb 2019.

“Rather than rushing the mainnet out the door, the Matrix Team has decided to delay the launch of the mainnet until February.”

Po.et platform is set to release an open source e-book metadata format, similar to, but less expensive than today’s ISBN codes.

“Stage 2: Balancing and frequency regulation,” in Feb 2019.

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STEEM Trading Update by my friend @cryptopassion

Here is the chart of yesterday :

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Here is the current chart :

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Due to the drop of the BTC, we are currently starting also a correction. No luck because I’m quiet sure that if we would have a UP on the BTC, the resistance line on the STEEM around 0.39$ would have been broken. Anyway, the market decided the other scenario so we have to adjust our hopes. We have now a high risk to go test the support line around 0.31$…

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? Daily Crypto News, February, 27th?

February 27, 2019 (updated February 27, 2019) Published by
  • Cryptocurrency Jobs Peak in These Indian Cities ;
  • Sony and Fujitsu Develop Blockchain Platform to Fight Fake Educational Qualifications ;
  • Pitchforks And Plows: Toward A Generative Ethereum Ecosystem ;
  • Bolivars to Bitcoin: Activists Take Down Venezuela’s Maduro in Crypto Art Exhibit ;
  • Samsung Teases Early Blockchain Partners For Galaxy S10 Phone ;
  • ? Daily Crypto Calendar, February, 27th ?
  • STEEM Trading Update

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? Cryptocurrency Jobs Peak in These Indian Cities

Demand for skilled professionals in the crypto space has been steadily rising, according to new data that ranks cities in India based on the number of jobs in the cryptocurrency field. Some cities such as Mumbai dropped several places from last year’s ranking while a couple of others are new to the list.


? Sony and Fujitsu Develop Blockchain Platform to Fight Fake Educational Qualifications

Japanese multinational conglomerate Sony and IT equipment services firm Fujitsu have created an encrypted database for educational proficiency documents, The Asahi Shimbun reports on Feb. 26.

The database, which reportedly employs blockchain technology, is used to prevent forgeries of language proficiency documents, which some foreigners purportedly use to receive resident status to study in Japan.

? Pitchforks And Plows: Toward A Generative Ethereum Ecosystem

This month, the <abbr title="

Ethereum is a decentralized blockchain platform, enabled with EDCCs, where a software developer can build games, financial applications, gambling applications, utility and logistics software, social networks and more.

“>Ethereum community experienced vicious infighting on social media as people reacted to Afri Schoedon’s controversial tweet about Serenity and Polkadot. The alleged verbal violence directed at Schoedon resulted in his exit from Ethereum and a subsequent letter, signed by dozens of Ethereum contributors, calling the community to develop healthier discussion practices and to “protect each other from threats and violence.”


This wasn’t the first Twitter thread in the Ethereum community to turn ugly, but Afrigate renews pressing questions about discourse. How can members of the community disagree or offer criticism in ways that are generative? In light of this recent display of toxic communication, I sat down with Taylor Monahan of MyCrypto to talk about healthy communication in the <abbr title="

A record or ledger of all transactions that virtually eliminates third-party tampering. While every exchange of value or data is recorded and visible to users, the identities of those exchanging, and what the money is being exchanged for, is kept private. However, the amount of money is public. New blocks can only be added in chronological order (through mining or other means of block validation), and the inherent value and information cannot be compromised.

“>blockchain ecosystem.

? Bolivars to Bitcoin: Activists Take Down Venezuela’s Maduro in Crypto Art Exhibit

Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro will be taken down today.

At least his visage, painted on 1,000 bolivars by cryptocurrency-focused artist cryptograffiti, will be. The destruction of the artist’s newest piece – an 11-foot by 10-foot portrait of the Venezuelan leader – will happen in Cucuta, Colombia, about 500 yards from the Simon Bolivar Bridge, a landmark hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans have walked across to escape the poverty of their home country.

Since Maduro took office in 2003, Venezuela has suffered drastic inflation, starvation and socio-economic decline. And in recent months, the situation has worsened. This past weekend, violence broke out on the border with Brazil as the Venezuelan military moved to block food and medical supplies from entering Venezuela.

? Samsung Teases Early Blockchain Partners For Galaxy S10 Phone

South Korean tech giant Samsung looks to have revealed some of the first blockchain partners for its upcoming flagship cellphone, the Galaxy S10.
At its Samsung Mobile Business Summit session at MWC Barcelona 2019 on Monday, the company presented the new phone’s Blockchain Keystore to affiliates and customers, displaying a picture that included the logo for Cosmee, a beauty community service dapp (decentralized application) from the Cosmochain crypto project, as well as that of the Enjin crypto gaming platform.


As reported by CoinDesk Korea on Tuesday, while Samsung did not disclose precise details of the partner services, they are likely to be featured on the phone at launch or soon after.

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? Daily Crypto Calendar, February, 27th?

“The second version of Constantinople will not actually hit the network until February 27th.”

New deadline set by SEC to further review the rule change proposals to list a Bitcoin ETF.

TestNet Release

  • Stellar (XLM)

Testnet Release

Dev team hosts weekly update on current status developments, including the Tritium mainnet and satellite launch.

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STEEM Trading Update by my friend @cryptopassion

Here is the chart of yesterday :

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Here is the current chart :

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As you can see on the chart, we continued the bounce from the support line at 0.31$ but it looks like the market is blocking and is forming a double top. Let’s see if that pattern will be validated but I remember you that a double top is a bearish pattern which means that most of the time, we have a drop as result of this pattern. Let’s see!

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Tried out Trybe // Not impressed.

February 26, 2019 (updated February 26, 2019) Published by

Few days ago @anotherjoe pointed me towards Trybe as another site where i could post my stuff and do all the fine things you do on sites similar to this.
I say “sites similar to this” because today i read a comment made by @officialfuzzy on Whaleshares that said this:

p.s. you will not find blogs from me on this site (Whaleshares) as it is not a blogging platform in the end vision. once we are out of beta people will understand.

After that comment i went on to read the Whaleshares whitepaper and i still didnt see Whaleshares being something more then a social media blogging platform. But! Since Fuzzy wrote that, i will henceforth use the adjective “similar” to describe what im talking about as to stop myself from being wrong and lacking in understanding. lol.

Anyways…

I tried out Trybe and right off the bat i ran into a number of things that annoyed me.
There were art assets overlapping, the screen load was choppy and parts of the window would move up and down for no reason. The page never loads all at once but rather in parts.

Two screenshots of the same page 2 seconds in-between.
Art asset placement seems very different.


Looking at the initial screen and menus, everything seemed extremely convoluted and instead of me being able to find my blog right away, they placed “job board” on the front page and your blog link is placed somewhere inside the side menu. The right side menu, not the left one.

Even when you get to your blog page theres more clickable links and windows that you can watch slowly load by clicking them. Everything is just too large and hard to navigate and theres at least 40% clickable links that shouldnt even be there that are simply cluttering the UI.

Did i say how annoyingly slowly the pages load? They even change color when they load lol.

Want to see some more dumb design decision?


Here you go

Which designer (and mind you the site hardly looks like its in a alpha state) thought it would be a good idea to have so much spacing between comments that only two 10 word comments fit on my whole screen? You can literally park a bus in the space between those two comments…

Actual bus caught parked in the Trybe comment section.

Even making a post feels strange. Theres a review process so you always feel like someone is watching. The always present support window doesnt help with that feeling. I dunno, i just dont feel comfortable writing there.

When you do post, your post can be found in 3 states. Published, in review, draft. Click and wait through more page loads to find where you post is at. I counted.. Takes me about 3 seconds to load and i have super fast internet.

There are some rules to follow and im assuming they check the content before allowing you to post something. Hello censorship! (im tempted to try and see the limit of what youre allowed to write about.) You have to meet the 300 word minimum requirement and you have to put a featured image or they reject the post. Why they couldnt simply automate that the text cant be posted if those two requirements werent met so i dont have to wait for the review, is beyond me. I guess they dont want unwanted content on their site.

Browsing content itself is unintuitive as and of course its tied into the slow page loading time so i didnt even bother trying.

And there you have it. Pretty disappointing experience i probably wont repeat.

PS: Im not someone that will speak negatively about a platform because i might hold STEEM or WLS instead of EOS. I would have very much wanted Trybe to be another place to post on and learn new stuff but unfortunately the user experience is simply bad.

Ill see you guys around. 😉

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