Lately i have been having trouble keeping my voting power from draining fast. At one point i dropped to under 60%. You work hard to build up your few cents never to see your full vote drop.
I was supporting a few folks via SteemVoter that post multiple times a day and my VP was falling rapidly.
I tweaked a few things and i seem to be recovering my VP slowly. The problem is that i cant know for sure how many times someone will post a day so i would love to see @steemvoter / @buildteam add an option of being able to choose how many times a day my vote goes out.
That would allow much more customization and a better experience overall.
Maybe you want to vote someone always 100% no matter what. Great. Maybe you want to vote someone 2 times a day for 100%. 4 times a day at 50%.
An option like that would allow us to have more control over our voting power and that is something that i would most definitely like to see.
You could even monetize added functions like this. Provide the basic service to everyone for free, but charge a few Steem a month for a more customized experience.
Im a relatively small account and my curation is just a small part of my income here, but im sure there are large curator accounts that would love having a higher level of customization and would probably pay for it. The feature i mentioned is just one among few that could be added to the payed package.
The much-anticipated Ethereum hard fork known as Constantinople is set to be implemented at block number 7,280,000, which developers have predicted will take place on Thursday, February 28. Of course, the exact timing of activation depends on block times between now and then, meaning the upgrade could happen one to two days before or after this Thursday.
Constantinople was initially set to activate last month, but a security vulnerability in EIP 1283, one of the originally included improvement proposals, delayed the upgrade’s implementation. Core developers decided to remove the faulty EIP and push the hard fork back to block number 7,280,000.
Crypto exchange Coinbase is launching support for XRP, the third-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization.
The exchange announced Monday it would be listing XRP on its professional trading platform, Coinbase Pro, in “transfer-only” mode, meaning customers can only deposit tokens to begin with. After a minimum of 12 hours, the company plans to activate other trading services, though this timeline is variable.
Initially, Coinbase Pro customers in the U.S. (excluding New York state), the UK, some EU nations, Canada, Singapore and Australia will be able to access XRP, with support for other jurisdictions possibly being added in the future.
Japanese multinational holding conglomerate SoftBank Corp. and American telecoms-focused blockchain firm TBCASoft are to lead a new blockchain-based digital identification study group under the canopy of the Carrier Blockchain Study Group (CBSG). The development was announced in a SoftBank press release on Feb. 26.
As previously reported, CBSG — a global blockchain consortium of telecom carriers — was founded in September 2017, in a bid to push greater adoption of the technology in the industry. Alongside Softbank and TBCASoft, the organization counts Taiwan-based telecoms carrier Far EasTone and U.S.-based telecoms firm Sprint as founding members.
Bitfinex has recovered 27.7 bitcoin stolen by hackers in August 2016, the company said on Monday. The coins, worth around $106,000 at the time of writing, represent only a small fraction of the total BTC stolen. U.S. federal law enforcement agencies recovered the bitcoin and returned it to the cryptocurrency exchange.
Over two years following the hack of the Bitfinex platform, today we see the results of a clear and robust response strategy and the efforts of the U.S. government. It gives us great pleasure to be able to reimburse our traders that were loyal to us and believed in us at a very difficult time. We would like to thank U.S. federal law enforcement agencies for their ongoing efforts to investigate the security breach and their commitment to seizing and returning stolen assets.
There was something both fresh and familiar about the NFT.NYC conference that non-fungible token developer PeopleBrowsr put on at the PlayStation Theater in Times Square last week.
It felt like some of the early bitcoin conferences: A little scrappy and rough around the edges, some wild ideas that ranged from practical to pie-in-the-sky, but in all exuding a great deal of enthusiasm for a novel blockchain technology that could spawn a variety of new business and philanthropic models.
It remains to be seen whether NFTs can get beyond the gimmick status they occupied in popular imagination since Dapper Labs launched CryptoKitties, the popular game that creates unique, collectible, breedable digital cats. There are questions about scalability and interoperability associated with ERC-721, the dominant, Ethereum-based NFT standard, and on whether the world will embrace outside-the-box ideas for redefining value, property and commerce.
? Daily Crypto Calendar, February, 26th?
FintruX Network (FTX)
“A live video AMA with the FintruX team is quickly approaching on 26th February!”
Ethereum (ETH)
“The second version of Constantinople will not actually hit the network until February 27th.”
Bitcoin (BTC)
New deadline set by SEC to further review the rule change proposals to list a Bitcoin ETF.
Stellar (XLM)
Testnet Release
SNexus (NXS)
Dev team hosts weekly update on current status developments, including the Tritium mainnet and satellite launch.
STEEM Trading Update by my friend @cryptopassion
Here is the chart of yesterday :
Here is the current chart :
With this kind of chart, it is obvious that my lines are well selected and used by the market. Look how the STEEM went touch exactly the support line at 0.31$ and how the bounce has been created by the support line. The chart is confirming exactly my scenario. So now let’s see, that bounce is perhaps just a pause before the next drop but the DROP could also be invalidated if the UP is continuing. The coming hours will be very important.
Those who know me know my position on Steem Monsters. That game is making me rich AF so i love it to death. hehe.
Today/Yesterday Steem monsters came out with an update which i think is probably the most significant one since the battles were introduced.
Tournaments.
Prior to the release of tournaments, Steem monsters did have tournaments that were organized for most part on off-chain sites (cant remember the name) and discord, but that made the whole experience tedious and annoying. You would have to shout out names in the discord chat, people wouldnt show up, then you would annoy @aggroed or @yabapmatt with questions and then theyd put timers on discord messages and then folks would mistakenly type in the wrong results, etc etc etc..
Can i please call this a win? Can i Aggroed, can i please? I waited for 20 mins already.
It was just supremely annoying and would take way too long. I played a couple tournaments but the waiting and not knowing when the next game will be was just boring and took away from the experience. But now we have a pretty UI.
The look of the Tournaments tab i think is perfect.
Shows all the necessary information.
Looks slick.
its extremely intuitive and you pick up how it works almost instantly.
The strongest part of this update is that you can simply jump in a tournament when ever you feel like when youre browsing your collection or doing your dailies. You just check the tournament list, see a tournament happening in 10-15 minutes, grab a glass of Whiskey (imperative) and just jump in.
I cant even describe how big of an improvement that is over having to jump between 10 screens, discord chat rooms, DMs, etc.
I was intending to try out a tournament today but i literally missed the check-in at 15:00 by less then 1 minute so all you get are a few screenshots this time.
Now that Steem Monsters has competition in the gaming department on the Steem blockchain i have a feeling that we will see a bit more innovation and quicker improvements which is always a good thing for the user base.
Side note: A birdie told me that some whales and investors arent really happy with some of the choices Aggroed and Matt made with Steem Monsters and a lot of them started looking towards DrugWars which could add some more urgency to the work Steem Monsters devs are doing.
Cant wait to see what happens next.
These last few days we are only getting good news. Hopefully Steem and BTS gain some more momentum in the market and my joy-meter will show FuLL. Then ill be able to treat myself with that bottle of Jack ive been eyeing on my neighborhood store shelf these last few days…
Lately ive been thinking about the token distribution happening on STEEM and WHALESHARES.
For those that had an opportunity to read my thoughts on the current state of things know my position on what is happening right now on both platforms.
The biggest issue (outside development related things) both platforms are facing at this moment is pure, unchallenged greed or what you can call token accumulation maximization.
If i didnt call this “greed” and use a negative term for what is happening, most folks wouldnt see this as a bad thing. Thats mostly due to the topic being too broad.
The problem of greed we are facing basically means that the reward pool is tilted greatly on the side of maximizing accumulation.
So why is that bad?
Well for one it has a negative impact on the general sentiment on what is supposed to be a social media token redistribution platform, and it destroys what we call “proof of brain”.
Folks that did an analysis as to what percentage of the newly created STEEM goes to bots they came to a number of around 20%. Add to that upvote selling services, add selfvoting and circle jerks and you will get to a number indicative of the relation between accumulation and distribution. How much of the inflation creating potential of SP holders returns right back to the pocket of those same SP holders. I dont have the stats, but i think its fair to assume that its more then 51%.
Not only is this bad for the general sentiment, but its bad because by having poor distribution that also reduces the earning potential for new users which leads to diminished demand for the token.
What does that make of STEEM? @acidyo wrote a post the other day about how great it will be once we have a million accounts with $1 upvotes supporting their creator of choice..
My question to that is:
If the token distribution is happening in the way it is right now, with tokens created going right back to the creators in percentages of 50%,60%,70%, 80%.., the inflation reducing every year, how will there ever exist such a middle class here?
What if with that the STEEM price goes up? Who is going to pay 10$ for a STEEM token to potentially get a fraction of a fraction of the tokens that are not going right back to the pockets of selfvoters, circle jerks, bots, vote sellers?
So really, why have upvotes anyways? Why have content? Why not just get rid of all that and simply pay out 100% of the upvote token amount back to the SP holder?
By now means am I saying I think this will happen, but technically the possibility is there. What exactly is it I’m speaking of….
Higher Highs and Higher Lows
In order to have an uptrend price needs to make higher highs followed by a higher low and then a higher high. (say that three times fast).
Looking at the daily price chart of steem you see we had our last high (which marked the bearish u-turn I called out) and the subsequent selloff to where we are now.
Price has started to turn a little here and if we see any follow through higher
A few days back I mentioned how the price of steem formed a bearish u-turn pattern on the daily chart after testing that 40 cent area.
The volume was weak on it so I thought, maybe it won’t play out.
Unfortunately the Bear Roared
The gold circle from my original chart points out the bearish u-turn pattern marked by the reversal candle (first red candle of the past six red days) and the pattern has played out with the following sell off.
Possible downside targets are the 25 cent level that acted as a bottom on the past two little pull backs.
Conclusion
What this basically
Just a day ago I wrote about the price of steem working on a longer term bottoming formation. However, within that you will have your moves up and down and one of those moves could even bust up the formation all together.
So let’s take a look at the reversal pattern we got due to yesterday’s candle close.
Bearish U-Turn
I talked about the bullish u-turn pattern alot during the bull market, but right now we are discussing a bearish u-turn.
The gist of it is after two or more up days in a row the next candle trades above the previous day’s high
After more than a week of amazing performance, STEEM has reached the level of the 200 DMA at the STEEM/BTC pair.
Typically, crossing that line would indicate a very good signal of reversal trend.
We have to be very attentive right now.
If STEEM manages to break that 200 DMA, it would be very likely that a higher price will be reached…
Taking into account as well all the positiveness I have now (LoL), I would consider as well the following CUP & HANDLE Pattern another good signal which corroborates the previous one
…As a sort of “guideline”… if this pattern is confirmed,
Well things may have just got interesting folks. Last time I reviewed the price of steem it was flirting in the mid 30 cents area and all eyes were on the 40 cent level.
Cup and Handle Pattern in Play
In recent days steem has pushed through the 40 cent level into the mid 40’s. Being able to close a green candle up here would be ideal as it establishes price above resistance.
Furthermore a cup has been formed and if we were to atleast bounce along the 40 cent area that would give us a handle. It’s a somewhat shallow cup, but
