gtg witness log
Thank you all for supporting me as a witness, even though I'm really bad at writing my updates.
I even copied the previous sentence from one of my earlier updates.
Yes, that bad.
Witness parameters
stay unchanged:
SBD is over $1, fortunately going slowly back to the peg, thus obviously the APR is 0%, and the feeds are unbiased.
The registration fee stays at 0.100, which means that if we wanted to double our userbase, it would cost around 30 000 000 STEEM or 100 000 STEEM with 14 500 000 SP delegation.
(That's why we need better solution for mass adoption, mass adoption is not x2, it's x100+)
The maximum block size remains at 64k.
Price feeds
Obviously, I continue to exclude Poloniex from price feed calculations (and so should you).
Exchanges
Have you noticed that Steem is now trading on a variety of cryptocurrency exchanges and markets around the world? Our platform is growing, so enabling users to easily obtain and exchange STEEM is crucially important.
We can’t sit back and relax, because STEEM is not just some random copied&pasted ERC20 token. Often people, even those who have integrated many other cryptocurrencies with their services, are surprised when it comes to the system requirements of the Steem node. They are equally surprised when they find out that Steem is the most active blockchain
- Transactions on the most active blockchains (seven-day average), https://blocktivity.info/
So whenever this is the case I’m willing to help in setting up an optimal, cost-effective environment.
Soon exchange setup will be featured in the Steem Pressure episode.
Where we can exchange STEEM currently?
Quick exchanges
Those are simple: you choose what coin you want to give and what coin you want to get in return, and you enter the amount of one of them, while the other is calculated using some magic and subtracting their fees. Click, click - done.
- Blocktrades - a stable quick exchange run by one of the top Steem witnesses @blocktrades. We had opportunity to meet them during the SteemFest in Amsterdam and the SteemFest2 in Lisbon. In addition to the ability to exchange Steem for few other coins you can also buy Steem account, Steem Power or even Steem Power delegation.
Changelly- “temporarily” down, I’ve sent my offer to help them bring Steem back online. I got the first reply within less than 10 minutes. That’s promising. It has a nice feature that allows payments in USD via credit card, so bringing that back would be really nice.ShapeShift- “temporarily” down, I’ve sent my offer to help them bring Steem back online. I got the first reply in less than 6 hours even though it was a Saturday.
Now I know why they call themselves “Quick”. Poloniex on the other hand…
Fully featured markets
You have much more choice here (alphabetical order), but things are more complicated. You need to deposit, then trade, then withdraw. Each of those actions may entail fees. Your orders may not always be matched. Etc.
- Binance - users have been able to trade Steem since February 2018, and it includes pairs with BTC and ETH.
- Bittrex - a reliable Steem market since forever.
- GoPax - a Korean exchange that listed STEEM/KRW and SBD/KRW paris by the end of February 2018; along with Blocktrades, it can be accessed from the Steemit’s “hambruger" menu.
- Huobi - a Chinese based exchange that listed STEEM/BTC, STEEM/ETH, and STEEM/USDT by the end of April 2018.
PoloniexI don’t even want to waste my time writing about it. Rumor has it that somehow they are blocked by the SpaceX mission to Mars (“there and back again”) and they won’t be able to support Steem again until then.- Upbit - a Korean based exchange collaborating with Bittrex, trading Steem since early 2017.
Warning: Do not keep your assets on exchanges, you risk when they fall or get hacked.
By the way: I would love to feature decentralized exchanges, but currently there are only two, both with negligible volume.
Steem.Chat
Bunch of upgrades and bug fixing. Another upgrade planned within the next couple of hours. Thanks to all the people helping with their efforts to keep it up and running, help newbies and get rid of scammers.
For anyone with programming skills who would like to contribute, here’s the link to GitHub repository:
https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat
Issues that are related to our use cases are here:
Using OAuth as addition to traditional signup to get "VERIFIED" and "GUEST" accounts
https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/issues/10072
Anti-abuse features need to improve (logging and access control)
https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/issues/8026
And a more general meta-issue:
Rocket.Chat for Cryptocurrency Communities
https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/issues/8284
If you are a developer, capable of helping, please consider your contribution.
Feel free to contact me directly on steem.chat, as Gandalf to talk about details.
Let's make steem.chat great again.
For this very reason, namely to empower Steem platform and Steem related tools, I’m going to:
Delegate 100 000 SP to Utopian
Our modern world is driven by Open Source software. It runs on every computer, every smartphone or tablet and all your favorite apps would not run without it. It is developed mainly by volunteers and by hobbyists around the world, those geeks among your friends that love their computers more than hanging out with you. Open Source software is free and common property and allows everyone to use it and alter it to their needs. It relies on collective intelligence instead of the standards imposed by superiors. All this work is done for free! Utopian however rewards everyone who contributes to such projects, as long as a certain standard of quality is met.
- utopian.io
Meetups in JP and PL
Two Steem related meetups on two continents in a single month? That's something unusual for me.
Tokyo (Japan)
Just before Ned Scott, CEO of Steemit Inc visited Tokyo and gave an interview to Bloomberg I had the pleasure to attend a meetup with Japanese community!
@yoshiko, @kayoko, @crypto.hack, @kinakomochi, @moromaro, @sho-t, @shogo
Thank you all for your hospitality!
Many thanks to @knozaki2015 and @fukako for their continued support for the #Japanese community.
- Steem gadgets, Saizou Ikebukuro, Tokyo, Japan 2018 - courtesy of @kayoko
Kraków (Poland)
I attended the “Decentralized social media” meetup organized by BitSpace and ForkLog
During which Arash Rezvani and Ola Haukland made interesting presentations, and there was a very informative Q&A hangouts session with @roadscape from Steemit Inc. (full of promising hints of upcoming fancy features).
Fun fact:
Did you know that 3 May is a national holiday (Constitution Day) both in Poland and in Japan?
- Hachikō-mae Square, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan, 2018 May 3, Constitution Day
Witness voting
I’m going to write a post about witness voting.
There’s never enough of education and words about how important that is.
Even though I’m currently #1 position (thank you for your trust!), I’m not going to stop asking for your votes. Security and reliability of the Steem platform depend on it.
So please, if you are reading this and you care about the platform - vote for the witnesses. Not necessarily for me. There’s plenty of other candidates, please take your time and do that.
Every vote matters. Voting for witnesses is far more important than upvoting or commenting this post (but of course I would be grateful for all of that)
Steem On!
Thank you for visiting to Japan! We had a wonderful and enjoyable time.
You distributed stickers to guests at Tokyo Meetup!! Everyone who participated was pleased:D
As far as Binance is concerned they also support STEEM/BNB (Binance own token) pair which is quite handy for switching from Steem to LTC for example 🙂
You might not post a lot, but when you make me laugh in the first paragraph you've got my attention. And you kept my attention. Thanks for the update—I learned a few things, and appreciate getting an idea of what you're doing to help Steem evolve.
As for that post about voting for witnesses, I'm looking forward to it! Will be sure to share. 💖
i post my dreams ...........
Re Exchanges : openledger was only slightly clunky, interface-wise. Managed to trade some BTC for 500 steem, so as to get a voting sliding bar. It's a decentralized platform, by my understanding.
Yes, unfortunately it would need a lot more volume to be noticed by a wider public... and a wider public is needed to get there more volume...
Tried it and Openledger sucks as far as steem and sbd is concerned - liquidity is very limited and sometimes hardly available so spreads are significant and on the top of that they tend to switch off funding interface at the most inconvenient (for the user) time without any prior warning. This means that you might get stuck there with your tokens and loose money in the process. Liquidity and fast transfers in and out of the system are key factors and Openledger fails on both counts in my opinion.
As "bad" as openledger is, you have an alternative in the bitshares ecosystem. It's called Rudex. Even less liquidity, but nevertheless you can get in and out if one of them fail. The problem with little liquidity is lack of patience in my view, wherein lies opportunities for us with patience.
Use the service you like. But be fair when judging.
I did not say that is bad in general but as far as steem is concerned. If you limit yourself to BTS and more liquid markets then it's ok. But my experience with openledger & steem was a big disappointment.
You still write good compare to many different people on this platform... I have seen many post that are more than worse.
Thank you for the update and I am sure to vote you for witness. I am also sure to share to my people to vote.
@stevenmosoes
Thank you :-)
Nice to read your updates as always. You’re one of the most hard-working witnesses. Glad to see SBD is slowly going back to normal (1$), it’s been so difficult to accumulate SP these days! How come I didn’t see you at Steemfest in Lisbon :D
Keep on going! Supporting you.
Thank you! :-)
Well, I'm Grey, not White, so it's not that easy to spot me ;-)
See you on the SteemFest3 then :-)
If you look like your avatar, it’s for sure not easy to spot XD
Sure, see you at SF3.
That's a photo of real me... Well, minus colors, minus face :-)
I’ll try to spot you 😏
Oh, I think we were in Japan at roughly the same time. But I was in Osaka :)
I've been there too for a while! :-)
Next time, maybe, we will meet ;)
Greetings, @gtg,
Please pardon this 'off-topic' comment as coming from a Steemian who cares deeply about the platform and its future success.
I'm here to ask: When do you plan to adopt Steemit condenser version 19.10?
I encourage you, as Witness #1, to please lead the way by updating your witness node to 19.10 at the earliest possible opportunity, so that its much needed and long awaited features might be released as soon as possible for our use and enjoyment.
Thank you kindly in advance for your prompt action in expediting this matter.
Your fellow Steemian,
@creatr
😄😇😄
That's actually on-topic :-)
(please note however, that it's not a condenser upgrade, but steem, that would allow the condenser to use an infinite editing feature).
I was hoping to see a new tag (i.e.
v0.19.11or so) that includes fixes to the original release (to avoid doing same work twice), that's why I'm still running earlier version on my main node.Short answer: this week I believe.
What fixes are needed?
Thank you, @gtg, for your gracious, helpful, and encouraging response.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but even if steem supplies this capability, mere mortals—such as a content creator like myself—cannot access the change apart from a condenser modification to enable the [Edit] button?
In any case, I can completely understand and appreciate your desire to minimize the work you need to do by skipping to v0.19.11 with fixes... Thank you for the insight.
- @creatr
But the update they are pushing is a steem update. @gtg does not control steemit/condenser.
Also, you can actually edit old posts at the moment with a program like esteem surfer, it just may take 20 - 30 seconds as it has to wait for a witness who is updated to make a block.
Thank you @ajayyy, and right, I understand that...
However, in an indirect way, the witnesses do control when Steemit, Inc. will update the condenser. As I best understand it, the condenser people are waiting for more witnesses to adopt 19.10 before a condenser update.
I am not familiar with esteem surfer, but I will look for it.
Meanwhile, @timcliff has published a provisional condenser that allows editing... So I am very happy at the moment. :D
Yep, they are waiting because, if not enough witnesses update, then editing a post will take 20 - 30 seconds to submit.
I was just searching about @gtg post, and i got a chance to read this post. I think maintaining Steemit block chain to keep it safe, secure and Strong is first priority of any of witness and I'm happy that users feel free to use Steemit.
And I think you are not lazy in writing blog you are fast to maintain this whole block chain.
@gtg one of the my top priority witness.
not only because of @gtg is top on witness list, it's because of you a doing your hard work for users like me..
Thank you :-)
Did ShapeShift or Changelly cite Poloniex being down as the reason for not supporting STEEM/SBD "temporarily"? Hopefully they can use Bittrex and support them again.
Whoa, nice!
Nobody said that explicitly but I believe that's the case. IMHO Poloniex did a lot of harm to the price of Steem, directly and indirectly. Ironically, they are losing on it too, quite a lot (They hold over 14M liquid STEEM), so their actions (lack of them) are beyond my understanding.
That's mostly because I suck at curation and I believe they will make a better use of it (especially that they are also supporting #SteemSTEM!)