BlogHide Resteemsuberbrady (48)in cryptocurrency • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.What the hell *is* currency? I have no idea.Where does money come from? I mean, not only various cryptocurrencies, but money, in general? In both senses of the question - "how did the first bit of currency come online", but also "how did…uberbrady (48)in apple • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.The New(-ish) MacBook Pro with Touchbar - the Computer Apple Doesn't Want to MakeI hate my late-2016 MacBook Pro. I suspect the CPU-bump that came out in early 2017 was probably much nicer, but I'm going to be stuck with this box for a while. I think the reason it's so bad is…uberbrady (48)in cryptocurrency • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Some weaknesses in either the DPOS algorithm or its explanationI'm pretty horrified at the BitCoin Proof-of-Work algorithm (POW), in that I feel that it is enormously wasteful of computing resources - which translates to electrical power. I really prefer the…resteemedgodfish (65)in steemit • 7 years agoA couple of things minnows should avoidUpvoting posts in the moment of publishing . You give up your curating reward by that. Wait 20 or 30 minutes to get some. There is 0 % curating reward for instant upvotes and the number increases…uberbrady (48)in apple • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Another Set of Shitty Hot-Takes on the Apple AnnouncementThe LTE watch could be nice. Example - I decided to pop down to the beach and catch a few waves for my 'lunch break'. I couldn't leave my phone just sitting there on the beach, so I couldn't take…uberbrady (48)in cryptocurrency • 8 years agoGoldbugs and hard-currency peepsThis has been a recurring motif among various Cryptocurrency aficionados - that the US Dollar was hopelessly debased once it was unhooked from gold. This is silly. Here's why. First things…uberbrady (48)in cryptocurrency • 8 years agoThe attributes that _I_ would like to see in a cryptocurrencyInflationary Hierarchical Scalable (Ideally, I'd love it if all of the "work" (computation) that is done to generate the currency actually did something useful) Might be nice if the…resteemedsnipe (55)in meetups • 8 years agoHow to Get More Women to Participate In Your Local Tech MeetupA few days ago, a friend of mine asked me via Twitter DM for advice on how to get more women participating in one of the meetups that he runs, specifically the San Diego Rust Meetup. He's already…resteemedshenanigator (68)in steemit • 8 years agoSTEEMIT: Buy Votes, Get Paid!@booster and @randowhale. You may have seen something about them on Steemit or even used them at some point. There may be other accounts that do this as well, but these are the ones I’m familiar…uberbrady (48)in steemit • 8 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.First payout! I'm now a 10-dollar-ionaire!So I wrote a few posts here on Steemit, and due to various bots that automatically vote for you, as well, as a friend of mine who has lots of pull here on Steemit, I managed to get a moderate amount…uberbrady (48)in steemit • 8 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.How much can one earn for being a Steem witness? How much dollar-value is Steem creating every day?Witnesses So Steem trades at: $1.368257 1 block gets mined every 3 seconds How much STEEM is in each block? Is it just 1? I can't really figure out how much the witnesses get per block; the…uberbrady (48)in introduceyourself • 8 years agoHi, I'm BradyI think by assembling a coherent sentence here I'll be ahead of 90% of the accounts I see here on Steemit. So that's a good start for me, then, I guess. I'm a technologist, an amateur economist, a…
