Thank you very much for sharing. This is very helpful feedback to those of us who are investigating the marketing potential of Steemit. I expect some of us will be discussing your reply to me over at Bitcointalk.org in the Altcoin Discussion section. For example, you will notice @smooth is a whale here (look at his Wallet). We are trying to gauge if Steemit can cross the chasm from “blockchain nerds” to the general population.
I’m a computer programmer and since 2013 a blockchain technology researcher.
Hi @anonymint
I really appreciate your concern for my Dad. He is slated to participate in a clinical trial at Duke. I will tell him about the curcumin. We need all the help we can get.
Also thanks for the link and the advise about BitcoinTalk.org....there is a lot going on there.
Let's keep in touch.
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Since you are an expert at this...where would you suggest the newbie person start? Algorithms and hashing etc. I learned about them in school, but I really need something simple to digest.
I tried reading bits and pieces of the white paper...that contains some very good information, but I get the impression that steem is still in beta state and there is some tweaking still going on.
I would like to suggest a tag just for beginners or those interested in the basics of blockchain
and how steem fits into the who crypto currency family.
The faq was a good start, but it does not give the explanation why.
Also the whole encryption key/password security issue is not for beginners.
If you need a newbie to test ideas on....let me know. I am always interested in learning more. I am not exactly a geek, but I am not the average general population chick either.... I guess you could say that I am a hybrid of geek ( because I have a masters in CS...(from way back in 1994)) but I am just a regular CAROLINA Girl trying to keep pace with technology too.
Thanks for the updates!
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Best wishes for your father. Seriously very high dosages of concentrated curcumin entirely shrunk tumors of some pancreatic cancers according to a clinical study I read online. It is a long shot, but it can also help sooth the inflammation as well. It is one of the most powerful natural treatments you can reach for and I think it has been tested along with chemo and been beneficial. But I maybe not yet tested for his specific cancer type. If the prognosis (% survival 5 years out, etc) for his cancer at stage 4 is not good, then my stance would be might as well try everything I can. I have been in a desperate but only chronic (i.e. not terminal) health quagmire also related to my gut (not sure if it is a tumor or not), but not so definitively critical as your fathers’.
I see your rewards for this blog just jumped to $600+ because that whale I mentioned has upvoted your post. So you will see that current vote weighting algorithm for Steem is votes x votes, i.e. squared. So if a whale (with 1000 times more SP weight than the minnows) upvotes a post that had 5 times less culmulative SP vote weight, then the post’s rewards (and to some degree site ranking) are boosted approximately 5 x 5 = 25 times. Also the system is still being actively developed and so these algorithms might possibly change. I am not one of the developers of this system. They are for example @dan (@dantheman), @ned, and @theoretical.
Well if you can handle us males fighting and insulting each other (apologies for that), some of the discussions in the Altcoin Discussion forum of Bitcointalk.org provide expert discussion.
I also heard the white paper needs to be updated. But I think the fundamentals will not change significantly. But reading the white paper does not insure we understand it entirely. I read it quickly in June, read it again in July, and still made some mistakes in my understanding of all the implications of the design.
I am going to ask some others if they could reply to suggest to you some learning resources.
I will definitely remember you and your offer to help on testing. I agree on needing more beginner’s information and well organized for them.
Edit: the learning resources I am aware are really not very concise and well organized:
https://medium.com/zapchain-magazine/the-best-places-on-the-internet-to-learn-about-bitcoin-a4733f9f3ac7
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