You have no resource credits to spend and therefore you cannot perform any actions on the platform

What are RC and where did they come from?

 RC = Resource Credit. 

RC is an estimation of cost, which includes:  

- CPU (mega)cycles







- State memory







- History size

It is a feature implemented in HF20 to replace the old bandwidth system.

Every action taken on the blockchain has a "cost" associated with it to perform. The larger, the more complex the action, the more space it requires on the blockchain, etc, the larger the cost. In the past that was monitored by the bandwidth number. 

As each of us performed actions our available bandwidth decreased.However it was determined that bandwidth was not an accurate measure of the cost of these operations and also was not scaleable in the future.  A new solution was devised.... enter Resource Credits.

This is supposed to be a more true and accurate calculation  of what resources are needed to perform each action. The longer your post/comment, the more pictures included, etc the more storage it takes on the blockchain, the higher the "cost" to the user.It recharges over a 5 day so you will always go from 0% RC to 100% if you do nothing for 5 days. Personally I just won't use more then 20% or so a day and that way I won't have to worry about running out.

When HF20 was first implemented there were MANY issues with resource credits. There was a bug where initially any action you had taken at all since you first started here was counted against your RC and so most people had a HUGE negative debt and were unable to post, comment, upvote, or even power up since they had no RC to do those actions.

Patches have been implemented over the last few week to correct most of the issues found during the initial launch. There was a patch last week that increased the available resource pool for each block by a factor of 10. This had the impact of allowing most users to regain most of their RC right away as now suddenly supply outweighed demand and costs of operations were essentially lowered.

Another stated reason for the implementation of RC was to combat the number of spam bots out there. These bots were using an unfairly high amount of resources on the old system and not being charged directly for it. 

Under RC each account must have enough resource credits to pay for its own actions.It is hopeful that this will reduce (not eliminate) the amount  of spam comment bots plaguing the system.RC is also a learning system that will attempt to find a balance. This means costs of operations will continually be changing. 

This allows flexibility and scalability moving forward when such features as communities and SMT's (Smart Media Tokens) are implemented in the future.So overall RC was a necessary and needed upgrade to Steem for future growth and scalability but I do not think in any way its implementation can be considered smooth or uneventful.  

New users or those with low SP (and therefore low RC) will need to change their habits and be more conscious of how they spend their resource credits. You can get a general estimate of how many actions you can undertake by visiting www.beempy.com/power/@yourusername

You will be shown similar to:

As you can see you have about 7% RC at this time. It will take 111 hours (roughly 5 days) for you to get to 100% IF you don't do anything else.

You can see what the estimated amount you need to make a comment/post will be (1.5 G), for a vote (0.31 G) and transfer operation (sending or receiving steem/sbd/SP, or even powering up steem to SP) (0.12 G)

The estimated number for comments (1), votes (7) and transfer ops (19) that you can do with your remaining RC (2 G of 34 G)

This tool will give you all the necessary information you need to better plan how much and when you can do activities.

In order to gain more RC, you need to gain more SP. You can do so by powering up steem into SP, leasing or renting SP delegations or simply buying it from an exchange