I found a bug in the steemit.com interface:
When transferring steem from your account via the steemit.com wallet, if you start a memo with '#' to make it a private memo, the transfer does not occur. After hitting the transfer button, the loading symbol in the lower left spins forever and the transfer never happens:
Transfers with public memos seem unaffected.
See issue 98
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