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Topic: Steemit.com: Blogging is the new Mining - page 111. (Read 348621 times)

legendary
Activity: 1901
Merit: 1024
August 22, 2016, 10:55:22 AM
I also want to confirm that high SSD usage was fixed with adding more RAM to the mining virtual sistem, also looks like after fixing POW mining exploits the estimated time to produce a block is way more adequate
I am not a poster, and don`t like to write crap in my bad english, when i do have some unique tutorial i will for sure post, and in the mean time I will mine only
hero member
Activity: 952
Merit: 552
August 22, 2016, 10:39:28 AM
Wow!  Here are some super interesting views "pro and con" about Steem. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9PWO8flSp4
hero member
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Merit: 500
Risk taker & Black Swan farmer.
hero member
Activity: 952
Merit: 552
August 22, 2016, 06:45:56 AM
I hope some nice whale decides to pump this soon... It appears that it is being accumulated but some big holder (s) continue to dump this at any strength...  why??  It is such a neat execution of a real life application of crypto.
legendary
Activity: 2968
Merit: 1198
August 22, 2016, 03:53:09 AM
Question regarding mining. When mining to use multiple names for when one is busy do I need to create multiple steemit accounts or can I use names that are not in use and use same WIF private key used for name of miner and key?

You can use new names. The account will be created when you mine a PoW. I don't know about using the same keys. In theory I think it should work. I always used different keys when I was mining.
legendary
Activity: 1820
Merit: 1001
August 21, 2016, 11:38:10 PM
Question regarding mining. When mining to use multiple names for when one is busy do I need to create multiple steemit accounts or can I use names that are not in use and use same WIF private key used for name of miner and key?
legendary
Activity: 1708
Merit: 1049
August 21, 2016, 10:38:10 PM
I have a beginner (or idiot?) question, does Steem store articles in their blockchain or in an SQL database?

on the blockchain

To clarify, the text of articles and comments is on the blockchain. Any embedded media is stored as links. This makes the storage requirements not absurd, as most times the text itself is fairly small. In theory it is highly compressible too, though I'm not sure if the current implementation does that.

I tried a few compression schemes on the blockchain a few days ago (blockchain size ~2gb). Results showed a reduction to 0.8gb -1.1gb, depending the compression scheme (tried lrzip, bzip2, gzip - lrzip had the biggest savings but it's also the slowest, gzip less compression but fastest).

That indicates to me the content is probably not being compressed, or the transaction encoding is pretty loose (most transactions are votes), or both. That's a pretty high compression ratio for a blockchain considering that signatures and hashes aren't compressible. I guess that leaves room for improvement in the future.

Definitely not compressed... https://steemit.com/steemit/@alexgr/have-you-ever-wondered-what-your-post-looks-like-while-stored-in-the-steem-blockchain
legendary
Activity: 1820
Merit: 1001
August 21, 2016, 07:54:20 PM
I have a beginner (or idiot?) question, does Steem store articles in their blockchain or in an SQL database?

on the blockchain

To clarify, the text of articles and comments is on the blockchain. Any embedded media is stored as links. This makes the storage requirements not absurd, as most times the text itself is fairly small. In theory it is highly compressible too, though I'm not sure if the current implementation does that.

Except the storage requirements, the RAM requirements can easily become a problem... Currently it eats huge chunk of RAM on my machine (around 8Gb), and it grows fast lately! It is still bearable, but with this kind of grow rate, running a daemon could become not affordable for a regular user PC soon. I indeed see this a big potential problem. Do you know if anything is done to address this?

You can run in low-memory mode, which reduces memory requirements to about 2 GB currently. Add -DLOW_MEMORY_NODE=ON -DENABLE_CONTENT_PATCHING=OFF to cmake when building it. Also disable the account_history_plugin (in config file) unless you need it.

Over time it is definitely going to require high end hardware to run a node. Most users (if not using the web site) will need to be using remote nodes with thin clients.

When will you guys have invites back up to using slack steemit as had an account and now longer have due to the attack that happened a while back and cant seem to find anywhere or info i you guys going to have invites back up to going slack channel. Hoping devs or core team can help thx.

chat has been moved from slack to rocket chat: https://steemit.chat


cool thx for the info Smiley
legendary
Activity: 2968
Merit: 1198
August 21, 2016, 07:48:21 PM
I have a beginner (or idiot?) question, does Steem store articles in their blockchain or in an SQL database?

on the blockchain

To clarify, the text of articles and comments is on the blockchain. Any embedded media is stored as links. This makes the storage requirements not absurd, as most times the text itself is fairly small. In theory it is highly compressible too, though I'm not sure if the current implementation does that.

Except the storage requirements, the RAM requirements can easily become a problem... Currently it eats huge chunk of RAM on my machine (around 8Gb), and it grows fast lately! It is still bearable, but with this kind of grow rate, running a daemon could become not affordable for a regular user PC soon. I indeed see this a big potential problem. Do you know if anything is done to address this?

You can run in low-memory mode, which reduces memory requirements to about 2 GB currently. Add -DLOW_MEMORY_NODE=ON -DENABLE_CONTENT_PATCHING=OFF to cmake when building it. Also disable the account_history_plugin (in config file) unless you need it.

Over time it is definitely going to require high end hardware to run a node. Most users (if not using the web site) will need to be using remote nodes with thin clients.

When will you guys have invites back up to using slack steemit as had an account and now longer have due to the attack that happened a while back and cant seem to find anywhere or info i you guys going to have invites back up to going slack channel. Hoping devs or core team can help thx.

chat has been moved from slack to rocket chat: https://steemit.chat
legendary
Activity: 2576
Merit: 1073
August 21, 2016, 07:31:37 PM
I have a beginner (or idiot?) question, does Steem store articles in their blockchain or in an SQL database?

on the blockchain

To clarify, the text of articles and comments is on the blockchain. Any embedded media is stored as links. This makes the storage requirements not absurd, as most times the text itself is fairly small. In theory it is highly compressible too, though I'm not sure if the current implementation does that.

Except the storage requirements, the RAM requirements can easily become a problem... Currently it eats huge chunk of RAM on my machine (around 8Gb), and it grows fast lately! It is still bearable, but with this kind of grow rate, running a daemon could become not affordable for a regular user PC soon. I indeed see this a big potential problem. Do you know if anything is done to address this?
legendary
Activity: 1820
Merit: 1001
August 21, 2016, 07:17:22 PM
When will you guys have invites back up to using slack steemit as had an account and now longer have due to the attack that happened a while back and cant seem to find anywhere or info i you guys going to have invites back up to going slack channel. Hoping devs or core team can help thx.
legendary
Activity: 2968
Merit: 1198
August 21, 2016, 06:10:21 PM
I have a beginner (or idiot?) question, does Steem store articles in their blockchain or in an SQL database?

on the blockchain

To clarify, the text of articles and comments is on the blockchain. Any embedded media is stored as links. This makes the storage requirements not absurd, as most times the text itself is fairly small. In theory it is highly compressible too, though I'm not sure if the current implementation does that.

I tried a few compression schemes on the blockchain a few days ago (blockchain size ~2gb). Results showed a reduction to 0.8gb -1.1gb, depending the compression scheme (tried lrzip, bzip2, gzip - lrzip had the biggest savings but it's also the slowest, gzip less compression but fastest).

That indicates to me the content is probably not being compressed, or the transaction encoding is pretty loose (most transactions are votes), or both. That's a pretty high compression ratio for a blockchain considering that signatures and hashes aren't compressible. I guess that leaves room for improvement in the future.
legendary
Activity: 1764
Merit: 1000
August 21, 2016, 03:02:13 PM
is there still a chance to earn steem if I get to start writing there?
I'm curious to see how much i would be earning if I write one article per week to which I will also be promoting my own blog. is it allowed as well to link our own blog in the articles?

This is not a ponzi pump and dump if thats what you are refering to.

Please be aware before posting to look around. See what articles make it popular.

Have a read on what markdown is (what you use to format posts in on steem i.e. https://steemit.com/steem/@xeldal/how-to-liven-up-your-steem-posts-with-markdown)

Dont expect to earn from you rfirst post, rather join the rocket chat https://steemit.chat , there are plenty of public chanels to promote your content there.

note, there are currently more than 2000 accounts on the chat, so the community is pretty strong!
hero member
Activity: 672
Merit: 500
August 21, 2016, 02:17:23 PM
Only 2 coins that are worth buying are STEEM/XMR in my opinion. - both are backed now by strong economics - steem social economy backing ...and XMR....some darker entities now backing it;)...and I expect some other "light side of moon news" to come as well eventually now.
hero member
Activity: 1203
Merit: 508
Manager of looking busy #citizencosmos
August 21, 2016, 10:13:32 AM
is there still a chance to earn steem if I get to start writing there?
I'm curious to see how much i would be earning if I write one article per week to which I will also be promoting my own blog. is it allowed as well to link our own blog in the articles?

This is not a ponzi pump and dump if thats what you are refering to.

Please be aware before posting to look around. See what articles make it popular.

Have a read on what markdown is (what you use to format posts in on steem i.e. https://steemit.com/steem/@xeldal/how-to-liven-up-your-steem-posts-with-markdown)

Dont expect to earn from you rfirst post, rather join the rocket chat https://steemit.chat , there are plenty of public chanels to promote your content there.
legendary
Activity: 1708
Merit: 1049
August 21, 2016, 09:02:58 AM
I have a beginner (or idiot?) question, does Steem store articles in their blockchain or in an SQL database?

on the blockchain

To clarify, the text of articles and comments is on the blockchain. Any embedded media is stored as links. This makes the storage requirements not absurd, as most times the text itself is fairly small. In theory it is highly compressible too, though I'm not sure if the current implementation does that.

I tried a few compression schemes on the blockchain a few days ago (blockchain size ~2gb). Results showed a reduction to 0.8gb -1.1gb, depending the compression scheme (tried lrzip, bzip2, gzip - lrzip had the biggest savings but it's also the slowest, gzip less compression but fastest).
hero member
Activity: 896
Merit: 1000
August 21, 2016, 06:18:18 AM
Oh cool, thanks for the links smooth was looking for that info.
legendary
Activity: 2968
Merit: 1198
August 21, 2016, 05:51:06 AM
where can i find the blockchain explorer? where is the rich list? is this everything they show the public?

https://steemd.com
https://steemd.com/distribution

and can't i see a txid?

is there really a blockchain?

Yeah, it's really a blockchain, but as an explorer steemd.com is pretty stylized (sort of a cross between a block explorer and a read-only platform client).

You can view blocks like this:

https://steemd.com/b/4272914

Or transactions like this:

https://steemd.com/tx/1f49520b04157f2b461ac5d3c31d8c621903f9aa

There is a more coinventional-looking chain explorer under development I believe.

Also, richlist:

https://steemd.com/richlist
legendary
Activity: 1498
Merit: 1117
August 21, 2016, 05:43:47 AM
where can i find the blockchain explorer? where is the rich list? is this everything they show the public?

https://steemd.com
https://steemd.com/distribution

and can't i see a txid?

is there really a blockchain?

legendary
Activity: 2968
Merit: 1198
August 21, 2016, 05:39:27 AM
is there still a chance to earn steem if I get to start writing there?
I'm curious to see how much i would be earning if I write one article per week to which I will also be promoting my own blog. is it allowed as well to link our own blog in the articles?

You can link to whatever you want. It is a decentralized system so there aren't really any rules. It is up to voters to decide whether they like what you have to offer. Mostly the problem is getting people to notice it at all in the enormous sea of posts. Without some sort of significant following you won't make much.
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