Steemit and Ethereum Classic Fad Can Be Over As Newcomers Enter Scene
Is time running out for Ethereum Classic and Steemit? The two top-six cryptocurrencies come from very different origins, with Steemit being a deliberately engineered blockchain-based social network, while Ethereum Classic was an unplanned fork of Ethereum created after the DAO hack. However, they do share several important similarities: both came to prominence about a month ago, both experienced massive growth spurts over a short period of time, and both are now seeing their value melt away daily. Ethereum Classic’s dubious beginning and decline after an initial bubble. Following the DAO....
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Steemit announced on their website that they were hacked. The attack, according to them, has compromised about 260 accounts. A little less than US$ 85,000 worth of Steem Dollars and Steem are reported to have been taken by the attackers. In the security announcement CEO of Steemit Ned Scott said: “User accounts and wallets are not at risk, and we hope to soon reactivate the Steemit website to normal order. Any users whose accounts were compromised will be completely reimbursed.” Law enforcement informed. At the moment it appears that the virtual currency itself has not been compromised but....
Blockchain-based social network, Steemit, recently hit 100K users within its first 5 months of operation. It has also acquired 500K monthly unique visitors from all over the world with its unique blogging platform that rewards contributors. Steemit growth similar to Reddit. Ever since Steemit launched in summer, 2016, it has gained a lot of popularity by its bloggers and curators while in beta with its goal to “redefine social media.” This is mostly due to Steemit’s popular system of rewarding people for voting and posting content on the platform with its own coin, Steem. Some are even....
When an obscure cryptocurrency with a total market cap of approximately $14m skyrockets to over $400m, people take notice. But, when that cryptocurrency forms the backbone of a social media entity rewarding people for creating content, sometimes with thousands or tens of thousands of dollars for single posts, excitement and skepticism ensues. Launched in March and gaining prominence in July, Steemit, a self-described "blockchain-based social media platform", has seen this level of notoriety in just its first few months of operation. To date, it has polarized blockchain experts....
Ethereum Classic is preparing another hard fork. It was announced in statements published last week that the project’s development and mining community is committing to a change in its monetary policy by December of this year. Essentially a move to a new protocol, all current Ethereum Classic users and miners should have upgraded their software by then. If everyone does not upgrade their software, the project can split into two incompatible networks, blockchains and currencies. Of course, that is exactly how Ethereum Classic itself broke away from the Ethereum Foundation’s Ethereum last....
The exponential rate at which Steem grows may put on fast track a solution to the scaling issue that the Bitcoin community faces. Steem is a digital currency behind Steemit, a decentralized social media platform which rewards posters and voters online. Scaling Bitcoin has become a hot button issue in the community. This is the process to increase block size from its current form in which the network can only support up to seven transactions per second to process more like Paypal achieves with about 100 transactions per second, and as Visa does with about 4,000 per second. In the wake of....