SOS Daily News : news about the State of Steem @ 14 January 2019
Here comes the Hivemind...
Only need one headline today.
Steemit Inc has released Hivemind.
This is a major advance for the efficient running, and decentralisation, of the steem blockchain.
Hivemind is Live!
Steemit Inc has now released Hivemind.
This is a major advance for the blockchain as it reduces the memory requirements, and thus costs, for running full API nodes significantly.
Hello Steemians, we are excited to announce that Steemit’s APIs are now powered by Hivemind! By routing most of the social APIs to Hivemind, we are able to dramatically shrink the size of the full nodes we run.
Hivemind is a service that syncs a traditional database with the blockchain. An added benefit of Hivemind is that since it’s written in Python, developers can modify its behavior and APIs with ease, instead of relying on C++ developers and modifying code which can interact with critical consensus logic.
Steemit Inc have managed to reduce the memory needed down from 488GB to just 61GB...
We are extremely excited to see Hivemind running in production, on-disk, and utilizing AppBase. After completing this task, we have decreased our steemd instance sizes from 488GB RAM to 61GB RAM instances.
This reduction in memory, and subsequent reduction in server cost, will make it much easier for many more full nodes to be run. This will lessen reliance on Steemit Inc's nodes and greatly enhance the decentralisation of the steem blockchain.
The next step will be the completion of the MIRA RocksDB developments which will bring further optimisation to the blockchain and the nodes.
If you would you like to know more about the current nodes you can check @holger80's regular Full Node Update posts...
Just a quick one ... PayPal and Coinbase
Witness @justyy has reported that PayPal withdrawals are now available on Coinbase.
That seems interesting. I must check it out...
KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap & @arcange ]
(change on previous day in brackets // n/c = no change)
| Steem price | US$ 0.256 | 2019-01-14 04:27am UTC |
| SBD price | US$ 0.720 | 2019-01-14 04:27am UTC |
| Market Cap | US$ 79,168,128 | 2019-01-14 04:27am UTC |
| CoinMarketCap Ranking | #51 (n/c) | 2019-01-14 04:27am UTC |
| No. of Whales | 36 (n/c) | 2019-01-13 |
| No. of Orcas | 314 (-1) | 2019-01-13 |
| No. of Dolphins | 1970 (-1) | 2019-01-13 |
| No. of Minnows | 9100 (+2) | 2019-01-13 |
| Alexa rank (steemit.com) | #4119 (+2) | 2019-01-14 21:22pm UTC |
Follow @penguinpablo for more statistics.
NEWS FROM STEEMIT INC
@steemitblog - Hivemind is Live!
@bryan-imhoff - Ned Lives! (Some May Consider That a B Horror Movie Title...)
NEWS FROM THE WITNESSES
#2 @aggroed - Steem(it) Town Hall with @ned hosted by @aggroed and @llfarms and a personal perspective on the challenges we face
#4 @good-karma - Desktop eSteem Surfer 2.0.4 brings 😎 emojis, Power Up & more
#11 @lukestokes - Exchange Transfer Transparency for 2016, 2017, and 2018
#22 @therealwolf - Witness Essentials: CLI (Update)
#29 @themarkymark - Is Magic Dice Provably Fair?
#59 @dragosroua - Witness Update - DragosRoua
#65 @justyy - PayPal withdrawals now available on Coinbase!
#70 @steemcommunity / @abh12345 - Thank You Steemit Inc
#74 @bobinson - Bring it on - Primary and Secondary Witness Servers
#105 @quochuy - Witness Earning Reports - 2019-01-14
To keep up to date with more posts from witnesses follow @witnesspage ...
NEWS FROM KEY PLAYERS & INFLUENCERS
@denmarkguy - So Now There Is Advertising...
@edicted - What is Steemit Inc Telling Us With This Power Down?
@gadrian - Transparency, but not for us!
@imacryptorick - All We Need Is RockDB
@lostmine27 - 3 recent hot issues in the STEEM chain
@meno - Magic dice is trouble!
@penguinpablo - Weekly Steem Stats Report - Monday, January 14, 2019
@socky - The GitHub STEEM Fork Is a Non-Issue
@socky - How to Make Money Selling STEEM Accounts
@steevc - Some Steem tips for newbies (and maybe others too)
@tarazkp - Flirting with Steem
@taskmaster4450 - The SMT Economy: Steem's Hidden Gem
@vlemon - Steemit Statistics & Big Data: End of December 2018 Update
NEWS FROM COMMUNITIES
@air-clinic - NEW UPGRADE: Aircoin Token Transfer Has Been Activated!
@dsound / @edprivat - Do you support the music community on Steemit?
@dsound / @harrisonmir - Dsound needs your delegation!
NEWS FROM EVENTS & MEETUPS
JANUARY 2019
@redrica - First London Steem Meetup of 2019 | Friday 18th Jan 12pm onwards | High Street Kensington
APRIL 2019
@steemcampuk / @lloyddavis - Save The Date - Saturday 6 April, SteemCampUK event in the Midlands, UK
MAY 2019
@dtube.forum - State of the Project @dtube.forum 14/01/2019
DECEMBER 2019
@steemfiesta - SteemFIESTA 2019 - The First Five Days of DECEMBER - Summer in the South!
NEWS FROM DAPPS, APPS & DEVS
@tcpolymath - Steem Python with Beem tutorial - creating a stream to take commands in transfer memos
@emrebeyler - [instasteem] A CLI App/Library to cross-post instagram content into your STEEM profile
@esteemapp / @good-karma - Desktop eSteem Surfer 2.0.4 brings 😎 emojis, Power Up & more
@magicdice / @meno - Magic dice is trouble!
@steemhunt - Massive Inflow of CES Products in Steemhunt, HUNT Token Price, Term 11 Influencers | Sponsor Report - #39
NEWS FROM GAMES
@magicdice / @themarkymark - Is Magic Dice Provably Fair?
If you want to check on progress of development on Steem, check out the GitHub here...
If you want to check on the current list of full API Nodes witness @holger80 provides this via @fullnodeupdate...
MEDIA COVERAGE OF STEEM & STEEMIT INC
XBT Network - Blockchain Platform Steemit Bans Bitcoin Ransom Hacker Group With “9/11 Papers”
This is #43 (14 Jan '19) of this daily news service.
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Nice to hear some good news for a change. And great to see that Steem is actually breaking away from the Bitcoin-dominated crypto market this morning. A small upturn, but hopefully a trend that continues.
That is good to see. I wonder if the uptick is connected to the Hivemind announcement, or some other factor?
In my experience the markets rarely follow logic, but maybe Hivemind was the trigger. Let's hope it continues.
😃
Good to hear STINC are making progress to scale up Steem. It's growing slowly now, but it could go viral at any time. They are also adding lots of accounts, but so we know who is getting them? I'm trying to give some away, but not got takers yet.
I'm looking forward to the London event on Friday.
Good to be heading in the right direction.
When the MIRA work is completed as well it will be interesting to see how the node population grows.
What's the London Event?
It's in the events section
https://steemit.com/dtube/@redrica/m0am455d
Looking forward to more and more great news coming this year. I really think this year everything is going to turn around for us.
👍
Cryptoapi-Hacked! It's stolen! is it over?! https://steemit.com/news/@genarus/cryptoapi-hacked-it-s-stolen-is-it-over