ICO had been booming since last year, however more than 80% of them are scams. Currently, South Korea, China and India "ban" ICO, therefore do you still think that ICO should be the way for crypto related project to get funded?
ICO, like any other instruments, are just a means to raise funds or build publicity on the side of the issuer, as well as an investment opportunity on the side of the investor.
There are tons of compliance and regulation when it comes to IPO and Series Funding. ICO represents an "easier" to raise funds via cryptocurrency since technically the blockchain is borderless. There are scams on both sides of the argument. Only that perhaps because of decades of enforcement and regulation, non-ICO fund raising scams are way less simple than most ICO scams.
Take Theranos for example. Despite all the regulations and compliance issues that Elizabeth Holmes and her lawyers managed to overcome, It still ends up being revealed as a "Billion dollar scam". So the assumption that legal compliance translates to no-scam is dangerous.
In many countries, people are locked out of investment opportunities because they lack the network or capital to do so. In the US, you literally are locked out of Series Funding investments if you aren't a millionaire (accredited investor) because SEC is "concerned that poor people can't make sound investments" (extreme paraphrasing here). The rich gets ample opportunities t get richer while the poor are legally banned to do the same thing.
ICO was envisioned to be a way to solve the capital rent in the investment industry. Startups can get funding opportunity from a larger pool of investors while people can invest any amount possible without government intervention and potentially get as much percentage returns as millionaires. Ideally a win-win.
Reality isnt so beautiful though. The compliance and regulations were there in the first place to protect investors from scams and bad faith. Without the regulations, it's the Wild West. Anyone is free to do what they want and the only protection to the investors are their own wits.
It's too early to say whether anything good will come out of ICO, But over the past 10 years, the highest performing investments are all undisputedly ICOs.
This is the sort of scenarios where the free market literally comes to play. Good investments makes overnight millionaires while bad investments leaves the investors with nothing. No one is there to interfere regardless if things went north or south. There's a funny saying where "the most you can lose is 100%, but there are no limits to the gains", obviously not a good advise. though it does shed light to what's going on in the ICO space.
On Whether ICO is the only way. Heck no.
We as Steemians are literally either seeing or participating in another crypto-alternatives to fund raising. Musing.io recently (as of time of writing) just gotten a delegation of 400+k Steem Power. The sort of opportunities that comes with such a delegation is massive. And I can't state all the advantages of using delegation as a form of investment and fund raising mechanism as compared to direct capital investment.
And then there is crypto microloans, or even smart contract itself, where the possibilities are literally endless. Imagine a type of funding round that incorporates FOMO type smart contract in place of Series funding. Where people and firms can "place their bets" on each funding rounds where the funds gets unlocked only when the smart contract requirement is met. Would it work? I have no idea, but it shows what can be done.
What cryptocurrency is doing to finance is akin to how the internet changed the way we learn, or what automobiles did to transportation, or how farming changed the way humans look for food. Sounds grandiose as heck, but I am confident it's what we're seeing.
ICO has irreversibly changed how people look at the idea of fund raising. There will always be scams, and the scams will only get smarter. But the possibility of placing your money even if in minuscule amount as a show of faith and the ability to fund ones company without the restrictions of border is something that we cannot turn away from. it would serve the governments better not to outright ban such a powerful tool. Even doing so in itself might have political ramifications which is an entire different conversation.
An ICO is a horribly inefficient method for raising capital. (I also believe most run afoul of U.S. securities laws, even if the SEC has not been aggressive at enforcement.)
In conventional venture capital, as bad as it may be in many ways, money invested is usually proportional to company progress. A company gets a little investment to start-- a few million dollars, usually, or even less. Then when it has success building a product or finding product-market fit, it can raise more money--- maybe tens of millions. Finally, when the company is growing quickly and has proved its value, it can raise hundreds of millions in an IPO, or from large private equity investors.
ICOs almost uniformly squash all these tranches together. The founders get all the money up front. (And why wouldn't they?) They raise entirely on promise, not on results. So if the idea doesn't work, or the token doesn't find an market, there has been enormous waste, compared to incremental funding.
There are other flaws, but I think this is the key one: fundraising happens all at once, without any proof of product-market fit.
At this time, ICO is no longer as good as the old days, more and more emerging ICOs have made many projects fail, resulting in scams, big losses for investors and bounty hunters, prices not in line with expectations. Choosing a project that really works is very difficult at this time.
True, around 80% of them are scams and the only promises given by the ICO is via whitepaper which is not back by anything, which in this case the dev can just take money and run away.
ICO is a proven and effective method for kickstarting crypto projects, provided the product is in demand and the team that works on it is good. There are several similarities between the concept of Initial Public Offering and ICO. However, there are several key differences.
There are many possible benefits by participating in the ICO. What is clear is: You help companies launch their products. There is also an opportunity to make profit selling ICO tokens after you buy them. the main purpose of each ICO participant is to help fund a project that they think is interesting. However, there is an additional opportunity to benefit in the process.
You must remember that not all are guaranteed to be profitable. If the ICO campaign may fail and in one case, all contributions will be returned to the sender. Even if successful, there is a possibility that the developer cannot send the final product and the token price will never rise. This is the risk that all ICO participants must take into account when they decide to contribute to any campaign.
It's true that ICO manages to fund so much money, which might be like a honeypot for a lot of scams. I hope that the cryptocurrency culture will change then it would be a healthier growth overall for blockchain project.
ICO stands for Initial Coin Offering which means a start-up or team that is looking to run their project / project and use the ICO method to get funding (crowdfunding), by participating in ico by sending funds through the payment method specify that we will get tokens from the project.
Through the ICO method many advantages can be obtained:
Projects that are being planned can be quickly implemented and tried whether or not the project is successful
Can encourage the development / advancement of technology through ideas born of new start-ups that appear throughout the world
this year a number of companies and startups raised US $ 1.4 billion via ICO. The ICO itself is fundraising to build applications related to Blockchain and its implementation such as bitcoin, smart contracts, and smart ledgers.
Through this ICO World Tour forum, Blocktech aims to help the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency industries in Indonesia reach global standards, "Steven said in a statement on Wednesday (1/11/2017).
At the event Blocktech introduced Sebastian Quinn Watson from Blockchain Global Limited as a strategic partner with a number of partners from Indonesia, Australia, Canada and South Korea. Until now, Sebastian and the team managed to collect more than US $ 310 million in the sale of ICO tokens this year.
For information, Bitcoin and other currencies are built on technology called Blockchain. However, not many people know that Blockchain technology can be used for other uses, such as building a decentralized database.
On the same occasion, Hope Liu as CEO of Exchimchaim Singapore presented the function of the Blockchain used by his company to develop the supply chain industry.
Blockchain is also used Gregory Van Den Berg, CEO of MiCai in Beijing to facilitate compliance with regulations in the field of wealth management.
it's a trustbreaker but its been growing for years , before i got back on social networking i spent more time on steam to kill time that needed to die, a shameless way of making money on unfinished products with disclaimers that give you no guarantee whatsoever you're ever going to get anything
i didnt know they banned it there but as much as i'm against any kind of regulation by the government to "protect the people from itself" it might not be a bad idea for once
ofcourse, nothing should be just black & white, maybe they could consider an office to "apply" for ICO, where it can be revised to see if it has any chance at all or if it's just selling hot air to take the money and run.
and that, ofcourse brings it back to bureaucracy, unless they outsource it , in which case you get the same problem because private sector sharks will sell out to give licenses to those who pay
First Thing I'd change is the way the reputation system works, it is not a fair system at all.
Next thing I'd change would be the flagging option, alot of whales can abuse their power and flag someone just because they do not like the person.
The fact that hard working planktons and minnows suffer by begging for upvotes because no one wants to read a post unless it's a post by their friends.
If I could change 3 things on steemit. It will be:
1) Stopping the use of bid bots. Bid bots have taken the steemit system and most quality posts are being undervalue with worthless or less valued posts on the trending page
2) The flagging system. On steemit a user with greater SP and reputation can decided to flag another user for no just cause, this is so disheartening. I will love to develop a system where a complaint is to be made and cross check before flagging a user.
3) I will define implement a law of one's earnings will be base on the number of comments he do gives because most users on steemit just make posts without bothering to check on other users blog.
get rid of downvoting and steamcleaners (should get rid of half the useless bots too)
[edit] i do that all the time so i dont really count on musing as "income" seeing as they play short ball mostly, and probably even more now they have the clout, ... if i did that my answers would be trimmed but, i felt like explaining this :
consider that happening : no more negative weight on votes :
assuming its already punishment enough if you spend 6 or 7 hours or some people DAYS on a post and you get barely anything
knowing very well you can simply mute whoever you dont wanna see
consider this : what would all those bots running around on blacklists have left to do ? All those enlightened people who crusade in the name of holy content building those lists and "enforcing" them , what would happen to them if they couldnt ? They would have to stop and create THEIR OWN CONTENT INSTEAD OF LISTS OF THATS NOT HOW ITS DONE
if nothing else i think it would be a great social experiment to try, even if only for a "test" fork
(LOL @ nazicleaners, what would you do if you had to come up with your own stuff?)
(sorry, i had to ... quite sure the voting round for these is gone anyway, and if i sit around all day typing hoping for a few to hit i'll never have a foundation to stand on and don't get me wrong, i think musing is by far the best thing here since the day i got on to steemit)
right then ... carry on ... nothing to see here
get corporations to have advertising accounts to buy steemit
a free DM-system as an overlay of sorts , doesnt even have to be on the blockchain , any cryptonnaire witness can run it, with validated and approved senders (who have active services that have been checked by the provider) which allows only messages from those you select after you subscribed to them, checking up on all the feeds of stuff i use is A REAL timesink, i dont have the clout or resources to do that or i would have already
Like, if I had magic? If I don't actually have to come up with methods for them it would be:
1. Replace the curation system with a system that does what it was supposed to in the whitepaper: encourage users to discover undervalued content. What curation currently does is encourage users to be the first to vote on content everyone already knows will be valued, which is not really useful in any way.
2. Replace the flagging system with one that doesn't take upvoting power and is based on a user's experience and standing within the platform. Essentially distribute policing power based on who has been here contributing the longest, rather than purely on stake, and don't have it limit those users' ability to reward.
3. Cause Steem Inc. to see the value of curation and retention entrepreneurship in the same way that they see the value of dApps. dApps are important, but building and empowering the user base is also important.
I'm completely against bid bots because with the help of bid bots you can increase your reputation easily and everyone can push their less quality post on trending page. Todays it's impossible to see someone's post on trending page without using bid bots
If you could change three things in how Steemit works what would those be?
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I would dis allow bid bots they are killing the platform. It has turned into a swamp where it is hard to find good posts in the sea of bot votes shitposts. I know people keep on saying the cost of steem is down because of Bitcoin, and yes of course it is connected; but I also believe that bidbots have eroded the worth of steem as well. Steemit has a miserly 8% retention rate. Why because who wants to use a spammy platform where you have to dig for good content and were bad behaviour is rewarded because the top whales engage I it too …
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Night mode as default. Why ? Because it just looks so much better and is easier on the eyes.
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a second voting pool for old posts as there is so much good content that would deserve a second revenue pool. It could have a weekly or monthly payout cycle.
If I am free to do what I want, that is always be in my mind but hard to find. But off course I want to do it and try to make it realize.
First, I do want to travel around the world. To see every country that I always dream of. To learn the beauty of their country. To make friends and sisterhood from every country I visit. I know this idea to travel around the world for now is not easy since I have three kids and being a single parent. But I am sure that one day I will make it real.
Second, Since I loves singing but I do not have a courage to make people hear my voice. I usually sing in my room when my kids went to school or playing around our place. Sometimes I record my own voice with my smartphone and I play it for my own.
Singing will be one of my therapy to get off my stress. Just like traveling, I guess. How about you?
There are three things that I want to do if I get that freedom:
Traveling to Everywhere by My Self
This thing is not suitable for me now because I have little daughter who always follow me wherever I go. She makes me not to think just for myself. So, I always think twice if any invitation or good information about solo traveling.
Photo Walk in Every Day
Since I loved photography, I always need the reason to go out for a moment from my house. It just to take picture that I want. But, I am a mommy now so I need to see the best time for hunting with my friends who loved photography too.
Drinking Coffee as Much I Can
I will not get this freedom again since I have to be manager of my home sweet home. If I do not have enough time to sleep, all of my jobs will be cracked. So, I have to limit just about 3-4 cup of coffee for a week.
when i'm free i always try to learn new things from internet. i learn about new technology like blockchain, 3Dprinting , AI, machine learning. bcz i know its future and i always try to invest myself in future that will make me earn and learn. Youtube is best place to learn everything freely and what we needs in free time is only internet. i like to work online now days i'm also trying to learn HTML5 and java script. i know some people love to travel spend time with friends and watch movie but i'm different i like to learn about new thing which is gonna change the worlds. i like my work i hope this addiction will make me rich in future.
i will want to be king solomon with many wives..lol...but seriously i am already doing everything i want to do,i am me,myself and i,this is the real me,i am always doing what i want to do,i am always free to do whatever i wish to do,so right now there is nothing i would do that i have not been doing already...
I would spent all of my time to learn languages. Because languages is part of my life. Besides I would travel all over the world and practice my foreign language skills.
Well to answer your question I have a list of more than 5 social platforms built on the blockchain (different blockchains) that are ready to rival or are trying to compete with Steemit. I had made a post about platforms that are trying to compete with steemit or rather platforms that are doing similar thing to what steemit is doing a few months ago and since then, more social platforms have been developed. There are still many more being developed.
Below is a list of platforms similar/closely similar to steemit.
Yours.org
A content platform built on the bitcoincash blockchain where users earn monetary rewards in bitcoincash for creating and sharing content. Users can post different forms of contents e,g articles, pictures and videos.
Sapien
A democratized social news platform capable of rewarding millions of content creators and curators without any centralized intermediaries. Sapien has been built for Creators, Content curators ,Developers ,Freelancers ,Media Companies. The platform is already launched and running.
Narrative
A content community platform that rewards creators, moderators and all users who add value to the Narrative platform. 85 percent of all revenue is distributed to users. The full Narrative platform will launch later this year.
U Network (UUU)
This is the platform that I think is very similar to steemit. U-Network is a platform for publishing and valuing online content. It rewards content creators more for their work, by letting users earn money for predicting popular content, by making it easier to discover high quality content, and by allowing all users to be part of content moderation and governance decisions.
Typerium
A decentralised content-creation platform, social media network, and marketplace,
that's geared towards the more than 2.4 billion content consumers worldwide. Still under development.
Galactikka
A powerful social network with a decentralized ad platform and reputation system where anyone can get paid for content.
Content Neutrality Network
An innovative content ecosystem based on blockchain technology. The aim of this platform is to break the barrier between content communities, revolutionizes revenue share, and decentralizes user acquisition and incentive program, creating a more open, efficient and trustworthy content era.
Reos
Reos is a decentralized content platform that will help maximize earnings for content creators through the tokenization of digital content.
Lunyr
This the world's first decentralized knowledge base built on the ethereum blockchain. Users submit articles and are rewarded with lunyr tokens.
There are many content blockchain platforms ready to compete with Steem although Steem is still King. Lets wait and see how Steemit will hold this top position or whether it will be overtaken by other new platforms in the blockchain space. It's only a matter of time :)
am i wrong or do they all look like "writers-only" ... there seems to be a strange notion of what content means .. .but if it helps to get steemcleaners out of here i'm down with it
They are not specifically meant for writers only. Some of them (most of them actually) are meant for all sorts of content creation... From writing articles, making videos,creating Music, photography and many others. So you are probably somehow wrong... I didn't get your point on Steemcleaners though. Please make me understand If you don't mind :)
i dont mind, when i got just on steem they wrecked all my posts without any relevance to content or whatever for weeks, and i still dont know what i said to make that happen, all i know is it happened after an hour in steemchat, which i have never visited again , i think downvoters and blacklisters are the real problem of steemit as they have this weird notion that they hold the holy grail of what content means and they get to decide who gets something or not, it's elitist, and fascist :-)
bots that just run around on blacklists without being able to read ? people who will tell you that your content is "fit for steemit or not" ?
that's dictatorship, abuse of power or at best enlightened despotism (a bit like the EU) i think they're scum, rich scum with zero talent, if downvoting were removed those people would find nothing to do because they dont have anything in them, they could use all that clout to promote, but they use it to destroy,
they're the enemy
Getting flagged or downvoted has always been my biggest fear on this platform. Probably also scary for everybody else who understands the damage it causes to one's reputation. Luckily for me, I have never had any downvote or flagging from steemcleaners but I have had downvotes and a couple flagging from normal accounts for trying to tell the truth and at some point for posting my own original content. Perhaps some people don't really understand the main purpose of the flag and downvote button It is true that some people are here to suppress others using the massive quantity of Steem Power they have and abuse the flag feature and it's just sad that there is actually nothing that the oppressed can. Try pointing it and you are in for some more flagging. There sure is some sort of dictatorship, lack of freedom of speech and lack of equality as it should be.
Maybe that will be fixed in the near future ! We don't know just yet. Sorry had to go through a rough starting on this platform.
hahah, well, nothing good comes for free as they say, i still don't feel like censoring myself or "trying to" post only what will be accepted, if i'm not me i will burn out , if i am just me i can just do what i do anyway hahah, yea it was rough but since its something i chose to do i wont quit easily lol, if it were something i was "made to" do however i'd be sabotaging it myself from the very start. I don't know enough about how deeply rooted the negative voting weight is in the core mechanics of steemchain so i cant just go crusading about it but i'm sure it must be possible, problem is it takes x% of top witness votes and some of those are full-time crusaders lol. I think the only way is opposition and not fall for the pitfall to "repay the favour", although i did, i wrote a special script to sift through my account histories (which i keep locally, they update incrementally for maximum speed and least network stress) to check on everything from outgoing transfers to up and downvotes , after which i can filter the output files for certain accountnames and so on. After that initial onslaught i have barely gotten any , and as far as i can see i have three downvotes i cast myself, one because i fell for it, the other two on an alt account i can only assume that was a mis-click :/ but its still a stain on my record :)
its basically cutting into someone's income so i wouldnt be surprised if at later dates and higher levels lawsuits come from it, its not like blocking someone on twitter, right? you actually TAKE their money away by doing it ... there's no legal precedents since all blockchain tek is in babysteps, even BTC isnt 20 years old yet but im quite sure there will be those who sue over time, in which case, with an immutable ledger there will be a shitstorm, pardon my french, worst scenario a split like eth/etc ...
so i keep saying -> dont flag, dont downvote ... DONT feed the trolls
yes there are some blockchain blogging platform arising lately like SCORUM and UNO these are blogging platform. scorum is only for sport post and they are also trying to start beating platform so may be they will try to competition with steemit in future. second one is UNO best thing i like in this blogging platform is they have mobile app and its so user friendly. both platform are arising lately so they needs to take time for popularity but if they make strong community then they will be biggest competitor for steemit. its not easy to competition with steemit bcz steemit is first blogging platform on blockchain and first is always take place in our mind. i have just shared two competitors may be there are some other.but steemit is my fav and i know it will be best platform in near future.
Of course there is and there will be competition. Everything which attracts a number of possible customers / investors / … has competitors and it is good like this. Without competition there is no incentive to do better and to improve something. @sagar1259 already mentioned some competitors.
If you want to cover the topic of competition here, you'd need to define which sector you mean. Steemit as a blockchain has many functionalities and they will increase with SMTs. Several DApps are build on Steemit, all covering different sectors and all have competitors.
E.g. Steepshot is a DApp build to share your images. Kind of instagram. There is already sola.ai as competitor and with APPICS there will also be one on the Steemit blockchain. There is a big competition.
Also DTube and Dlive who are competitors for themselves, both on the Steemit blockchain (well,. at least a bit as videos and images are not stored on Steemit).
But there are also DApps with nearly no competitor from the cryptocurrency scene at the moment, at least I don't know competitors for Fundition or Utopian.
As of till now there is a few other blockchain based blogging sites but all of them are specific demographic based. For example there is golos.io, an exact copy of steemit but based on russian linguistics and the majority of its community are also russian. It has golos, a token works similarly as steem and GP similar to Steem Power.
Another one would be scorum.com . Pretty similar to steemit but its content are sports driven. Both golos and scorum uses a DPOS based blockchain to validate its blocks . Other ones like mythril or uno also works with similar blockchains
Now to come to the real question, are they steems competetion? When you say steem as a boockchain based blogging platform you know that steem supports a variety of content typology where other ones are specific content driven and demographic based. For example, scorum is a sports blogging site, golos is russian, lit is photography based lifestyle blogging platform. To take them as comepetition they are but only partially. Whereas steem is a self sufficient and is whole on its own. So to me i think they are somewhat of a competition but to surpass steem they have a long way to go.
And another thing is Dan Larimar spoke about bringing steem 2.0 based on eos. Untill that there are no true cometition to steem as of now. Atleast thats what i think.
i tried out all networks listed below (or above by the time i post this) two actually sent me a mail
one of those has a registration process that asks me for my mothers panty size, then blocks because "i need to fill in my name" (which i did)
and the other wants me to buy tokens to post
the rest is at ICO stage and will gladly redirect you to a HOW-TO on how to buy their tokens before they have anything to show ...
also, Tron announced their masterplan might take two decades and minds also expects you to pay ETH first before you can withdraw any token at all, they wont even convert what you have for you ... so i think we're stuck with steemit for a while
i dont think we're quite there yet (or should i put this in a ten-paragraph letter to be considered an answer ;)
I don't think that is the case. For some reason, I also was logged out of musing. But when I tried logging in again, I had to give permissions to musing app via steemconnect again.
It may have been caused by one of the two following reasons:
1. Musing revoked all the steemconnect tokens that provide it with various levels of permission of steemit accounts. Doing this requires users to login again because it logs them out automatically. You may have faced an issue while logging in again.
2. Steemconnect issue. This is more likely and has happened with many other apps as well. If there is a issue with steemconnect then musing will fail to work properly. This kind of problem did happen recently with musing too! But musing is not at fault for this kind of problem because it is something that happens in steemconnect's end. This kind of issue generally dies within a day or so after the problem is fixed.
The most likely reason you had trouble logging in is Steemconnect, the service you use to connect your Steem account to other platforms, was having node issues, making it so people couldn't connect and log in.
I don't think that is the case. For some reason, I also was logged out of musing. But when I tried logging in again, I had to give permissions to musing app via steemconnect again.
It may have been caused by one of the two following reasons:
1. Musing revoked all the steemconnect tokens that provide it with various levels of permission of steemit accounts. Doing this requires users to login again because it logs them out automatically. You may have faced an issue while logging in again.
2. Steemconnect issue. This is more likely and has happened with many other apps as well. If there is a issue with steemconnect then musing will fail to work properly. This kind of problem did happen recently with musing too! But musing is not at fault for this kind of problem because it is something that happens in steemconnect's end. This kind of issue generally dies within a day or so after the problem is fixed.
Guys few days ago I have brought a new WiFi router. And I got my WiFi connection. But I am facing a problame. When I am checking my speed with a software named (fast) I can see the download and upload speed and it's really fast but when I am going to download anything it is fast as well but the uploading time I am not getting much speed. It's too slow for uploading anything. So please suggest me any way to get much speed for upload anything.
As we know, uploading your own speed depends on the network or connection height that your router has, but it can be handled by creating your own antenna, which is using a metal spoon that is tied with copper wire to your router antenna. In addition, you need to try using VPN. as a booster of the connection.
WiFi internet networks are one of the most important developments in the evolution of wireless internet network technology. At present no one wants to feel restrained because they have to use an internet network that is connected to a LAN (Local Area Network) cable, but it is also one of the most frustrating. If you are bothered by slow internet speed or poor or bad signal reception, and other WiFi problems, here are 10 ways to speed up the speed of your Wifi internet connection at home, office, or in a public area.There are many factors that can affect your Wi-Fi speed, and unfortunately there isn't enough one trick for all situations. To get the maximum Wi-Fi connection speed, you must make sure all factors are resolved. For example, you can buy the best available router, but if it's not positioned correctly, you might still experience slow Wi-Fi speed problems. This guide will provide you with several practical ways to ensure your connection is as fast as possible, and has a low network latency and ping time (under 50 ms).
Slow Wi-Fi speeds can even make the quietest people ready to throw their routers out of the window. Imagine if you were playing a Mobile Legend Bang Bang game or watching a Youtube video and suddenly the internet connection was slow, surely making you upset. If your internet provider or ISP (Internet Service Provider) cannot help you solve the problem of slow Wi-Fi speeds, there are a number of things you can do to improve and increase your Wi-Fi speed faster.
Increasing network and upload speed by any means would most likely be illegal. This is because you would be tampering with their equipment and breaching their contract. So if you want it increased, I’d suggest calling and upgrading your plan.
in order of appearance most likely the same as everywhere :
1) have money
2) marry someone there
3) find a job there and they'll kick you out when that job is over
4) get a scholarship
5) live in a country that's under attack and flee
my native language is fluent sarcasm, not english, please dont let this be mis-understood : my message to the world
usually that's a question you would direct to your local canadian embassy who very likely has it on their website since its probably the most asked question they get.
google might know a bit more than musing on the subject
STEP 1:
Enter the official immigration website of Canada here, bro, then click the section Find out if you are eligible and apply online.
Here, agan and sista will be asked to fill out questionnaires about personal life such as the date of birth, the goal of ever getting a green card or PR USA etc.), after that at the end of the questionnaire, Agan will be told the right visa choice for you and the fee.
STEP 2:
Later there will be some follow-up questions and finally a review will appear about your answers, please read carefully because it will determine whether your visa is accepted or not.
In the final section, a reference code will appear, which you hope to record and will be entered when you register. Here the website will ask you to create a CGkey account.
STEP 3:
You are asked to fill in the form and complete the documents. The form here is all online so you don't need to print then sign, just press the validate button. When you will submit the application, you will be asked to sign the form electronically (how to just enter the answer to the question that you have selected when creating an account). Unless there is one form if you want to make an application together with your family, there is an approval form that must be printed and signed by all family members who will make the application.
SBD is not being eliminated in Hardfork 20. It will continue to function as it has before.
Post payouts not coming in SBD anymore is related to how much SBD exists compared to the total market cap of Steem. This will likely change as the Steem price does - either it will rise and the market cap will rise with it, or it will fall and people will start converting quantities of SBD to Steem which will reduce the supply. Either way we should eventually start seeing some payouts in SBD again.
After the HF20 carried out by steemit the issue of SBD will be eliminated and also the SBD transferred to other platforms will be possible and also used as the main currency in the exchange platform.
The Post payouts not allowing to come in SBD anymore is signigificantly related to how much SBD exists compared to the total market cap of Steem.As we know that steem has low market cap as compared with others so we can you a good price in near few months due to low supply.
This will likely change as the Steem price does - either it will rise and the market cap will rise with it, or it will fall and people will start converting quantities of SBD to Steem which will reduce the supply. People are not thinking about future they always think for today so people start converting SBD to steem which can reduce the supply of steem. Either way we should eventually start seeing some payouts in SBD again.so for that we should have a patient and save for the future so we can see a huge spike in a bull run.
I would like to add my learnings to the chain of excellent answers above.
1. Motivate, motivate, motivate:
A leader is a person everyone looks up to. You need to completely believe in set goals and how it will benefit the organization and its employees. You might give your employees all the resources necessary to complete their duties but if you cannot create the will and enthusiasm required to engross them, the chances of generating great results decreases over the period. Money might not at all be a motivating factor for several people. Many welcome an opportunity to make a difference and create a smile/make the world an easier/safer/greener place. You need to observe your co-workers and realize their passion. Let the bird fly and fish swim and not vice versa.
2. Assign ownership and not tasks:
Let everyone be the CEO of their job. Let them make decisions. If you can allocate just enough amount of responsibilities at the right time which can actually scare someone, the chances of performing well increases. Let your employees see the bigger picture and not be restricted to smaller modules.
3. Connect:
Listen to your audience-formal/informal feedback, body language, quality of work are all incoming signals. Figure out what's good and what needs work. Set up a roadmap and channel efforts towards fixing things. Be the driver.
Other important points that are already covered in the answers above:
Being Fair means being able to determine all decisions from two existing problems. Leaders who are able to be fair will certainly be able to tactically give wise decisions to solve a problem.
2. Providing Suggestions.
A leader is required to be able to give suggestions to members of his group. Provision of suggestions is good and true useful to the results obtained at the end of a goal. The suggestion is intended to embrace all members in one unit so that coordination and cohesiveness of members in their participation in a group can be maintained.
3. Purpose (Supplying Objectives)
a leader is required to be able to support all the good things that can be a factor in achieving a group goal. A Leader is required to be able to be assertive and support all aspects that trigger the success of group goals.
4. Become a Catalyst (Catalysing)
A leader can be said as a catalyst if he is able to support all aspects of his group's progress with good ideas and actions.
5. Creating Security (Providing Security)
A leader is said to be able to create a sense of security if he is able to continue to have positive thoughts, firmly stand and be able to hold all the controls with honest, wise. The leader who is able to create a sense of security is a very reliable leader.
6. As an Organization Representative (Representing)
A true leader is a representative of an organizational unit of the group he is working on. A leader is required to be able to be an eye
1. Leader works with others: A leader is responsible for working with other people, one with his boss, staff, co-workers or other superiors as well as people outside the organization.
2. Leaders are responsible and accountable (akontabilitas): A leader is responsible for preparing the task of carrying out tasks, conducting evaluations, to achieve the best outcomes. Leaders are responsible for staff success without failure.
3. Leaders balance the attainment of goals and priorities: The leadership process is limited by resources, so leaders can only arrange tasks by prioritizing priorities. In an effort to achieve the objectives the leader must be able to delegate his tasks to the staff. Then the leader must be able to manage time effectively, and solve problems effectively.
4. Leaders must think analytically and conceptually: A leader must be an analytical and conceptual thinker. Furthermore, it can identify problems accurately. The leader must be able to describe all the jobs to be more clear and related to other work.
5. Manager is forcing mediators: Conflicts always occur on every team and organization. Therefore, the leader must be able to become a mediator (mediator).
6. Leaders are politicians and diplomats: A leader must be able to invite and make compromises. As a diplomat, a leader must be able to represent the team or organization.
7. Leaders make difficult decisions: A leader must be able to solve problems
Today we are confronted with the hustle and bustle of leadership. Many are very proud of their leaders, but not a few are already feeling hot. This is due to two factors, namely first, the matter of government performance that is not optimal and the second is the attitude or behavior of leaders in responding to criticism. I think we all understand that leaders are the most important part of our lives because without leadership, we will be difficult to reach the goals and objectives. At least the character and soul of leadership are in each of our souls. In the language of Islam, a hadith explains that "all of you are leaders, and you are all responsible for what he leads".
The leader will always correlate with responsibility, because that responsibility becomes the domain of power over what he leads. If then the leader cannot play or precisely play that responsibility, then the leader's credibility must be questioned. In a sense, this responsibility is the "stamp" or legitimacy of the leadership. Regardless of the outcome of the responsibility, good or bad, the important thing is that the leader has the attitude, vision, stand and commitment to that responsibility. And it is normal for the leader to be sneered in response to his treatment or his attitude to the responsibility. How hard the scorn is, the leader must be smart and strategy to react to it. It can even be used as input for work and also the spirit to improve performance.
But if, then the leader responds with reactionary, confused until it must be sourced in front of the public with a complaining tone, then the public will judge it variably. There could be sympathizers but also not a few who feel "weird" because they are judged (also) beyond the propriety and appropriateness of a leader. I don't know what to achieve when doing this, maybe building an image, imaging that this leader (now) is being slandered, swayed and not respected. And it will not be legally prosecuted, despite the completion of legal channels. So, you must feel sorry to see your leader be treated like this. how to make the leader "as if" persecuted, can win sympathy.
leaders like this certainly understand well the social-psychological conditions of the community. That is to quickly feel sorry, compassion for people who are persecuted or who are cornered. and if you feel compassion, sympathy for those who feel persecuted will appear everywhere. These symptoms can be touched and tested in the media. Maybe we still remember well, a few years ago, one of the academy contexts on private TV stations was selected through an SMS poll by viewers. So came up one of the participants in the context of singing from among the poor, marginalized people, people who did not have anything and then exaggerated by the media. As a result, win him with a high SMS acquisition. Apart from this, reality-reality shows and of course the rampant soap operas influence the mindset and character of our society. Conditions like this, make our society weak against the formation of critical power and minus the learning that can be achieved. So be our society to be patient with the situation now. But on the other hand also, they even rarely complain. When kerosene is scarce, the price of basic foods goes up, the disaster comes over and comes. They still patiently deal with it and the feeling of their mother is also taken care of.
A good leader is a true, contemporary, transparent, visionary and a pleasant person. He has a mission, a philosophy, a sacrifice, a feeling of compassion and commitment.
The passion and love of compassion for people is a reflection of leadership. It means that the qualities of becoming a leader are hidden in every person to some extent. It is a challenge to cherish these qualities. To become effective leader, 10 qualities are important. There are 10 skills needed for effective leadership ...
1. The leader, whether political, religious or social, has to face many challenges. The ability to tell their commitments is different in every person. Mostly it depends on someone's interests or unwelcome. Even then, the leader has to measure everyone with the same measuring instrument. He needs the wisest intelligence to make the right decisions at the right time.
2. Not all people are alike in society. Not every person can satisfy But the leader has to walk with everyone and do the same justice.
3. The leader is also criticized. He should not face the situation emotionally. Often leaders are surrounded by miscreants who promote their importance for personal purposes. The leader needs help from people around him to do any work. They also have to depend on them. But it should not seem like that he is locked in a fort and surrounded by helpers.
4. The greatest qualities that are expected of a true leader are the courage to raise their hand towards critics and the patience to listen to them. The true leader takes the failure and success in his door with one sentiment. Nowadays, the leaders keep trying to save themselves from criticism all the time because of their weaknesses or giving cleanses on their wrong actions. A teacher does not complain, neither does he complain nor gives cleanliness. Rather, it is ready to learn something at all times. A good leader does not plant tears on others.
5. Creating a harmony between idealism, pragmatism and far-reaching goals and short-term needs. Those leaders who depend only on idealism or who only want to stay practical, they fail without any theory.
6. Leader can not be just general or special It is necessary to establish a balance between the personal attention of the people of the society and the general attitude towards the group society and the nation.
7. The leader should have the courage to accept his weaknesses. He should understand that people are generous hearts. She will appreciate her candidness. Instead of hiding them, he will accept his weakness.
a good leader should first of all ensure to be a good follower too and what this means is that a good leader must have a listening ears to the plight of his or her followers because you are the one leading them and you need to know what they are going through in other for you to be able to lead them rightly,a good leader should be disciplined and responsible,a good leader should be able to speak the truth in any situation,a good leader should be full of integrity and good morals,a good leader must be determined and focused..
What's your thoughts about ICO?
ICO had been booming since last year, however more than 80% of them are scams. Currently, South Korea, China and India "ban" ICO, therefore do you still think that ICO should be the way for crypto related project to get funded?
ICO, like any other instruments, are just a means to raise funds or build publicity on the side of the issuer, as well as an investment opportunity on the side of the investor.
There are tons of compliance and regulation when it comes to IPO and Series Funding. ICO represents an "easier" to raise funds via cryptocurrency since technically the blockchain is borderless. There are scams on both sides of the argument. Only that perhaps because of decades of enforcement and regulation, non-ICO fund raising scams are way less simple than most ICO scams.
Take Theranos for example. Despite all the regulations and compliance issues that Elizabeth Holmes and her lawyers managed to overcome, It still ends up being revealed as a "Billion dollar scam". So the assumption that legal compliance translates to no-scam is dangerous.
In many countries, people are locked out of investment opportunities because they lack the network or capital to do so. In the US, you literally are locked out of Series Funding investments if you aren't a millionaire (accredited investor) because SEC is "concerned that poor people can't make sound investments" (extreme paraphrasing here). The rich gets ample opportunities t get richer while the poor are legally banned to do the same thing.
ICO was envisioned to be a way to solve the capital rent in the investment industry. Startups can get funding opportunity from a larger pool of investors while people can invest any amount possible without government intervention and potentially get as much percentage returns as millionaires. Ideally a win-win.
Reality isnt so beautiful though. The compliance and regulations were there in the first place to protect investors from scams and bad faith. Without the regulations, it's the Wild West. Anyone is free to do what they want and the only protection to the investors are their own wits.
It's too early to say whether anything good will come out of ICO, But over the past 10 years, the highest performing investments are all undisputedly ICOs.
<source: steemit.com/crypto/@hilarski/what-ico-s-have-had-the-highest-returns>
This is the sort of scenarios where the free market literally comes to play. Good investments makes overnight millionaires while bad investments leaves the investors with nothing. No one is there to interfere regardless if things went north or south. There's a funny saying where "the most you can lose is 100%, but there are no limits to the gains", obviously not a good advise. though it does shed light to what's going on in the ICO space.
On Whether ICO is the only way. Heck no.
We as Steemians are literally either seeing or participating in another crypto-alternatives to fund raising. Musing.io recently (as of time of writing) just gotten a delegation of 400+k Steem Power. The sort of opportunities that comes with such a delegation is massive. And I can't state all the advantages of using delegation as a form of investment and fund raising mechanism as compared to direct capital investment.
And then there is crypto microloans, or even smart contract itself, where the possibilities are literally endless. Imagine a type of funding round that incorporates FOMO type smart contract in place of Series funding. Where people and firms can "place their bets" on each funding rounds where the funds gets unlocked only when the smart contract requirement is met. Would it work? I have no idea, but it shows what can be done.
What cryptocurrency is doing to finance is akin to how the internet changed the way we learn, or what automobiles did to transportation, or how farming changed the way humans look for food. Sounds grandiose as heck, but I am confident it's what we're seeing.
ICO has irreversibly changed how people look at the idea of fund raising. There will always be scams, and the scams will only get smarter. But the possibility of placing your money even if in minuscule amount as a show of faith and the ability to fund ones company without the restrictions of border is something that we cannot turn away from. it would serve the governments better not to outright ban such a powerful tool. Even doing so in itself might have political ramifications which is an entire different conversation.
An ICO is a horribly inefficient method for raising capital. (I also believe most run afoul of U.S. securities laws, even if the SEC has not been aggressive at enforcement.)
In conventional venture capital, as bad as it may be in many ways, money invested is usually proportional to company progress. A company gets a little investment to start-- a few million dollars, usually, or even less. Then when it has success building a product or finding product-market fit, it can raise more money--- maybe tens of millions. Finally, when the company is growing quickly and has proved its value, it can raise hundreds of millions in an IPO, or from large private equity investors.
ICOs almost uniformly squash all these tranches together. The founders get all the money up front. (And why wouldn't they?) They raise entirely on promise, not on results. So if the idea doesn't work, or the token doesn't find an market, there has been enormous waste, compared to incremental funding.
There are other flaws, but I think this is the key one: fundraising happens all at once, without any proof of product-market fit.
(I wrote a more in-depth analysis of Filecoin on Steemit previously: https://steemit.com/filecoin/@markgritter/should-you-pay-for-storage-with-filecoin-probably-not)
At this time, ICO is no longer as good as the old days, more and more emerging ICOs have made many projects fail, resulting in scams, big losses for investors and bounty hunters, prices not in line with expectations. Choosing a project that really works is very difficult at this time.
True, around 80% of them are scams and the only promises given by the ICO is via whitepaper which is not back by anything, which in this case the dev can just take money and run away.
ICO is a proven and effective method for kickstarting crypto projects, provided the product is in demand and the team that works on it is good. There are several similarities between the concept of Initial Public Offering and ICO. However, there are several key differences.
There are many possible benefits by participating in the ICO. What is clear is: You help companies launch their products. There is also an opportunity to make profit selling ICO tokens after you buy them. the main purpose of each ICO participant is to help fund a project that they think is interesting. However, there is an additional opportunity to benefit in the process.
You must remember that not all are guaranteed to be profitable. If the ICO campaign may fail and in one case, all contributions will be returned to the sender. Even if successful, there is a possibility that the developer cannot send the final product and the token price will never rise. This is the risk that all ICO participants must take into account when they decide to contribute to any campaign.
It's true that ICO manages to fund so much money, which might be like a honeypot for a lot of scams. I hope that the cryptocurrency culture will change then it would be a healthier growth overall for blockchain project.
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ICO stands for Initial Coin Offering which means a start-up or team that is looking to run their project / project and use the ICO method to get funding (crowdfunding), by participating in ico by sending funds through the payment method specify that we will get tokens from the project.
Through the ICO method many advantages can be obtained:
Projects that are being planned can be quickly implemented and tried whether or not the project is successful
Can encourage the development / advancement of technology through ideas born of new start-ups that appear throughout the world
this year a number of companies and startups raised US $ 1.4 billion via ICO. The ICO itself is fundraising to build applications related to Blockchain and its implementation such as bitcoin, smart contracts, and smart ledgers.
Through this ICO World Tour forum, Blocktech aims to help the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency industries in Indonesia reach global standards, "Steven said in a statement on Wednesday (1/11/2017).
At the event Blocktech introduced Sebastian Quinn Watson from Blockchain Global Limited as a strategic partner with a number of partners from Indonesia, Australia, Canada and South Korea. Until now, Sebastian and the team managed to collect more than US $ 310 million in the sale of ICO tokens this year.
For information, Bitcoin and other currencies are built on technology called Blockchain. However, not many people know that Blockchain technology can be used for other uses, such as building a decentralized database.
On the same occasion, Hope Liu as CEO of Exchimchaim Singapore presented the function of the Blockchain used by his company to develop the supply chain industry.
Blockchain is also used Gregory Van Den Berg, CEO of MiCai in Beijing to facilitate compliance with regulations in the field of wealth management.
it's a trustbreaker but its been growing for years , before i got back on social networking i spent more time on steam to kill time that needed to die, a shameless way of making money on unfinished products with disclaimers that give you no guarantee whatsoever you're ever going to get anything
i didnt know they banned it there but as much as i'm against any kind of regulation by the government to "protect the people from itself" it might not be a bad idea for once
ofcourse, nothing should be just black & white, maybe they could consider an office to "apply" for ICO, where it can be revised to see if it has any chance at all or if it's just selling hot air to take the money and run.
and that, ofcourse brings it back to bureaucracy, unless they outsource it , in which case you get the same problem because private sector sharks will sell out to give licenses to those who pay
humans ....
If you could change three things in how Steemit works what would those be?
I just want to change one thing, which is to eliminate bid-bots, because with the existence of bid-bots, good quality articles also have no meaning.
That's what I would instantly also.
First Thing I'd change is the way the reputation system works, it is not a fair system at all.
Next thing I'd change would be the flagging option, alot of whales can abuse their power and flag someone just because they do not like the person.
The fact that hard working planktons and minnows suffer by begging for upvotes because no one wants to read a post unless it's a post by their friends.
If I could change 3 things on steemit. It will be:
1) Stopping the use of bid bots. Bid bots have taken the steemit system and most quality posts are being undervalue with worthless or less valued posts on the trending page
2) The flagging system. On steemit a user with greater SP and reputation can decided to flag another user for no just cause, this is so disheartening. I will love to develop a system where a complaint is to be made and cross check before flagging a user.
3) I will define implement a law of one's earnings will be base on the number of comments he do gives because most users on steemit just make posts without bothering to check on other users blog.
get rid of downvoting and steamcleaners (should get rid of half the useless bots too)
[edit] i do that all the time so i dont really count on musing as "income" seeing as they play short ball mostly, and probably even more now they have the clout, ... if i did that my answers would be trimmed but, i felt like explaining this :
consider that happening : no more negative weight on votes :
assuming its already punishment enough if you spend 6 or 7 hours or some people DAYS on a post and you get barely anything
knowing very well you can simply mute whoever you dont wanna see
consider this : what would all those bots running around on blacklists have left to do ? All those enlightened people who crusade in the name of holy content building those lists and "enforcing" them , what would happen to them if they couldnt ? They would have to stop and create THEIR OWN CONTENT INSTEAD OF LISTS OF THATS NOT HOW ITS DONE
if nothing else i think it would be a great social experiment to try, even if only for a "test" fork
(LOL @ nazicleaners, what would you do if you had to come up with your own stuff?)
(sorry, i had to ... quite sure the voting round for these is gone anyway, and if i sit around all day typing hoping for a few to hit i'll never have a foundation to stand on and don't get me wrong, i think musing is by far the best thing here since the day i got on to steemit)
right then ... carry on ... nothing to see here
get corporations to have advertising accounts to buy steemit
a free DM-system as an overlay of sorts , doesnt even have to be on the blockchain , any cryptonnaire witness can run it, with validated and approved senders (who have active services that have been checked by the provider) which allows only messages from those you select after you subscribed to them, checking up on all the feeds of stuff i use is A REAL timesink, i dont have the clout or resources to do that or i would have already
Like, if I had magic? If I don't actually have to come up with methods for them it would be:
1. Replace the curation system with a system that does what it was supposed to in the whitepaper: encourage users to discover undervalued content. What curation currently does is encourage users to be the first to vote on content everyone already knows will be valued, which is not really useful in any way.
2. Replace the flagging system with one that doesn't take upvoting power and is based on a user's experience and standing within the platform. Essentially distribute policing power based on who has been here contributing the longest, rather than purely on stake, and don't have it limit those users' ability to reward.
3. Cause Steem Inc. to see the value of curation and retention entrepreneurship in the same way that they see the value of dApps. dApps are important, but building and empowering the user base is also important.
I would love it if the problem of people spamming and hacking other peoples account can be controlled
I'm completely against bid bots because with the help of bid bots you can increase your reputation easily and everyone can push their less quality post on trending page. Todays it's impossible to see someone's post on trending page without using bid bots
Question posted on [musings](https://musing.io/q/acesontop/pkg5p696x) was :
If you could change three things in how Steemit works what would those be?
1-
I would dis allow bid bots they are killing the platform. It has turned into a swamp where it is hard to find good posts in the sea of bot votes shitposts. I know people keep on saying the cost of steem is down because of Bitcoin, and yes of course it is connected; but I also believe that bidbots have eroded the worth of steem as well. Steemit has a miserly 8% retention rate. Why because who wants to use a spammy platform where you have to dig for good content and were bad behaviour is rewarded because the top whales engage I it too …
2-
Night mode as default. Why ? Because it just looks so much better and is easier on the eyes.
3-
a second voting pool for old posts as there is so much good content that would deserve a second revenue pool. It could have a weekly or monthly payout cycle.
If you are free to do what you want, what would you do?
If I am free to do what I want, that is always be in my mind but hard to find. But off course I want to do it and try to make it realize.
First, I do want to travel around the world. To see every country that I always dream of. To learn the beauty of their country. To make friends and sisterhood from every country I visit. I know this idea to travel around the world for now is not easy since I have three kids and being a single parent. But I am sure that one day I will make it real.
Second, Since I loves singing but I do not have a courage to make people hear my voice. I usually sing in my room when my kids went to school or playing around our place. Sometimes I record my own voice with my smartphone and I play it for my own.
Singing will be one of my therapy to get off my stress. Just like traveling, I guess. How about you?
There are three things that I want to do if I get that freedom:
Traveling to Everywhere by My Self
This thing is not suitable for me now because I have little daughter who always follow me wherever I go. She makes me not to think just for myself. So, I always think twice if any invitation or good information about solo traveling.
Photo Walk in Every Day
Since I loved photography, I always need the reason to go out for a moment from my house. It just to take picture that I want. But, I am a mommy now so I need to see the best time for hunting with my friends who loved photography too.
Drinking Coffee as Much I Can
I will not get this freedom again since I have to be manager of my home sweet home. If I do not have enough time to sleep, all of my jobs will be cracked. So, I have to limit just about 3-4 cup of coffee for a week.
How about you?
Exactly what I am doing right now. Nothing constraints me in any way.
when i'm free i always try to learn new things from internet. i learn about new technology like blockchain, 3Dprinting , AI, machine learning. bcz i know its future and i always try to invest myself in future that will make me earn and learn. Youtube is best place to learn everything freely and what we needs in free time is only internet. i like to work online now days i'm also trying to learn HTML5 and java script. i know some people love to travel spend time with friends and watch movie but i'm different i like to learn about new thing which is gonna change the worlds. i like my work i hope this addiction will make me rich in future.
i will want to be king solomon with many wives..lol...but seriously i am already doing everything i want to do,i am me,myself and i,this is the real me,i am always doing what i want to do,i am always free to do whatever i wish to do,so right now there is nothing i would do that i have not been doing already...
Probably try hacking a government's system or a bank. I have always wanted to try hacking but don't want to get into trouble. :)
I play a game called Ludo , where I make my SBD/STEEM double or triple within minutes . I love to share the discord link with everyone :
https://discord.gg/Y4v78Tf
Ludo is an amazing game. You must join the discord channel to make your money more.
So how do I paste the link to join you
I would spent all of my time to learn languages. Because languages is part of my life. Besides I would travel all over the world and practice my foreign language skills.
If am free to do what I want, i'll just be here looking for questions that will make more meaning just like this from peachyladiva..
Do you see any competition for Steem as a blockchain blogging platform arising lately?
Well to answer your question I have a list of more than 5 social platforms built on the blockchain (different blockchains) that are ready to rival or are trying to compete with Steemit. I had made a post about platforms that are trying to compete with steemit or rather platforms that are doing similar thing to what steemit is doing a few months ago and since then, more social platforms have been developed. There are still many more being developed.
Below is a list of platforms similar/closely similar to steemit.
Yours.org
A content platform built on the bitcoincash blockchain where users earn monetary rewards in bitcoincash for creating and sharing content. Users can post different forms of contents e,g articles, pictures and videos.
Sapien
A democratized social news platform capable of rewarding millions of content creators and curators without any centralized intermediaries. Sapien has been built for Creators, Content curators ,Developers ,Freelancers ,Media Companies. The platform is already launched and running.
Narrative
A content community platform that rewards creators, moderators and all users who add value to the Narrative platform. 85 percent of all revenue is distributed to users. The full Narrative platform will launch later this year.
U Network (UUU)
This is the platform that I think is very similar to steemit. U-Network is a platform for publishing and valuing online content. It rewards content creators more for their work, by letting users earn money for predicting popular content, by making it easier to discover high quality content, and by allowing all users to be part of content moderation and governance decisions.
Typerium
A decentralised content-creation platform, social media network, and marketplace,
that's geared towards the more than 2.4 billion content consumers worldwide. Still under development.
Galactikka
A powerful social network with a decentralized ad platform and reputation system where anyone can get paid for content.
Content Neutrality Network
An innovative content ecosystem based on blockchain technology. The aim of this platform is to break the barrier between content communities, revolutionizes revenue share, and decentralizes user acquisition and incentive program, creating a more open, efficient and trustworthy content era.
Reos
Reos is a decentralized content platform that will help maximize earnings for content creators through the tokenization of digital content.
Lunyr
This the world's first decentralized knowledge base built on the ethereum blockchain. Users submit articles and are rewarded with lunyr tokens.
There are many content blockchain platforms ready to compete with Steem although Steem is still King. Lets wait and see how Steemit will hold this top position or whether it will be overtaken by other new platforms in the blockchain space. It's only a matter of time :)
am i wrong or do they all look like "writers-only" ... there seems to be a strange notion of what content means .. .but if it helps to get steemcleaners out of here i'm down with it
They are not specifically meant for writers only. Some of them (most of them actually) are meant for all sorts of content creation... From writing articles, making videos,creating Music, photography and many others. So you are probably somehow wrong... I didn't get your point on Steemcleaners though. Please make me understand If you don't mind :)
i dont mind, when i got just on steem they wrecked all my posts without any relevance to content or whatever for weeks, and i still dont know what i said to make that happen, all i know is it happened after an hour in steemchat, which i have never visited again , i think downvoters and blacklisters are the real problem of steemit as they have this weird notion that they hold the holy grail of what content means and they get to decide who gets something or not, it's elitist, and fascist :-)
bots that just run around on blacklists without being able to read ? people who will tell you that your content is "fit for steemit or not" ?
that's dictatorship, abuse of power or at best enlightened despotism (a bit like the EU) i think they're scum, rich scum with zero talent, if downvoting were removed those people would find nothing to do because they dont have anything in them, they could use all that clout to promote, but they use it to destroy,
they're the enemy
i hope that clarified it
Getting flagged or downvoted has always been my biggest fear on this platform. Probably also scary for everybody else who understands the damage it causes to one's reputation. Luckily for me, I have never had any downvote or flagging from steemcleaners but I have had downvotes and a couple flagging from normal accounts for trying to tell the truth and at some point for posting my own original content. Perhaps some people don't really understand the main purpose of the flag and downvote button It is true that some people are here to suppress others using the massive quantity of Steem Power they have and abuse the flag feature and it's just sad that there is actually nothing that the oppressed can. Try pointing it and you are in for some more flagging. There sure is some sort of dictatorship, lack of freedom of speech and lack of equality as it should be.
Maybe that will be fixed in the near future ! We don't know just yet. Sorry had to go through a rough starting on this platform.
hahah, well, nothing good comes for free as they say, i still don't feel like censoring myself or "trying to" post only what will be accepted, if i'm not me i will burn out , if i am just me i can just do what i do anyway hahah, yea it was rough but since its something i chose to do i wont quit easily lol, if it were something i was "made to" do however i'd be sabotaging it myself from the very start. I don't know enough about how deeply rooted the negative voting weight is in the core mechanics of steemchain so i cant just go crusading about it but i'm sure it must be possible, problem is it takes x% of top witness votes and some of those are full-time crusaders lol. I think the only way is opposition and not fall for the pitfall to "repay the favour", although i did, i wrote a special script to sift through my account histories (which i keep locally, they update incrementally for maximum speed and least network stress) to check on everything from outgoing transfers to up and downvotes , after which i can filter the output files for certain accountnames and so on. After that initial onslaught i have barely gotten any , and as far as i can see i have three downvotes i cast myself, one because i fell for it, the other two on an alt account i can only assume that was a mis-click :/ but its still a stain on my record :)
its basically cutting into someone's income so i wouldnt be surprised if at later dates and higher levels lawsuits come from it, its not like blocking someone on twitter, right? you actually TAKE their money away by doing it ... there's no legal precedents since all blockchain tek is in babysteps, even BTC isnt 20 years old yet but im quite sure there will be those who sue over time, in which case, with an immutable ledger there will be a shitstorm, pardon my french, worst scenario a split like eth/etc ...
so i keep saying ->
dont flag, dont downvote ... DONT feed the trolls
;-)
yes there are some blockchain blogging platform arising lately like SCORUM and UNO these are blogging platform. scorum is only for sport post and they are also trying to start beating platform so may be they will try to competition with steemit in future. second one is UNO best thing i like in this blogging platform is they have mobile app and its so user friendly. both platform are arising lately so they needs to take time for popularity but if they make strong community then they will be biggest competitor for steemit. its not easy to competition with steemit bcz steemit is first blogging platform on blockchain and first is always take place in our mind. i have just shared two competitors may be there are some other.but steemit is my fav and i know it will be best platform in near future.
Of course there is and there will be competition. Everything which attracts a number of possible customers / investors / … has competitors and it is good like this. Without competition there is no incentive to do better and to improve something. @sagar1259 already mentioned some competitors.
If you want to cover the topic of competition here, you'd need to define which sector you mean. Steemit as a blockchain has many functionalities and they will increase with SMTs. Several DApps are build on Steemit, all covering different sectors and all have competitors.
E.g. Steepshot is a DApp build to share your images. Kind of instagram. There is already sola.ai as competitor and with APPICS there will also be one on the Steemit blockchain. There is a big competition.
Also DTube and Dlive who are competitors for themselves, both on the Steemit blockchain (well,. at least a bit as videos and images are not stored on Steemit).
But there are also DApps with nearly no competitor from the cryptocurrency scene at the moment, at least I don't know competitors for Fundition or Utopian.
As of till now there is a few other blockchain based blogging sites but all of them are specific demographic based. For example there is golos.io, an exact copy of steemit but based on russian linguistics and the majority of its community are also russian. It has golos, a token works similarly as steem and GP similar to Steem Power.
Another one would be scorum.com . Pretty similar to steemit but its content are sports driven. Both golos and scorum uses a DPOS based blockchain to validate its blocks . Other ones like mythril or uno also works with similar blockchains
Now to come to the real question, are they steems competetion? When you say steem as a boockchain based blogging platform you know that steem supports a variety of content typology where other ones are specific content driven and demographic based. For example, scorum is a sports blogging site, golos is russian, lit is photography based lifestyle blogging platform. To take them as comepetition they are but only partially. Whereas steem is a self sufficient and is whole on its own. So to me i think they are somewhat of a competition but to surpass steem they have a long way to go.
And another thing is Dan Larimar spoke about bringing steem 2.0 based on eos. Untill that there are no true cometition to steem as of now. Atleast thats what i think.
i tried out all networks listed below (or above by the time i post this) two actually sent me a mail
one of those has a registration process that asks me for my mothers panty size, then blocks because "i need to fill in my name" (which i did)
and the other wants me to buy tokens to post
the rest is at ICO stage and will gladly redirect you to a HOW-TO on how to buy their tokens before they have anything to show ...
also, Tron announced their masterplan might take two decades and minds also expects you to pay ETH first before you can withdraw any token at all, they wont even convert what you have for you ... so i think we're stuck with steemit for a while
i dont think we're quite there yet (or should i put this in a ten-paragraph letter to be considered an answer ;)
fyi , *dont believe the hype*
Am I the only one that have difficulty login in to musing. io?
I don't think that is the case. For some reason, I also was logged out of musing. But when I tried logging in again, I had to give permissions to musing app via steemconnect again.
It may have been caused by one of the two following reasons:
1. Musing revoked all the steemconnect tokens that provide it with various levels of permission of steemit accounts. Doing this requires users to login again because it logs them out automatically. You may have faced an issue while logging in again.
2. Steemconnect issue. This is more likely and has happened with many other apps as well. If there is a issue with steemconnect then musing will fail to work properly. This kind of problem did happen recently with musing too! But musing is not at fault for this kind of problem because it is something that happens in steemconnect's end. This kind of issue generally dies within a day or so after the problem is fixed.
The most likely reason you had trouble logging in is Steemconnect, the service you use to connect your Steem account to other platforms, was having node issues, making it so people couldn't connect and log in.
Moved to the Hive platform.
I don't think that is the case. For some reason, I also was logged out of musing. But when I tried logging in again, I had to give permissions to musing app via steemconnect again.
It may have been caused by one of the two following reasons:
1. Musing revoked all the steemconnect tokens that provide it with various levels of permission of steemit accounts. Doing this requires users to login again because it logs them out automatically. You may have faced an issue while logging in again.
2. Steemconnect issue. This is more likely and has happened with many other apps as well. If there is a issue with steemconnect then musing will fail to work properly. This kind of problem did happen recently with musing too! But musing is not at fault for this kind of problem because it is something that happens in steemconnect's end. This kind of issue generally dies within a day or so after the problem is fixed.
How to increase any WiFi networks upload speed , Do you know any kind of tricks?
Guys few days ago I have brought a new WiFi router. And I got my WiFi connection. But I am facing a problame. When I am checking my speed with a software named (fast) I can see the download and upload speed and it's really fast but when I am going to download anything it is fast as well but the uploading time I am not getting much speed. It's too slow for uploading anything. So please suggest me any way to get much speed for upload anything.
As we know, uploading your own speed depends on the network or connection height that your router has, but it can be handled by creating your own antenna, which is using a metal spoon that is tied with copper wire to your router antenna. In addition, you need to try using VPN. as a booster of the connection.
WiFi internet networks are one of the most important developments in the evolution of wireless internet network technology. At present no one wants to feel restrained because they have to use an internet network that is connected to a LAN (Local Area Network) cable, but it is also one of the most frustrating. If you are bothered by slow internet speed or poor or bad signal reception, and other WiFi problems, here are 10 ways to speed up the speed of your Wifi internet connection at home, office, or in a public area.There are many factors that can affect your Wi-Fi speed, and unfortunately there isn't enough one trick for all situations. To get the maximum Wi-Fi connection speed, you must make sure all factors are resolved. For example, you can buy the best available router, but if it's not positioned correctly, you might still experience slow Wi-Fi speed problems. This guide will provide you with several practical ways to ensure your connection is as fast as possible, and has a low network latency and ping time (under 50 ms).
Slow Wi-Fi speeds can even make the quietest people ready to throw their routers out of the window. Imagine if you were playing a Mobile Legend Bang Bang game or watching a Youtube video and suddenly the internet connection was slow, surely making you upset. If your internet provider or ISP (Internet Service Provider) cannot help you solve the problem of slow Wi-Fi speeds, there are a number of things you can do to improve and increase your Wi-Fi speed faster.
Increasing network and upload speed by any means would most likely be illegal. This is because you would be tampering with their equipment and breaching their contract. So if you want it increased, I’d suggest calling and upgrading your plan.
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What's the easiest way to get a Canadian visa???
in order of appearance most likely the same as everywhere :
1) have money
2) marry someone there
3) find a job there and they'll kick you out when that job is over
4) get a scholarship
5) live in a country that's under attack and flee
my native language is fluent sarcasm, not english, please dont let this be mis-understood : my message to the world
usually that's a question you would direct to your local canadian embassy who very likely has it on their website since its probably the most asked question they get.
google might know a bit more than musing on the subject
ohaio gosaimasssss
STEP 1:
Enter the official immigration website of Canada here, bro, then click the section Find out if you are eligible and apply online.
Here, agan and sista will be asked to fill out questionnaires about personal life such as the date of birth, the goal of ever getting a green card or PR USA etc.), after that at the end of the questionnaire, Agan will be told the right visa choice for you and the fee.
STEP 2:
Later there will be some follow-up questions and finally a review will appear about your answers, please read carefully because it will determine whether your visa is accepted or not.
In the final section, a reference code will appear, which you hope to record and will be entered when you register. Here the website will ask you to create a CGkey account.
STEP 3:
You are asked to fill in the form and complete the documents. The form here is all online so you don't need to print then sign, just press the validate button. When you will submit the application, you will be asked to sign the form electronically (how to just enter the answer to the question that you have selected when creating an account). Unless there is one form if you want to make an application together with your family, there is an approval form that must be printed and signed by all family members who will make the application.
In your opinion, after the HF20 carried out by Steemit, is the issue of SBD being eliminated right? or is SBD transferred to other platforms, and used as the main currency there?
SBD is not being eliminated in Hardfork 20. It will continue to function as it has before.
Post payouts not coming in SBD anymore is related to how much SBD exists compared to the total market cap of Steem. This will likely change as the Steem price does - either it will rise and the market cap will rise with it, or it will fall and people will start converting quantities of SBD to Steem which will reduce the supply. Either way we should eventually start seeing some payouts in SBD again.
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After the HF20 carried out by steemit the issue of SBD will be eliminated and also the SBD transferred to other platforms will be possible and also used as the main currency in the exchange platform.
The Post payouts not allowing to come in SBD anymore is signigificantly related to how much SBD exists compared to the total market cap of Steem.As we know that steem has low market cap as compared with others so we can you a good price in near few months due to low supply.
This will likely change as the Steem price does - either it will rise and the market cap will rise with it, or it will fall and people will start converting quantities of SBD to Steem which will reduce the supply. People are not thinking about future they always think for today so people start converting SBD to steem which can reduce the supply of steem. Either way we should eventually start seeing some payouts in SBD again.so for that we should have a patient and save for the future so we can see a huge spike in a bull run.
this small post by @socky should explain that
What are the responsibilities of a good leader?
I would like to add my learnings to the chain of excellent answers above.
1. Motivate, motivate, motivate:
A leader is a person everyone looks up to. You need to completely believe in set goals and how it will benefit the organization and its employees. You might give your employees all the resources necessary to complete their duties but if you cannot create the will and enthusiasm required to engross them, the chances of generating great results decreases over the period. Money might not at all be a motivating factor for several people. Many welcome an opportunity to make a difference and create a smile/make the world an easier/safer/greener place. You need to observe your co-workers and realize their passion. Let the bird fly and fish swim and not vice versa.
2. Assign ownership and not tasks:
Let everyone be the CEO of their job. Let them make decisions. If you can allocate just enough amount of responsibilities at the right time which can actually scare someone, the chances of performing well increases. Let your employees see the bigger picture and not be restricted to smaller modules.
3. Connect:
Listen to your audience-formal/informal feedback, body language, quality of work are all incoming signals. Figure out what's good and what needs work. Set up a roadmap and channel efforts towards fixing things. Be the driver.
Other important points that are already covered in the answers above:
1. Appreciate innovation
2. Deliver on promises
3. Set an example
4. Be amongst the crowd yet stand out
5. Praise in public, reprimand in private
1. Be Fair (Arbitrating)
Being Fair means being able to determine all decisions from two existing problems. Leaders who are able to be fair will certainly be able to tactically give wise decisions to solve a problem.
2. Providing Suggestions.
A leader is required to be able to give suggestions to members of his group. Provision of suggestions is good and true useful to the results obtained at the end of a goal. The suggestion is intended to embrace all members in one unit so that coordination and cohesiveness of members in their participation in a group can be maintained.
3. Purpose (Supplying Objectives)
a leader is required to be able to support all the good things that can be a factor in achieving a group goal. A Leader is required to be able to be assertive and support all aspects that trigger the success of group goals.
4. Become a Catalyst (Catalysing)
A leader can be said as a catalyst if he is able to support all aspects of his group's progress with good ideas and actions.
5. Creating Security (Providing Security)
A leader is said to be able to create a sense of security if he is able to continue to have positive thoughts, firmly stand and be able to hold all the controls with honest, wise. The leader who is able to create a sense of security is a very reliable leader.
6. As an Organization Representative (Representing)
A true leader is a representative of an organizational unit of the group he is working on. A leader is required to be able to be an eye
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Task of the Leader
The main task of a leader is:
1. Leader works with others: A leader is responsible for working with other people, one with his boss, staff, co-workers or other superiors as well as people outside the organization.
2. Leaders are responsible and accountable (akontabilitas): A leader is responsible for preparing the task of carrying out tasks, conducting evaluations, to achieve the best outcomes. Leaders are responsible for staff success without failure.
3. Leaders balance the attainment of goals and priorities: The leadership process is limited by resources, so leaders can only arrange tasks by prioritizing priorities. In an effort to achieve the objectives the leader must be able to delegate his tasks to the staff. Then the leader must be able to manage time effectively, and solve problems effectively.
4. Leaders must think analytically and conceptually: A leader must be an analytical and conceptual thinker. Furthermore, it can identify problems accurately. The leader must be able to describe all the jobs to be more clear and related to other work.
5. Manager is forcing mediators: Conflicts always occur on every team and organization. Therefore, the leader must be able to become a mediator (mediator).
6. Leaders are politicians and diplomats: A leader must be able to invite and make compromises. As a diplomat, a leader must be able to represent the team or organization.
7. Leaders make difficult decisions: A leader must be able to solve problems
Today we are confronted with the hustle and bustle of leadership. Many are very proud of their leaders, but not a few are already feeling hot. This is due to two factors, namely first, the matter of government performance that is not optimal and the second is the attitude or behavior of leaders in responding to criticism. I think we all understand that leaders are the most important part of our lives because without leadership, we will be difficult to reach the goals and objectives. At least the character and soul of leadership are in each of our souls. In the language of Islam, a hadith explains that "all of you are leaders, and you are all responsible for what he leads".
The leader will always correlate with responsibility, because that responsibility becomes the domain of power over what he leads. If then the leader cannot play or precisely play that responsibility, then the leader's credibility must be questioned. In a sense, this responsibility is the "stamp" or legitimacy of the leadership. Regardless of the outcome of the responsibility, good or bad, the important thing is that the leader has the attitude, vision, stand and commitment to that responsibility. And it is normal for the leader to be sneered in response to his treatment or his attitude to the responsibility. How hard the scorn is, the leader must be smart and strategy to react to it. It can even be used as input for work and also the spirit to improve performance.
But if, then the leader responds with reactionary, confused until it must be sourced in front of the public with a complaining tone, then the public will judge it variably. There could be sympathizers but also not a few who feel "weird" because they are judged (also) beyond the propriety and appropriateness of a leader. I don't know what to achieve when doing this, maybe building an image, imaging that this leader (now) is being slandered, swayed and not respected. And it will not be legally prosecuted, despite the completion of legal channels. So, you must feel sorry to see your leader be treated like this. how to make the leader "as if" persecuted, can win sympathy.
leaders like this certainly understand well the social-psychological conditions of the community. That is to quickly feel sorry, compassion for people who are persecuted or who are cornered. and if you feel compassion, sympathy for those who feel persecuted will appear everywhere. These symptoms can be touched and tested in the media. Maybe we still remember well, a few years ago, one of the academy contexts on private TV stations was selected through an SMS poll by viewers. So came up one of the participants in the context of singing from among the poor, marginalized people, people who did not have anything and then exaggerated by the media. As a result, win him with a high SMS acquisition. Apart from this, reality-reality shows and of course the rampant soap operas influence the mindset and character of our society. Conditions like this, make our society weak against the formation of critical power and minus the learning that can be achieved. So be our society to be patient with the situation now. But on the other hand also, they even rarely complain. When kerosene is scarce, the price of basic foods goes up, the disaster comes over and comes. They still patiently deal with it and the feeling of their mother is also taken care of.
A good leader is a true, contemporary, transparent, visionary and a pleasant person. He has a mission, a philosophy, a sacrifice, a feeling of compassion and commitment.
The passion and love of compassion for people is a reflection of leadership. It means that the qualities of becoming a leader are hidden in every person to some extent. It is a challenge to cherish these qualities. To become effective leader, 10 qualities are important. There are 10 skills needed for effective leadership ...
1. The leader, whether political, religious or social, has to face many challenges. The ability to tell their commitments is different in every person. Mostly it depends on someone's interests or unwelcome. Even then, the leader has to measure everyone with the same measuring instrument. He needs the wisest intelligence to make the right decisions at the right time.
2. Not all people are alike in society. Not every person can satisfy But the leader has to walk with everyone and do the same justice.
3. The leader is also criticized. He should not face the situation emotionally. Often leaders are surrounded by miscreants who promote their importance for personal purposes. The leader needs help from people around him to do any work. They also have to depend on them. But it should not seem like that he is locked in a fort and surrounded by helpers.
4. The greatest qualities that are expected of a true leader are the courage to raise their hand towards critics and the patience to listen to them. The true leader takes the failure and success in his door with one sentiment. Nowadays, the leaders keep trying to save themselves from criticism all the time because of their weaknesses or giving cleanses on their wrong actions. A teacher does not complain, neither does he complain nor gives cleanliness. Rather, it is ready to learn something at all times. A good leader does not plant tears on others.
5. Creating a harmony between idealism, pragmatism and far-reaching goals and short-term needs. Those leaders who depend only on idealism or who only want to stay practical, they fail without any theory.
6. Leader can not be just general or special It is necessary to establish a balance between the personal attention of the people of the society and the general attitude towards the group society and the nation.
7. The leader should have the courage to accept his weaknesses. He should understand that people are generous hearts. She will appreciate her candidness. Instead of hiding them, he will accept his weakness.
a good leader should first of all ensure to be a good follower too and what this means is that a good leader must have a listening ears to the plight of his or her followers because you are the one leading them and you need to know what they are going through in other for you to be able to lead them rightly,a good leader should be disciplined and responsible,a good leader should be able to speak the truth in any situation,a good leader should be full of integrity and good morals,a good leader must be determined and focused..
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