@brockpierce should check this out and invest even MORE into steem! 

More proof that steem is about to become more efficient and allow for a lot more to happen.... = more investors

How can the image issue be solved with steem blockchain? There needs to be some kind of decentralised file storage solution for Steemit, so users can opt in to have their images stored on IPFS? or even steem tokens or something. I'm no expert just wondering, as don't want Steem to get left behind with the whole token revolution. Sites like MakersPlace, Digital Art Chain, OpenSea.io

Great update... by doing things like these actually produce more marketing mileage than spending ads. People become enthusiastic because we see movement and progress.

Thanks for the update

Keep moving forward! Question about images do you reduce the size of them after people upload them. For example If I upload a 2MB image do you have something in place to reduce that image size down to a few KB instead? If not that honestly seems like a smart and right direction to go in terms of saving money via data costs.

Sounds great. Thanks for the updates.

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Thank you for these updates.

Excellent work steemit inc . Thank you for staying transparent here and keeping us updated. Steem is an incredible technology, that is many, many years ahead of it's time. It takes careful incubation. But, when the "mixture/recipe" is right, mass adoption is not only achievable, it is inevitable.

Hell yeah! I'm loving the new vlog format that you folks have been doing lately. What this site was missing was some sort of clear and coherent direction coming from up top (no offense Ned). I always felt like this place was a random ball of chaos without much clear instruction on what was going on or happening behind the scenes.

How about SMT's? Any progress there?

Thanks for the report and keep up the the good Blockchain development work!

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You still hitting the dates in this table?

thank you for the update! Keep em coming, great to hear there is good progress being made.

Thanks guys for the regular updates!
It seems that you are getting back on track with the development again.
Good work.

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I hope some way will get implemented to interact with the rate limiting implementation from code. The rate limit currently pretty much [killed the daily Flag-war stats visualization](https://steemit.com/steemdev/@pibarabot/steem-api-rate-limiting-is-breaking-stats-script-daily-flag-war-stats-are-down-possibly-perminently), and while it might be possible to fix it (not quite sure yet) by implementing rate-limit awareness in the underlying library, I will most definitely need a way to communicate about rate limiting metrics with the rate limiting implementation, that currently just starts sending HTTP 4xx responses.

A number of questions to help me get a handle on this thing:

1) Is there an API planned for querying rate limiting metrics for a node? 
2) When using JSON-RPC batches, how does that affect rate limiting? 
3) Where in the tool stack is rate limiting implemented? 

I hope a good answer to these three questions might help me get things on track to get the @pibarabot daily flag war posts up and running once more.

Oh, just a thought: It might be a food idea to implement something like a *ratelimit_api.get_current_ratelimit_window_size()* API call and add it to the APPBASE API documentation. That way client libraries could easily be made rate-limit aware, and maybe the impact could be mitigated by such an API feature.

Thank you, steemit team. Your hard work and communication is appreciated.

Why Rockdb ?

More progress in the last couple of months than I've seen since starting here a year ago! Excellent to see! 

That’s what I like to see, progress! 🚀🚀🌝🌝

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@steemitblog,
What I have seen so far, after the recent fall of STEEMIT INC, you guys made a huge progress that could lead STEEM to top 10 position in CMC! 
Hope to see SMT launch before the end of this year and 2020 will be ours!

Cheers~

Thanks for your transparency and the updates. We keep rolling and I love to see this :)

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Great to see these results of your diligent effort.  It's very encouraging, and I hope that soon the fruit of simplification and reductions of cost are magnified across the ecosystem.

Thanks!