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Where’s Ned? I’ve heard some rumors about his physical well-being. I am concerned.

Thank you for your update. What about Ned? Is he okay? Why no update about already postponed livestream from anyone? Steemit, Inc is a company, so someone should update the announcement about it.

>one issue we have begun to address is reducing the cost of running Steem nodes. We are happy to report that we have made some progress by already realizing improvements that have enabled us to reduce the number of nodes we are running and the size of the instances. At the same time, we continue to build out a longer term strategy for reducing the size of full nodes and their cost even further.

# What this means ?

Just thought of explaining in layman terms about what this is all about. The Steem nodes means various types of Steem API nodes, TESTNET etc which uses a cloud hosting solution from Amazon's AWS. 

Instance = a server running under the virtualized environment. (AWS terminology). Essentially its CPU power, RAM, Hard disk and Interconnection.

Instance Size = This means how much CPU, RAM, Storage a server has. Cost increases as the size.

> focusing on Hivemind and RocksDB

Some of the Full node functionalities are getting moved to Hivemind. 

RocksDB = Almost like an external storage where certain type of data is stored. Technically it is a database. This work is very complicated as code changes are involved. Personally I feel this work will make Steem one of the fastest chains and also increase its use as a general purpose chain.

# State of DApps on Steem blockchain

Further, I also want to plug the state of Dapps - built on Steem blockchain and others.  The number of people who use the applications built on top of the Steem blockchain is higher if not very large even if we compare the entire public blockchain eco-system. This will eventually bring in real value of the STEEM coin and the Steem blockchain.

References:

1. https://steemapps.com/ 
2. In Progress: https://www.stateofthedapps.com/rankings

https://dappradar.com/ Gives a comparison of various blockchains and comparing the users of apps with the number of active users from https://steemapps.com/  will give the real picture of blockchain eco-systems and the "intrinsic value" of various chains.

So more affordable and a better performing blockchain I can’t really argue with that now can I? 

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kind of vague, but at least something

> but the team is healthy, energized, and eager to take on the challenges ahead of us.  
  
I hope so.

Nice stuff. There was a big debate with some community members about RocksDB but I'm glad this issue was solved.

I really appreciate the work you are doing for the whole blockchain ecosystem. It's very important that we have fast and scalable infrastructure before SMTs are released and more users started to roll into Steemit and other interfaces (Busy, Partico, Esteem), as well as develop high quality dapps.

Actually that's what really matters at the end - how many people are using your blockchain and how many use cases can you show. Steem is big and will stay big, even though it may take more time to grow than we expected at the first place. Keep up the good work guys, keep up the good work.

So where is @ned? 

And where the hell are all of the blog postings from over a year ago?

Will there be a technical post?
Or just this wishy washy one?
As the de facto only developer of steem, you should tell us more complicated things.

That is nice...

If you want to save steam, first shorten the power-down period to seven days.
Lesunmoo (72) in kr • 4 days ago


something difficult
Something you can't do.
Don't try to do it in vain.

Just change a few numbers in the code now.
I think we should change the simple one first.

the first of them

Powerdown 13 Week 13 Division
I think we should change this to 100 percent for 7 days.

After all, the current 13 weeks of power-down were only devices to prevent double-boating, but there are no other functions.
In the early days of 103 power-down states, there was a lifetime income function based on 100% inflation.
Through the 16 hardfork, the 100% inflation changed to less than 10% inflation.

In the current 13 weeks of power-down, the life-long income function has suddenly disappeared.

The current power-down 13 weeks is the only function that prevents double-boating. In other words, even if the power-down 7 days are 100 percent, there is no problem in achieving the goal.

Please...

Let's change these useless functions first.

That way, I think the steam will revive.

Development is good. But it is not the whole part of the business. This is why we have many developers and fewer businesses.

Take your time and go out. Attract more investors. 1 or 2 million account is not enough.

Please take care, we love Steem blockchain.

Awesome! That’s all we need; short and sweet!  As long as we get some communication I think the community can continue forging forward.  I know it encourages me to continue investing time and money into the ecosystem. Thanks!

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Can someone please explain to us, how big this awesome team is?