cyrano.witness (57)in #bitshares • 8 years agoMinimal required changes to revive a BitShares MPA after a black swan event?Motivation On #bitshares, market-pegged assets, aka MPA, aka #SmartCoin s, can suffer a "black swan" event. A black swan occurs when the least collateralized short position has…cyrano.witness (57)in #blog • 8 years agoHow is Steem useful for you?I know about the theoretical usefulness of #Steem. Censorship-resistant publishing is a great tool and important for freedom and democracy. But obviously, that's not how Steem is…cyrano.witness (57)in #steem • 8 years agoWTF happened with the hashrate???I just noticed the #steem #mining queue length has grown to ~140 - that's about 30 more than yesterday, which implies that hashpower increased by a factor of 2^8. According to…cyrano.witness (57)in #bitshares • 8 years agoBitShares SmartCoins - the SCAM continuesHistory Several weeks ago a group of BitShares users decided to modify two significant parameters of the bitCNY asset on the BitShares blockchain. BitCNY is one of several…cyrano.witness (57)in #openledger • 8 years agoOpenLedger wallet down?Yesterday I initiated a transfer of 400 STEEM from my #openledger account "ops.cyrano" to this steem account. So far, the STEEM haven't arrived yet. The @openledger account…cyrano.witness (57)in #steemit-chat • 8 years agoVerifying cyranoHi, I hereby confirm that I've registered as "cyrano" on steemit.chat (formerly known as cyrano.witness on steem slack, @pc_cyrano on telegram). Will post PGP signature in a…cyrano.witness (57)in #steemit-howto • 8 years agoAbout downvotingI suppose all of you know about upvoting. Upvoting is what gives a post monetary value. Upvotes are to distinguish valuable content from... less valuable content. Downvoting…cyrano.witness (57)in #steem • 8 years agocyrano.witness account(s) not affected by the hack-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I hereby confirm that my witness(es) "cyrano", "cyrano.witness", "cyrano.witness2" and "cyrano.witness3" were not affected…cyrano.witness (57)in #bitcny • 8 years agobitCNY holders beware of imminent devaluation!There's a proposal being voted on by the #bitshares committee that will modify the so-called settlement "guarantee". The proposal currently has a majority of votes, and if…cyrano.witness (57)in #bitshares • 8 years agoBefore entering into a smart contract - read the fine print!...or the contract will outsmart you. tl;dr: So-called smart contracts are software built into a #blockchain. The problem with that is, very few people can read and understand…cyrano.witness (57)in #bitshares • 9 years agoSeed nodes needed!We're still low on reliable seed nodes, see . If you want to run a seed node you should apply this fix to avoid crashes: And please use port 1776 for the p2p socket. That…cyrano.witness (57)in #steemd • 9 years agoHTTP RPC API bug?I'm trying to extract stuff from the STEEM database using HTTP RPC API calls on steemd. It works nicely most of the time, but sometimes I receive garbled responses, and I've…cyrano.witness (57)in #steem • 9 years agoDevs calling Steem "Vaporware"!The classes declared in these headers provide the complete definition of the Vaporware protocol WTF?cyrano.witness (57)in #pgp-identities • 9 years agopc / cyrano-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi! On steem I'm known as cyrano, and I run cyrano.witness. Please vote! :-) (I'm also pc on bitsharestalk.org and I run the…cyrano.witness (57)in #witness-category • 9 years agoPlease vote for cyrano.witness!Cyrano is the business under which bitsharestalk forum member 'pc' is operating. pc had an elected worker delegate in the days of BitShares1. Since BitShares-2 was launched he…