STEEM blockchain report "Battle of the steemit whales" by Craig Grant - August 10, 2016

in #steem8 years ago

Thanks to the powerful persona of @dollarvigilante, the steemit battle has finally begun

Now is the time to buy cheap steem and power up

Follow me @craig-grant. Tag #craigrant to join our group, and have fun :)

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Thanks for the update. This info came at the perfect time. I just noticed the flagging issue on the DollarVigilante posts and am trying to getting out whats going on.

As you know flagging should only be used for violations. As far as I can see there have been not violations in the post. The problem of flag abuse due to personality differences / disapproval of subject matter / jealousy has been growing. The planform needs an update asap to provide a list of easily accessible community rules and also additional functionality in the flagging feature with will require input regarding which rule was broken before one can insert a flag. This will help greatly.

I enjoy your report as always........this one was right on the mark!

EDIT: This person make a very creative post addressing the issues I've stated above. wanted to share: https://steemit.com/funny/@gregory-f/the-facebook-strikes-back

Well said @james212 . This game is heating up!

Maybe they will just introduce voting on flags so we can flag a flag we disagree with and the battle can go to another level. It's flag inception!

LOL...... I think there are other solutions.

I found the downvotes on the dollar vigilante's posts surprising really not sure if it is a deliberate act of trying to sabotage the platform though or whether it is just personal in the sense they don't like him or don't agree with him. The downvoting shouldn't be used that way though. Time will show what the true agenda is.

I think that the whole point of Steemit is people putting money where their mouth (opinion) is. It gives substance to the discussion that was never possible before. I have participated on early forums that adopted 'karma' systems and they were only as good as the moderators and politics. But political opinions cost nothing to put forward before, and cost little to overwhelm if you are well connected. But now it's an actual cost to your balance. This will change the balance of power as regards to gaining prominence.

Great time to be in this space! Steem is currently at it's cheapest now, great time accumulate steem power!

Excellent article Craig, whales that power down are providing me with an opportunity to get steem power at a discount price so I am very happy they exist. It reminds me of the opportunity that is provided by the federal reserve when they indirectly suppress the price of gold and silver to make the dollar look strong. Keep up the good work :) Cian

Haha. Love how you sitting there in your rocking chair and debating about sea monsters and battles :) Not sure what's going on but it's epic!

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Awesome graphics bro :) i'm a follower ..loving your art.

Thank you! Just doodling here and there :) Hope it made you smile :)

it sure did :) thank you

Round one. FIGHT! :)

Your glass bead necklaces are great. My daughter kisses me more and gives it a kiss as well. magic.

amazing :)

Hey Craig, you're "trending" today. Congratulations!

Magic glass bead necklace that attracts your children's affection!?!? Will this work on teenagers too?? lol I may need one of these to try on my daughter!

@tombstone strikes again :)

Power up baby.

Boy!! Did you nail it on the head with this video. I am very new to Steem and glad that I found your video. It is going to get very interesting in the next few weeks. I will be watching for your next rocking chair posts!!!

Great info man!

When you buy Steem Power, is the power permanent or temporary? Can I convert it back to BTC and cash out? Can I attain Steem Power without spending money?

Right now you have earned 9 cents on this comment, 50% of that 9 cents goes into your steem power, yes you can cash out 1% of your steem power per week

The power can be 'powered down' to steem at a rate of 1/104th every week. you can stop powering down after a week if all you want is 1/104th. But its basically guaranteed that they have it for a while which is why its so powerful, can't trade it instantly. Its holding long-term stocks in the network.

Strategic popcorn reserves? Check.

Periscope? Check.

Funny "Das Boot" ping noise? *püp**püp**püp* Check.

The market is regulating itself, as foreseen, is all.

Great Share Mr.Grant.

Amazing picture . Very good work

As always, you are giving excellent advice and back it up. Thanks for looking out for the community!

Enjoying your video's craig

I really enjoyed your video. I too saw how that post was downvoted. But last i had seen it was down to $0. How can that happen? It will be interesting to see what happens indeed!

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You are so wrong on everything. Some whales don't want people like him because he is full of himself and believes anything he gets he deserves, but he hasn't yet produced any original content on Steemit.

My Eth rigs are full power thanks for the tip I should power up part of my eth if not all!

#teakiteasy

I can't wait to see how all of this plays out!

Interesting, watch this space!!

And this day will be dubbed "FLAG DAY." and hopefully this bring the next priority for a feature on steemit, varieties on what a flag is.

Thanks for the info craig, wasn't aware of that before. To be sincere I must say this I think that you are too much thinking about this all. Since you are thinking about conspiracies now, but I may be wrong. I fail to comprehend how would low steem price benefit those bitcoin whales here and why would they be against steemit. I would believe that they are smarter than to cash out so soon and bring price down so fast.
As for bitcoin price rising I believe it's recovering from theft last week and not from cashing out from steemit since last 24 h volume of steem is just around 1% of BTC volume for last 24 h. That 1​% couldn't affect BTC. Those stats I'm bringing out are my conclusions of watching http://coinmarketcap.com/

I will downvote that dude until he produce quality unique original content.

correction: you will flag his content. There is currently no downvote on Steemit.

The downvote button was only recently changed to a flag. This is why many people still refer to it as a "downvote". It was a downvote for much longer than it has been a flag.

It's a downvote even in the code, not a flag.

I have learned so much in the short month I've been on Steemit!
I knew nothing of Cryptocurency, bitcoin..all of it. I'll admit I cashed out a decent chunk, but only to support my blogging and to help me acquire the means and material to blog more and re-invest. Steemit is definitely only going to get bigger and bigger and I SO want to be apart of it. It's not even just about the money and investments but the fun! Thank you for sharing.
XOXO

It will be an epic battle. Being away from Steemit for a week was pretty crazy but it had to be done. I had to take care of my other business. So much seems to have changed.