davevandewalle

Just checking. It's only been TWO YEARS since I logged in to Steemit. Let me know if you're out there -- and what I missed.

Hey strangers! I'm back - and part of the reason I'm back is that I am making a concerted effort to make the content engine hum in the last three quarters of the year. Do You Care? Well, I'll Help You

Disclosure: I'm on the Empowr Advisory Board. I feel as if my own crypto-related social media time has been dominated by Empowr over the past few months. It's been interesting: it, like Steemit, is a social

Well, this appears to be getting really interesting. EOS Mainnet Live? Long story short, the year-long ICO that was EOS has drawn to a close. They raised $4B, the network value is $11B - according to

I'm torn... As a member of Empowr's Advisory Board - link here and you can see me and the rest of the Advisory Board - I'm invested in the success of the launch. But, as a long-time(ish) Steemian (a year

Really, though, would we have it any other way? Here's a photo of a hipster who underscores what I'm talking about. Top Crypto Picks Riffing on some of the top picks right now: BTC - Right around $8,000

I was LIVE on PERISCOPE! Okay, that's really not that big a deal, is it? Periscope is fun, but there's rarely a ton of traffic for me over there. Here's the chat link: Crypto and Delicious Coffee I did

This is a concept that Jeff Thomas, blogging in International Man, is proposing. It might make some sense. Writing in the group's "Communique" today, Thomas breaks down the problem with fiat

At the beginning of 2018, I was contacted by a couple of the executives behind Empowr, which is a social network that looks like Facebook, but acts like Steemit. We had a few discussions - about the platform,

My wife spent a year in Brazil in the late 1980s. One of the stories she shared was of her trip to the post office to send letters or postcards back home. It seems that the country was in the middle of

Behold, the mad art skills! Actually, I thought this was sorta cool. Nothing says "I get the intersection of art (or graphic design) and the blockchain by taking my ethereum wallet and turning it

Writing Ritual Time... What I mean by that...I need to write more often, and I have a couple places I can go - my own blog, Twitter, Medium maybe, and here on Steemit. So I'm going to commit myself to

That's a screenshot from a digital print that I own. It's pretty cool, and it comes from a site called Dada. It's part of a growing category in crypto: digital art, ownership secured by the blockchain,

This has just crossed the wire services: Bitcoin Has Been Replaced With Zimbabwe Dollar

Let's have a little fun on this fine weekend... In the past couple months, my firm, Metacoin, has launched a PR/Marketing service line. It's going quite well - we help crypto-related businesses with things

One of my memories - I won’t say “fondest,” because it was certainly weird - was of an Opening Day in the late 90s. I worked downtown (Chicago) for a financial services concern and our offices were very

With the bloodbath of late - BTC is down a ton, right? - it might be time to look for some low market cap crypto opportunities. I'll share three with you here. One is a client of Metacoin, and the other

Wow. Only 46. Here are two versions of the song that put him on the map. The original: The remix was off the hook, too:

POW, the digital currency that decided to ignore the ICO and go straight to the airdrop, is a client of my firm, Metacoin. But I'd Recommend Them Even if They Weren't Why? Well, for starters, the goal

So here's an interesting conundrum - I'm visiting Steemit (since I do need to get back to the daily habit of writing here) in order to talk about another cryptocurrency that looks more than a little like