So reading that title could give you a migraine, but trust me, this post isnt really gonna be long.
Hello steemians!
Its a wonderful time, a new month, the second month of the second quarter of the year.
Some people call it workers day, some people call it labour day, i call it same old day, cause obvious im self employed so i dont have to take a break.
Its funny how time flies, it feels as though I had a time skip. One minute im making purchases of equipment in port Harcourt, on new years eve and today im in delta state, preparing for the @steemcamp warri event coming up this friday.
Wonderful times indeed.
Whats even more surprising to me is the fact that today also happens to be the 5th anniversary of coinmarketcap.com.
coinmarketcap 5th anniversary
So if you quickly head over to coinmarketcap.com youll notice a few changes to the site. Well according to a medium article, its an anniversary permanent makeover the crew gave to the site in celebration of the 5 years running and helping people quickly check the prices of cryptocurrency.
If you as a steemian havent heard of coinmarketcap.com, it is one of the best tools needed if you plan on trading crypto.
It shows the prices of different cryptocurrencies, as well as a history chart of their prices(in btc, eth, usd), market cap, and a bunch of other stuffs, from the day the coin was added, till date
Its a very useful website, and in combination with coinmarketcal, Blocktivity.info and Coincheckup.com they form the basis of what ill like to term, my crypto coin infocircle where i get total and complete information about any coin or token im researching.
The site has a new logo, a link button to their various social media platforms and an instant trade button.
screenshot from medium CMC page
A great history in my opinion, being able to build from scratch, only to become one of the most popular crypto portal in existence.
You can read more of the post on medium through the link below;
happy birthday Coinmarketcap
Blocktivity.info
Talking about cryptos, if you havent heard or youre a newbie who doesn't know, there is more to steemit than just posting and earning, the blockchain upon which steem is built happens to be one of the fastest blockchain currently in existence. Its transaction speed is about 3sec long,
though I did hear some info that its even lower, and that the 3sec mark is just for safety reasons
If you head over to Blocktivity.info youll notice that the steem Blockchain is barely stressing itself, even with the high amount of transactions that go through it as a result of us using it.
The ramifications of this is amazing.
Businesses which could open on the steem Blockchain would not have a hard time processing transactions.
When compared to bitcoin, we see that steem is already doing x5 of the amount of transaction bitcoin is doing, at a much lower cost to the blockchain network.
If you look at the Ethereum tab, youll notice that Ethereum is already maxed out, and that inherently cause transactions to be delayed, hogher transaction fees, and more headache generally for those who want to do transactions.
It is in this regard, i consider DPOS chains to be better than POW chains.
*(use google if you dont know what those mean) *
Steem is already slated to become a new foundation, upon which other blockchains, systems and communities can be built on.
A market cap of 10 billion is going tk put the price of steem at about $39-$41, which is the road we all are heading to on steemit.
This of cause brings me to my last post.
I cant leave the steem system now. Its still in its infancy, and leaving now would be like leaving an all night party at 7pm.
We still got too much juice *(too much sauce😁) *
winners of the contest
Quickly i just wanna once again apologize to all.
The winners of the short contest are
@bob-elr and @jackdogho
Congrats!
I am also bringing the contest back and this time, i wont forget :D
However some slight changes..
Here is another horror story writing contest, this time 10SBD for only one individual
So heres how its gonna go
In no more than 100 words, write, in the comment below, a sort horror story that blows the mind.
Something like in the below picture.
rules!
- must be in the comments of this post
- must upvote this post
- must be totally awesome as an individual
- must resteem this post
- Winner will be announced next week wednesday
- Good luck and get scary!
im open to donations for this, i use my personal sbd, and will sustain this as long as I can, but the contest can stop or be moved at any time. Of cause, a notice will be given
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