EOS News
MonsterEOS
The EOS blockchain has so much going on right now, it's hard to keep track of everything. I remember hearing about MonsterEOS and finally got around to playing with it last night and today. I created my first monster and participated in my first battle!
Yes, my monster's name is Luke's Lack of Sleep :)
This is an interesting example of what's possible on the EOS blockchain with free transactions (as long as you have enough staked CPU and bandwidth, along with the RAM needed to store data). I really hope @steemmonsters will be able to do similar things using the json_metadata on Steem, even if some parts have to be off chain to start with.
You can play with http://monstereos.io/ right now, but I would caution you to have a play account you use which you don't keep many funds in for new dapps like this. I'm currently using my 1lukestokes1 EOS account which I created for testing things. If you don't yet have a separate EOS account, you can create one easily using SimplEOS.
If you have any questions, let me know.
How to Keep Up?
There are so many things going on with EOS that it's hard to keep track of it all. It's like the early days of the Internet before search engines where people had to create directories of useful pages to find anything. EOS has a couple of those already with eosinfopedia.io and status-eos.io. If you know of any more, please comment below or reply to this tweet:
Vote for BPs or Set a Proxy!
I also wanted to point out how important it is to vote for block producers with your EOS (please consider eosdacserver). Without enough vote coverage, a small group of whales could potentially vote up their own block producers without them adding any additional value to the ecosystem.
Based on the replies there, it seems many are waiting for hardware support. Keep an eye on this Ledger Trello card for EOS support which currently has 91 votes.
If you don't know who to vote for, don't worry, I've got you covered. You can set lukeeosproxy as your EOS proxy voter using tools like EOS-Voter by @greymass.
Steem v0.19.10 Is Here!
As for Steem, Steemit, inc just released v0.19.10, and I'm rebuilding and replaying on one of my backups now. If that goes well, I'll update my seed node and when I'm confident, update my primary producing node.
I'm reviewing the code diff right now, and you can see the full release notes here. The main thing most people will be excited about is how, eventually, this will allow edits to posts that are older than 7 days old! This also puts some import things in place for the next major release, Hard Fork 20, and reduces the amount of memory (for those using a shared memory file) needed to run a full node. AppBase allows witnesses to break things up into individual nodes instead of having to run everything on one large server and allows us to upgrade things related to the social media side of things without forcing exchanges to upgrade also.
Because some of the changes with this release have a different API format, it's possible some services may break as full node operators roll out updates. Hopefully everyone will be incentivized to keep their systems updated and working nicely.
I'll keep you posted as I learn more.
