One of my favorite pastimes - when I do have some free blocks of time to spend, which doesn't happen very often - is to peruse Steem's GitHub repo. It's like peeking through door while your parents are arranging the presents under the Christmas tree. You get to see a lot of cool stuff.
So here are a two things that I saw this morning:
- SMT (Smart Media Tokens) creation is advancing very fast. I didn't expect to see so much work on this feature, because, from the white paper, I got the impression the launch is "sometimes in 2018". But looking at how the code advances, I think it may be sooner. I didn't see any fixed hardfork date yet, so this is just speculation, but there are a lot of pull requests and tasks related to this. The blockchain version for this specific release is 0.21, as you can see from the screenshot below.
There is also an intermediate version 0.20, but there is no description and there are no tasks attached to it yet.
- the post limit may be lowered, allowing for a Twitter-like project built on top of Steemit. As you can see from the issue below, devs are taking into account a new way of limiting user posting. Right now, there is a 5 minutes limit to your posts, which makes a Twitter clone very difficult to create.
So, as you can see, things are happening and are happening faster than expected. I'm really looking forward to the SMT release.
Steem on!
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