RE: Programming Diary #27: Browser extension updates, new visuals, and a new Steem-based game idea
What to say? If only 284M Steem is available to trade, why burn?
The problem has to be identified correctly: Inability to purchase Steem?
Inability to receive, buy, or sell Tron?
I have a lot of problems with the Microsoft Edge Browser Working.
Yet, this is a browser that allows for better, easier writing when the browser works.
It is easy to make HTML posts or markdown.
Perhaps, people want more media types available?
They say there's a movement to upgrade jpg although so far it has failed in adoption, for example.
Perhaps, it is the amount of hack attempts that is causing the problem: Steem has gone down numerous over the last week or so and you steemdb is functioning again. Which is good.
I can't hardly get online unless I have a VPN. Is it possible to:
- create a browser solely for Steemit. Years ago I made an IE 4 browser considered to be the most secure.
In order to do that, I used deep nesting of private classes in c/c++ something like nested namespaces.
Meanwhile, I will be working on cryptocurrency upgrade from SHA 256 here shortly. Whether I start in a month or sooner, I lean towards that and doing it in Windows.
I was having stability problems with Steemit for a few days, too. Seems like things have stabilized more recently.
I'm not a fan of Edge. It always feels bloated and slow on my computer, though I have to use it at work. Same with Chrome. At home, I use Brave almost exclusively. It seems a good bit zippier to me.
This is a really good point. I'm not opposed to burning, obviously, but we have to be realistic about what it can accomplish. What we really need is to move lots of STEEM from the exchanges (redfish & plankton) into SP that's held by (new) minnows and dolphins. Burning and club#### participation don't help much with that. As long as ~79% of all SP is held by 323 Orcas and above, the "crab bucket" concept from the Steem whitepaper is fundamentally impossible.
Certainly possible. It doesn't even really have to be a browser. It would just need to be a desktop application that interfaces with the Steem APIs. I think it would be a full-time job, though. Personally, I wouldn't be able to accomplish it as a "side project".