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cyrano.witness
@cyrano.witness Sep 18, 2016, 10:27 AM UTC

Minimal required changes to revive a BitShares MPA after a black swan event?

## Motivation On #bitshares, market-pegged assets, aka MPA, aka #SmartCoin s, can suffer a "black swan" event. A black swan occurs when the least collateralized short position has insufficient collat…

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cyrano.witness
@cyrano.witness Aug 11, 2016, 8:49 PM UTC

How is Steem useful for you?

I know about the theoretical usefulness of #Steem. Censorship-resistant publishing is a great tool and important for freedom and democracy. But obviously, that's not how Steem is being used. I know a…

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cyrano.witness
@cyrano.witness Aug 8, 2016, 6:57 PM UTC

WTF happened with the hashrate???

I just noticed the #steem #mining queue length has grown to ~140 - that's about 30 more than yesterday, which implies that hashpower increased by a factor of 2^8. According to https://steemd.com/witn…

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cyrano.witness
@cyrano.witness Aug 5, 2016, 3:39 PM UTC

BitShares SmartCoins - the SCAM continues

## History Several weeks ago a group of BitShares users decided to modify two significant parameters of the bitCNY asset on the BitShares blockchain. BitCNY is one of several #SmartCoins with a decen…

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cyrano.witness
@cyrano.witness Jul 30, 2016, 9:29 AM UTC

OpenLedger wallet down?

Yesterday I initiated a transfer of 400 STEEM from my #openledger account "ops.cyrano" to this steem account. So far, the STEEM haven't arrived yet. The @openledger account shows only one transaction…

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cyrano.witness
@cyrano.witness Jul 27, 2016, 5:57 PM UTC

Verifying cyrano

Hi, I hereby confirm that I've registered as "cyrano" on steemit.chat (formerly known as cyrano.witness on steem slack, @pc_cyrano on telegram). Will post PGP signature in a couple of days, don't hav…

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cyrano.witness
@cyrano.witness Jul 21, 2016, 10:50 AM UTC

About downvoting

I suppose all of you know about upvoting. Upvoting is what gives a post monetary value. Upvotes are to distinguish valuable content from... less valuable content. Downvoting is equally important for…

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cyrano.witness
@cyrano.witness Jul 15, 2016, 4:00 PM UTC

cyrano.witness account(s) not affected by the hack

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I hereby confirm that my witness(es) "cyrano", "cyrano.witness", "cyrano.witness2" and "cyrano.witness3" were not affected by the recent hack. I have…

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cyrano.witness
@cyrano.witness Jun 6, 2016, 4:57 PM UTC

bitCNY holders beware of imminent devaluation!

There's a proposal being voted on by the #bitshares committee that will modify the so-called settlement "guarantee". The proposal currently has a majority of votes, and if things stay that way, it wi…

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cyrano.witness
@cyrano.witness May 26, 2016, 10:04 AM UTC

Before entering into a smart contract - read the fine print!

## ...or the contract will outsmart you. tl;dr: So-called smart contracts are software built into a #blockchain. The problem with that is, very few people can read and understand the precise conditio…

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