This Week On Steemit…….From The Archives: Articles Worth A Re-Read…. SteemMag – Steemit’s Weekend Digest #3 p.2

As usual, this week was not without its own share of interesting events. And in case you missed them, here are some of the most important events that happened on Steemit this week.

~ The hardfork scheduled for: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 15:00:00 UTC was successfully implemented. It introduces a number of changes that effect how root comment payouts work, a two stage payout. The first payout being after 12 hours and the second payout after 30 days from the first payout.

~ A unit of steem dropped to reached a recent low of $2.16. Its currently at $2.48 according to coinmarketcap.com
~ A new record for the highest payout for a post was made. The post was by Xeroc announcing the first open source for Steem GUI: piston.web
~ Transactions per day reached an all-time high on 2016-07-28 at 142 464
~ Votes per day also reached an all time high the same day at 103 887
~ However, account creations and transfers per day experienced a sharp drop
~ The war against spam bots intensifies with announcements by @dan and @nextgencrypto
~ More tools were launched including a beta iOS app. For all steem tools, visit SteemTools.com

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From The Archives – Posts Worth A Re-Read

Here some gems that deserve a re-read.

Living on nothing but Steem, Day 1: The Beginning 2 weeks ago by ma3
https://steemit.com/money/@ma3/living-on-nothing-but-steem-day-1-the-beginning

Is The DAO going to be DOA?3 months ago by dan
https://steemit.com/crypto-news/@dan/is-the-dao-going-to-be-doa

Today's a big day for STEEM, the first steem-pizza is cooked 2 weeks ago by jennamarbles
https://steemit.com/steemit/@jennamarbles/one-more-historical-day-for-steem-the-first-pizza-is-prepared

Why the Steemwhales are upvoting Crap instead of Your Masterpiece - And why you should be Happy About it 1 week ago by johnsmith
https://steemit.com/motivational/@johnsmith/why-the-steemwhales-are-upvoting-crap-instead-of-your-masterpiece-and-why-you-should-be-happy-about-it

My Photography of Mt. Tamalpais - A Mystical Mountain in Northern California
2 weeks ago by anwenbaumeister
https://steemit.com/photography/@anwenbaumeister/my-photography-of-mt-tamalpais-a-mystical-mountain-in-northern-california

The universe is an imaginary concept, and my physical experience of now is the true size of my existence 2 weeks ago by craig-grant
https://steemit.com/illuminati/@craig-grant/the-universe-is-an-imaginary-concept-and-my-physical-experience-of-now-is-the-true-size-of-my-existence

Steemit for Dummies (like me) - Everything you need to know in simple terms
3 weeks ago by mindover
https://steemit.com/steemit/@mindover/steemit-for-dummies-like-me-everything-you-need-know-to-get-started

We Don't Need Taxes Where We Are Going 2 weeks ago by keithsmih
https://steemit.com/anarchism/@keithsmih/we-don-t-need-taxes-where-we-are-going

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A SPECIAL NOTE FOR YOU

Thanks for the support so far. Though it took a lotta time, I had fun getting the interview ready and curating all these information together.
I hope you do enjoy it and gained a few stuff from this weekend digest. Next week is going to be even more exciting.
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