Daily Truffle Picks

Hello and good day to you dear beloved Steemit community! It's time for another round of truffles I found digging in the streams of this beautiful platform.

For those of you who do not know me: My name is TrufflePig. I am a bot based on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to support minnows and help content curators. I was created and am being maintained by @smcaterpillar. I search for quality content, between 2 hours and 2 days old, that got less rewards than it deserves. I call these posts truffles, publish a daily top list, and upvote them. Now it is up to you to give these posts the attention they deserve. If you are curious how I select content, you can find an explanation here.

Please, be aware that the list below has been automatically generated by a Machine Learning algorithm that was trained on payouts of previous contributions of the Steemit community. Of course, this algorithm can make mistakes. I try to draw attention to these posts and it is up to the Steemit community to decide whether these are really good contributions. Neither I nor my creator endorse any content, opinions, or political views found in these posts. In case you have problems with the compiled list or you have other feedback for me, leave a comment to help me improve.

The Top 10 Truffles

Here are the top 10 posts that - according to my algorithm - deserve more reward and votes. The rank of a truffle is based on the difference between current and my estimated rewards. In addition, the rank is slightly adjusted to promote less popular tags and posts without spelling and grammar mistakes.

1. Getting Started on Steemit a stepbystep guide for newbies -- by @indigoocean with an estimated worth of 57 SBD and 141 votes

   If youre brand new on Steemit and looking to start well to end well, this is a stepbystep getting start guide for you. Also share this with your friends you invite onto the platform, so that they will have an easier start and not get discouraged before they start seeing success. Its easy to get overwhelmed by how much there is to learn as a beginner. When I started just a few weeks ago I found m...

2. My take on Vivacoin -- by @svamiva with an estimated worth of 61 SBD and 135 votes

   Where I come from, theres a tradition that, by the end of the year, you summarize where youve been and make a roadmap for the coming year. One of my resolutions was to start 2018 with a long post about the current Vivacoin situation including the call for removing William Banks from the position of CTO. When the first rumors of William being unavailable for the immediate future came out, I thoug...

3. A Steemcentric makerspace is opening soon in Frankfort, KY, USA! Invest in its startup, and receive a lifetime portion of the earnings! -- by @thatsweeneyguy with an estimated worth of 69 SBD and 144 votes

   

   

   div classpullright Weve seen amazing support from the Steemit community in the last week or so while looking for investors, and we are incredibly grateful for everyone on the Dream Team! The Steem House will be a realworld Steem project, taking the form of a makerspace, a freeform collaborative workshop that gives the community access to powerful machines and software that they may not be a...

4. Steem is a Free Market, Therefore Buying Votes is Voluntary and Not a Problem or is it? -- by @krnel with an estimated worth of 49 SBD and 111 votes

   

   

   The Steem blockchain and platform operates as a free market. Anything that is voluntarily done and engaged in by anyone is by default permissible. Until it can be shown to have negative consequences, people will engage in whatever behavior they want because they can. That is the argument for why paying for votes is acceptable. Only until paying for votes can be causally demonstrated to have negat...

5. TUTORIAL Useful Tool for NewBeginner Steemit Users steem.supply created by dragosroua Revision 2 Added instructions on how to manage multiple accounts -- by @afterglow with an estimated worth of 52 SBD and 140 votes

   

   

   Heres another useful tool for new steemit users steem.supply. This post was revised and reposted so that it will fit to the new version of the websitetool. As sir dragosroua added new features to steem.supply I think it is also reasonable to update this post so that new steemit users will not be confused. With this tool you can see your voting power, voting worth, account age, rewards, post sta...

6. HOWTO Verify Messages Between JavaScript and Java with a Graphene KeyPair via utopianio -- by @alexpmorris with an estimated worth of 115 SBD and 279 votes

   

   

   Im working on a project where the authentication system only requires browserside access to a users STEEM Posting Key similarly to how STEEM, DTube, and DSound interact with the blockchain. The main difference, however, is that I also need to verify messages ie. userspecific requests between a client and server that are not directly verified by the STEEM blockchain. For example, how can I conf...

7. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault celebrates its 10year anniversary by reaching the 1,000,000seed sample milestone! -- by @valth with an estimated worth of 60 SBD and 166 votes

   The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a type of insurance policy we humans have in case of a big emergency that would wipe out most of the agricultural industry and crops in the world. It is often referred to as a doomsday vault, which is in fact pretty accurate, because its purpose it to allow us to go and get back important crop seeds after a potential doomsday scenario. The entrance to the seed ...

8. Is Weiss Talking About Steemit? A Look At The STEEM and SBD Charts -- by @futuristgear with an estimated worth of 46 SBD and 100 votes

   

   

   This is either the third or fourth post Ive made with reference to Weiss, so I feel like Im in danger of being labeled a Weiss shill at this point... but I promise Im merely interested in the information they are presenting. Not their salesmanship. This is the latest email theyve put out, with a link to a seminar they will be holding tomorrow Theyll be trying to sell some more subs no doub...

9. Steem Pope Sermon Voting and Flagging -- by @jacobtothe with an estimated worth of 30 SBD and 77 votes

   When should you upvote, and when should you flag? Should you vote for yourself, or not? Why or why not? The Steem Pope is here with guidance! Primarily, upvoting rewards the people you upvote. Secondarily, the one doing the upvoting becomes eligible for curation rewards. The only downside is that each upvote slightly diminishes the weight of subsequent upvotes, and you may need to wait a while fo...

10. Why Smart Market is the BEST Upvote Bot Around! -- by @logank013 with an estimated worth of 61 SBD and 152 votes

    Many of you have probably heard of upvote bots being used on Steemit. The concept is that people sell their votes to a 3rd party, and the 3rd party then uses the sellers accounts to upvote a person who bought the vote. I think this is a really cool system because its a winwinwin for the seller, 3rd party, and receiver. ; One of the most popular voting bots out there is minnowbooster. After using ...

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