Last week was a busy one, filled with interesting events and projects.
Technical and Economical
- kept my witness node running smoothly, with no missed blocks
- kept my price feed bias, at 0% - SBD is trading at $0.94, close to the peg
- kept my SBD APR at 2.5% - in an attempt to keep SBD up to the peg
- kept the account registration fee at $1 (I use a script called steem witness toolbox, available for free on Github, for publishing the feed price and adjusting a few blockchain props)
- kept the block size at 65,536
Community
- started a community enhancement project, in which I delegated 1000SP for a month to the most interesting project selected after I made a call for proposals. I ended up with 7 proposals and picked @walkingkeys. He will do a 30 days writing challenge with an emphasis on how to use Steemit. Here are the first 3 posts he wrote.
-- Day 1: Getting Started With Steemit (30 Days Of Steemit Success)
-- Day 2: The Key To Posting & Commenting (30 Days Of Steemit Success)
-- Day 3: Be Cool (30 Days Of Steemit Success)
I encourage you to participate in his challenge. In this specific project I've been also supported by @alexvan who also delegated 200 SP. If the project will be successful, at the end of the month I will launch another call for proposals, in which I will delegate 2 x 1000SP. Let's see how this one goes. - I had the honor of being interviewed by @badastroza about my Steemit witness journey. While the interview focuses mainly on my entrepreneurial endeavors, there are quite a few parts that are relevant to the whole Steemit ecosystem, hence, I will link the whole 3 parts here:
-- Interesting People #21: Dragos Roua on his journey to becoming a Steemit witness
-- Interesting People #22: Dragos Roua on the value of Steem, and what makes it different
-- Interesting People #23: Dragos Roua on Steemit’s problems, and what we should do about them - I proposed 2 enhancements to the Steemit dev team: one pertaining to the display of the voting power near the reputation number (which was rejected) and one about fixing the copy of the delegation text in admin. The second one was picked up and it will be implemented (the current copy when you delegate power to somebody else may is confusing, see the issue on Github here).
- finished my Easter Egg experiment with steem.supply. I may restart it in a different, less obtrusive form in the near future. The experiment distributed more than $70 in rewards so far, according to my calculations.
Overall Position
I'm no longer a runner-up witness, currently sitting at 63. If you still think I can be useful as a witness and if you want to vote for me, you'll need to add my username in the form and click "Vote" as shown in the image below:
Thanks!
I'm a serial entrepreneur, blogger and ultrarunner. You can find me mainly on my blog at Dragos Roua where I write about productivity, business, relationships and running. Here on Steemit you may stay updated by following me @dragosroua.
https://steemit.com/~witnesses
If you're new to Steemit, you may find these articles relevant (that's also part of my witness activity to support new members of the platform):