Front-runner for Lexiconical's "movin' on up" award, Drakos is a “PhD scientist with a background in Biochemistry and Immunology,” that is rapidly moving towards the "East Side" of the witness rankings. He convincingly claims a lifelong fascination with both computers and computer programming. You will really believe the lifelong part when you see his pride and joy:
If Indiana Jones ever came across this fine “artifact”, he would wryly state that it belonged in a museum, but don’t tell Drakos that. He doesn’t realize how space age it makes my 1980 Amdek I used to play (Net)Hack on look. Heck, mine even had the dual-floppy drive upgrade!
Drakos is a fixture in the witness channel over at Steemit.chat, where he can frequently be found answering technical questions for the other weirdos who think a kernel is something other than what popcorn starts out as. Seriously, he’s there a LOT. He is an excellent source for assistance if you are having any witness-related technical issues on Steemit, or questions about the topic in general.
Drakos is also the creator of a number of tools hosted at Steemian.info, “the concise information resource about the Steem blockchain.” In particular, his Witness ranking tool at https://steemian.info/witnesses is handy, since it shows vastly more information than the Steemit witness interface, including active and inactive witnesses, missed blocks, and what “policies” each witness supports for registration fees, APR, etc.
I wish Drakos had been kind enough to climb the rankings sooner, which would have forced me to research this tool earlier. It would have come in useful as a much easier way to identify dead witnesses than my previous methods. shakes fist at @Arhag
Drakos is also a supporter, delegator, witness and early member of the MinnowSupportProject. He can usually be found lurking in the MSP Discord channel. I encourage you to forward all your praise for JerryBanfield to his direct message inbox.
Drakos posts high-quality articles frequently on a variety of topics, however he does tend to focus more on Steemit (including abuse) and witness related issues than puppies.
Oh, he’s also a pirate and gets bonus points from me for his attempt to use the term “wench” in a historically appropriate, satirical context in his "Drakos Art Contest". Like any pirate, he’s not afraid to call things as he sees them, so feel free to solicit his opinion via the comments in pirate-speak…..yar.
Drakos holds 3800 SP and is NOT powering down. He also holds a super-sweet animated .gif avatar which Sotheby's is still attempting to price accurately:
Drakos’ Current Witness Update: @drakos/drakos-witness-update-2017-10-15
Drakos’ Original Witness Thread: @drakos/my-witness-application
Witness Rankings Tool: @drakos/rethinking-the-witness-ranking
Steemian.info: https://steemian.info/
Art Contest: @drakos/drakos-art-contest-pirate-wench-theme-submissions-phase
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