Furion has worked on so many projects as a developer that it’s almost too many to list here. The most well-known is probably View.ly, a decentralized video-uploading platform that does NOT track its users for ad revenue / monetary gain. Think of it as the “original” Dtube.
The story of why Furion created View.ly is fascinating. Formerly a self-described “moderately successful” YouTube personality in the gaming genre, (having amassed several million views in the “before-times” of YouTube,) Furion’s account and all of his videos were deleted overnight in the great “Content-ID Purge’ning” of 2007/2008. This naturally lead him to an interest in learning to implement decentralized video platforms.
Furion is also the developer behind SteemData, a “database layer for Steem”, and the SteemData API, both of which are intended to allow third-parties from outside Steemit to interact with the Steem block-chain more easily.
Furion also created and maintains a Steem Python library, “a high quality and easy to use tool for developers.” Another project of Furion’s is “Conductor”, a simple out-of-the-box utility for setting up and managing a witness node.
As if that weren’t enough, Furion is also behind the “Steem Data Notify” blockchain monitoring service, and the “Mentions” App. Both of these utilities are highly fit for the modern age, providing notifications via email, Telegram, or search any time you are mentioned in a post or comment. Truly, a godsend for the most narcissistic among us (whereas, I only use it for science, of course.)
Furion is also a co-founder of SteemSports, and has defended its use on the platform in the past against factually inaccurate accusations of “30-50% reward pool use.”
Furion’s witness experienced a crash in May, 2017, and missed 90 blocks. Rather than be discouraged, this lead to an infrastructure and fail-over system upgrade. Now running a 4-server cluster split across two datacenters in Paris and Amsterdam, Furion posted about his experience getting dropped as a witness and having to work back up the list. I personally linked this post to @JerryBanfield, who was immediately inspired to bring an additional back-up node online, so I know it is helping the Steemit ecosystem silently despite being older content!
Furion’s blog is covered in well-sourced looks at data on Steemit of all types. If there’s a graph you’re looking for, it can probably be found in there somewhere.
Furion has previously publicly rejected offers of at least 1 BTC to write articles on alt-coins having ICOs (promoted content) by stating he is “not for sale.”
Furion is also a Peerplays witness.
Furion holds 40,000 Steem and is currently powering down.
Furion’s Current Witness (Failure) Update: @furion/lessons-learned-from-failing-as-a-witness
SteemData: @furion/steemdata-meets-sbds-sql-users-rejoice
Who is Furion?: @steemsports/who-is-furion
Steem Sports Back-end: @furion/steemsports-server-infrastructure
View.ly Intro: @furion/introducing-viewly
View.ly Alpha (Viewer): @furion/introducing-viewly-alpha
SteemData: @furion/introducing-steemdata-a-database-layer-for-steem
Steemdata API: @furion/introducing-steemdata-webapi
Python Library: @furion/announcing-new-steem-library-for-python-developers
Python Update: @furion/updates-on-steem-python-steemdata-and-the-node-situation
Conductor: @furion/introducing-conductor-a-simple-steem-witness-toolkit
Mentions App: @furion/introducing-the-mentions-app-for-steem
SteemData Notify: @furion/introducing-steemdata-notify
Phew, my citation muscle is tired out. Thanks, Obama Furion.
Please see the acknowledgement post here.
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