Apologies for how infrequent these posts are, generally if I have an update of some kind, I post it directly to my Steemit blog as an individual post.
What have I done in the past month?
- Joined PeerPlays as a Witness
- Wrote a guide on how to become a PPY witness
- Published a post explaining HF19
- Reduced my APR to 0, and Account Creation Fee to 0.2 STEEM (which is actually 6 STEEM due to the x30 rule)
- Increased my maximum block size to 131072, so that we wouldn't have to increase account creation fees
- Helped out many people set up new witnesses
- Re-shuffled my witness votes on GOLOS due to a lot of inactive witnesses.
- Helped out many people upgrade to HF19
- Published STEEM-in-a-Box for HF19, alongside an up-to-date "how to set up a witness server" guide
- Upgraded my own witness to HF19
- Finally set up @furion's Conductor so I have a reliable failover script (However I haven't had my server miss a block in many months).
- Made it into the top 30 witnesses!
- Almost at 1000 followers
What are my plans?
I want to play with PeerPlays, possibly make some games and see how they play out. I'm continuing to maintain my STEEM, PeerPlays, and GOLOS.
In a few weeks, GOLOS will finally be releasing their HF17+18, as usual I will keep my tools up to date for GOLOS.
I'm also busy with various work as CEO at @privex - a small hosting company based in Belize. Thanks to Steemit, we've managed to gain a huge amount of new customers in a short amount of time, we've even managed to break even on our monthly expenses (we weren't expecting this for many months).
I want to thank all of the people who have helped me reach the witness rank of 26. For so long, I was sure I was never going to make it into the top 20, after seeing people shoot up there within a day of starting their campaigns. I'm almost certain in the next few months I will make it into the top 20, thanks to all of the great new people supporting me.
I don't normally do mass mentions like this, however I'd like to encourage people to check out some of these peoples blogs, and if they're a witness, vote for them!
My biggest voters: @pumpkin @abit @clayop @teamsteem @fyrstikken @arhag @roadscape @thejohalfiles @wackou
Thank you to all of the smaller minnows who are voting for me as well!
I'd like to encourage people to vote for some other great witnesses who've supported me, and who've done great things for STEEM:
- @ausbitbank - Creator of SteemViz, contributed large amounts to MINNOWSUPPORT and the Steemfest Travel Fund
- @thecryptodrive - Responsible for the STEEM Billboard campaign across many countries. Owner of SteemSports
- @klye - Written many guides to help new users, drawn a lot of hilarious art, and generally a nice guy
- @teamsteem - Despite being one of the most followed and upvoted users on Steemit, his witness campaign has been missing some love. You've probably seen many of his posts.
- @arcange - Creator of SteemSQL, a very useful tool for analyzing the STEEM blockchain
- @lukestokes.mhth (@lukestokes) - Creator of various PHP tools for interacting with STEEM
- @jesta - If it wasn't for Jesta's brilliant SteemDB, and public RPC node, I'm sure my life as a developer on STEEM would be hell.
- @theprophet0 - "steemit's youngest witness"
- @bitcoiner - Creator of the witness schedule tool. Supported me across many different cryptocurrencies, I never fail to see his name somewhere :)
- @aggroed - Founder of the Peace Abundance and Liberty network. Proud to go against the grain and speak out about issues (e.g. why HF19 doesn't solve the minnow gap).
- @malicered (NOT A WITNESS) - Malice isn't a witness, but I'm giving him an honourable mention as a new steemian, contributing with free steem-related assets, such as vector icons, wallpapers, and a re-designed steemit logo. Follow him for amazing graphics work, and his contributions to the community.
50% of the SBD reward from this post will be donated to the TOR Project. I am a strong supporter of Privacy, and make regular donations to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, TOR Project, and many others.
Do you like what I'm doing for STEEM/Steemit?
Vote for me to be a witness - every vote counts.
Don't forget to follow me for more like this.
Have you ever thought about being a witness yourself? Contact me on STEEMIT.CHAT, or just ask in the witness channel. I'm happy to guide you! Join in shaping the STEEM economy.
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