The @blockbrothers started off as a group of childhood friends ( @bennierex, @eqko, @exyle and @s3rg3) who recently became blockchain enthousiasts and Steem evangelists (yes, our friends and family sometimes think it's a bit too much).
Together, the 4 of us want to invent and create exciting stuff for the Steem blockchain. Things like tools and apps which make everybody's life on the Steem blockchain a greater experience.
We started off with the idea of making Steemify, a free notification app for iOS devices, which was born out of an idea that @eqko had. As a new user of the platform, he was missing proper notifications and thought it was a really sought-after feature. And he proved to be right; We developed Steemify and it has become a great hit!
Later on, we decided that becoming a witness would not only allow us to be more actively involved behind the scenes, but also gives us the opportunity to spend more time on contributing to the community.
What are you pledging to do to support the Steemit Community?
The Steem network
Apart from running a reliable witness server, we are also running a seed node to support the network. We are close to releasing the free and open-source tool SteemTurbine to help other witnesses run their servers more reliable and therefore also increase the overall reliability of the Steem network.
The Steem community
As for the Steem community as a whole, we made our app Steemify available to all users free of charge and will continue to support this in the future. As a witness, we try to be as open and approachable as possible. You can reach us in many different ways (e.g. Telegram, Discord, Steemit.chat, e-mail) and will answer any serious questions from the Steem Community to the best of our knowledge.
What are you pledging to do to support the Minnow Community?
On a personal level, we will try to find a balance between curating posts of established names as well as new users. We believe minnows deserve a fair chance of getting off the ground, but we also think it is important to keep the more established users on the platform and encourage them to support new users as well.
Secondly, we will delegate part of the @blockbrothers SteemPower to the Minnow Support Project, to help new users get a better experience.
Apart from that, we'd like to make regular posts to answer questions from new users and help them find their way in this, sometimes overwhelming, ecosystem:
- Ask us anything #1 - What is the role of a witness?
- Ask us anything #2 - What are the things to look for when voting for a witness?
What are you pledging to do to support the Minnow Support Project?
We've decided we will delegate part of our SteemPower to the Minnow Support Project. From time to time, we will review the amount of delegation we can afford, and adjust accordingly. As said before we want to be open and transparant about our actions, so whenever we decide to change the amount of SP we delegate to the Minnow Support Project (either way), you can expect a detailed explanation why.
Final thoughts
To us, being a witness is more than just running a server and be done with it. We would like to make Steem greater than it already is. After all, that makes all the time and effort we put in worthwhile. Delegating SP to the Minnow Support Project gives us the opportunity to focus on developing more tools and content, while also supporting the Minnow Community. The four of us are working extremely hard to bring new tools and development to Steem and we will continue to do so for as long as we are able. There's still so much work to be done, and only by working together we can make Steem grow.
If you support us please vote here for @blockbrothers
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Makers of Steemify. The dedicated notification app for anything happening on the Steem blockchain
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Ver impressive thought. Nice post beautiful presented and explained and detail oriented.
Upvoted
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Thank you
Thank you so much for your support to the network and newcomers like me.
Love your story I am just a weeeeee teeeeenie Minnow meself! Going to vote fer ya
Same here 👶
Thank you!
More power to minnowsupport :)
True
keep going at it!
Yep
Incredible idea. I m truly impressed with your blog.
thank you blockbrothers for being part of our lives, you have my support
I love block trade.I want to know how is it?
I am learning now.....
Good luck guys! Love the idea
Nice story.
More power for stemians ! 😊😊 im still new here but im having fun already..
https://steemit.com/roads/@anuppoudel85/every-corner-of-the-road-is-beautiful-7f8405a5a30f2 plz upvote
very good development, I am very happy to hear it, I also really support what you make, hopefully the future steemit progress
I'm guessing that Blockbrothers has nothing to do with the (now defunct) realestate company, Blockbrothers? I went to school with one of the Block children.
I pray that you make through.....good work work done
I support.
When is the SteemTurbine going to be ready? And also you will do a thread on how to use it plz, very necessary. Nice idea u guys got.
We are just working on the finishing touch. We'll post it on our blog if it is ready to go live.
I can't vote twice! 😜
No need to vote again if you have already casted your vote. Thank you!
I just joined yesterday. I am very excited about the experience. It reminds me of the stream-of-consciousness approach that the average social media site only promises but never quite delivers. In other words, I'm a huge fan one day in!
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