Server Uptime
For two weeks now, server has been running smoothly without any glitches and has not been restarted or rebuild since. So far we have witnessed over 20 blocks so far with 0 missed. Nevertheless, we monitor the server regularly just to make sure that everything is working correctly.
Encapsulated in Steemit
Feels amazing to be a part of Steemit history and to be encapsulated in every witnessed block, does't it. It is an honor to be able to serve Steemit community and be rewarded for it.
We have received an astonishing amount of support from all the witness voters, who value what we are striving to achieve for Steemians. Right now we are #85 amongst the active witnesses and #102 if you count all inactive witnesses. Want to discuss the issue with inactive witnesses a bit later.
SBD Peg rate
here.There have been great debates about Pegging SBD to dollar and I have seen valid points for both sides. On the one hand, we want one currency SBD to be stable and related to something outside crypto such as fiat dollar. That brings in many advantages including integrations with payment systems @lukestokes had a lot of points for pegging
post Steemit is not at that level yet to get integrated with a payment system and pegging the dollar can demotivate a lot of users and newcomers.But on the other hand, we don't want to become strict regulators who can harm the Steemit economy with our poor decisions right now when it has not become mainstream. Right now rewards are appealing to bloggers and minnows since they can get decent rewards for their work. As @aggroed stated in his
Image Source: http://www.pqed.org/2014/07/was-america-always-laissez-faire.html
For now I am voting for Laissez-faire (french for "let go") economy right now where Steemians do not intervene in the free market exchange rates of SBD. I respect the decision that will be made regarding pegging USD to SBD proposed by top 20 witnesses and will support their decision 100% because I completely trust their expertise. Top 20 witnesses will definitely make the choice that will benefit Steemit.
I personally like SBD the way it is at the moment and the way it attracts more people to Steemit while pulling STEEM exchange rate up as well.
Plans for the future
We are planning to add feed functionality for our SteemApp, soon will send out the design for everyone to see and comment. Will be waiting for your feedback. Our developers are already getting prepared to implement this design on top of the infrastructure. After that we are planning to go Utopian, meaning open source on Github. Hopefully people will trust the app more once the code is open and will help to contribute with new features and bugs.
We will use our current SP and if more will be delegated will use all of that to help minnows get their post more visible through our discord channel and development contributors on utopian.io. I am really looking forward to that.
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64 GB RAM
Intel i7
2x240GB SSD
1gbit/s network
Germany Dedicated Server (privex.io)
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Congratulations for making it so far up the witness list in a short time. I agree with your decision regarding the SBD peg rate from an economic perspective as well.
By the way, have you heard about the mobile app, bSteem, that was recently released by @jm90mm? Seems like the competition is heating up here and there are independently developed apps starting to compete for market share here!
I personally like the UI of SteemApp more, but bSteem is quite far ahead in terms of functionality for now. Looking forward to see how this changes with future iterations of SteemApp.
Thanks a lot @wilfredn, I have not actually seen this one, thank you for bringing this up. We don't want to rush into functionality and leave UI a mess. We want to move step by step and bring beautiful UI together with good functionality. We are not competing for market share because our app is totally free, we just want a nice tool for Steemit which we would personally love to use every day.
Will keep you updated regarding our development. By the way, soon will post our Feed Design. Should look pretty slick, would be glad if you would check it out.
Yeah definitely! I'm looking forward to checking it out already =)
thanks so much for your little gift to me, yesterday @yuriks2000
And I have choice you as one of my witness vote
Thanks a lot @lamkote, great to have your support!
thank you also for the SBD you have sent. my support also by visiting my blog