In spirit of Curie's transparency, we wish to use this weekly section as an ongoing development blog on our project to communicate our progress on top of the many casual exchanges happening in channel #curie.
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News
- With most of our team back from Steemfest towards the end of last week, we are back up to regular operational capacity.
- Project Curie's presentation by
and
at Steemfest is now live on Youtube. Do check it out! Once again, many thanks to
- Backup witness
- After Hardfork 16, we'll continue with the same Finder's fee - the faster power downs will help us balance out lower revenues.
Weekly Statistics
Over the last week, Project Curie curated a total of 477 posts at an average of 68 posts per day. A total of 317 unique authors were rewarded. These numbers are effectively flat over last week. However, we expect to curate many more posts next week as it will be the first full week since our team is back from Steemfest.
SBD 5,517 was generated at an average of SBD 12 per post. After an increase last week, we once again see a decrease in both SBDs generated and average. This is of course tied to the Steem price that has continued its decline after a brief uptick earlier this month.
Daily charts will be back next week.
Authors
The Top 10 Authors by payouts last week were -
In what has become a safe assumption, we see a completely fresh list again this week. Several top authors last week have now graduated to Steem Guild.
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We upvoted 302 posts submitted by curators in #curie, with 2,136 STEEM paid out / pending payouts to curators. These are all time record numbers, second week in a row. #curie is now home to 600 users, over 100 active curators, and is arguably the largest collaborative effort in the Steem community.
This week, we see another dead heat at the top, with 
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