In spirit of Curie's transparency, we wish to use this weekly section as an ongoing development blog on this community project to communicate our progress on top of the many casual exchanges happening in channel #curie.
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Wishing everyone a happy new year! 2017 marks Curie's first full year of operations, and 17th month in total.
Witness Update
A sincere thank you to all 2,700 Steemians voting for
The witness nodes have been upgraded for greater redundancy. Furthermore, we are in the process of setting up a full RPC node for the Steem network. The existing seed node at seed.curiesteem.com:2001 will remain online and complement the full node.
The increase in funding will lead to further initiatives, starting with Curie now being able to reward Steem's most engaged and contributive authors, irrespective of Reputation. This expansion was announced last week. Curator recommendations have been opened up further - we hope to see more of the finest curators on Steem submit exceptional content to Curie. If you're interested, please join #curie on Steemit.chat for more details.
Curie will also continue supporting development of apps for the curation community, such as Steem Search, developed and consulted by Curie curators.
We hope the Steem community will continue supporting Curie. Any feedback is always welcome! To vote for
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Sub-community support list & updates
We are maintaining this list in every edition of Weekly Curie for transparency.
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Direct curators: 
This week's sub-community curators payout is 720 Steem.
(This curation is independent of Curie's general curation works)
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And the hundreds of curators and reviewers, of course :)
Weekly Statistics
Over the last week, Curie curated a total of 88 posts at an average of 13 posts per day. Looks like it's been a busy Christmas for Curie curators :)
Do note, this number does not include Sub-community curation.
Authors
Here are the authors that received a Curie vote this week:-
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Curators
The Top Curators list will dynamically change every other week depending on performance. Anybody will be able to rise up the ranks with consistent, quality curation. Inconsistent, low-quality curation will result in dropping out of Top curators list(or regular curation, if under-performance continues). Exceptional long-term top curators transition to direct curation.
This week, we have upvoted 88 posts submitted by curators in http://curiesteem.com, with 1,320 STEEM to be paid out to curators.
| Curator | Curator Score | Approval Rating | Posts Submitted |
|---|---|---|---|
| carlgnash | 9.00 | 100 | 9 |
| misterakpan | 7.00 | 100 | 8 |
| thatdamiguy | 7.00 | 100 | 8 |
| laniakea1 | 7.00 | 100 | 7 |
| mikepm74 | 7.00 | 100 | 7 |
| milosm2302 | 4.00 | 100 | 4 |
| tamacvet | 3.47 | 83 | 6 |
| choogirl | 3.00 | 100 | 3 |
| gundulkibo | 2.83 | 64 | 11 |
| bitrocker2020 | 2.56 | 80 | 5 |
| babel | 2.00 | 100 | 2 |
| erodedthoughts | 2.00 | 100 | 2 |
| raj808 | 2.00 | 100 | 2 |
| cyres | 2.00 | 100 | 2 |
| futurethinker | 2.00 | 100 | 2 |
| limabeing | 2.00 | 100 | 2 |
| tinypaleokitchen | 2.00 | 100 | 2 |
| dante31 | 1.00 | 100 | 2 |
| zararina | 1.00 | 100 | 2 |
| cepas | 1.00 | 100 | 1 |
| saimegh | 1.00 | 100 | 1 |
| thegreatsilaban | 1.00 | 100 | 1 |
| riyansyahbp | 1.00 | 100 | 1 |
| myart | 1.00 | 100 | 1 |
| toxichan | 1.00 | 100 | 1 |
| rejakul | 1.00 | 100 | 1 |
| wovlou | 1.00 | 100 | 1 |
| hidayat20 | 1.00 | 100 | 1 |
| tormiwah | 0.25 | 50 | 2 |
| arrliinn | 0.25 | 50 | 2 |
| themanualbot | 0.25 | 50 | 2 |
| rahuldit | 0.00 | 0 | 1 |
| sarcasm | 0.00 | 0 | 1 |
| steemlegend | 0.00 | 0 | 1 |
| henifah | 0.00 | 0 | 1 |
| mansurson | 0.00 | 0 | 1 |
| infinitor | 0.00 | 0 | 1 |
| bangteh | 0.00 | 0 | 1 |
| alamboge | 0.00 | 0 | 1 |
| sanakumar | 0.00 | 0 | 1 |
| paper-handy | 0.00 | 0 | 1 |
| funnytale | 0.00 | 0 | 1 |
| pakganern | 0.00 | 0 | 1 |
| jassennessaj | 0.00 | 0 | 1 |
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