Drakos Witness Update 2017-08-27

Witness News

My witnesses and seed servers are running well, no problems to report. I monitor them daily to ensure everything is ok. The fail-over script is running on all machines. Here's a recap of my current setup:

I will have to update my seed soon, the memory usage is 10.2 GB and it's slowly nearing the 12 GB RAM on that server.

SBD APR

The SBD average price is at $0.95. Poloniex SBD/STEEM deposits and withdrawals are still disabled since my last two weekly updates. SBD on Poloniex has gained a bit, but it's still lowering the average price. Master Hive account@gtg suggested not to take into account Poloniex because of their unreliability. I'm reducing my APR from 7% to 5%, until Poloniex price starts to makes more sense. For the record, I stopped using Poloniex two months ago, therefore I recommend to stop using it too, at least when it comes to exchanging SBD/STEEM.

Miscellaneous

• My witness position is holding at Rank 52.
• I continue to support new users in the help channel on Steemit.Chat.
• I had the chance to discuss some abuse matters with Hive account@ned, who happens to be Steemit's CEO. Hopefully that discussion brings some clarifications on the subject.
• I started the Drakos Art Contest: Pirate Theme, check it out and vote for your favorite candidates. The two winners will be announced in 4 days.
• Big thanks to Hive account@atopy for making me a cool witness voting GIF animation (check the footer of this post).

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