Hail fellow STEEM Sloths! This is the second of many weekly witness updates.
(Every friday I'll make a witness post highlighting my current STEEM witness progress)

This Week as STEEM Network Witness in Brief

This week was a bit slower than last week with fewer updates to report containing far less exciting news. My apologies! At the beginning of the week I'd initially received word back from the Coinpayments.net administrator that they'd begun implementation of the STEEM wallet into their systems to extend payment gateway support to woocommerce/wordpress for the SteemDollar (SBD) currency as well as our STEEM network tokens.

Construction continues on the steem.global news site / seed node project with major changes hopefully implemented over the course of the upcoming week to improve user experience and ease of information access to matters pertaining to our network and her inhabitants.

News also broke earlier this week that a highly reputation ranked account had started plagiarizing artwork from other social media networks and was attempting to pass off the illustrations as thier own. The community has since then been alerted to the potential of high reputation accounts "going rogue" and the accused has issued an apology post.

Waiting on Word Back From Coinpayments.net Admin

While confirmation was given last week that well known woocommerce payment gateway Coinpayments.net had started implementing our wallet in order to provide SBD / STEEM acceptance on their site, as of writing this post I've received no word of reply in regards to the status of this undertaking on there end. Earlier today correspondence was sent inquiring about an estimated time of implementation of our currencies onto their platform but unfortunately no reply has been sent yet.

When more information on the progress is given I'll be sure to relay it on my blog for the STEEM community.
Originally their admin had estimated it would be done the end of this week, so hopefully we see this happen.

UPDATE: The Coinpayments.net admin just replied to my email, see below:

steem.global News / Seed node Updates Started

Last week I announced the launch of http://steem.global which serves as a STEEM seed node and news site. Unfortunately I was unable to put the time I would have liked to put into it this week but I've found some time this weekend to start getting the site fully operational and get some STEEM Network News rolling for those interested. This is an ongoing project and hopefully within the next few months the site will move out of the online beta and become a hub of STEEM news.

If you're an investigative journalist who enjoys staying on top and reporting breaking stories and news on the STEEM network please feel free to get in contact with me if you'd like to contribute to the site.

(Site may be unavailable briefly this week as I update some things)

Helping Uncover High Reputation Content Thieves

It was brought to my attention by Hive account@walden and other members of the steemitabuse-classic team that a highly reputable account on our network had posted artwork from a well known twitter artist & claimed that he'd created the image. While most accounts in our community are lower reputation than the account brought into light by the accusations and most refused to get involved out of fear of revenge flagging, it was decided by myself that someone had to make this story public.

While I entirely commend the fact that as a community we were able to detect, call out and in the end seemingly come to a proper understanding from all parties involved.. It has got to be mentioned that with this incident we've likely only just uncovered the tip of the iceberg in regards to users farming reputation with well written original content then opting to take the "easy way" out and pilfer others work under the guise of their own for profits.

Hopefully in the future we see less plagiarism & more honest effort from this user to create original content.

Weekly Witness Ranking Overview

Since starting the witness campaign roughly 2 weeks ago breaking into the ranks around 65 and falling slightly to hover around 67 earlier in the week. As of writing this post backed by support from the STEEM community my witness has managed to climb to rank 55. Thank you to all of those who have taken the time out of their day to support my witness campaign in the form of witness votes, word of mouth praise of the campaign in the chats and the great feedback I've received from STEEM users from all over the planet.

Without community support my witness campaign is nothing more than a wasted energy.
Cheers to all those that have voted me as witness so far, to all those who haven't read below!

Vote Hive account@klye for Witness

Appreciate what I'm doing for the community? Vote for me on the witness page!
Voting for me to be witness is fast, easy and completed on the page linked below:

https://steemit.com/~witnesses

Hive account@klye is ranked around #53 on the witness list and does not show up on the top 50!
However you can still vote for me by scrolling to the bottom of the page and typing klye:

Every vote counts! Please consider tossing me a witness vote. It takes only a few seconds.

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Thank you for your votes and support!