Someguy123 Witness Update
Apologies for the irregularity. Some projects take a while, and I often release them in bursts. Thus, rather than doing these weekly, I do them every 2-3 weeks.
At the current point of time, I am jumping between rank 36 to 37 on the rankings. It's now at a point where I have a backup witness node, which I used to accomplish the 0.14.2 update without missing blocks.
So what have I done since the last update?
My last update was at the very end of August, you can read it here.
Here's what I've done since then:
- Raised 150 USD (216 SBD) for RiseUP
- Created the first TOR RPC node for STEEM
- Built Steemvalue which offers instant conversion rates. Similar to Bitcoin's PREEV
- Released Understeem which is an alternative Steemit, accessible over TOR, with zero censorship
- Wrote an article explaining witnesses
- Created an alternative witness pricefeed script in JS
- Documented the account recovery process, explaining why trustee's can't steal your account
- Pegged my price feed by -10% as per
's guidelines
- And of course, today, I have released Git-Steem, which is a somewhat decentralized Github.
What am I working on now?
I have many projects in the works. Some are related to helping witnesses improve their reliability, others are tools to further the STEEM ecosystem.
Most importantly, I spend many hours just helping people out on Steemit.CHAT - you'll see me almost every day in #dev and #witness
Some of my work is collaboration with other users, for example I've provided some infrastructure to @williambanks' Havin Project
Thoughts from this month
This month has been a rollercoaster. We've had many people leave the STEEM community, and many others join the community.
We've had many new projects pop up, and I've had AnonSteem maintain popularity, unlike many projects I build which lose users after a week.
The recent events of 
While I don't have any problems with Charlie Shrem himself, I do have a problem that a single person can be thrown into the top 19 overnight, while some witnesses have been working for months and struggle to go above rank 20-30. ( two examples being 
Conclusion
I hope to see more great projects built on top of STEEM.
Right now, we're very centralized, with many people using just Steemit, rather than other unique platforms such as 
We don't all have to use Steemit; STEEM is a powerful blockchain, with many capabilities, and I believe we need to embrace that, with more alternative platforms.