Hi Steemit!

Not a lot new this week. I changed my proposed interest rate for SBD to 0%. Primary and secondary witness servers are running great.

I continue to help out in #witness and hangout in #witness-social discussing witness and Steemit related topics.

Been focusing a lot more on anti-plagiarism and content theft efforts. This is such a huge problem and does a lot to undermine the goals of Steemit. I have opened discussion channels with my services to report and identify abuse on Steemit.

This week has seen a lot of discussion about flagging, abuse, and plagiarism. It's a very touchy topic but it is something that needs to be handled for Steemit to grow into something amazing. A lot of accounts abusing large chunks of delegation to create an upvote circle self-rewarding from multiple accounts. A few of these were hit very hard with Hive account@nextgencrypto's flagging campaign. We have found multiple users submitting stolen content through Hive account@buildawhale and have taken action to revoke our votes and blacklisting them.

I am currently #62 witness and active daily on Steemit and in Steemit related communities. Thank you to everyone who has supported me and those who are considering.

I always like to end my witness updates with something different and more personal. I just posted some cool Thanksgiving 3D Printing ideas today for those who are interested in my 3D printing posts.

I write on many topics, typically 3D Printing, small electronics and robotics, Steemit, Cryptocurrency, gaming, witness, and technical topics. If any of those interest you, consider following me.

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