Server Uptime

For two weeks now, server has been running smoothly without any glitches and has not been restarted or rebuild since. So far we have witnessed over 20 blocks so far with 0 missed. Nevertheless, we monitor the server regularly just to make sure that everything is working correctly.

Encapsulated in Steemit

Feels amazing to be a part of Steemit history and to be encapsulated in every witnessed block, does't it. It is an honor to be able to serve Steemit community and be rewarded for it.

We have received an astonishing amount of support from all the witness voters, who value what we are striving to achieve for Steemians. Right now we are #85 amongst the active witnesses and #102 if you count all inactive witnesses. Want to discuss the issue with inactive witnesses a bit later.

SBD Peg rate

There have been great debates about Pegging SBD to dollar and I have seen valid points for both sides. On the one hand, we want one currency SBD to be stable and related to something outside crypto such as fiat dollar. That brings in many advantages including integrations with payment systems Hive account@lukestokes had a lot of points for pegging here.

But on the other hand, we don't want to become strict regulators who can harm the Steemit economy with our poor decisions right now when it has not become mainstream. Right now rewards are appealing to bloggers and minnows since they can get decent rewards for their work. As Hive account@aggroed stated in his post Steemit is not at that level yet to get integrated with a payment system and pegging the dollar can demotivate a lot of users and newcomers.

Image Source: http://www.pqed.org/2014/07/was-america-always-laissez-faire.html

For now I am voting for Laissez-faire (french for "let go") economy right now where Steemians do not intervene in the free market exchange rates of SBD. I respect the decision that will be made regarding pegging USD to SBD proposed by top 20 witnesses and will support their decision 100% because I completely trust their expertise. Top 20 witnesses will definitely make the choice that will benefit Steemit.

I personally like SBD the way it is at the moment and the way it attracts more people to Steemit while pulling STEEM exchange rate up as well.

Plans for the future

We are planning to add feed functionality for our SteemApp, soon will send out the design for everyone to see and comment. Will be waiting for your feedback. Our developers are already getting prepared to implement this design on top of the infrastructure. After that we are planning to go Utopian, meaning open source on Github. Hopefully people will trust the app more once the code is open and will help to contribute with new features and bugs.

We will use our current SP and if more will be delegated will use all of that to help minnows get their post more visible through our discord channel and development contributors on utopian.io. I am really looking forward to that.

Both Witness and Seed node server specs:

64 GB RAM
Intel i7
2x240GB SSD
1gbit/s network
Germany Dedicated Server (privex.io)

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