For some time I have found that external demands have made it challenging for me to devote the time and attention necessary to be a conscientious and committed top 20 witness. With the recent sale of Steemit

I am in agreement with the thoughts behind abit's comments With the same goals I will be adopting a similar but slightly different policy, where I do not set the bias automatically, but I will set a high

I've updated to 0.18.1 (0.18.2 on some non-witness nodes). Congratulations to @sneak and the rest of the team on getting the release out and working with the community to reach consensus on the feature

I will be reducing my vote on SBD interest rate (APR) from 4% to 2.5% as of February 1 and reducing my account creation fee vote from 50 to 30, which is the current median. My price feed discount will

Several witnesses have agreed to routinely make any necessary SBD interest rate updates at the beginning of each month and I have joined this agreement. The purpose of this policy is to ensure that everyone

Policy changes In preparation for the upcoming hard fork I have reduced my feed discount from 8% to 3%. Separately, I have reduced by SBD APR to from 8% to 6%. Background The fork will reduce conversion

Just a small update. After further discussion with some other witnesses (mostly @clayop, @bacchist and @timcliff) I have been convinced to reduce my feed discount. Previously it was 12%. I will be reducing

I will be upgrading my witness to the upcoming 0.16 fork assuming no technical problems are discovered before December 6. I have reduced my witness SBD interest rate (APR) setting from 13 to 9%. I do not

I have reduced my SBD APR to 13% from 15%. I have done this because SBD has been consistently a bit too strong, sometimes trading with a bid above 1.00 USD (and ask significantly above 1.00 USD). In addition

I have backed off a bit on my witness SBD APR parameter from 20% to 15%. This is the current APR on the network as set by the median of witnesses on the network. I believe 15% is possibly a viable APR

I have updated my witness SBD APR parameter from 15% to 20% following the lead of several other witnesses who have done this. I believe this is the correct policy to improve SBD pegging at this time. As

I have updated my witness SBD interest rate to 15% from 10%. My feed discount is unchanged at -12% (1-1/1.136). I have done this because SBD is effectively debt to the Steem blockchain, representing a

Following the lead of @abit I have begun adjusting my witness price feed to 12% below observed market price. Although not formally announced, I had previously been using a 10% adjustment. I continue to

I’m ‘smooth’, well known and active in the cryptocurrency community since 2011, core team member of Monero and lead developer of AEON. I have not been involved with Bitshares or other DPoS so operating