In spirit of Curie's transparency, we wish to use this weekly section as an ongoing development blog on our project to communicate our progress on top of the many casual exchanges happening in channel #curie.
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- Curie continues its focus on supporting new authors. Semi-established authors are supported by Steem Guild. Short form posts in Reddit-style tags are also supported by a different project. Please note that these three projects are separate. However, some Curie members do also participate on the other projects.
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News
- Curation team will be back to full swing in the coming week!
- Project Curie's presentation by
and
at Steemfest is now live on Youtube. Do check it out! Once again, many thanks to
- We have tested v0.16.0 with our bots and scripts. Backup witness
- After Hardfork 16, we'll continue with the same Finder's fee - the faster power downs will help us balance out lower revenues.
Weekly Statistics
Over the last week, Project Curie curated a total of 586 posts at an average of 83 posts per day. A total of 392 unique authors were rewarded. These numbers remain about the same from previous week.
SBD 9,836 was generated at an average of SBD 17 per post. This is a major increase from previous week's average of SBD 11 per post. This can be attributed to the steady increase in Steem for the past week.
Authors
The Top 10 Authors by payouts last week were -
In what has become a safe assumption, we see a completely fresh list again this week. Several top authors last week have now graduated to Steem Guild.
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We upvoted 308 posts submitted by curators in #curie, with 2,464 STEEM paid out / pending payouts to curators. More submission were accepted on #curie this week due to lower internal curation this week. Operations will resume to normal tomorrow.
Note: #curie is now home to 600 users, over 100 active curators, and is arguably the largest collaborative effort in the Steem community.
This week marks the end of 
Studying these top finders, one thing is common among them - their submissions are consistently good, original content.
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Note: All author rewards from this post will be used to fund Curie.
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