Hi contributors, subscribers and supporters?
This week's edition of the newsletter will cover a range of updates about The Ink Well community, as well as an important development in the drama with Justin Sun that has has been dominating the steem-o-sphere. More about that later, but for now I shall stick to all things creative writing that effect The Ink Well community members.
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, here to tell you about some of the new developments, as well as some breaking news about a community voting trail and a promised power up for the 
account.
, here to tell you about some of the new developments, as well as some breaking news about a community voting trail and a promised power up for the account.If you are not already a member of The Ink Well and would like to check out the first creative writing community supported by 
please follow the link below:
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Breaking news - The Ink Well's Curation Trail is Now Active on SteemAuto
The Ink Well has its first large-ish stake holder following our curation trail in the form of travel writer, drum and bass producer, and all round nice guy 
. I want to take this opportunity to thank Nicky for being the first to follow our trail with a massive 100% voting weight. He has boosted the voting power of from around $0.01 per 100% vote to around $0.14 per 100% vote. Thank you Nicky!
. I want to take this opportunity to thank Nicky for being the first to follow our trail with a massive 100% voting weight. He has boosted the voting power of from around $0.01 per 100% vote to around $0.14 per 100% vote. Thank you Nicky!Anyone who uses steemauto to cast autovotes or follow trails can now find theinkwell as an optional trail to follow. The pictures below give a brief tutorial on how to find the voting trail section in steemauto and set a trailing vote on the account. Following this trail means that your vote will benefit everyone writing quality content in this community, as well as potentially earning decent curation rewards as The Ink Well community account will vote prior to our curie community vote.
account. Following this trail means that your vote will benefit everyone writing quality content in this community, as well as potentially earning decent curation rewards as The Ink Well community account will vote prior to our curie community vote.I would recommend setting the weight to between 20% and 50% as shown in the tutorial as this will essentially mean that you vote 20% - 50% of the voting percentage we use to vote posts with the account. As we will be monitoring the community account to ensure it never drops below 80% setting a low to mid level percentage should ensure that you have voting power left over for manual voting.
account. As we will be monitoring the community account to ensure it never drops below 80% setting a low to mid level percentage should ensure that you have voting power left over for manual voting.An important point to note is that if you follow other curation trails this percentage should be even lower at around 10%. or you may drain your voting power beyond the recommended 80% standard.
Tutorial:
New Writers Earn Badges on 
These badges are displayed at the top of the homepage of your blog on steempeak. Just another reason to use the fantastic front end. The Ink Well's badges are currently awarded to anyone who has posted to the community in accordance with our rules and guidelines.
front end. The Ink Well's badges are currently awarded to anyone who has posted to the community in accordance with our rules and guidelines.This week five new subscribers have posted their writing to The Ink Well and have earned themselves a shiny new badge.
They are a nice addition to the community and a great way for us to say thank you for contributing to The Ink well.
Prompts and Challenges
A quick reminder that both of our weekly prompt challenges are still active. 
's fantastic fantasy fiction challenge runs until Monday 9th March, so you'll have to be quick to get an entry into that challenge. There are currently only two entrants, 
and myself . So if there are any budding fantasists out there, come and join us in creating realms of mystery, magic and mayhem.
's fantastic fantasy fiction challenge runs until Monday 9th March, so you'll have to be quick to get an entry into that challenge. There are currently only two entrants, and myself . So if there are any budding fantasists out there, come and join us in creating realms of mystery, magic and mayhem.The Ink Well Fiction Writing Challenge #1 - Realms of Fantasy
My first poetry writing challenge will be open to entrants until Thursday 12th of March. So plenty of time to give that one a go. The challenge revolves around the theme of Legend and has an additional challenge to write your poem in the form of a ballad.
Thursday's Poetry Challenge - Exploring Legend
Some Good News from the Steem/Tron Trenches
As some of you may be aware, Justin sun of Tron blockchain fame has been getting up to all kinds of shady shenanigans trying to subvert the decentralized nature of our beloved steem. Ever since he bought 
's ninja mined stake the situation has escalated to ridiculous proportions in an all out blockchain war.
's ninja mined stake the situation has escalated to ridiculous proportions in an all out blockchain war.I am a writer first and foremost. I find this type of cutthroat business/political stuff both obnoxious and boring. But you know what they say about burying your head in the sand. I have been keeping a very close eye on all the developments and have joined in fighting the negative lies/PR tactics of Justin Sun on twitter.
The most disturbing part of this whole sorry affair is that three exchanges, Binance, Poloniex and Huobi used steem funds of their users to help Justin Sun oust the 20 consensus witnesses. Essentially, they took customers steem and powered it up without the customer's consent.
But there is good news!
Firstly,the community has united and voted ten (as of today 11.55am GMT) of the old top twenty witnesses back into the top ten spots. This prevents Justin Sun from making changes to the Blockchain at a code level through a hardfork.
Secondly, and equally as important, last night in the steem town hall meeting MSP PAL discord show, a tweet was shared showing Changpeng Zhao (CZ), the founder and CEO of Binance stating that they will be powering down the steem they used to help Justin Sun perform his hostile take over. CZ also apologized for the action stating that 'We make mistakes, but we always listen to our community'. This is great news for the future of steem, and the power of this community in bombarding the exchange''s twitter accounts with the truth to shame them into action. This gives me hope that we as a community can fight off the hostile actions of Justin Sun.
Binance is one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, and where they lead others will follow. All in all Binance doing a 360 on this and apologizing to the steem community is incredible publicity for steem blockchain.
I have also just heard that Huobi exchange, one of the three to join in this suspect action of voting on steem governance with customers funds, have also stated they're powering down and moving the steem back to their exchange. This leaves only Poloniex (part owned by Justin Sun) with customer's steem powered up and ready to be used to vote to subvert steem's decentralized governance.
But that's enough of that. I left a marketing and PR job over 6 years ago to pursue my dreams of becoming a writer because I couldn't stand that type of work 😆
Power Up of Post Rewards from Community Introduction Post
Eleven days ago I introduced The Ink Well from my main blog and the announcement post did very well earning $42.84 in total. In that post I promised to set as a 75% beneficiary meaning that seventy five percent of the rewards would automatically go to the community's account.
and the announcement post did very well earning $42.84 in total. In that post I promised to set as a 75% beneficiary meaning that seventy five percent of the rewards would automatically go to the community's account.However, due to a mad schedule of three 12 hour days creating design work for The Ink Well, writing the introduction and fulfilling other freelance writing deadlines, I forgot to set the beneficiary. Tiredness does strange things to the mind and I was shattered by the point I hit publish on the introduction post.
I am a man of my word so I will now send and power up 75% of the total author payout for that post to add to 's overall voting power. Please see math/s and screenshots below. Evidencial screens are sourced from my account at steemworld.org and the currency converter tool at coinmarketcap.com.
's overall voting power. Please see math/s and screenshots below. Evidencial screens are sourced from my account at steemworld.org and the currency converter tool at coinmarketcap.com.Total author Payout = $21.41
$21.41 / 100 = $0.214
$0.214 * 75 = $16.05 which is 75% of the total author payout of the post.
The current value of steem (according to coinmarket cap's currency calculator) places $16.05 at 76.34 steem.
Evidence of transfer from
If anyone would like to check these transactions themselves, all evidence can be seen in the accounts opperations sections at steemworld.org/@theinkwell and steemworld.org/@raj808.
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