Blockbrothers application for Minnow Support Project witness vote

Minnow Support Project

The Hive account@blockbrothers started off as a group of childhood friends ( Hive account@bennierex, Hive account@eqko, Hive account@exyle and Hive account@s3rg3) who recently became blockchain enthousiasts and Steem evangelists (yes, our friends and family sometimes think it's a bit too much).
Together, the 4 of us want to invent and create exciting stuff for the Steem blockchain. Things like tools and apps which make everybody's life on the Steem blockchain a greater experience.

We started off with the idea of making Steemify, a free notification app for iOS devices, which was born out of an idea that Hive account@eqko had. As a new user of the platform, he was missing proper notifications and thought it was a really sought-after feature. And he proved to be right; We developed Steemify and it has become a great hit!
Later on, we decided that becoming a witness would not only allow us to be more actively involved behind the scenes, but also gives us the opportunity to spend more time on contributing to the community.

What are you pledging to do to support the Steemit Community?

The Steem network

Apart from running a reliable witness server, we are also running a seed node to support the network. We are close to releasing the free and open-source tool SteemTurbine to help other witnesses run their servers more reliable and therefore also increase the overall reliability of the Steem network.

The Steem community

As for the Steem community as a whole, we made our app Steemify available to all users free of charge and will continue to support this in the future. As a witness, we try to be as open and approachable as possible. You can reach us in many different ways (e.g. Telegram, Discord, Steemit.chat, e-mail) and will answer any serious questions from the Steem Community to the best of our knowledge.

What are you pledging to do to support the Minnow Community?

On a personal level, we will try to find a balance between curating posts of established names as well as new users. We believe minnows deserve a fair chance of getting off the ground, but we also think it is important to keep the more established users on the platform and encourage them to support new users as well.

Secondly, we will delegate part of the Hive account@blockbrothers SteemPower to the Minnow Support Project, to help new users get a better experience.

Apart from that, we'd like to make regular posts to answer questions from new users and help them find their way in this, sometimes overwhelming, ecosystem:

What are you pledging to do to support the Minnow Support Project?

We've decided we will delegate part of our SteemPower to the Minnow Support Project. From time to time, we will review the amount of delegation we can afford, and adjust accordingly. As said before we want to be open and transparant about our actions, so whenever we decide to change the amount of SP we delegate to the Minnow Support Project (either way), you can expect a detailed explanation why.

Final thoughts

To us, being a witness is more than just running a server and be done with it. We would like to make Steem greater than it already is. After all, that makes all the time and effort we put in worthwhile. Delegating SP to the Minnow Support Project gives us the opportunity to focus on developing more tools and content, while also supporting the Minnow Community. The four of us are working extremely hard to bring new tools and development to Steem and we will continue to do so for as long as we are able. There's still so much work to be done, and only by working together we can make Steem grow.

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