In this update, the main focus will be on The Witness Blocks Challenge by 
If you are a new visitor you might not know that I'm very fresh on the witness scene. It has been just a little over 2 weeks since I made my announcement post. A total of 2 blocks have been signed so far. I had a rough start as I missed my first block due to the recent spam attack. I know it was not caused by a fault on my end, but it looks bad for the stats sitting there with 2 blocks and 1 miss...
I'm currently ranked #151 of all witnesses. A bit sad to see so many dead witnesses higher up on the list, but hopefully that will change over time. 😀
As part of my Witness journey, I have 
Please stay tuned!
Witness arrangements
Due to some recent controversy about shared witnesses, using one of the involved partners' accounts, I think it would be good to clarify our setup.
As the witness is under my name, 
Our agreement is based on a mutual vision and a drive to help new Steemians succeed. We have decided to team up to deliver projects together supporting that vision.
The witness will be used to promote these projects and the witness profits will be used to financially support them.
I hope that makes it more clear how our partnership looks like.
Thanks to all for your support so far!
Witness Blocks Challenge
I have 
The challenge rules are:
- Do something useful for others (i.e. free delegation, account creation for others, etc.) with your witness blocks
- Write a post about it
- Tag it with #witness-blocks
- Nominate a witness
As my witness is still brand new and the two signed blocks so far don't even come close to cover the server costs, the aim of this post will be about the future and what I'm currently doing.
Comment Challenge
In the summer of 2017, I started the Steemit Comment Challenge, a contest where the challenge is to write "godlike comments". Via this initiative, I have paid out more than 400 SBD and delegated about 3000 SP (split over several 1 week periods). The delegation of SP is a new component and I expect to increase that over time.
The comment challenge fits well with the vision to help new Steemians, as it encourages participation and teaches the importance of great and impactful comments.
Curation team
One new initiative I'm working on with Dave is to establish our own curation team, where we delegate a fixed amount to a number of new aspiring Steemians over a period of 4 weeks. We want to keep it at a minimum 4 weeks to minimize the impact of the 7 days retention. This is actually a big issue with the comments challenge where the 1-week delegations actually lock up the SP for 2 weeks instead of 1.
Secret .o.o. Initiative 😎
I wish I could tell you more about this, but to avoid the risk of someone stealing the idea, we have decided to keep it 100% secret. At least I can share that it is another initiative to support newbies, something that can be seen as a helping hand to newbie and minnow profits from their posts and comments.
Closing notes
At the moment, the profit from the witness blocks will be going towards server costs, but as soon as the running costs are covered, the profit will be distributed to support these initiatives.
I want to close by sending a big thanks to
My Challenge Nomination
I would like to nominate Top 20 witness 
