Hive account@blockbrothers are already very active in the community through Hive account@exyle and Hive account@s3rg3 (Dutch Community), Hive account@brittandjosie (our community manager) and our own Hive account@blockbrothers account.

We are also the developers behind Steemify.

But we like to do more.

In December 2017 we released a post here where we clearly state which witnesses we vote for and why.

Since that time many Steemians have entrusted us with their proxy witness vote and our vote has grown to an impressive 1300 MV (to put that into perspective Hive account@freedom, one of the biggest accounts on the blockchain has 18000MV).

We have a healthy mix of community witnesses and developers.

Here is the new monthly list for September with upcoming changes.

If you like our choice for witnesses you can set Hive account@blockbrothers as your witness proxy and we will honor that trust.

Set blockbrothers as your proxy via SteemConnect

The following witnesses we still approve of but will be rotated out:

Witness	Reasoning
Hive account@partiko	Not updated their witness server since 20.7

The following witnesses will be rotated in:

Witness	Reasoning
Hive account@dmitrydao	For his work on https://steemproposals.com/.

Hive account@blockbrothers approves of the following witnesses (complete list with reasoning).

Witness	Reasoning
Hive account@abit	Saved the blockchain after the chain stopped after HF20. Knows his stuff. Maybe not as visible on the blockchain as other witnesses but someone you want to have around.
Hive account@adsactly-witness	Community witness. Heavily invested. Support bloggers as well as developers. Very active under the Hive account@adsactly-witness and the Hive account@adsactly account.
Hive account@aggroed	One of the most dedicated Steemians. Minnow Support Project Founder. Community leader and Co-founder of Steem Monsters. Run their own infrastructure decentralising the blockchain.
Hive account@anyx	For his work on optimizing full nodes
Hive account@blockbrothers	Community (Hive account@exyle and Hive account@s3rg3) and developer witness (Hive account@bennierex and Hive account@eqko). Creators of Steemify and very invested and informative for the community through Hive account@exyle and Hive account@s3rg3 (Dutch community).
Hive account@blocktrades	Developer witness. Business owner of blocktrades.com. A portal to convert other crypto to STEEM and back (for a fee). Has a team that can build for the blockchain. Business owner.
Hive account@busy.witness	Community and developer witness. Creators of the first alternative front-end for Steemit.com with Busy.org.
Hive account@curie	Community witness. Curator of content.
Hive account@cervantes	Community witness for the Spanish Community.
Hive account@emrebeyler	For his work on dPoll and Tower
Hive account@fyrst-witness	Community witness. Very active community member. Founder of Steemspeak on Discord. One of the biggest community servers outside of Steem. Owner of Booster. A promotional service for the blockchain.
Hive account@good-karma	Developer of the Esteem ecosystem. Run their own infrastructure decentralising the blockchain.
Hive account@holger80	For his work on Beem
Hive account@jackmiller	Very active community witness.
Hive account@lukestokes.mhth	Community witness.
Hive account@ocd-witness	Community witness. Curator of content.
Hive account@oflyhigh	Underrated witness. Knows a lot about the blockchain. Programmer. (got on our radar when he answered this question about the price feed perfectly. here.
Hive account@oracle-d	For the continuous work promoting Steem and building 3speak
Hive account@pharesim	Developer witness. Made https://steeminvite.com. Is able to check Hard Fork code.
Hive account@reggaemuffin	Developer Witness with Hive account@buildteam. Run their own infrastructure.
Hive account@someguy123	Developer witness. Not active as a community member but is the creator Of Steem in a box which is an extremely helpful tool for everyone that wants to setup a witness.
Hive account@steempress	for their work on Steempress
Hive account@steempeak	For their work on Steempeak and Peakmonsters
Hive account@stoodkev	for his work on Keychain and SteemPlus
Hive account@thecryptodrive	Business man and developer Witness with Hive account@buildteam. Run their own infrastructure.
Hive account@themarkymark	Developer and very active community witness. Also known for his work on the The Global Blacklist API. Provides a free public full node
Hive account@therealwolf	Developer and community witness. Creator of Smartsteem. Creator of SteemApps
Hive account@actifit	For their work on the Actifit application.
Hive account@yabapmatt	Developer witness. Co-founder of Steem Monsters.

^{If you support us please vote here for Hive account@blockbrothers or set us as proxy

or use these SteemConnect links}

_{Makers of Steemify. The dedicated notification app for anything happening on the Steem blockchain.}

_{or apply for the Android beta here : steemify@blockbrothers.io}