Technical and Economical

• kept my witness node running smoothly, with no missed blocks
• kept my price feed at 300%, following a broader attempt of witnesses to normalize the SBD price, which, at the moment of writing, is trading at over $8.5
• kept my SBD APR at 1%
• lowered the account registration fee at 0.1 STEEM, synchronizing with the majority of witnesses (I use a script called steem witness toolbox, available for free on Github, for publishing the feed price and adjusting a few blockchain props)
• kept the block size at 65,536

Community

• added a Github issue to Condenser, to display a message to users who don't have yet enough bandwidth to interact with the system. It was already tagged as 'nicetohave' and at the moment is considered 'lowpriority', if you think such a feature will be useful, go ahead at the link above and upvote it.

• updated steem.supply twice, completely refactoring the rewards calculation algorithm and improving significantly the UI, here are the two related posts:
  -- Steem.Supply Update: Rewards Algorithm Rewrite, Major Cleanup, Version Bump
  -- Steem.Supply Update: Toggle USD / STU Display Of Rewards

• made another contribution to Hive account@utopian_io, using my open source php library php-steem-tools:
  -- How To Calculate Your Engagement Rate Using php-steem-tools

• published a few posts related to the Steem community:
  -- STEEM Reaches And Goes Over All Time High: $4.41
  -- How Long It Will Take To STEEM To Go To The Moon?
  -- At What Price STEEM Will Be A Top 20 Cryptocurrency?
  -- Inconsistencies Between Steemit Rewards Display, Actual Rewards Received And Steem.Supply Projected Rewards

• started a 30 days writing challenge, in which I'm also rewarding 3 posts per day from the people who participate in it, here are the follow up posts for each day:
  -- January 30 Days Writing Challenge - Day One Follow Up
  -- January 30 Days Writing Challenge - Day Two Follow Up
  -- January 30 Days Writing Challenge - Day Three Follow Up
  -- January 30 Days Writing Challenge - Day Four Follow Up
  -- January 30 Days Writing Challenge - Day Five Follow Up

Overall Position

I'm currently sitting at 65 (stationary compared with last week). If you still think I can be useful as a witness and if you want to vote for me, you'll need to add my username in the form and click "Vote" as shown in the image below:

Thanks!

I'm a serial entrepreneur, blogger and ultrarunner. You can find me mainly on my blog at Dragos Roua where I write about productivity, business, relationships and running. Here on Steemit you may stay updated by following me Hive account@dragosroua.

If you're new to Steemit, you may find these articles relevant (that's also part of my witness activity to support new members of the platform):

• Rewards: Were Does The Money Come From?
• Netiquette: How To Avoid Being A Steem Douche?
• Witnesses: What Are They And Why Should You Care?
• How Can I Mine Steem And What CPU / GPU Power Do I Need For That?
• The Beginner Guide To Not Getting Hacked On Steemit