Exciting Times Coming Up From Your Witness @precise!

Happy New Year!

During the holiday hiatus, I spent most of my time with my family and contemplated on how I want my 2018 to turn out. The previous year (2017) has been highlighted by my return to the STEEM blockchain. Thanks mainly to Hive account@tjpezlo for convincing me to become a witness and contribute as much as I could to the Hive account@steemph family. The future of the Filipino community is bright and we can even make it brighter if we work together as one. Let us support each other and show the world what bayanihan is all about.

I setup my witness server aiming to inspire the Hive account@steemph family on this platform. Everything is possible and sustainable if we just support each other, respect our differences and promote positivity. Selfless efforts are keys to build a successful thriving community. I am very positive and optimistic that the Hive account@steemph family will soon reach it's stability and order in the coming days/months/years ahead.

On the practical side of things, I incurred negative returns in terms of maintaining my witness server but this was all expected as the support came in slowly. The server though have been very useful especially when new users get frustrated of the slow account creations using the steemit.com interface. Hearing from friends who promoted blogging in the STEEM blockchain, account creation became a deterrent.

Luckily, thanks to the generosity of the core group from Hive account@steemph, creation fees and delegation of SP were not a problem to start with and have been of great help to the new comers.

This has been a very valuable asset that supported Hive account@steemph to promote and recruit new users to start contributing good quality content on the blockchain.

Late of last year, I decided to acquire a new and powerful server from Hive account@privex to keep up with the increasing demand of the blockchain. I intentionally activated this new server at the beginning of the year to signal and be hopeful for a wonderful year ahead. Here are the specifications of the new server: