Every week myself and Hive account@derangedvisions will each randomly select two of our Witness voters from the list displayed on https://steemian.info/witnesses when you click the character with a + next to c0ff33a (Full rank 100 and active rank 90) to receive a SteemBasicIncome share each.

You can visit Hive account@steembasicincome to learn more, but basically 1 Steem = 1 Share in the project and will get whoever we enter into it a small % upvote from the service on every one of the posts they make from now on. The unique feature of the service is the more times you are entered into the project - the bigger value the upvote you get from it. And you can enter your friends if you wish in the same way - it's a super way to reward people and because the benefit is upvotes on posts - it encourages us all to post because that is where the benefit is realised.

It has been a very good week for our Witness, we are now listed on the top 100 Witness here https://steemit.com/~witnesses so now anyone can vote us directly by clicking the up arrow next to c0ff33a . Our Witness server is running very smoothly processing transactions on v0.19.12 which is the current release which supports AppBase. We currently process blocks every 6 hours as part of our Witness duties, and looking forward to HF20 we are looking at both Ram and SSD storage upgrades to ensure our server can keep up with the growing needs of the blockchain.

Where does my Steem Power go? Well as it grows I keep delegating it out to wonderful community projects, the latest today is 100 SP to Hive account@steemitramble to help Hive account@shadowspub curate the incredible content we have on Steemit. I also have 100 SP out to Hive account@welcomewagon which is an amazing project to find new Steemians showing great potential and taking them under their guidance to help them receive their full potential. They have many talent scouts, the discord is not open you are chosen on your merit to join and receive guidance to help your account. If you are interested following Hive account@welcomewagon and the accounts it interacts with would be a very good start. I also added a 50 SP delegation to Hive account@snowpea , I would be surprised if anyone did not know her, but her blog is a wonderful mix of her family and life, and she always retains a bright outlook even when times are hard. This delegation gave her back the % slider so she could upvote posts proportionally.

My current voting weight, don't get too excited I have rented Steem Power delegations ending tomorrow and rather then renew I took out new leases at more favourable rates. I pay for rented Steem Power so I can continue to upvote posts with a reasonable value - while delegating my own SP out as seen above.

We also sponsor Sing It! a contest for musicians on Steemit by Hive account@betamusic

You can click the picture above to view the current round 7 contest where you can choose any song to sing you like for your entry.

And week 6 has some incredible entries for the Disney theme songs - well worth checking out all the quality entrants above. Sing It is also supported by Hive account@ilazramusic , Hive account@nnnarvaez and the Hive account@castellano Witness supporting the Spanish community and beyond.

Back to business, we now have 282 Witness voters, that is an increase of 51 voters from last week (not including proxied votes). For our random draw all 282 voters are put into an excel spreadsheet, and then using the random number generator two accounts will be randomly selected from all our voters.

Hive account@apolymask thank you very much for being a Witness voter for Hive account@c0ff33a and Hive account@derangedvisions

Hive account@huslein.slash thank you very much for being a Witness voter for Hive account@c0ff33a and Hive account@derangedvisions

And a massive thank you to every single one of our Witness voters, directly or through proxy you are many and so very kind to give us all this support. When in April, not long after my first full year on Steemit I started to think about being a Witness to help support the blockchain I never even dared to dream I would reach anything like top 100 rank. I really do appreciate and thank every single one of Hive account@derangedvisions supporters that has taken the time and effort to move their vote over to me as joint Witness - we are uniquely different but still hold the same goals - to support Steemit and it's incredible content creators. Every Thursday we split the 7 day Witness producer rewards 50/50 and Hive account@derangedvisions receives his share in Steem to either power up or use for his many community contests - we are a dedicated Witness team and thanks to the transparency of the blockchain you can follow everything we do and make your own decisions - I hope you will see we are all about community and people.

And before I end this post, another massive thank you is due to an incredible Steemian we should all support - Hive account@cryptopie an incredible individual who inspires so many on here by posting regularly. I was fairly regularly checking his blog posts out late 2017, he really is amazing the adversity he suffers but never complains. I lost track of Hive account@cryptopie as my Steemit demands grew - a constant growth of users to follow makes it's near impossible to keep up. It was actually Hive account@robertandrew who refreshed my memory in this kind post

Thank you so much Hive account@cryptopie for the Witness vote, I appreciate every single one I receive but yours is incredibly special to me - even with every challenge you face every single day you still care enough about Steem and Steemit to post regularly and update your Witness votes - there are plenty of big stake holders on this platform that puts to shame.

Some of my previous posts you might have missed

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Witness Update by @c0ff33a v0.19.12 and giving something back to voters

The C0ff33 Vlog 17th August 2018

Sublime Sunday by @c0ff33a ☕️

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If you enjoyed my post don’t forget to leave an Upvote, feel free to comment on what you liked or where I can do better even. Follow Hive account@c0ff33a for regular and varied posts, photography, my weekly VLOG, posts on coffee roasting and brewing - just follow and see.

To grow your presence and following on Steemit, be active in the community Discords that offer the chance to learn, network, share and be found. The #SteemitRamble discord https://discord.gg/HZYzEry hosts a range of shows where you can join in and get your name shown, every Thursday there are two Pimp My Post Thursdays which are hugely popular and give you an opportunity to get your posts seen.

For fun and entertainment then #SteemStar is the discord to be in, https://discord.gg/ZDANjzy with regular shows during the week it’s the best place to relax, and also network the friends you make could be your future biggest upvoters.

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The greatest challenge we face on Steemit is getting our posts seen, I have always believed the simplest and best value way of doing this is by commenting on the blog posts of others, the more you engage people and interact with them the greater the chance they will visit your own blog and return the favour. Other then spending all my free time commenting on Steemit posts, I also distribute coffee roasting machines and also espresso coffee machines and roast my own Speciality Coffee Range. being one of the premium coffee suppliers Yorkshire including a wide range of filter coffee sachets

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