A response to the recent questionnaire issued to all current witnesses. The link to this questionnaire is here:
https://steemit.com/witnesssurvey/@witnesssurvey/witnesssurveyv1-asqhhy51rj
What is your position/stance on bid-bots (ownership/delegations/opinion)?
Well they've made a few people wealthy, so well done to those people. We have used bots in the past to boost a contest post but do not own/delegate to them. 
What does the witness want to do to make the blockchain more user-friendly and help to on-board new users. What do THEY personally want to see done and what will they do to get it there?
Engage and be present on the blockchain, show leadership in their on chain actions. Be available to users to answer questions and help them, Run competitions, support competitions.
Do you think votes for witnesses should last indefinitely or should they time out (or perhaps decay over time) so that periodically voters will need to reevaluate and affirm their positions by recasting their votes?
Yes we are for a vote reset/decay.
Do you think the 30 witness votes each Steemian gets is the correct number, especially in light of the fact there are only 20 top witnesses to be seated?
We have no strong argument for a change in the current numbers.
What is a concern or two that you have about the #steem blockchain?
Will it scale over time? We also have a concern regarding the heavy reliance on Steemit Inc.
What are you hopeful about for the #steem blockchain?
There is a core of a few thousand we hope will be here through rain or shine. SteemFest is a good place to see this is the case. The community here is powerful and one of our greatest assets.
What is the monthly cost of equipment?
This was our last bill for just one server.
We hope to move within the month to a new server to reduce the costs.
Where do your earnings go?
Every SP earned from witnessing has remained powered up. This may change soon in light of the marked downtrend as we have been self-funding the witness server from other sources so we could power up.
[What are some of your] Current projects?
We run the Minnow Power-up League from 
https://www.udemy.com/understanding-the-steem-blockchain-economy
[Will you provide an] Alt accounts list?
What are the benefits associated with being a witness?
Knowing we are supporting the blockchain is a benefit to us. It also helps to raise our profiles as STEEM users. As a back-up Witness and with the rewards we have earned to date, financially we are not in a position to reap financial rewards and expect this to be the case for a while.
How do I become a witness?
Decide that's what you want to do, signing key for your account and vote for yourself as a witness. You'll need the bare minimum of a block-producing node.
What do you think the SBD [STEEM] price for a new account should be?
Two/Three dollars seems reasonable. Accounts can now be claimed for 'free' using Resource Credits, and so this number could well change in future.
What is a witness and how I become a good worker?
Have you implemented any new procedures for evaluating potential Hardforks?
No, but we are very aware that for future Hardforks more testing is required.
How does a new user make the availability of his vote known to the cabal of witnesses wannabes trying to overthrow the current witness regime?
Comment on the witnesses blog, most will reply.
Should we have interest for SBD?
Not at present, but this may change.
What takeaways do you have from the Hardfork 20 issues that occurred?
More testing and more communication needs to take place. We also think that smaller but more frequent HFs may be a better option.
Do you think 20/21 top witnesses a good number or should there be more or less?
We have no strong case to increase/decrease this number.
Thanks
