Yet another week since I have registered and started using Steemit has passed, making it close to 4 months already... So let me see how things have changed in numbers since the last week and what I have achieved in the last 7 days. You can also check my previous week's status report here if you are interested to see some older numbers. After the usual statistics you can also find some more about the things that I have been doing in the last week and some more thoughts in general, even though this week because of SteemFest I haven't been as active as usual...

The Important Stats

Current Reputation Level: 65.4 (+0.5)
Number of Followers: 447 (+27)
Total Number of Posts: 1558 (+36)
Number of Blog posts: 253 (+9)

Data provided by Steemit and Steemdb

The Not So Important Stats

Rank by Estimated Account Value: 449 (43 up)
Rank by Reputation: 159 (4 up)
Rank by Total Posts: 99 (2 down)
Rank by Number of Followers: 149 (1 up)
Rank by Posting Rewards: 384 (48 up)
Rank by Curation Rewards: 203 (12 up)
Rank by Steem Power: 402 (37 up)

Ranking data provided by SteemWhales

What I've Been Doing Last Week

Last week was a bit more about crypto currencies and mining for me, or at least that is what kind of half of what I have posted about was. Zcash (ZEC) is still doing pretty well and there is no reason that you should not take advantage of that if you are mining crypto currencies. Due to the sow start of mining that was implemented it is still mine and sell now, do not keep coins as they will continue to lose their current value on the short term. ZEC is still overpriced due to coin scarcity and lower block rewards with decent user demand for the coins, but since the block reward is increasing in maybe about two weeks things should be stabilizing and buying or mining and keeping the coins longer term may actually be a viable option then. So Zcash is something that you should be keeping an eye on if you are interested in crypto currencies, regardless if you are just now getting started or have been into crypto coins for a while already.

Thanks to Claymore's Zcash (ZEC) AMD GPU Miner v1.0 for Windows and the latest NiceHash miner for Nvidia GPUs you can effectively use your GPU computing power for mining. If you are still new to mining and may be considering to go for more serious mining rig with multiple video cards, there is a good option for a video card that you can go for, the one that I recently reviewed - PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 480 8GB. If you are a regular user or are not in for the profit that crypto currency mining can make you can still do things like Buying a Gaming Laptop and Mining With It, So It Can Pay Back for Itself Over Time. The same can apply for a higher-end gaming computer as well as you will be mining with it only when you are not using it and it will be repaying you one small part at a time for what you have initially paid for it.

Last week we've had another HardFork of Steem, and another one is probably going to happen soon. There are quite a lot of changes happening and going to happen, probably for the good in how the whole backend of Steemit works and this will also reflect the frontend of course. The good thing about Steemit is that to use it you actually don't need to run a Steem node, but there are people that still need to do that - witnesses, miners, developers... I have been complaining for a while about the Windows support or the lack of such for steemd, but in my last post about the last hardfork it became clearer that I should finally switch to Linux. Unfortunately it seems that proper support for Windows is not going to happen, so my development/witness node now runs on Linux already. If you are still hesitating you might want to go and try running Linux in a Virtual Machine or try a virtual server to see that it is actually not that hard to use it. Of course Steem mining does need something more than just being limited to Linux, so it will be good to have something like multi OS compatible miner that could be separate from Steemd.

Another personal record for me was the new highest ranking in number of vote post that I did (353 votes so far), it was this one - Looking for a Fast and Cheap USB 3.0 Flash Drive - 32GB SanDisk Ultra Flair. The post is a tech review of a nice and affordable flash drive from SanDisk that I really liked and since these devices are pretty common nowadays and very useful you might want to check it out. There will be more technology reviews coming from me in the future, so stay tuned...

I've also talked a bit about two of my bot projects running on Steemit - @robotev and @crowdfundedwhale, so if you want to learn more about them you can check out the post with the Short Overview of the Robotev and the CrowdFunded Whale Projects. I was actually quite happy to actually meet some people that are a part of these project face to face during SteemFest, so that is one of the nice things of live events like that. Of course I was able to meet a lot of other interesting people as well, including some of the top witnesses that are usually not making themselves very visible for the normal users of the platform.

SteemFest is not yet over, though the presentations part of the program has passed already... there were some really interesting talks from different people, some interesting ideas and projects were also presented. Today it is more like the fun part of the event, so a good opportunity to relax a bit more and also explore Amsterdam and have fun with the fellow Steemians that are attending. One thing I can tell you for sure already is that @roelandp and the SteemFest team did a great job at organizing things and making sure that everyone attending will have a superb experience at the event.

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