Curie Weekly Update (14th to 20th Nov 2016)

In spirit of Curie's transparency, we wish to use this weekly section as an ongoing development blog on our project to communicate our progress on top of the many casual exchanges happening in channel #curie.

• For those new to Curie, please follow @curie, and join us in #curie on Steemit.chat.
• We invite curators to submit posts from new authors in #curie on Steemit.chat. A finder's fee of 8 Steem is available for each upvoted post.
• Follow @curie's votes to support the authors. Please consider following our trail and voting for curated authors. If you are a Streemian user, @curie is an available trail to follow.
• Curie continues its focus on supporting new authors. Semi-established authors are supported by Steem Guild. Short form posts in Reddit-style tags are also supported by a different project. Please note that these three projects are separate. However, some Curie members do also participate on the other projects.
• Remember to follow and interact with authors that you love whenever going through The Daily Curie.

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News

• With most of our team back from Steemfest towards the end of last week, we are back up to regular operational capacity.
• Project Curie's presentation by @andrarchy and @kevinwong at Steemfest is now live on Youtube. Do check it out! Once again, many thanks to @andrarchy for the wonderful introduction.
• Backup witness @curie intends to participate in Hardfork 16. As with much of the community, we do share some concerns about the magnitude of changes in this hardfork - we hope to see a healthy discussion next week leading up to Hardfork 16.
• After Hardfork 16, we'll continue with the same Finder's fee - the faster power downs will help us balance out lower revenues.

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Weekly Statistics

Over the last week, Project Curie curated a total of 477 posts at an average of 68 posts per day. A total of 317 unique authors were rewarded. These numbers are effectively flat over last week. However, we expect to curate many more posts next week as it will be the first full week since our team is back from Steemfest.

SBD 5,517 was generated at an average of SBD 12 per post. After an increase last week, we once again see a decrease in both SBDs generated and average. This is of course tied to the Steem price that has continued its decline after a brief uptick earlier this month.

Daily charts will be back next week.

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Authors

The Top 10 Authors by payouts last week were -

• @smolalit
• @bontonstory
• @kotamdickson
• @marinauzelac
• @exyle
• @vampiretta
• @rappiro
• @taraamin77
• @kiwideb
• @schattenjaeger

In what has become a safe assumption, we see a completely fresh list again this week. Several top authors last week have now graduated to Steem Guild.

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#curie @ https://steemit.chat/channel/curie

We upvoted 302 posts submitted by curators in #curie, with 2,136 STEEM paid out / pending payouts to curators. These are all time record numbers, second week in a row. #curie is now home to 600 users, over 100 active curators, and is arguably the largest collaborative effort in the Steem community.

This week, we see another dead heat at the top, with @fubar-bdhr effectively tying with @cebymaster - separated by just 2 successful submissions. It's the ninth week in a row at the top for @fubar-bdhr, despite some intense competition in the last couple of weeks. We have a new challenger this week in @alcibiades, not far behind the top two. We are expanding the list to Top 7 - @royalmacro, @norbu, @eugenia and @levycore are regular and valuable curators.

• @fubar-bdhr
  = @cebymaster
• @alcibiades
• @royalmacro
• @norbu
• @eugenia
• @levycore

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Please check out today's Daily Curie!

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