This is a quick witness update in preparation for the coming hardfork which is a day or so away. I was able to enable MIRA or let's say, 'move my witness to a MIRA-enabled server. Alas, with MIRA enabled, my once 64GB-RAM server is now a 16GB-RAM one. This is amazing.

What is even more amazing is, privex.io offers a ready-made, already-played, MIRA-enabled steem-witness server, making it easier for anyone to setup a witness server.

Steemit INC and steem has stayed. They have done the experiments, the odds and hurdles and they have stayed. That is huge. Only few will stay and steem is one of them. In the glory days, steem will be there too and to a large extent, this is proving true.

After the fork, i think the stage is set for scalability and that can spell 'growth'. With MIRA functioning and the the stage being set for 'communities' and 'hivemind', i think SMT is near and things like 'RC pools', which can translate into 'steem growth'. 

One thing these updates do at the very least is 'incite dream-builders, unveil dream-builders and spark innovation, which in turn creates excitement, buzz and a network. Directly or indirectly, this brings about growth.

MIRA is certainly 'a level of progress'. As a result of its implementation, Steemit INC has been able to leave survival mode and more witnesses can get onboard to strengthen the steem network. 

You can vote for my witness. It is called 'steemgigs'. 

Visit 'https://steemitwallet.com/~witnesses' and vote up 'steemgigs'. It is currently ranked 58.

Your Boy Terry

@surpassinggoogle

Join The 'Marlians.com Tribe' Discord

We now have a channel called '#marliansdotcom-general' whereupon we can foster relationships and stir discussions related to 'real human growth'. By means of the marlians.com ecosystem, we want to play an active role in the process of helping you build your noble dreams. Thus, we want to hear from you. Tell us of what you want and let's see how we can use our ecosystem and its resources to support your movement.

The discord currently has some 5,4oo steemians and right on the server exists the potential to foster 'connections', find 'opportunities' and meet reputable 'great minds'.

You can contact me, if you will like to host a talk-show on our discord server too. You have a handy platform to propagate your projects with. More importantly, you have a home on our server.

Do you have a 'community of interest' or one that you would like to oversee directly on marlians.com along with the tools to grow it? Let's discuss!

How about a contest that you would like to propagate further by rewarding 'participants' some more? We can help! Let's discuss.

Overall, join us on discord let's create a home and a close-knit family; one that moves together.

Join here: https://discord.gg/Jjhrej3

Did You Know?

We have an entire feed dedicated solely to our 'certified' users. Look at this: https://www.marlians.com/certified

Do well to support these ones via your curation-efforts and encourage them through interaction; let's form a strong core behind 'marlians.com'. You can get certified too (by completing the 4-steps highlight in the later part of this post) to fortify this core.

One other essence of this feed is for us to better reach 'certified' users with directional information about various aspects of our ecosystem (via the art of curation). 'Certified' users will play important roles in the growth of the marlians.com ecosystem and over the course of time, they will need become abreast with all aspects of our ecosystem, becoming 'true fans' of what we represent. Where we have a growing list of 'true fans' behind our project, we will have our ecosystem around 'humans' as opposed to 'bulls or bears'.

Your boy Terry

@surpassinggoogle

When Should I Use The #marlians tag?

We welcome and support 'all content-type' and 'all locations'. We value each human.

We are also about "uniting communities". This means that we will welcome and support content from other steem tribes and this is already in motion. We are a home and a close-knit family 'moving together' and this means that we will share "even our limited resources". 

To this effect, we are evolving a portfolio in 'steem-tribes-stake' that we use to curate 'content from other tribes' found on 'marlians.com' and our portfolio currently looks like this:

• #spt - More than 100K stake
• #aaa - More than 100K stake
• #creativecoin - Around 13K stake
• #sportstalk - More than 1M stake
• #pal - Almost 4K stake
• #steemleo - Almost 4K stake
• #lassecash - More than 60K stake
• etc

Get Certified (This is optional)

First 1000 certified uloggers will get 50 MARLIANS. This aside other ongoing drops.

Steps 1: Send '5 STEEM' to '@marlians' with this memo; '1 month certification'. 

Step 2: Do a 'ulog' via 'marlians.com' discussing the process of 'how you became a certified ulogger'. Make sure to use '#ulog'. 

Step 3: Subscribe to 'UloggersTV YouTube'. 

Step 4: Fill up this google form. 

If you desire, you can DM '@surpassinggoogle#1660' on discord when you are done with the steps, to hasten the process.

Note: Where you get certified now, your payment ("one month certification") hasn't started counting yet but you will already be 'certified'. This is a bonus. We will notify you when "the one month" starts counting (after we have setup our automation-tools). 

See our list of 'certified uloggers' on 'https://ulogs.org/discover' 

To Get Some 'MARLIANS'

Here are the steps: 

• Visit 'https://steem-engine.com/?p=market&t=MARLIANS' and login using the keychain extension or directly using your private posting key.
• Click on the 'DEPOSIT' button to deposit STEEM. Note that you can also deposit BTC, ETH, LTC, EOS etc with steem-engine.
• Go on to buy some MARLIANS.

Kindly subscribe to UloggersTV on YouTube

• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzI3Rjamg7zSe_o0BwSeIQQ

Kindly vote on the 'steemgigs' witness

• https://steemitwallet.com/~witnesses

If you can translate this post into other languages, feel free to do so. You can also show me on discord, so that i can resteem it.