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Technical and Economical

• kept my price feed discount at 1%
• kept my SBD APR at 3%
• kept the account registration fee at $5 (I use a script called steem witness toolbox, available for free on Github, for publishing the feed price and adjusting a few blockchain props)
• kept my witness and seed nodes running smoothly (i.e. no missed blocks).

Community

Published a new voting proposal, which includes tipping ("having skin in the game") and which I think can mitigate some of the psychological effects of downvoting. You can read it here, I would appreciate your comments.

The story-telling challenge I started at the beginning of February ended this weekend. I had a lot of fun and a few very good quality posts emerged form this. The absolute winner is @creatr, with 8 wins (and 8 SBD in prizes).The total number of prizes was 16 SBD, all came from my own account (and it was a pleasure to reward all the submissions).

Here's the final leaderboard, with all the winners and their rewards:

Writer	Number Of Wins	Rewards (SBD)
@creatr	8	8
@madlenfox	2	2
@hulkbuster	1	1
@immarojas	1	1
@roboid	1	1
@dreemit	1	1
@chrisaiki	1	1
@heretickitten	1	1

Hardfork 17

According to a few commits on Github, Hardfork 17 implementation should be on March 14. There's still time for another witness update until then, in which I will describe my opinion in more detail, but I just wanted to say that I'm really looking forward to this release. It may be the catalyst of a positive trend.

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I'm a serial entrepreneur, blogger and ultrarunner. You can find me mainly on my blog at Dragos Roua where I write about productivity, business, relationships and running. Here on Steemit you may stay updated by following me @dragosroua.

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You can also vote for me as witness here:
https://steemit.com/~witnesses