Technical Excellence

• No blocks missed
• Internal team meeting held to discuss the possibility of running a full node
• Witness roadmap will be coming out next update

Statement of Responsibility

We are responsible to the STEEM blockchain and its entire userbase to deliver service excellence on all technical aspects of witness maintenance. We are also responsible to our supporters and affiliates to ensure we continue to conduct ourselves in a manner that adds value to the services and general utility of Steemit and its relevant third party advents. We take this responsibility very seriously and thank you for your continuing support and faith in our witness and our team.

Projects

Shortening this section to make it easier to read and follow.

SteemSilverGold community support

We are brainstorming new ways to support the #steemsilvergold community. Currently our daily highlighter curates quality posts by community members. It runs daily and produces a remarkable reading list. More information about the community can be found on our Discord channel, @silverstackeruk's recent update or on @silvergoldbotty's account.

The Veterans Project

Numerous deliverables have been released since our last witness update. In short order these are:

• Twitter set up and maintained to maximize visibility: https://twitter.com/chairbornevets
• Steemit.chat #veterans channel maintained and active: https://steemit.chat/channel/veterans
• @shadow3scalpel @rakkasan84's veteran support upvote bot ready and live (currently in beta testing)
• Daily highlighter of veteran posts live
• A 'postyourtags' contest
• Project listing provided to @drakos' Steemian.info communities section

The anti-phishing battle

Please read our separate update published earlier.

The Introduceyourself tag anti-spam initiative

This past week we omitted posting comments to correct behavior due to the proliferation of (phishing-related) infected accounts. Numerous infected accounts were caught in the drag net. Additionally, a rat's nest of fraudulent ID accounts were discovered. All information was passed to the #steemcleaners team.

Cooperative Approach

We collaborate with numerous individuals and witnesses to support their or our mutual projects and otherwise work together for the betterment of Steemit. Please see our future partial-update for a complete list of discussions, actions, collaborations and contributions. We believe in transparency and will provide a full summary for your review.

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