Witness Update - lukestokes.mhth - December 1st, 2017

_{Rocking my Steemit Malaysia shirt thanks to @kevinwong}

What I've Been Up To

• I attended SteemFest2 and came back with this report: SteemFest²: Bridging the Gap Between Perception and Reality. Quick summary: after directly meeting the development team and hearing first-hand what they are accomplishing, I'm more excited than ever. The vision of "tokenize the web" via Smart Media Tokens became far more clear to me.

• I was happy to speak breifly at the Steem Growth Forum hosted by witness @aggroed. You can read a summary of my thoughts here: How Managing Expectations Can Grow the STEEM Ecosystem

• I spent a lot of time curating the ChainBB cryptocurrency forum and hiding a few weeks worth of posts which were not helpful. I'm happy to say we're starting to see some valuable engagement there now! If you have some cryptocurrency posts, consider creating them there and you might find yourself with an upvote from me now and again. :) Check it out: https://chainbb.com/f/cryptocurrency

• Some of my recent posts I'm proud of:

  • Cryptocurrency: the World-Changing Power of an Idea
  • Will the Real Bubble Please Stand Up?
    (Yes, it's just a meme, but it got as high as #2 on /r/cryptocurrency with 744 points and 18.5k views)
  • When Will You Join the Cryptocurrency Future?
  • How Managing Expectations Can Grow the STEEM Ecosystem
    
    

• I'm really excited to have tried out @steembay and won one of the very first auctions! I have a 1oz Steem community coin heading my way in the mail right now.

• As I mentioned in my last post, I now have two main servers running, one in the US and one in Germany. Since my last report (and before leaving for Lisbon), I got @furion's conductor running so if my active witness server misses a block, it will automatically fail over to my other server.

• I put together a monitoring script for my fellow witnesses so they can keep track of the size of their /dev/shm shared memory file. That thing grows pretty quickly as the STEEM blockchain grows, so it's important to keep an eye on it.

• My seed node at steem-seed.lukestokes.info:2001 is still working like a champ.

• Since it's the first of the month (a good time for economic changes), I updated my APR to 0% since SBD have been consistently trading above the peg lately. You should NOT be converting SBD to STEEM right now or doing full power up posts. Instead, choose 50%/50% and sell your SBD in the internal market for STEEM. That will help level out the price of SBD over time. Current Economic Witness Settings:

SBD APR	Bias	Reg fee
0%	0	0.2

• This month's Witness Engagement Report showed 24.19% engagement for accounts with > 100,000 VESTS.

• I've continued to run the Weekly Exchange Transfer Report for 68 weeks now! Check it out every weekend to see who is cashing out and who is buying in.

Thanks again for your encouragement and support!

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As of this post, I'm currently (barely) holding position 20!

If you want to know more about what witnesses do check out:

• Steemit is Free, But Your Witness Vote Determines its Future

You can read my witness announcement post here:

• Vote Luke Stokes for Witness as lukestokes.mhth!

My previous witness updates:

• Witness Update - lukestokes.mhth - October 26th, 2017
• Witness Update - lukestokes.mhth - September 2nd, 2017
• Witness Update - lukestokes.mhth - July 19th, 2017
• Witness Update - lukestokes.mhth - July 14th, 2017
• Witness Update - lukestokes.mhth - June 19th, 2017
• Witness Update - 6/6/2017 - More Human Than Human

I don't plan to do frequent witness updates unless I have something worth sharing, but I'm always available if you have a question or concern. I can be reached on Discord or Rocketchat.

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Luke Stokes is a father, husband, business owner, programmer, STEEM witness, and voluntaryist who wants to help create a world we all want to live in. Visit UnderstandingBlockchainFreedom.com

_{I'm a Witness! Please vote for @lukestokes.mhth}