HF20 Witness Update

Just a quick update to say that the @stoodkev witness is ready for the upcoming HardFork 20.
I just woke up to the announcement of the v20.2, see release here, and updated my witness from v20.1 to v20.2.

No replay was necessary for the upgrade from v20.1. However, if you re upgrading from an AppBase version, a replay will be needed. It took me less than five hours with my current specs.

Steem 0.20.2 usurps 0.20.1 as the official release for Steem Velocity and contains some changes to how the RC system will behave at the time of the hardfork to create a better user experience.

Steem Velocity Hard Fork (HF20) is to be released on 25th September at 15:00 UTC.

Witness Status

I am now on the 65th spot on the witness list, with a total of 899 votes worth 7,725 MV.

It still shows v20.1 becuase I didn't get a block yet since I updated my witness. This should happen within 2 hours.

My work on the Steem blockchain

I have joined Utopian at its very beginning and I must say that it changed my life ( couldn't thank you enough @elear) and have been since then one of the most active developers on the platform.
I am doing my best to develop or help developing tools that add value to the users, work almost full time on Steem and even hired someone to assist me on developping those tools.
My work so far includes (but not limited to):

• SteemPlus extension, you can download it here. It brings over 30 additional features to Steemit and Busy. We have now 3,148 users and am working on making that number grow! You can find the last update and all the extension features in here
• SteemPlus is on the process of becoming a token, in order to incentize its users to interact more with the different services on the blockchain.
• 1UP. I helped @flauwy for this awesome idea of creating a manual curation system (people vote for their favorite posts) and voting before community bots. It is still a work in progress but will be of a great value to the blockchain when it comes out.
• Working on several projects via Utopian. I also contributed a bit to Utopian itself during its first months.
• SteemJs for dummies: a series of tutorials for future developers using steemjs.
• I am currently working on another project that will be released very soon and will be a great addition to the ecosystem.

My engagements as a witness

• Keep working on tools that will improve Steemians experience, whatever what their favorite platform is.
• Always prefer usefulness over profitability of the tools I am developing.
• Act in the best interest of the community.
• Do my best to attract promote Steem to the outside world.

Server

Here are the specs of the server on which I currently run my witness:

• 128 GB RAM
• 2 TB HDD
• 1gbit/s network

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