TimCliff Witness Update 2017-10-21

timcliff (73) in witness-category • 7 years ago

Hello Everyone!

Here is what I've been up to since my last witness post:

A lot of my time has been spent helping the users in the "help" channel of steemit.chat. I make sure to login at least once a day every day and go through every support issue, to ensure that everyone in the channel requesting help gets a response within 24 hours. Thanks also to @drakos and @pfunk for helping too!
I continue to post the weekly Reports from the Witnesses series each week, which provides the community with an aggregated report of all the witness reports from the past week.
I created a post Steps for setting up a witness node (the manual way) as a guide for new witnesses looking to setup a witness node.
I have been trying to start a new #discussion tag to encourage more posts that create lively and engaging discussions. You can read about it here: Hey Steemains - Let's start a #discussion!
I was a guest on the mspwaves show hosted by @sircork. The interview was a ton of fun! You can listen to the recording of the show here.
I created a post to warn users to save their posts before submitting due to the issues that the website has been having with lost posts.
I submitted a condenser pull request to update FAQ content to clarify the stolen account recovery process.
I submitted a pull request to condenser to warn users of spam/phishing links in their wallet memos.
I submitted a pull request to condenser to update the links that new users see when they view their blog page before it has any posts.

Some Information / Suggestions:

Remember to save your posts in a text editor before submitting, in case it fails to successfully submit!
In case you haven't heard about it yet, Steemit announced a new project called SMTs. This is very exciting and will likely attract a lot of new big players to the Steem economy. To see a preview for how SMTs might change things, check out this post from @donkeypong.

Forward Looking Plans:

Continue to provide support in the help channel of steemit.chat.
Continue with the weekly "Reports of the Witnesses" series.
I will be heading to #steemfest in about a week! My spouse ( @artist1989 ) and I will be stopping in Germany for a few days before the conference to visit his birth mom. It is our first trip outside the US, and we are both very excited =) We look forward to meeting a lot of you in Lisbon!

Summary of Current Witness Parameters:

SBD Interest Rate: Currently the peg seems to be mostly holding close to $1 USD (hovering between $0.95 and $1.05), which is where we want it. There have been some short-term fluctuations outside that range, but they have not lasted for an extended period of time. I continue to have a small amount of interest (1%) to try and help with the occasional dips below $1.
Price Discount: Currently the debt level is at 1.5%, and SBD is pegged close to $1 USD. 1.5% is starting to get slightly high, but is still less than 2%. Based on this, I see no need for a price feed discount at this time.
Registration Fee: My registration fee is currently set to 0.2 STEEM. This makes it so that a new account costs 6 STEEM (non-delegated), which is about $5.60 USD at current market prices.
Maximum Block Size: I currently have my block size set to 65,536. There seem to be no issues related to bandwidth after the 19.1 soft-fork, so I am comfortable with the consensus on this parameter given the current system use.

I welcome feedback if you think there are things that I can be doing better as a witness. If you think I am doing a great job, I would really appreciate your witness vote!

https://steemit.com/~witnesses

Thanks everyone for reading my witness report!

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7 years ago by timcliff (73)

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nnnarvaez (68) · 7 years ago (edited)

Thanks for the report @timcliff
Concise and clear!

I think the #discussion tag is a great idea and many users seem to embrace it, a great way to build engagement and encourage human exchanges.

And I enjoyed the interview with @sircork, I strongly believe that communicating to the communities is key for the success to the platform.

As witnesses i think we all should try to communicate as much as possible even for those not in the top 20 50 or 100 the communities need to know what we are up to and we need to share that being a witness is much more than maintaining a node.

Lets build the human network :)

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gniksivart (67) · 7 years ago

Thanks for the update! Have fun at steemfest and Germany is awesome. People there are relatively friendly and have had an awesome time every time I've been.

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timcliff (73) · 7 years ago

Fun :) Looking forward to it!

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sircork (64) · 7 years ago (edited)

It was an outstanding experience to spend a couple hours chatting with you. I really enjoyed our conversation and the MSP Waves listening audience was enthralled as well.

As you know, I have resigned and left the PAL/MSP group and MSP Waves behind to focus on and form a new worldwide humanitarian aid organization called YouAreHOPE (@youarehope) that is steem/sbd powered and fueled by the love of the Steem ecosystem community of kind and generous people.

I am building a new discord space for YouAreHOPE and a new streaming radio/tv station to support that effort. Naturally, I would love to have you stop by and check it all out as well as potentially joining me again in the future on a new steem information show to be airing there worldwide, beginning in November.

As always, my friend, I will see you around the halls and rooms of this exciting world we share here on the block chain.

Until we meet again, be well.

Yours in Service,
@SirCork
Witness #98
Founder - @YouAreHOPE (on steemit)
http://YouAreHOPE.org

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leap8 (54) · 7 years ago

that looks like a great project. I'll follow. If you have it set up as a charity (501C I believe) you can get a 10K/month budget from Google to advertise at no cost to you. That can be a great way to promote steem and your organization at the same time. https://www.google.com/grants/

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sircork (64) · 7 years ago

That is a good tip, but this would be a 503c. IF it were to ever deal in fiat currencies and be based out of the USA, I might pursue that. For now though, it is entirely STEEM/SBD driven and housed on the transparent blockchain. I am not particularly interested in expanding beyond the steem ecosystem at this time, so neither Federal nor Google involvement is warranted nor really desired for now.

I do appreciate the interest though, and hope you will let your steem based friends network know about the organization and encourage spreading the word so we can continue to execute the programs and campaigns running in three countries now, and gather more donations to continue them and expand to other distressed locals throughout the world where people are in desperate need of HOPE and fundamental things like food, clean water, educational supplies, clothing, shoes and so on.

Thank you!

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leap8 (54) · 7 years ago

I'll go resteem some of your HOPE posts and will keep you in mind. I'm very interested in coming up with ways to fund projects like this but I'm new blockchain and steem. I'm still learning my way here but hopefully soon will be able to start developing some cool stuff. :-)