Technical and Economical

• monitored my witness node, which is running 0.19.0 and adjusted after a small hickup when HardFork 19 hit, now working ok
• adjusted my price feed bias, at 65% from 80% - seeing that more witnesses are adjusting their bias so the SBD peg will hold again (for more information - a bit technical, but useful - have a look at this post)
• kept my SBD APR at 0% - SBD is still trading way higher than expected, currently at $1.65
• increased the block size from 65,536 to 131,072, the number of transaction is rapidly increasing and a small block size may lead to losing transactions
• kept the account registration fee at $3 (I use a script called steem witness toolbox, available for free on Github, for publishing the feed price and adjusting a few blockchain props)

Community

• made a proposal for the Steemit -platform about variable power down amounts, have a look here, and please go to Github issue (link in the post) and let the devs know if this is important for you
• monitored my previous proposals for the Steemit platform: replacing the word "upvote" with "upsteem" (read the rationale here), and introducing smaller denominations to the Steem currency, up to the eighth digit (read the results of the poll here).
• updated Steem.Supply to include account information and did a consistent UI overhaul, read the changelog here
• worked more on the Steem.City project, but since I'm traveling this week, development will be slower
• started a 30 days writing challenge, in which I'm upsteeming each day, full power ($4.8-$5/vote) 3 blog posts, read the introductory post here (yes, you can still join as long as you tag your posts with #challenge30days)

Overall Position

I'm no longer a runner-up witness (not in the top 50) and I'm currently sitting at 63. If you still think I can be useful as a witness and if you want to vote for me, you'll need to add my username in the form and click "Vote" as shown in the image below:

Thanks!

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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

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If you're new to Steemit, you may find these articles relevant (that's also part of my witness activity to support new members of the platform):

• Rewards: Were Does The Money Come From?
• Netiquette: How To Avoid Being A Steem Douche?
• Witnesses: What Are They And Why Should You Care?
• How Can I Mine Steem And What CPU / GPU Power Do I Need For That?