A couple days ago I was hanging out on Steemit Chat and had an idea for a Steemit verification service. Turns out "Steem Verify" already existed, but it was extremely flawed.
Instead of creating a brand new service from scratch I decided to work with 
You can't apply for verification anymore. Instead reputable community members monitor the site and manually "verify" people who are at a high risk of impersonation.
I spent 2 days redesigning SteemVerify.com and building an API. Now all entries from our database of verified users are pushed to https://steemverify.com/api/verified.json every 30 minutes.
I also coded a simple jQuery script that automatically adds a verified badge by verified usernames. You can read more about that here.
If you're an old Steem Verify customer you're probably wondering where this leaves you,
We haven't forgotten about you. We'll be migrating you over to a different service with a different name, as we know there's still a need for you to be able to anonymously prove that you're a human. But you aren't "verified" anymore. We'll share more info soon.
From this point forward verification is specifically for community members who are at a high risk of impersonation.
Thanks everybody for your support. We are hoping that the revamped verification process helps prevent impersonation on this platform.
