After the blockchain issue this week, and the needed upgrade to version 0.19.5, many of the public RPC nodes had to replay, putting a higher burden and overloading the existing active nodes. This caused several 
We even hit 100% VP yesterday!
To avoid wasting our VP we gave out random votes to active Dustsweeper accounts. These are free votes not deducted from your balance.
Hopefully we will be back to normal again in the next day or two.
We have received some very generous donations, but busy times have prevented us from properly acknowledge them.
As you might know, we need SP to be able to operate. The majority of the SP we are renting, using the MinnowBooster market. The other part comes from donations from fellow Steemians. And recently we received an awesome 3K SP delegation from 
We also have a remaining 5 SBD donated by 
This is a "Suggest-a-Contest" Contest. Your task is to suggest a contest that we can run linked to
Please use your imagination and come up with a great contest idea. We will use the donation from
Write your suggestion as a comment to this post.
The donation from
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Things have not progressed as fast as we had hoped and we are still preparing to get the changes below released. Please stay tuned and we should have news in the next few weeks.
Here the latest Dustsweeper statistics. Except for the issues this week we have had a very smooth ride and an outstanding growth. Since the last update we have almost tripled the user base and we have saved a truckload of dust. Well Done Dusty.
ps. If you wonder about the cool
Dustsweeper is an initiative supported by Witness 
Seeing a 2 cents profit turn into dust doesn't sound like much, but for someone new, it can make all the difference.
