Haven't sat down to write an actual witness update in quite some time. We're not exactly getting a warm welcome from the bigger voters and smaller voters chat with me on a regular basis, enough for me to update them on whatever is going on.

And to be honest with all of you, the best advice I got when launching the witness was a comment from someone who'll remain anonymous who said to me: "I just want to know what they're doing without having to read every post of theirs". So all in all, if you don't know what we're doing without having to read these updates, we're fucking up something hardcore.

Technical

Since our last update:

Shared memory and VM memory quotas were increased to 50GB
Pulled and compiled latest stable branch code
Ubuntu OS updates applied

Time Well Spent

I've personally mainly been dealing with phishing over the last month. It's a pretty thankless and grueling task that matters to minnows, particularly those who misclicked and got hacked, but not so much to anyone else.

Wallet message script written
Runs in multifecta format, currently to notify users to change their password if they've been phished
Keeps messages grouped in one transaction rather than spamming with individual transfers

Highlighters/Curators

They're getting rewritten and modified this week to account for our lack of a full private node. Once work is completed we'll publish a separate update on them. Unfortunately everyone will have to wait until then.

The two highlighters purely stream the blockchain now
Manually triggered
@shadow3scalpel and the Minnows Freedom Project bots will see some work this week -- the MFP one has been down for a bit and should be up soon

Community

We're delegating 100 SP to sponsor a minnow for @ssg-community and will delegate @50 SP to sponsor another minnow for the new version of @silvergoldbotty starting next month. This month we're letting the blocks catch up some as we're low on SP and need the slider to curate.

Sponsorships

A couple of @spl games coming up will be sponsored and shortly announced. Keep an eye on the blog here.

Onboarding

Accounts for new users are intermittently created, with a solid effort to onboard army veterans in order to build a strong supportive community here where freedom of speech is paramount. Particularly at a time where all the non-NWO types are being run off from the popular social media platforms. Our latest invite from Twitter is @thecrustyoldvet.

Delegations

These aren't going anywhere where we profit off them personally or anywhere we get paid for delegating. They never have and never will. All delegations are given freely and for free. I think that's pretty clear.