good-karma witness update - 3rd Jan, 2018

Hello Steemian,

This is a witness log that will give community brief update about latest changes on projects and witness infrastructure, contributed by me.

Summary: Witness nodes are stable and producing blocks as usual, considering some parameter updates due to recent price jump, SteemAdvent 2017 was a blast, Pick - new tool to choose winner for contest from comments, eSteem 2017 and 2018 outlook.

In-depth

• Witness good-karma continue producing blocks. Witness parameters are unchanged for now, APR set to 0%, price feed bias 0%, registration fee is lowered to 0.2 STEEM. If Steem price consolidates in higher ranges, I will be lowering it even further.

• SteemAdvent 2017 is concluded recently and ~7510 STEEM was powered up to fellow Steemians. With current market price ($8) it is around $60,000...

• While choosing winners from ever growing SteemAdvent participants, I have created simple tool Pick to help fair choose of winners. Feel free to use it if you run some sort of contests.

• eSteem published Year in Review to share some stats from 2017 and what to expect in 2018 from eSteem development.

• eSteem spotlight, top user and giveaway - as usual monthly reward is being sent out to top eSteem users in 3 different category.

• All previous witness update posts can be found on my blog or here https://steemit.com/created/good-karma or here for easy access and reading.

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That's all for now, thank you for reading quick update and continuing to support. Be sure to vote witness and follow, reblog

Your ever well-wisher,
Feruz