Post-HF20 restart update and short-term roadmap

I'm working on getting the posting back up and running. We have a temporary limited stats post just to do some tracking, and the curation post cycle will start again on Tuesday.

The post-hf20 world is alternately encouraging and discouraging. I'm not really clear that the end goals of the project (or any curation/metacuration project) are consistent with the approach to blockchain development favored by Steemit Inc. and apparently the top witnesses. I'm continuing to follow discussion on that, but there's not a whole lot I can do about it. On the flipside, our curation rewards continue to be extremely encouraging; we're actually reasonably close to competitive with leasing SP or delegating to bots in terms of SP return at the moment, and I might be able to tweak that upward a bit. If I can get it to the point where we can lease profitably, I have enough liquidity to boost the project quite a bit.

One other notable piece of news from the last two weeks - we were accepted into the Curie Community Support program, and @curie is now funding an additional reward of 10 @steembasicincome shares for members who complete level-up projects. We have a bunch of people who are eligible SP-wise, and it would be nice to see some projects completed.

Short-term roadmap looks like this:

This week: restart curation posts, work on fully automating stats posts.
Next week: Finish fully automating stats posts.
Week of Oct 28: Do analytics and optimize voting, open applications at all levels.
Week of November 4: Rebuild the full roadmap, launch Level 4.