It has been a steady week, no new updates for the Witness server but we have continued to receive a steady stream of new Witness voters and now place at active rank 90, very close now to reaching 89.

Both myself and @derangedvisions have been continuing our various community projects, including the deranged photography contests, my slightly bizarre counting beans contest and of course we both spend a great deal of our time reading, upvoting and commenting on posts.

HF20 Will occur on the 25th September, this will be a mandatory update to the Witness server software which will enhance the blockchain and also pave the way for SMT's early 2019. In preparation we will be upgrading our Witness server at some point over the next week to double the SSD storage to accommodate the growing blockchain, and increase ram further to be prepared for more demanding applications. It will involve putting our Witness into maintenance for a short while but every effort will be taken to keep it to a minimum.

One of the many ways we are giving back to our Witness voters is by randomly selecting two each week to receive a Steem Basic Income Share - if you have not encountered @steembasicincome then you send 1 Steem to the account with a steemit account in the memo to register then to receive an upvote on their posts for life.

We have now increased to 337 Witness voters, using the random number generator we will select the first account to receive an SBI share

And our Witness voter number 163 is

Thank you very much for being a Deranged c0ff33a Witness voter @keithboone

And our Witness voter number 5 is

Thank you very much for being a Deranged c0ff33a Witness voter @noisy

And the payments are sent for this weeks draw, enjoy your weekend everyone and keep on creating those amazing posts.

Some of my previous posts you might have missed

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Witness Update by @c0ff33a v0.19.12 and giving something back to voters

The C0ff33 Vlog 25th August 2018

Sublime Sunday by @c0ff33a ☕️

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The greatest challenge we face on Steemit is getting our posts seen, I have always believed the simplest and best value way of doing this is by commenting on the blog posts of others, the more you engage people and interact with them the greater the chance they will visit your own blog and return the favour. Other then spending all my free time commenting on Steemit posts, I also distribute coffee roasting machines and also espresso coffee machines and roast my own Speciality Coffee Range. being one of the premium coffee suppliers Yorkshire including a wide range of filter coffee sachets

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