354 days ago, I've offically announced that I'd be a Steem Witness.
Since then, a lot has changed, both for myself - but also in regards of Steem. However, one thing is still the same: my passion and commitment for Steem.
And after all this time as a backup-witness, today I've signed my first block (29,521,904) as a TOP 20 Witness.
I'm very grateful for this chance and for everyone who's currently voting for me! Thank you!
And instead of slowing down, I believe now is the time to shift into the next gear.
For 2019, I've planned to focus on my existing projects on Steem (especially SteemApps.com), in addition with the goal of creating the next killer-dapp.
I'm also going to put more emphasis on providing infrastructure for the Steem ecosystem and most importantly, taking leadership as part of this decentralised community.
With that said, I want to put the final touch on this post with my favourite quote of the last year:
We Are Steem!
Thank you for the support!
Wolf
PS: Myself and many other influential people on Steem (incl. Ned) are going to be on State of Steem at 8PM UTC. There will also be a recording, but feel free to join the radio show on the PALnet discord server.
Do you believe that my work is valuable for Steem? Then please vote for me as witness.
You've worked on so many steem apps that can help gather data for others. You've helped integrate steem into big dapp trackers. For that thanks. You've had my vote ever since you answered my questions that I set out for witnesses and my vote for you is one of the best I've ever cast.
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Congratulation @therealwolf for your great work and engagement to the Steem Community.
After all you did in the last months you truly diverse to be among the Top 20 Witnesses.
Lets make Steem Great finally!!!
Thank you! Lets make Steem freaking amazing!
Congrats, it has to be a real high for you. I just recently started following you and voted for you as a witness. Looking forward to hearing more great things from you.
Thank you! I'll do my best!
Well, congratulations! That's a big deal.
I appreciate that you are engaged and interested in the future of Steem.
Thank you! I also appreciate that you're so engaged on Steem!
The reason i appreciate you the most is for you being here when it was pretty fucked up, won't forget it. You earned my vote.
I'm trying to use everything as a learning experience, and what's better than believing in a technology, even through the dark times?
Appreciate the great comment & your vote.
Oh WOW - About time! Very well deserved - to me you're one of the most visibly active witnesses On The Block and I'm glad you've finally arrived in the 'Big Ranks'. Congratz, and I for one am excited to see what you'll bring in your second year of witnessing for Steem.
Cheers!
Thank you! I'm also excited to see how the second year will be. We've got a lot of challenges ahead of us, but I do believe that we're able to overcome them.
I believe so to - not an easy job, but with the amount of brain power and skills around we should be able to show the world some... Steem POWER ;-)
Congrats and well deserved!
Thank you exyle! :)
Congratulations on your Top20 spot - "Earned, not given!"
Congrats man! Well deserved! 😎
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Thank you!
🙌🏼🙌🏼
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Congrats to the Top20!
Are the servers more pleased now, producing blocks more frequently? 😊
Haha, I'm treating them very good :P
gratuliere ganz herzlich! 😊 Du hast es dir mit deiner Arbeit und deinem Einsatz für die Community wirklich mehr als verdient, ein Top 20 Witness zu sein! 😊
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Danke dir!
Congrats buddy. Your contribution is definitely undervalued so keep up the good work and you'll get to top 5. ✌
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Thank you!
Congrats wolf, and appreciate all that you are doing. Passion and commitment! Yes.
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Thank you, rosa!
My favorite witness @therealwolf 😍😍😍
Congratulations
Thank you!
Congrats - well deserved. Visibility has been appreciated during these tricky times.
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Thank you, steve!
Wow, just wow @therealwolf 👏
Thank you for all that you do. You are one of my favorite Steem-based contributors (along with @cryptoctopus).
All of us are doing better because of your efforts on the Steem blockchain 😊✌
Thank you, chris!
Congratulations, you're doing great for Steem and deserve to go up higher.
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Thank you!
Congratulations for top 20
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Thank you!
First of congratulation for being top 20 witness. How sourcing for killer DApp idea? My wishlisy: A crypo exchange with Steem, a trading simulator for stocks and crypto where successful trades are upvoted.
Congrats and well deserved! We continue to need more and more active witness to hear and consider what the community wants and needs! Look forward to seeing how your ideas can get more traction being in your position!
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Congrats and let's make Steem great again together :)
Thank you!
Hope there will be a good news for us after the meeting.
Congratulations!!
I’m rooting for you.
Hey @therealwolf, congratulations! I'm glad that someone who is clearly working hard for the blockchain is gaining some ground on witnesses that aren't putting the effort it.
Don't forget to go back to your last Community Brainstorming post, it looks like a few of us adding in ideas or responses that you might not have seen yet.
Whoa! Did GTG move from 1 to 10th overnight? Wow...
Congrats! I voted for you!
The job of witness has never been more important no one ever thanks you guys, so thanks!
congratulations
You got my vote for some time now. You definitely deserve to be a top 20 witness. I can see by how active you are that you really care about Steem and where it is heading. Congratulations on your achievement and best of luck in the future.
Steem on!
Always something to achieve in steem
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Have you considered setting up an RPC node for some of the steem functions that dApps could tap into? Perhaps a node that handles some of the basic functions (but not everything)?
Congrats, by the way. There are few witnesses on the blockchain with as much passion as you.
Congratulations and I'm sure is deserved.
Keep going mate! 👏👏
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Gratz dude!!!
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Thank you!
congrats!
Congrats from Tasteem. You've done so much great work for the community and now you've earned this. Well deserved. Let's go up and up. bb
hey @therealwolf just created my smartsteem login and I love the website you've done an awesome job. Love the user friendliness makes it all so easy to understand even for someone who doesn't understand the tech stuff like me makes adoption a lot easier. I was on a long steemit hiatus but looking to make a come back and look forward to using smartsteem to help me build up my account again. I placed you as my proxy for witness voting keep up the great work. 👍 btw I found smartsteem from @trevonjb post.
Congratulations on your achievement of Top 20 Witness. From what we know, your responsibility is now heavier than ever. Looking forward to your contributions in the #steemcouncil
Right, always looking forward. Really great as the community here partially holds together. I'm also an absolute fan of Steemit. If I have not chosen you as a witness yet, I will do it now. Nice to see that so many believe in it. The more together, the more indestructible everything will become. Thank you for your work and greetings from Germany
You literally bettered Steem, thanks for the contribution!
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I am happy for you @therealwolf you deserve to be well rewarded because you have made a great effort.
It's really nice to see ambitious people like you in our steem community.
Thanks to my brother I was able to discover your post and I will follow you from today.
Congrats dude, you deserve it
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Congratulations @therealwolf!
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Congratulations Man!
More than well deserved brother
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I left steem about 6 months ago because I didnt like the amount of power some people have on the ecosystem and that a group could get together and just reck someones account. It doesn’t make you feel comfortable holding steem specially staking it. But im glad to see more witnesses like you to help keep steem a great platform as it is. Keep up the good work.
felicitaciones amigo, concuerdo contigo en hacer de steem algo increible.