Vlog 381: No livestream by Steemit Inc. + Powerups are ok + Witness...

So yesterday there was no livestream with @ned. Which I can somewhat understand, he must be busy or still ill.

But what I don't understand is why you wouldn't inform the community in time that it's not going to take place. And instead decide to waste people's time.

It's not like there isn't a platform where you can find us, 2-3 lines would have been enough. Could also have been done by anyone else via the @steemitblog. It's simply rude and I hope this doesn't happen again.

Anyway, besides all the turmoil Steemians are still powering up which I keep seeing as a positive sign.

Other positive things are the witness voting proxys that came in for our witness @blockbrothers. It's been so cool. We can now vote on witnesses (not posts) with almost double the voting power (750mv) as before which will help them a lot.

To put that into a little more perspective, the biggest voters on the platform @freedom has 16000mv and @blocktrades 10000mv to give away, we now have 750mv.

We have become very transparent in who we vote for and why. I said before this blockchain is either going to make it and succeed big time or it's going to shit. Voting for the right witnesses that add value helps and is something you can do today even if you have a little vote.

^{Set blockbrothers as your proxy via SteemConnect}

We believe every witness adds value, but some more than others regarding of the circumstances. Here you can find our current list:

@blockbrothers witness vote list

These Witnesses we will rotate in this Friday:

Witness	Reasoning
@stoodkev	for his work on Keychain and SteemPlus
@steempress	for their work on Steempress
@wise-team	for their work on Engrave
@fulltimegeek	For his work on Vaporchain
@partiko	For their work on the Partiko app
@anyx	For his work on optimizing full nodes