Every week, we present some of our best contributions, rewarded in the last seven days. This week, we picked from the analysis, bug-hunting, video-tutorials, tutorials, development, and graphics categories. We’ve got some great contributions to share, and you are encouraged to check them out.

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Staff Picks

How will the HF20 dust vote changes affect the vote values? by @crokkon [analysis]

^@simonjay

@crokkon's ability to pick analysis topics that are relevant to the Steem community as a whole is excellent. This post is a look into how ‘dust’ votes will be affected following HF 20, and what this means for low votes regarding reward shares earned. That topic is important for so many, and should help accounts gain insight on how they should be structuring their votes for content.

Total payout: 106.84 STU
Number of votes: 105

Beem: Blockchain.get_transaction / get_transaction_hex issues on appbase nodes by @stmdev [bug-hunting]

^{Image source}

Beem is an unofficial easy-to-use Python wrapper (library) for Steem developed by @holger80. It has a great set of advantages like thorough unit tests, more complete implementation, Steemconnect integration etc. It is very popular and many developers use it in their projects. @stmdev found that the function Blockchain.get_transaction and Blockchain.get_transaction_hex fails due to wrong calling of api methods internally. He added a fix as well as a Detailed post regarding this issue.

Total payout: 31.46 STU
Number of votes: 57

Byteball Video Tutorial (Respaldo y Monedero Multi-Dispositivo) - (Back up and Multi-Signature wallet) - by @christianytony [video-tutorials]

ByteBall provided a Video Tutorial Task Request a couple of weeks back. We have received several responses for this. All have been in English until this vid tut, which was a spanish submission. @jmromero provided the review for this submission. The contributor created a very exciting video production covering the topics requested by ByteBall. The visuals of the contribution were very impressive. I hope we have more multi-language TRs in the future so we can have more from this contributor.

Total payout: 1.99 STU (Not voted by @utopian-io yet)
Number of votes: 38

Time Series with R by @eroche [tutorials]

This week, @eroche presents us with a great tutorial about generating great Steem-based stats using R, a statistical language that focuses on such aspect. The core of the tutorial is generating time series charts that allow simple yet great level of detail in studying Steem price and volume over time. The tutorial is well-written, quite detailed and provides the proper illustrations to help understand how the flow of work goes. It even features a suggested exercise to give the readers some room for innovation and test it out on their own.

Total payout: 5.02 STU (Not voted by @utopian-io yet)
Number of votes: 79

Steeditor development update: templates, images upload, and more! by @jakipatryk [development]

@jakipatryk is one of the best contributors in Utopian's development category, and this contribution certainly doesn’t disappoint. Steeditor is an advanced editor that allows you to change every possible option in a post that the Steem blockchain gives us. Some great new features have been added in this development update, such as the ability to create your own templates for posting, an editor toolbar, the ability to upload images and much, much more!

Total payout: 4.36 STU (Not voted by @utopian-io yet)
Number of votes: 103

Busy.org Nightmode by @mkt [development]

@mkt has, in response to a task request, created a night mode for Busy! This is something that has been lacking from Busy for a while now, so with this contribution its users will finally have a way to save their eyes when browsing at night.

Total payout: 127.34 STU
Number of votes: 72

Logo Design Proposal for Wifi-Wand by @anharismail [graphics]

Wifi wand is a tool to manage wifi on Mac OS. It allows independent developers to include this functionality in their apps. The author did a very good job capturing the simple nature of this tool using a self-evident symbol. This work is our pick from this week because of its perfect execution and delivery.

Total payout: 2.11 STU (Not voted by @utopian-io yet)
Number of votes: 117

The Actifit Series - Actifit Development Update V.0.3.1 And other Updates [Episode 3] by @curtwriter [blog]

Actifit, a STEEM project rewarding fitness activity of its users with future SMTs, had several major updates recently. In this post, @curtwriter went into details of the changes, covering several issues and newly added charity options you can run for. It is not uncommonn to see posts in the category discussing the problems projects have, there are not many update posts as informative as this one. The post has a perfect structure with well-separated, direct headers and short paragraphs beside good placement of visuals. While the structure was its strongest side, the post was also free of redundant words and and easy to read.

Total payout: 55.48 STU
Number of votes: 29

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Utopian.io Post Statistics

The staff picked contributions are only a small (but exceptional) example of the mass of contributions reviewed and rewarded by Utopian.io.

Overall, the last week saw a total of 205 posts, with 153 of them rewarded through an upvote by @utopian-io.
In total, Utopian.io distributed an approximate of 3818.62 STU to contributors.
The highest payout seen on any Utopian.io contribution this week was 786.214 STU, with a total of 1249 votes received from the community.
The contribution that attracted the most engagement was DTube 0.8: The grand upgrade is finally here. DTV, DTalk, VIP system, etc, with no less than 223 comments in its comment threads.
The average vote given by Utopian.io was worth 41.96 STU.

Category Statistics

Category	Reviewed	Rewarded	Total rewards	Top contributor
translations	42	40	1373.13 STU	@robertbira
social	7	5	45.06 STU	@dongentle2
blog	35	19	406.38 STU	@actifit
graphics	21	15	299.86 STU	@zuur
copywriting	4	4	130.47 STU	@harry-heightz
video-tutorials	8	5	74.72 STU	@alexendre-maxim
development	28	24	862.91 STU	@stoodkev
tutorials	19	13	230.57 STU	@pckurdu
bug-hunting	21	17	91.15 STU	@josephace135
analysis	5	3	247.31 STU	@paulag
ideas	11	4	35.09 STU	@akbarsanjani