Witness update - Top20

I've activated my witness node exactly 668 days ago. I've been always a backup witness since then. That changed yesterday and I went into the top20 pool yesterday when @proxy.token voted for me.

This was a nice Friday surprise for me, I was always thinking how hard to climb into top20, then it became a reality.

I've been monitoring my primary and backup servers after the change, and happy to say that everything is smooth so far.

Vote for my witness

Being a top20 witness is one thing, staying there is another thing. :) Lineup between 15-25 is more challenging now, I need your vote to secure my position.

If you didn't vote already, consider casting a vote on Steemconnect or on Steemit.

Short term plans

• Planning to vitalize the "Hivemind SQL service" project without the SPS. I've been distributing SQL accounts (around 15+ users so far) to experiment the need and TBH, it's not much though. Maybe I can continue with this semi-automated service.

• Planning to investigate to serve a full RPC public node. (Or fat node with Hivemind support) This is known that we lack public RPC nodes for applications and developers. A fat node should be more than affordable with the top20 pay.

Besides these, of course, I keep my STEEM related projects, tools, libraries updated and will be testing and following the new STEEM versions, hard forks very closely.