@smooth.witness

For some time I have found that external demands have made it challenging for me to devote the time and attention necessary to be a conscientious and committed top 20 witness. With…

I am in agreement with the thoughts behind [abit's comments](https://steemit.com/witness-category/@abit/abit-witness-steem-dollar-policy-change-2017-04-17-and-warning-to-authors-an…

I've updated to 0.18.1 (0.18.2 on some non-witness nodes). Congratulations to @sneak and the rest of the team on getting the release out and working with the community to reach con…

I will be reducing my vote on SBD interest rate (APR) from 4% to 2.5% as of February 1 and reducing my account creation fee vote from 50 to 30, which is the current median. My pric…

Several witnesses have agreed to routinely make any necessary SBD interest rate updates at the beginning of each month and I have joined this agreement. The purpose of this policy …

### Policy changes In preparation for the upcoming hard fork I have reduced my feed discount from 8% to 3%. Separately, I have reduced by SBD APR to from 8% to 6%. ### Backgrou…

Just a small update. After further discussion with some other witnesses (mostly @clayop, @bacchist and @timcliff) I have been convinced to reduce my feed discount. Previously it wa…

I will be upgrading my witness to the upcoming 0.16 fork assuming no technical problems are discovered before December 6. I have reduced my witness SBD interest rate (APR) setting…

I have reduced my SBD APR to 13% from 15%. I have done this because SBD has been consistently a bit too strong, sometimes trading with a bid above 1.00 USD (and ask significantly …

I have backed off a bit on my witness SBD APR parameter from 20% to 15%. This is the current APR on the network as set by the median of witnesses on the network. I believe 15% is …

I have updated my witness SBD APR parameter from 15% to 20% following the lead of several other witnesses who have done this. I believe this is the correct policy to improve SBD …

I have updated my witness SBD interest rate to 15% from 10%. My feed discount is unchanged at -12% (1-1/1.136). I have done this because SBD is effectively debt to the Steem block…

[Following the lead](https://steemit.com/witness-category/@abit/abit-witness-price-feed-update-2016-10-03) of @abit I have begun adjusting my witness price feed to 12% below observ…

I’m ‘smooth’, well known and active in the cryptocurrency community since 2011, core team member of Monero and lead developer of AEON. I have not been involved with Bitshares or o…