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There has not been a lot of movement in the Top 20 over the last couple of weeks. Just one new entrant, and some rearrangements in the lower half. @pennsif.witness has made good progress. Both the Seed Node and the Full API Node are now up and running, and the witness has now climbed all the way up to #23. The initial closing date for Steemit Inc's new $500K Development Incentive Program has now passed. News is eagerly awaited from the Community Developer Representatives of what proposals will be funded for development. --- --- ### _Pennsif the Witness_

_After almost 2000 days on Steem I decided it was time to take my contribution to the platform to the next level._ _I have therefore set up as a Steem witness... **@pennsif.witness**_ _**If anyone would like to support what I already do, and what I am planning to do, by giving one of their 30 witness votes to @pennsif.witness I would be hugely grateful.**_ _You can read my full witness announcement here..._ * [_**pennsif.witness Witness Campaign Post**_](https://steemit.com/witness/@pennsif.witness/pennsif-witness-witness-campaign-post) * [_**pennsif.witness - Publicación de la Campaña para Testigo**_](https://steemit.com/witness/@pennsif.witness/pennsif-witness-publicacion-de-la-campana-para-testigo) _Thank you._ --- ---

The Current Top 20 Witnesses

There has only been one new entrant in the Top 20 since the last Witness Weekly. @alexmove.witness has swapped places with @steemit-market to take the #20 slot. @justyy still holds the top spot, and @steemit-market is now holding the first reserve position at #21. The only other movements have been rearrangements in positions #13 to #17. @bangla.witness has climbed to #13, and @xpilar.witness to #14. @steem-agora, @etainclub and @italygame have all subsequently dropped one or two places. --- The current top 20 witnesses for the Steem Blockchain on 5 November 2022 are : | No. | Witness --- | --- | 1 | @justyy | 2 | @symbionts | 3 | @dev.supporters | 4 | @steemchiller | 5 | @steem.history | 6 | @dlike | 7 | @future.witness | 8 | @maiyude | 9 | @rnt1 | 10 | @protoss20 | 11 | @upvu.witness | 12 | @roadofrich | 13 | @bangla.witness | 14 | @xpilar.witness | 15 | @etainclub | 16 | @steem-agora | 17 | @italygame | 18 | @marcosdk | 19 | @boylikegirl.wit | 20 | @alexmove.witness --- --- There are a further 35+ active backup witnesses mainly in the #21 - #57 slots. All top 50+ witnesses are running the current 0.23.1 version. Many of the witnesses from #59 and below are 'former' witnesses that are running old witness versions (0.23.0 or 0.22.1) and have now moved to another blockchain. --- Details of all the witnesses can be found in @steemchiller's Steemworld.org, on @justyy's steemyy.com or on @symbionts's ecosynthesizer.com... * https://steemworld.org/witnesses * https://steemyy.com/witness-ranking/ * https://ecosynthesizer.com/steem/witnesses The listing in Steemworld.org has the added feature of showing who is voting for each witness (click on the little piechart icon). --- @steem.history and @future.witness both publish daily witness listings... * [STEEM witnesses list (22.11.5)](https://steemit.com/hive-130095/@steem.history/steem-witnesses-list-2211-5) * [Daily Top 100 Witness Report](https://steemit.com/hive-102132/@future.witness/daily-witness-report-4-11-2022) --- ---

New Witnesses

India Country Reps @cryptogecko and @deepak94 have launched a new witness HindWitness (@hindwitness)... * [**HindWitness Witness Campaign Post**](https://steemit.com/hive-150122/@hindwitness/hindwitness-witness-campaign-post) @cryptogecko and @deepak94 are two of the Admin founders, along with @jyoti-thelight, of the Hind Whale Community... * https://steemit.com/trending/hive-179660 @hindwitness is currently at #167. --- The Steem Seven curation project led by @alejos7ven, has launched its own witness @seven.wit... * [**Steem Seven Witness Announcement [ENG-ESP]**](https://steemit.com/hive-117041/@steem-seven/steem-seven-witness-announcement-eng-esp) @seven.wit is currently at #28. --- ---

Witnesses News & Updates

**Steemit Development Incentive Program** The recently launched [Steemit Development Incentive Program](https://steemit.com/steem/@steemitblog/steemit-update-sep-30th-2022-steemit-development-incentive-program-proposals-welcome) is providing $500K of STEEM to support new developments on steemit.com. The program is being overseen by the Community Developer Representatives, a team of five top witnesses - @future.witness (@hightouch), @steemchiller, @justyy, @smt-wherein (@iguazi123) and @dev.supporters (@donekim, @glory7 & @wonsama). One of these @donekim, of the @dev.supporters witness, has given an update on progress on evaluating the ideas and proposals... * [**[Steemit DIP] How to bring developers back to Steem?**](https://steemit.com/hive-101145/@donekim/steemit-dip) --- The list of proposals and suggestions submitted can be seen here... * https://steemit.com/created/steemdipproposals --- --- Top witness **@justyy** (#1) has published a number of witness related posts particularly for node testing... * [New Feature: Test Any Node in Steem API Node Status](https://steemit.com/hive-102132/@justyy/new-feature-test-any-node-in-steem-api-node-status) * [Adding Three Plugins to Existing STEEM Node Testing API](https://steemit.com/hive-102132/@justyy/adding-three-plugins-to-existing-steem-node-testing-api) * [Adding Plugin Detection in the Node Status Tool](https://steemit.com/hive-102132/@justyy/adding-plugin-detection-in-the-node-status-tool) --- **@symbionts** (#2) have published a warning about the recent hack, and coming shutdown, of Steem-Engine... * [Symbiont{s} | Public Service Announcement | Steem-Engine Is Going Down](https://steemit.com/witness-category/@symbionts/symbiont-s-or-public-service-announcement-or-steem-engine-is-going-down) --- Member of the **@dev.supporters** (#3) witness team @donekim has put forward the suggestion that Steem should create a new Open Source Contributor Reward Platform like the old Utopian platform that was very successful in the past... * [**[Suggestion] Creating a New Open source Contributor Reward Platform based on SP delegation**](https://steemit.com/hive-101145/@donekim/suggestion-creating-a-new-open-source-contributor-reward-platform-based-on-sp-delegation) @donekim has also posted about the hack and shutdown of Steem-Engine... * [**[Steem-Engine] 데이터베이스 해킹으로 인한 장애 발생 안내**](https://steemit.com/hive-101145/@donekim/xgigv-steem-engine) --- **@steemchiller** (#4) continues to maintain the top app on the blockchain in the form of Steemworld.org. --- **@steem.history** (#5) puts out a number of very useful daily posts covering witness listings, Steem Power rankings and the STEEM system config. --- **@maiyude** (#8) has posted an update on the development of the steem.vip steem wallet... * [(2022-11)Steem.vip Development progress](https://steemit.com/cn/@maiyude/2022-11-steem-vip-development-progress) --- **@upvu.witness** (#11) has made a number of posts giving more information about how it selects the witnesses it supports... * [upvu.proxy Next Plan (Add Rule, 2022/4/13)](https://steemit.com/hive-102132/@upvu/upvu-proxy-upvu-proxy-next-plan) * [Sharing UPVU Proxy Witness Vote Results(Updated. 2022/5/31)](https://steemit.com/hive-102132/@upvu/sharing-upvu-proxy-witness-vote-results-updated-2022-4-11) * [UPVU Proxy Governance Voting Update Announcement](https://steemit.com/hive-102132/@upvu/upvu-proxy-governance-voting-update-announcement) --- @hungry-griffin and @rme of the **bangla.witness** (#13) team have announced plans for a major new investment in the Steem blockchain... > A million dollar blockchain based web 3.0 social media, networking & blogging project will be launched by 2024. The program will include a decentralized web 3.0 blockchain social media, networking and blogging project, a side-chain reward distribution project, a multichain DAO project for developers and contributors, an opensource NFT project, and a DEFI project - all based on the Steem blockchain... * [**Some future plans & proposal for steemit development**](https://steemit.com/steemit/@hungry-griffin/some-future-plans-and-proposal-for-steemit-development) --- The charitable fund of **@xpilar.witness** (#14), @wox-helpfund, has given 400 STEEM to @rodolfmandolina to help with urgent medical treatment for his mother... * [**WOX-HELPFUND donates 400 STEEM to rodolfmandolina to help his mother with her medical and travel expenses**](https://steemit.com/hive-185836/@wox-helpfund/wox-helpfund-donates-400-steem-to-rodolfmandolina-to-help-his-mother-with-her-medical-and-travel-expenses) --- **@etainclub** (#15) continues to work on the development of his AVLE app which is now in public beta... * https://avle.io/ --- **@steem-agora** (#16) has made a post discussing how the witnesses might play a bigger role in improving the stability and continuous availability of steemit.com through more full nodes and more decentralisation... * [Regarding the Steemit access problem, the role of witnesses](https://steemit.com/hive-138689/@steem-agora/e50c0) --- @joviansummer of the **@jswit** witness (#38) has written more about the decentralisation issues in Steam API nodes... * [Decentralization Issues in Steam API Nodes](https://steemit.com/hive-196917/@joviansummer/f59189-api) --- **@boylikegirl.wit** (#19) has posted an update on the development of the Boylikegirl Club... * [**Development of the boylikegirl club (2022-11-04)**](https://steemit.com/hive-185836/@boylikegirl.wit/yp2ykzvlrr) --- **@steemit-market** (#21) has published another witness report... * [**Witness report No. 6**](https://steemit.com/hive-102132/@steemit-market/witness-report-no-6) --- **@cotina** (#22) has published its witness report for October... * [**Cotina Monthly Report as Steem Witness for the month of October**](https://steemit.com/hive-102132/@cotina/reporte-mensual-cotina-como-steem-witness-para-el-mes-de-octubre) --- **@pennsif.witness** (#23) has launched a Full API Node... * [**Witness Update @ 20 October 2022 : Full API Node**](https://steemit.com/witness/@pennsif.witness/witness-update-20-october-2022-full-api-node-pennsif-witness) @pennsif.witness has also launched the CommunityAction support program to help projects and communities... * [**Introducing CommunityAction by pennsif.witness**](https://steemit.com/communityaction/@pennsif/introducing-communityaction-by-pennsif-witness) Pennsif has also just announced the three winners (@dexsyluz, @ubongudofot, @worldsmile) of the first Pennsif's Picks monthly awards... * [**PENNSIF'S PICKS : Three Picks for October 2022**](https://steemit.com/contest/@pennsif/pennsif-s-picks-three-picks-for-october-2022) --- **@ety001** (#27) is currently replaying Hivemind to get the backup data on his new server at Hetzner... * [**The Hivemind backup data is on the way**](https://steemit.com/witness/@ety001/the-hivemind-backup-data-is-on-the-way) @ety001 has also posted details of how to deploy an Account History node using the official docker image... * [**How to deploy an Ahnode with official docker image?**](https://steemit.com/witness/@ety001/how-to-deploy-an-ahnode-with-official-docker-image) --- **@stmpak.wit** (#51) has posted how they set up a Seed Node... * [**We setup steem seed Node (How2do) guidelines...**](https://steemit.com/hive-150122/@stmpak.wit/we-setup-steem-seed-node-how2do-guidelines) --- **@visionaer3003** (#87) has launched the Camping Club Program - SP Angel - to help newcomers to the platform with free starter delegations... * [**Camping Club Program - SP Angel**](https://steemit.com/hive-109690/@visionaer3003/camping-club-program-sp-angel) --- **@yasu.witness** (#165) has posted his latest Witness Report... * [**[yasu.witness report] 2022.11.05**](https://steemit.com/hive-161179/@yasu.witness/yasu-witness-2022-11-05) @yasu is also exploring how to set up a Full API Node... * [**Let's start learning Full API Node**](https://steemit.com/hive-161179/@yasu/full-api-node) --- --- Becoming a Steem Witness, and moving up the rankings to #23, has given me a whole new perspective on the platform. With developments like the $500K Steemit Development Incentive Program and the $1million investment plan recently announced by @hungry-griffin and @rme it does feel like Steem is poised at the beginning of a new renaissance. It certainly is a good time to be a Steem Witness... Pennsif [ Discord Pennsif#9921 ] --- --- [ graphic by @pennsif ]