![](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmaiowzpHXbX1EtQh1TUrSdwjNBSq1XD4rNQdTCYrjNQBF/image.png) --- If we as @blockbrothers learned anything from recent events of this bear market and the layoffs at Steemit Inc. is that there is a huge need from the community to hear from witnesses. @blockbrothers are already very active in the community through @exyle and @s3rg3 (Dutch Community), @brittandjosie (our community manager) and our own @blockbrothers account. But we like to do more. Today we would like to shed some transparency on which witnesses @blockbrothers vote for and why. There might be some unexpected witnesses here. If you like our choice for witnesses you can set @blockbrothers as your witness proxy and we will honor that trust. --- [Set blockbrothers as your proxy via SteemConnect](https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/account-witness-proxy?proxy=blockbrothers&approve=1) --- Below you will also find a list of the new witnesses we will rotate in and the once we will rotate out soon. We will be transparent about our witness choices from now on and in the future and will inform the community before we make any changes.

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# @blockbrothers approves of the following witnesses. --- | Witness | Reasoning | |---|---| |@abit |Saved the blockchain after the chain stopped after HF20. Knows his stuff. Maybe not as visible on the blockchain as other witnesses but someone you want to have around.| |@adsactly-witness|Community witness. Heavily invested. Support bloggers as well as developers. Very active under the @adsactly-witness and the @adsactly account.| |@aggroed|One of the most dedicated Steemians. Minnow Support Project Founder. Community leader and Co-founder of Steem Monsters. Run their own infrastructure decentralising the blockchain.| |@blockbrothers|Community (@exyle and @s3rg3) and developer witness (@bennierex and @eqko). Creators of Steemify and very invested and informative for the community through @exyle and @s3rg3 (Dutch community).| |@blocktrades|Developer witness. Business owner of blocktrades.com. A portal to convert other crypto to STEEM and back (for a fee). Has a team that can build for the blockchain. Business owner. | |@busy.witness|Community and developer witness. Creators of the first alternative front-end for Steemit.com with Busy.org.| |@curie|Community witness. Curator of content.| |@cervantes|Community witness for the Spanish Community.| |@fyrst-witness|Community and Developer witness. Very active community member. Founder of Steemspeak on Discord. One of the biggest community servers outside of Steem. Owner of Booster. A promotional service for the blockchain.| |@followbtcnews|Developer witness. Owner of Steem.chat Owner of Steemtipper.com.| |@good-karma|Developer of the Esteem ecosystem. Run their own infrastructure decentralising the blockchain.| |@jackmiller|Very active community witness.| |@lukestokes.mhth|Community witness.| |@ocd-witness|Community witness. Curator of content.| |@oflyhigh|Underrated witness. Knows a lot about the blockchain. Programmer. (got on our radar when he answered this question about the price feed perfectly. [here](https://steemit.com/witness-category/@oflyhigh/why-is-medianhistoryprice-no-longer-the-median-of-feed-price-my-investigation).| |@pharesim|Developer witness. Made https://steeminvite.com. Is able to check Hard Fork code.| |@reggaemuffin|Developer Witness with @buildteam. Run their own infrastructure.| |@someguy123|Developer witness. Not active as a community member but is the creator Of Steem in a box which is an extremely helpful tool for everyone that wants to setup a witness.| |@steemcommunity|Community and Curator witness.| |@thecryptodrive|Business man and developer Witness with @buildteam. Run their own infrastructure.| |@therealwolf|Developer and community witness. Creator of Smartsteem. Recently trying to get Steem on Coinbase.| |@utopian-io|Witness for https://join.utopian.io/| |@yabapmatt|Developer witness. Co-founder of Steem Monsters.| ---

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## The following witnesses we still approve of but will be rotated out: --- | Witness | Reasoning || |---|---|---| |@teamsteem|Not active enough for a community witness (used to be).|| |@demotruk|self voting on comments|![](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmdjoo31kccPRaBktM81D5faKivxhBdsSLwDbtFQUArR8C/image.png)| |@patrice|Not active enough anymore.|![Screenshot 2018-12-10 at 13.46.37.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmUdG7bUBi2jTc5GWYTH8jpFDffPQq2niUBgAd7veQ6iCy/Screenshot%202018-12-10%20at%2013.46.37.png)| ---

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## Witnesses we will rotate in: --- | 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 | ---

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