I've recently made the decision to focus primarily on supporting development oriented Witnesses with my Witness-Approval.

I believe that developers are crucial for the success of Steem. Without them, we wouldn't have a blockchain in the first place - in addition to all these great apps on top of it (dtube, dlive, utopian etc.) and I'm not even talking about the possibilities through SMTs.

Additionally, while Steem has its strengths - other blockchain projects like EOS, NEO, Nano, Ethereum & the whole blockchain-sphere are developing so fast, that Steem needs constant improvement.

We do have a motivated and skilled team with Steemt Inc. who is - as @andrarchy explained it recently: working 'round the clock.

But I also believe that Witnesses have a great incentive to be valuable contributing developers for Steem as they get rewarded with Steempower for running a witness-node - and depending on how valuable their input is for Steem: the more votes they will receive. (technically)

Smartsteem Proxy

I've also decided to use @therealwolf as a voting-proxy for @smartsteem. So in total I currently have a voting-strength of 45k SP to support my fellow development oriented witnesses.

You can of course also choose me as a witness-proxy (https://steemit.com/~witnesses) and I'll make sure to vote on witnesses to the best of my knowledge & belief .

Witness List

I currently vote for 26 Witnesses - of which roughly 80-85% are developers.

Witness	Developer	Reason
@therealwolf	Developer	Developer of Smartsteem.com & Steem Messenger
@jesta	Developer	Experienced developer & witness who has created Vessel (Steem Wallet), chainbb, steemdb.com and is currently focusing on Vessel 2.0 (afaik)
@gtg	Developer	Very experienced Witness - running 2 RPC Nodes
@someguy123	Developer	Very experienced Witness and also the CEO of @privex - the greatest hosting-company that accepts cryptocurrency - runs 1 RPC Node
@thecryptodrive		Experienced witness and a very smart business person - owns 1 RPC Node
@netuoso	Developer	Experienced witness, SteemDevs founder & decentmemes.com developer - owns 1 RPC Node
@smooth.witness	?	Very experienced witness
@pharesim	Developer	Experienced witness & developer of steemdice - runs 1 RPC Node
@lukestokes.mhth	Partly	Very experienced witness
@followbtcnews	Developer	Experienced witness that runs steem.chat and steemtipper.com - owns 1 RPC Node
@blocktrades	Developer	Very experienced witness & developer - owns and developed blocktrades.us
@xeldal	?	Very experienced witness (and also the witness with the most produced blocks)
@riverhead	Developer	Very experienced witness and former developer and owner of steem.chat
@utopian-io	Developer	One of the greatest apps on Steem that also pays developers working on Open Source projects.
@teamsteem		Great community witness
@yabapmatt	Developer	Experienced Developer
@blockbrothers	Developer	Team of multiple Steem-users - creators of Steemify (mobile app)
@reggaemuffin	Developer	Experienced developer & witness - developer of minnowbooster
@themarkymark	Developer	Wizard of Python - runs 1 RPC Node
@nextgencrypto		Witness who is doing things differently
@steemhq.witness	Developer	Interesting witness project - owner is a good developer
@dragosroua	developer	Great community & developer witness - one of the few people I'm following who posts often and good
@asbear	Developer	Great and motivated developer
@swisswitness	Partly	New community witness consisting of 3 steemians
@stoodkev	Developer	Great developer - developed the steem.plus extension
@samrg472	Developer	Very smart developer - developed steemdunk
@felixxx	?	Experienced Witness
@mahdiyari	Developer	Great Witness who is running two projects on Steem and is also notifying witnesses if they missed any blocks on steem.chat

If there is invalid or outdated info - then please let me know and I'll edit it.

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If you know a great developer witness who deserves an approval-vote, then please let me know with a comment below.