Guys, again you are doing a very good job keeping us informed and especially working on so many important things. 

1. The size needed to run the blockchain - decreased by using RocksDB

2. The problems with bandwidth - in progress

3. Hard Fork 20 (which I personally thought it got canceled, looking at [its status on github](https://github.com/steemit/steem/projects?query=is%3Aclosed)

4. SMTs

5. Major changes like scalability, which can't be seen directly, but it is one of the most important.

I guess that @andrarchy was right when he said that your team is working continuously to make improvements on the Steem blockchain as they do.

You have my sincere congratulations for this!

### *Now the bad part...*

What I personally am concerned about, when you have time to address it, is the fact that 11 days ago there was a downtime of Steem blockchain, if I remember well. It was a 504 error when trying to access steemit.com. The problem was also present on busy.org or when trying to run condenser locally.

My concerns are really big about it, since I am not so sure why this happened or if the blockchain was still running well at that time. I remember that steemd.com was also not responding so I think about this as a potential centralization problem of the blockchain. If this affected the whole blockchain, then can we really rely on Steem as completely safe and resistant to attacks?

<sub><sup>PS: sorry for the self-vote, I am trying to make this visible...</sup></sub>