Hi voters and other readers! Once again we had a week full of excitement. As the title shows, a lot of milestones are reached. Ready for it? Here we go!

Firstly, we surpassed the 1000th Dutchdelegate voter this week! Secondly, we forged our 10.000th Ark block yesterday. Thirdly, we successfully ran our own payout script yesterday (Charles did it guys, all credits to him! ) and finally, our website is up and running!

Yes, you read that right. Our website is live and you can visit it here: www.dutchdelegate.nl. On our website you can register as an official Dutchdelegate voter; change your payout frequency to daily/weekly/monthly; look at how much you have staked over time and find general information about our delegate. In the upcoming weeks, we will improve the website and add more cool features based on your input. Furthermore, the threshold for being payed out is now 2 Ark for daily/ 0.1 Ark for weekly/ 0.0001 Ark for monthly (Notice that we do not compensate transaction fees on daily payouts!). These thresholds can be changed accordingly to the feedback of you, our voters. So, if you want these thresholds to be changed, please let us know. We will then look at what the general opinion is of our voters and change the values according to that.

We are live! Take a look at www.dutchdelegate.nl

And yes, our payout script works as well! Isn’t it wonderfull? As mentioned in one of our earlier blogs, Charles made it his personal duty to fulfill this heavy burden and at last it works. He was overjoyed when the last payment was issued successfully. It was since then that Rudy and I haven’t heard anything from him, so we suspect him of being drunk of happiness…? No, just kidding, it’s probably alcohol. All jokes aside, he did a hack of a job to complete it and we are all very pleased with the result. So we hope that you guys are just as satisfied as we are! However, if you feel that something is wrong regarding the payouts or anything else, feel free to contact us any time via Slack, Reddit, or mail.

Last but not least, we are trying to organize a hackathon at our university in collaboration with the Ark team. As we all know the Ark team is complemented by a large number of great developpers. By organizing a hackathon we hope to attract even more developpers to join Ark’s quest in delivering great tech. Another goal is to introduce blockchain-related events to our university and create awareness for Ark’s mass consumer adoption goal. However, this is still in the very early stage and we are looking at all the possibilities at our disposal. So, more news on this to come in the upcoming weeks.

And that was all!

Thank you for voting Dutchdelegate and making these milestones possible. Without you - our voters - we couldn’t achieve any of it. We greatly appreciate the community and all the feedback we get from you. Keep tuned for more news and have a good week!

Kind regards,

The Dutchdelegate team

#Mail: dutchdelegate@gmail.com

#Slack: @rudy, @charles, @rhmral

#Reddit: dutchdelegate

P.S. Don’t forget to vote for Ark being listed on the Cobinhood exchange (www.cobinhood.com/vote). We managed to get a great lead, but all votes are necessary to keep Ark in the lead. If you need COB and Eth message Dr10 in Slack.