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In spirit of Curie's transparency, we wish to use this weekly section as an ongoing development blog on our project to communicate our progress on top of the many casual exchanges happening in channel #curie.

- For those new to [Curie](https://steemit.com/steemit/@donkeypong/announcing-project-curie-bringing-rewards-and-recognition-to-steemit-s-undiscovered-and-emerging-authors), please follow @curie, and join us in [#curie on Steemit.chat](https://steemit.chat/channel/curie).
- All curators on Steemit are cordially invited to submit posts to Curie at http://curiesteem.com. A finder's fee of 8 Steem is available for each upvoted post. Essentially, Curie enables any curator on Steemit to give a post you like a whales' upvote; and in return, you receive a whales' curation reward. All without investing a million dollars :)
- [Follow @curie's votes](https://steemit.com/curie/@curie/follow-curie-s-votes-a-new-way-to-support-upcoming-authors) to support the authors. Please consider following our trail and voting for curated authors. If you are a Streemian user, @curie is an available trail to follow. 
- Curie continues its focus on supporting new authors. Semi-established authors are supported by [Steem Guild](https://steemit.com/steemit/@donkeypong/announcing-steem-guild-a-second-stage-project-to-continue-supporting-good-authors-after-project-curie). 
- **Remember to follow and interact with authors that you love going through The Daily Curie.**

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## Important News - Changes incoming with Hardfork 17

Hardfork 17, scheduled for March 14th 2017, is the most significant update to the curation landscape in many ways. While there are a lot of changes to how Curie operates behind the scenes, we expect operations to continue as usual for curators. 

- The finder's fees will remain unchanged for now, but will gradually reduce over the next several months. 
- All votes will come from @curie. We shall be accepting Steem Power delegation donations directly to @curie. 
- Since the payout period will now be 7 days, The Daily Curie will be bi-weekly and posted on Sundays and Wednesdays. We'll affectionately retain the name "The Daily Curie". All The Daily Curie posts will be payout declined post Hardfork 17. 

*Update*: The hardfork's most likely to be delayed with the reward curve reversed. As a result, we may be able to increase finder's fees to reward curators sticking through the early days of Steemit. For now, it'll continue to be 8 Steem, but we hope to increase it to 10 or even 12 in the short term. We'll know more one week after hardfork 17. As before, long term we expect the finder's fee to decrease gradually. (Hopefully compensated for by a higher Steem price)

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## Weekly Statistics

Over the last week, Project Curie curated a total of **415 posts** at an average of 59 posts per day. A total of **302 unique authors** were rewarded. **SBD 5,330** was generated at an average of SBD 12.80 per post.

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## Authors

The Top 20 Authors by payouts last week were - 

- @libertyweekly
- @ezgibaki
- @tarazkp
- @mytechcrunch
- @patelincho
- @noemilunastorta
- @genyway
- @lk666
- @stonedfood
- @sebastianjago
- @rohtie
- @ogochukwu
- @clayboyn
- @filotasriza3
- @gric
- @culturearise369
- @cwatch
- @aineyann
- @xwerk
- @luckyfellow
 
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## Curators

The Top 12 Curator list will dynamically change every other week depending on performance. Anybody will be able to rise up the ranks with consistent, quality curation. Inconsistent, low quality curation will result in dropping out of Top 12 (or regular curation, if under-performance continues).

This week, we have upvoted **408 posts** submitted by curators in http://curiesteem.com, with 3,264 STEEM paid out / pending payouts to curators. 

At current operations, we require a minimum CS of 5 to be eligible for Top 12 and 1 to be eligible for 5 submissions/day. This is the last week with lower acceptable scores, from next week we'll have hard limits at 5 and 1 respectively. Curators with an exceptionally high Score over the month will receive a monthly bonus. Currently the bonus pool is 1,000 Steem/month. 

## Curation Leaderboard (with at least 5 submissions this week >0 Score)
| Curator      | CS     | Approval Rating |
|---------------|-------|------| 
| @liberosist    | 63.17 | 97.1 | 
| @littlemozart  | 35.65 | 83.6 | 
| @alcibiades    | 32    | 100  | 
| @jewierart     | 13.56 | 72.2 | 
| @naquoya       | 9.96  | 61.9 | 
| @fubar-bdhr    | 9.29  | 76.2 | 
| @mgibson       | 9.17  | 54.4 | 
| @teofilex11    | 7     | 100  | 
| @majes         | 6.79  | 78.6 | 
| @orangkaya     | 5.53  | 44.4 | 
| @alamcraft     | 5.2   | 68.8 | 
| @pfunk         | 3     | 100  | 
| @dentara       | 2.38  | 58.3 | 
| @arismocyc     | 2.28  | 53.3 | 
| @hatta         | 2.13  | 44   | 
| @steemlegend   | 1.83  | 40.7 | 
| @jdbry         | 1.48  | 38.5 | 
| @pakkeplor     | 1.31  | 57.1 | 
| @practicemagic | 1.31  | 57.1 | 
| @simplest      | 1.03  | 45.5 | 
| @bangbadem     | 1     | 50   | 
| @victorious    | 0.87  | 41.7 | 
| @teukumukhlis  | 0.55  | 42.9 | 
| @boompanot     | 0.5   | 50   | 
| @taktoys       | 0.49  | 31.3 | 
| @teukuderian   | 0.24  | 21.7 | 
| @digit         | 0.22  | 33.3 | 
| @edje          | 0.11  | 33.3 | 
| @helmilanscape | 0.1   | 22.2 | 
| @cepas         | 0.04  | 20   | 
| @pamodip       | 0.01  | 9.1  | 


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