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Muxxybot has posted his last curation of 2017, ending his year with a short French curation post. This means all the Muxxybot ~~minions~~ curators are also taking a well earned rest from scouring Steemit for worthy posts to share. They return to active duty on January 2nd, with a view to curating once more on the 3rd.

Last week I made the decision to no longer auto vote Muxxybot's curators as this was detrimental to his voting power which, I felt, would be better served upvoting all curated posts. Naturally, they deserve some reward for their sterling job. As such I decided to award them with shares of SBD from each curation post. If their nomination was featured, they earned an equal share of the payout. Of course, if 2 of their nominations made it, they received 2 shares.

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I backdated this a little and started paying out, keeping a spreadsheet of curation posts, posting dates, and nominators' shares. So far, as four posts paid out, I sent shares to the curators involved, adding up to 12.195 SBD - at around $120 USD value.

A few of the curators have made the generous decision to either tell me to power up Muxxybot with their shares, or have decided to donate them to worthy charities on Steem. On behalf on Muxxybot, I thank you and applaud your generosity to charitable causes.

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Having taken the curators off Muxxybot's autovotes I can already see the account's power increasing. After the Christmas break it should be up to full power, enabling Muxxybot to reward worthy posts to a higher value.

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# <center>I want to wish each and every Muxxybot curator a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.</center>