Hi,

• We are currently operating an onboarding service on https://joinblurt.com/ which is a service that is allowing users to create accounts on Blurt using crypto, credit cards, and Paypal, or self-creation. To get an idea of how much the service is currently being used, you can check the account that we are using to create accounts on Blurt from here: https://ecosynthesizer.com/blurt/@ecosynthesis

• We are also operating the explore as you have already mentioned, and if you go back to our previous announcements, you would understand that the explorer offers other features as well.

• and running the Twitter decimation tool which is currently helping with outreach on Twitter.

In general, we are doing active development.

100k BLURT per year means 8333 BLURT per month which equates to ~30$ per month at current price which is clearly not enough to do anything. The 1.5M BLURT is for the whole period until the end of 2023. In other words, we did not get funding since the beginning, and the whole period equates to 17 months of funding or 352$ per month at current price.

Should the others also write a proposal and ask for 1.5M BLURT?

If anyone is willing to work on another explorer from scratch, then he is more than welcome to do it and request funding for it. At the end of the day, everyone is free to request funding for anything, and the community shall decide if x projects deserve to be funded or not.

Is Steem paying you 1.5M STEEM?

Our witness on Steem is ranked in 2nd place. STEEM has a higher price than BLURT and thus, the witness pay is playing a major role in funding Steem-related development. To put everything in perspective:

1.5M STEEM = 330,000$ at current price.
1.5M BLURT = 6,000$ at current price.

So using STEEM as a mirror perspective could be seen as a bad analogy.

Thank you for passing by,