Hey man! ARKLand here, sorry to message here but I couldn't PM because my account doesn't have many posts here.

Wanted to let you know that the Thanksgiving raffle has been launched on https://thanksgiving.ark.land , I made an announcement here https://www.reddit.com/r/ArkEcosystem/comments/9wffra/announcing_arklands_thanksgiving_raffle_ark/

We have sold 108 tickets already

Please send your donation my wallet, ARKLANDhbBSFLwNAuU1akgb2QEnKaw9JKu

Thank you very much for your support! I really appreciate it. This is the biggest jackpot so far because of of your donation

Cheers!

Yeah I'm the raffle tickets guy haha! I'm actually working on my Thanksgiving raffle right now, and there will be a Christmas and New Year's raffle as well, just like last year! The community always loved these I have it on my roadmap to make a new Ark raffles site that will start new monthly raffles automatically, but these will have smaller prizes. Then for events like v2 release on the mainnet, Christmas, New Years etc, they would have a bigger prize pot All using the Ark blockchain, of course

> I will start you off with 200 Ark with your next raffle

Man that's exciting!!!  I'll PM you once I have the Thanksgiving raffle set up, if you don't mind! Thanks!!

My node may have fallen bellow 99%, but my voters didn't miss their staking rewards. The Ark network hasn't been stable and that contributed to missing blocks. As you can see on this announcement https://www.reddit.com/r/ArkDelegates/comments/8qayaf/arkland_were_covering_the_missed_blocks_from/ , I covered 276 Ark was was missed due to the node being forked. This has been repeated multiple times, including during the last network outages. This is a function that's built in on my voter's panel. And by the way, when I was voted out, my uptime was 99.05% on the official explorer, so there's that

Hey there, ARKLand here

First and foremost, I'd like to say Arkland was never all about the money, my focus has always been community. I was the second delegate to introduce free transactions to all my voters, one of the first delegates to reimburse all votes, and the second delegate to forge my own payment transactions so there was less Ark wasted on transaction fees, and more Ark to distribute to my voters.. while paying daily for any balance above 0.01 Ark, while most other delegates paid weekly. I always covered missed blocks so my voters, most times my voters didn't even noticed that blocks were missed. My share has always been 92%, despite many delegates having shares of 80%, and even lower now. I've increased the share to 100% as an incentive, and an attempt to attract more voters to help me get back to the top 51.

After I've dropped, I've already made two contributions to the community:

[ Improving ARK's snapshot distribution — faster rebuilds, less downtime ] - https://medium.com/@ArkLand/database-snapshots-are-very-present-in-ark-both-delegates-and-relay-nodes-rely-on-them-on-a-9f291661e96b

[ Introducing: ArkLand Calculator v1 ] https://medium.com/@ArkLand/introducing-arkland-calculator-v1-b1ee3647796

Both with very good feedback by the community.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ArkEcosystem/comments/7xai27/arkland_valentines_raffle_ark_raffle_running_on/
https://www.reddit.com/r/ArkEcosystem/comments/7msmhf/arkland_new_years_raffle_ark_raffle_running_on/
https://www.reddit.com/r/ArkEcosystem/comments/7lpj7n/arkland_christmas_lottery_ark_lottery_running_on/
https://www.reddit.com/r/ArkEcosystem/comments/8scxt2/arklands_world_cup_raffle_ark_raffle_running_on/
https://www.reddit.com/r/ArkEcosystem/comments/7x05a0/how_to_install_the_ark_mobile_wallet_natively_on/
https://www.reddit.com/r/ArkDelegates/comments/7kcs69/on_december_25th_100_of_the_ark_forged_on_this/
https://www.reddit.com/r/ArkDelegates/comments/8qayaf/arkland_were_covering_the_missed_blocks_from/

I've been awarded bounties for github contributions, helped newcomers on Slack and Twitter, reported and fixed bugs. It saddens me when I read you say that Arkland is all about the money, when I've contributed so much to the community, and still have so many projects that I would like to work on. It's not hard to find other community delegates that have a smaller voter profit share than me, and haven't contributed as much to the ecosystem.

I have always put my voters ahead and did my best to ensure voters would get the most rewards, and I'm sharing 100% for this month because I think about my voters, I still have 500+ wallets that are voting for me, and I don't want them to lose their staking rewards for being loyal to Arkland. 100% share is a thank you for sticking your vote with me, and to cover up the missed staking rewards for the time I've been out.

The voting is really messed up, I recorded a video, voting for ARK actually votes for MONERO https://streamable.com/iv40z