I would like to thank everyone who has joined in to become a witness and secure the BitShares network.
There are currently 27 unique witnesses excluding the init witnesses which will soon be phased out. These 27 individuals have worked long and hard to help test and deploy BitShares 2.0 this week.
The BitShares network is the most decentralized in terms of witnesses.
I would like to see more people get out the vote and gain proxy power. Having well known proxies will be helpful in decentralizing control over who the witnesses are.