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TransparencyBot has been offline now since the beginning of the month.   Originally, I expected to be offline only a few days while we modified the logic to allow opting in or out of the informational comments left by the bot.

This, like many programming projects turned into a rather involved process as it was determined in order to be fully independent and automated, the current use of the SteemSQL database could no longer be the primary source of data.  **Therefor, I have now created a local standalone SQL database of the entire Steem blockchain.**

The building of this database was rather complex and time consuming and then populating it to a point where it could begin to serve as the primary source of the data stream, proved to be very time consuming. 

So, now fully equipped with a local SQL DB that is synced to the minute with the blockchain, transparencybot is again ready to bring information about bidbot voting to all those who find this information useful.


As mentioned in the earlier article, there are those that have found the previous comments to be intrusive and just plain spam, so as of now, any author that receives a comment from @transparencybot may opt-out of any further comments.

### How does it work? 
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* Only the author of the post may opt out. 
* Simply reply via the comment left by transparencybot with the words "#TBOpt-out" or "TBoptout" . *Other forms of this tag are also scanned for your convenience.*
* If you elect to opt out of the comment, then transparencybot reserves the right to downvote your post for disagreement of rewards.  
* You may of course opt back in at any time by using the tag #tbopt-in  within any reply you make to transparencybot.

Constructive feedback is welcome as always.  

Craig