Fulltimegeek Talks About The Responsibilities Of A Steem Witness

in #fulltimegeek6 years ago


Thank you all that have voted for my witness. You guys are awesome.

Special thanks to: @thejohalfiles & @dtube for pushing me to the top 100, and @lyndsaybowes for being the first voter.

I won't be able to reply to comments until later tonight.


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MASA "Make Steem(it) Great Again" will now be my campaign slogan hahaha

claim it before someone else do!

Let’s make @fulltimegeek trend!💪🏼

From steemd.com

On the Steem blockchain, witnesses serve a role of validating signatures and timestamping transactions by including them in blocks. A block is any group of transactions (posts, votes, transfers, etc) which update the state of the database. Each time a witness produces a block, they are paid for their service. If a witness fails to produce a block, then they are not paid, and may even be voted out.

Witnesses are generally expected to manage a reliable block producing node, implement a failover system, maintain a public seed node, tune blockchain operating parameters, publish correct price feeds, author/discuss improvement proposals, review code changes, and to be active. Some contribute to core repositories such as steemd. Some fund the development of other apps and infrastructure projects. Top-20 witness pay is $7,000 per month (approximately) based on the current feed price.

Every round of block production begins with the shuffling of 21 witnesses: the top 20 witnesses (by vote), plus one randomly-selected standby witness. Each is given a turn to produce a single block at a fixed rate of one block every 3 seconds. If a witness does not produce a block in their time slot, then that time slot is skipped, and the next witness produces the next block.

Thanks for the info!
Ive always been curious as to what it entails to be a witness. Are witnesses selected purely on votes or does geography and infrastructure also play a role?
Thank you again for your great wealth of knowledge that you share with us!

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All VOTES. So a new witness (like my team) have to make it up with reliability, PR and a good record. New D-Apps and services help a lot too, and get your users of the apps to vote for you. Hitting the radio/podcasts is a great way to meet people and find votes, as well. It's a huge PR deal, but you must have the cajones to back it up ;-) My partner has 35 years IT and programming experience, and she was the 5th Witness to have our server up and running on either v20.4 or v20.5, all the rest were in the top 22 witnesses. She is a Top 20 Witness in her capabilities, for sure ;)

yup, that's the one I was talking about

I (together with all of my family members here on STEEM) will vote for you, too, as soon as I will be back home from my Asian trip (I don't like to use the active key while traveling ...).

I just saw your post and it looks beautiful over there. Enjoy your vacation and thank you so much for the support!

Thanks for the good wishes, and as soon as I am back I will adjust some of my witness votes (even if of course my influence is very limited). :)

Thank you for doing this @fulltimegeek! Asher is my proxy, so I know you're now one of my witnesses too now :)

There's so much different information and opinions here, but there are a few I trust; one being you, another is certainly Asher. I'm certainly not giving lip service when I use the word trust ... your generosity is like none other here, so I have to believe that you have the blockchain's best interest at heart, as well as the people who interact here.

Thank you again, for this, and all you do.

Thank you as always for the support @lynncoyle1 -- it's much appreciated :)

There's so much different information and opinions here, but there are a few I trust; one being you, another is certainly Asher.

I strive to build that trust and will surely live up to it. I will also attempt to demystify everything going on with witnesses and what they've been up to.

You are most welcome @fulltimegeek!

I will also attempt to demystify everything going on with witnesses and what they've been up to.

If anyone can, I believe it's you :) Go get 'em Tiger!!

Only good will come of this, thanks for standing up @fulltimegeek! We got you Captain.

I aspire to build this place up if given the opportunity. We'll see how it goes ...

Number 1 fan. lol

😂🤣

Best Stalker Award! <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

I have been accused of such, myself. I'm like, hey! They don't call me "allseeing" for nothin'!

...as advertised
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Bwa hahha nice. I take my job quite seriously too, a card carrying member of #memen.

I Totally Agree :)

Hi @fulltimegeek, finally i managed to vote you as my witness. I like you put your face in this post, thats means you are human and give an human service, so if you can do something against this restriction of post and comment after HF20 i will be happy to enjoy here, but if my RC will go again in the condition to make me silence as it happens last week, so i will leave this platform that has become only for elite community

Yes, I'm a 100% warm blooded human :)

so if you can do something against this restriction of post and comment after HF20 i will be happy to enjoy here

The hindrance minnows like yourself experienced this past week will not be commonplace if I have anything to do with it.

Voted for you, I just removed votes for a few witnesses who I don't think deserve it
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We are going to prepare a campaign for Latinos to vote for you.

Muchas gracias hermano!

well if my girl @lindsaybowes trusts you then you have my vote too!

Thank you @eaglespirit. If you want someone who has all of our best interests in mind helping to run the blockchain, someone who will pick the truth, and doing what's right, over taking MONEY, then @fulltimegeek is a very wise choice for a witness vote.

sure thing mah gurl! i've seen him around and seen the people he likes (some have been my friends), glad you are one of them. i respect you highly as well as our tribes and from what i've gathered FTG is in full support of us so i have not worries to trust you all in this. hugs.

@fulltimegeek Make Steem great agian. We believe in you! We need that smart brain of yours! 😉👍

I will try to not disappoint and make Steem great again. You guys do set the bar quite high though, lol jk.

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