I Will Be Running For Witness (SOON) ☑️
Hear ye hear ye, the time has come for me to announce running for witness. The problem is, I have to first figure out getting a server going. I'm probably going to end up doing more work and spending more money than I'd like to figure this whole process out. But until then, I will have to hold off on my official announcement. I figured I could just start and make my node later on, but I feel like it makes more sense to do it all at once and include the node setup in my official announcement running for Steemit.
So what is this post?
I just wanted to let you know I wasn't stalling or getting distracted. Starting today I'll be actively working to get my witness node setup and drafting my announcement post on what I plan to do and what I'd like to campaign for. I believe I have some great ideas and awesome contributions to make. I want to represent more of the minnow population in witness decisions among many other things.
What I'd like to see from you....
I am also making this post in case anyone wants to offer any help to me to get this process going. I may require some assistance originally getting my node going, but I believe my technical background and experience will have given me enough know how to maintain it. Either way I'll be attempting, probably starting with a $40/monthly server a bit above the recommended minimum specs.
I'm using these two guides:
- https://steemit.com/witness-category/@drakos/running-a-witness-is-it-as-easy-as-it-sounds
- https://steemit.com/witness-category/@klye/the-complete-noob-guide-to-steem-witness-setup
If you know any other / better resources or want to help please contact me on Discord or through the comments below ScottCBusiness#5242
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Proxy And Running For Witness
Proxying your vote is pretty simple you just go to https://steemit.com/~witnesses navigate to the bottom and type in a username here:
I have started to take an active interest in Steem witnesses treating them as future global decentralized politics. If you don't want to learn or bother to stay up to date with it, but do not want your vote wasted then you can make me your proxy to vote on your behalf! If you believe in me as a witness kindly vote for me by going to https://steemit.com/~witnesses and voting for me at the bottom by typing in my ‘scottcbusiness’
Good luck! I'm curious how much it ends up costing you.
I'll share all that and start a fund occasionally to pay for it. I'm pretty sure it will be about 40 US monthly
Wow! That's a lot less than I thought it would be. I'd upvote your reply but my solo upvotes are below the earnings threshold.
haha no worries, I usually do anyway to show my love :P
If you self upvote yourself then my upvotes would count. I always upvote myself but I have to use bots to make my self upvotes count.
Yeah that's the struggle of being a minnow eh
Yeah hopefully not too much longer. I should hit 100 steem power today. Hopefully in another month or 2 I will be able to do solo .02 or higher upvotes that actually count.
Gave you my vote. Good Luck!
Thanks so much! I will put it to good use :) I will get my node up and then make an official announcement asap. Then I will start doing reports on who I vote for and what I'm working weekly :)
Really? Well, here my vote
Thank you so much I will put this to good use to represent the minnow community :)
Voted!
btw also playing with that idea. Just interested about the technical aspect. Would be nice to see some statistics about bandwidth usage and server-load.
I guess it is a good idea to have servers placed all around the world so I will rent another Russian root server.
Sweet, will keep that in mind when sharing reports etc. I'll be getting a Canadian server and representing Canada :)
Slow and steady progress is better.
for sure :) are you suggesting I start running and then worry about the server?
You got mny vote! Good luck with it, and looking forward to one or another behind the scenes updates! :-)
Thanks so much! I will stay on top of it!
Good luck and let us know when we can vote you for witness
Thanks! You should be able to already do so. I will post when I'm officially running though
Okay.. will wait until you have an official announcement.. I believe Steemit call it witness thread or something like that
Yeah for sure, I could make it right now, I just won't have the node up yet. Technically I don't think it's 100% required until you're like a top 100 witness.
I post this in all my signatures:
I have started to take an active interest in Steem witnesses treating them as future global decentralized politics. If you don't want to learn or bother to stay up to date with it, but do not want your vote wasted then you can make me your proxy to vote on your behalf! If you believe in me as a witness kindly vote for me by going to https://steemit.com/~witnesses and voting for me at the bottom by typing in my ‘scottcbusiness’
Vote for @ScottCBusiness
My support is for you.I gave you vote.
Much appreciated! Will put it to good use
Take my vote!
thank you so much I will put your vote to good use
Really helpful.Thanks for your sharing.
Cheers :)