Announcing a SteemSTEM Witness and Seed Node
For the past few weeks, we at SteemSTEM have been running a witness (@stem.witness) quietly as we continued to become familiar with necessary processes and performing updates during the Hardfork 20 transition period.
We are now ready to officially announce our entrance into the witness list.
The stem.witness configuration
The SteemSTEM witness (stem.witness) is being run on a Hetzner server hosted in Germany with the following specifications:
- Intel® Xeon® E3-1275 v5 Quad-Core
- 64 GB DDR4 ECC RAM
- 2X 512 GB NVMe Gen3 SSD
- 1 Gb/s Bandwidth
With sufficient room to expand both ram and storage space as Steem’s needs continue to grow with time.
We are also running a broadcast node (with the same server specifications as described for stem.witness) to assist others who would like to have access to the blockchain.
Please have a look to 159.69.58.17.
[OK, maybe in a few hours as we are currently replaying, after the upgrade to 0.20.5 earlier this morning.]
Why Is SteemSTEM Running A Witness and a Node?
We have been and continue to be dedicated to growing a community of STEM posters and supporting the creation of high quality STEM content on the Steem blockchain.
Our plans include the upcoming - very soon ;) - release of the official SteemSTEM app enabling us to grow our userbase to new heights. With this app in hand, we hope to reach research institutes from all over the world and bring them on Steem as primary sources of scientific information on the Web. In other words, we aim to utilize the Steem blockchain as a STEM communication medium.
The success of the SteemSTEM project is deeply linked with the success of Steem as a whole and as such we wish to do our part in maintaining the security of the blockchain as well as to continue to show our dedication to Steem.
With the issues that have been on-going with the HF20 transition, we have also thought about the way in which we could help better. And it is all about testing. Being a community of several hundreds of active Steemians, our best option is incontrovertibly to make use of this size to participate in the testnet efforts, trying to assess how a relatively large number of users could make Steem behave.
How To Vote
To vote for the SteemSTEM witness, please go to https://steemit.com/~witnesses and type stem.witness into the box at the very bottom of the page:
We thank you for your support and continue to thank each of you for the opportunity you all provide us to grow and develop a STEM community with the potential to change the very nature by which cutting edge information is shared on the Internet.
You have my vote! I see you're already at place #88, which is not a bad start at all.
I would even emphasize and say that is a great start! This week will hopefully be full of SteemSTEM announcements!
Thanks a lot for the vote!
Yeah, I agree that it's a great start! Being in top 100 is also pretty nice, since it will be a lot easier for people to vote for you. You might even get some votes from people browsing the witness list and thinking "Hey, I like @steemstem, so I should vote on these guys" - which would be impossible at above top 100 position.
And I'm looking forward to more announcements. The SteemSTEM app sounds very interesting, and it will be great to be able to learn about it.
One or two extra days to go, for the app ;)
Thanks valth, most appreciated.
Easy Vote. Great initiative, cool members like @sco. And since I believe that the future of Witnesses will be teams running for those positions rather than single characters, this vote is an easy choice. Good luck as a witness!
Thanks a lot, especially for your continuous support to de-stem who you are one of the greatest benefactors if my information is correct :)
What is your opinion on delivery and execution of HF20?
Did you test it before?
We were not involved in the early testnet for HF 20, we will be making efforts to try to be involved in future major releases (the coming SMT enabling hardfork for instance).
We implemented 0.20.0 as soon as it was publically available and then spent the next days downgrading and upgrading along with all the other witnesses and node runners.
Overall it was a good experience (for us) as we learned a bunch about appropriately running a witness, and quickly reviewing and implementing updates.
Plus replaying is just so much fun ;)
It is cool you are going to be a witness but all exemplary that you will be running your own public node. The other big apps with their fancy delegations need to follow your lead and contribute more to the infrastructure of steem like this.
It's necessary if a group is dedicated to steem. More nodes increases reliability for everyone. This is something that GTG and other top witnesses encourage, and we really see the value in it.
First witness question - what does 20.5 do? 20.4 was announced but this is the second time I've seen an upgrade to 20.5 mentioned without details.
Edit: found it in the github. I'm not sure what that bug would have done unfixed, but it isn't a notable change from out here.
There was a bug in 20.4 that has been fixed on 20.5.
You got my vote! We're at 84 now.
Thanks Man!
Steemstem already has my vote, go steemstem......
Steemstem all the way🙌
Thank you!
This is a long awaited project and experience. Kudos to the @steemstem team for their wonderful works as well as prospect. I see my dreams here. Congratulations! If there were possibilities to vote twice, I think @stem.witness deserves it.
Thanks for your nice message! The STEM prospects on Steem are really exciting, but we won't share all the news we have in one shot. You will know more soon! Very soon! ;)
@lemouth, thanks forn respondign. I've had one issue contributing to #steemstem. I am a real time researcher and I do report my researches in a scientifically official way, yet, this does not meet #steemstem standard which requires that a social language be applied to posts. Is there a way to allow for report of scientific and engineering contributions in a typical scientific way, may be a report of practical researches you have done. To me this will help as @steemstem heads on to collaborate with research institutes. My new research institution can find this very useful. My interests are engineering designs, agriculture, soil and water resources and processing of agro/food products.
I am not sure to understand how state-of-the-art researchs would not be suitable to steemstem standards. This is definitely the topic we support the most and I don't understand how this would not meet our standards (maybe the reason is different). I recommend you to contact our mentor crew to see with them what is going on with your posts.
On the other hand, do not hesitate to put us in contact with your institute. We will be more than happy to help them broadcasting on Steem!
Thank you, may be I was mis-informed. Will put my institution across soonest
Hi, if you're on Discord, you can reach me or @kingabesh with the following usernames, we're Steemstem community mentors and we'll be glad to discuss and offer necessary assistance:
@pangoli[ i-am-Groot]#1084 and @kingabesh#2809
Thank you
Voted and happy 💚
Thank you very much!
Replying via Google translate:
¡Gracias @amestyj, apreciamos su apoyo y confianza en lo que estamos trabajando para lograr!