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While this description is a little rough, the easiest way to think of witnesses, without going into too much detail, is that they are both the miners and the governing body of Steem/Steemit.

You can check out the White Paper though for a more technical description if that's what you're after.

Hope this helped!

Ok, makes sense. Thanks man

No problem!

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