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RE: The Witness Voting Engagement Report - 2018-01-18
Thank you @lukestokes. My partners and I have noticed the farming of accounts, however, unsure what the extent is. Also noticed on more than one occasion that witnesses/wantabe witnesses have alternative accounts to act as the witness. I can think of some rationale, however, being a newbie, is this beneficial to all for witnesses to have a supplemental inactive account separate from their personal/original account? Hope my question makes sense.
I, personally, run a separate witness (@lukestokes.mhth) so that I can keep track of witness rewards separately from my own rewards as a blogger, curator, etc. Lately I've been doing some Steem Power delegations from that account and it makes it easier in my own mind if that's all kept separate from my personal account. Currently, when dealing with witness processes such as maintaining a price feed, the active key has to be used, and I like having a different account just so when I use my active key personally for transfers, there's no chance that could be exposed in a way that would put my witness activities at risk (though, to be clear, the block signing processes uses a separate key anyway, but that's probably more info that you care about).
I don't really think it's a big enough deal to argue one way or the other or tell other witnesses what they should or shouldn't be doing in this regard. I think it's mostly a matter of personal preference.
This is a good question, I was wondering the very same thing. I will come back later here to see what is the answer :)
Thank you for the reply and can see the benefits more so of running a separate key, which I jsut noticed was the actual key I voted for.