excellent reference, I solidified some aspects for me too actually! In addition to defining witnesses, I think it's worth defining "mining".Even though in retrospect it's not an essential term to understand, this concept confused me a lot initially and it came up often . Each time I looked it up the definitions had more concepts that I didn't understand either. I still only understand mining in a very basic and probably incomplete way. And "nodes"...this is a new one for me, how is it different from a witness?
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Thank you! That's a good one, we should do a post just on mining. And honestly, maybe begin compiling an illustrated glossary of terms. I believe nodes are witnesses. But will need to double (triple) check...
Also, we just did a post today on Witnesses that covers the uber basice but you might find useful - https://steemit.com/toolkit/@sndbox/what-is-a-steem-witness-introducing-the-basics