Hello guys! Welcome to the first episode of Show Us Your Witnesses Contest #1 being hosted by myself, @eurogee.
Since this is the maiden episode of this contest, it important I shed light on the rationale behind this contest, its goals or what I intend to achieve with it, before stating the rules of the contest.
The reason for this contest
The main reason behind this contest primarily is to create awareness on who witnesses are, their duties and to significantly help step up the community's witness voting engagement.
The goals of this contest
According to a report by @lukestokes some weeks ago, only 25.97% of active accounts are currently voting for witnesses. This is a far cry when you consider the significant roles witnesses play in sustaining steem blockchain. Because of this, within the duration this contest will run, I have the target of achieving the following goals:
Addition of at least 50,000 new witness votes to witness voters' record/register, within six months.
Taking the current 25.97% witness voting engagement rate to at least 70% in the long run. For this reason, I will be monitoring @lukestokes' monthly update as to what the witness voting engagement rate is.
NB: In case you don't know what a witness means, click here
The Contest
I will be as neutral as possible. That's why the contest is called SHOW ME YOUR WITNESSES CONTEST #1. So I won't tell you whom to vote for as the aim of this contest is not to canvass votes for particular witnesses but to help step up the entire witness voting engagement. But I will tell you how to vote and how to submit your entry, as well as those you must not vote as they are currently inactive. Okay.
How to vote for witnesses
Before you go voting, click this: https://steemian.info/witnesses. Take note of all the witnesses. Those in red colour have been struckthrough. This shows that they are inactive for now. So they should not be among witnesses you will choose. This is only valid for now.
Click this link, in the page that opens, you will see a list of top 50 witnesses. If your choice witnesses are among the 50, click on the corresponding upvote icon to vote. If they are not among the top 50, scroll down and you will see a box similar to the below image. Type in the name of your choice witness and vote.
- Voting by proxy is not allowed in this contest, so forget the second box.
The rule of the contest & how to submit your entry
You must RESTEEM this contest to reach wider audience.
You must vote for the maximum allowed 30 witnesses.
Visit https://steemd.com/@urusername (substitute @urusername with your Steemit username). Scroll down and you will see the all the list of all the witnesses you voted for. Screenshot/snapshot it.
In not more than 60 words, state the roles witnesses play in sustaining steem blockchain as a reply comment to this contest article; and upload the screenshot/snapshot of your chosen witnesses under your comment.
Invite your friends to come and upvote your comment as well as compulsorily RESTEEM this post.
All your chosen witnesses must be active at the time of choosing them.
Voting proxies attract outright disqualification.
This contest will come to an end at exactly 3:00 pm +1 GMT Friday, February 2nd, 2018. Result will be announced on Sunday being February 4th, 2018. And the cycles continues...
Factors that determine who wins
Because of the importance of this contest to steem blockchain, the following parameters shall be used to judge those that would emerges winner:
Numbers of RESTEEMS generated by the contestants and their voters.
Contestants' understanding of roles of witness to steem blockchain. And
The number of upvotes, generated by each entry.
Prizes
First Prize: 8 Steem
Second Prize: 6 Steem
Third Prize: 4 Steem
Fourth Prize: 2 Steem
The Judges
The judges for this contest include @ogoowinner, @destinysaid, @eurogee and @smyle.
Ways you can support this initiative
I seek your support to increase the number of winners' to 10 possible winners in the future. If achieved, this will deliver at least 300 witness votes weekly and1200 witness votes monthly. This is the least achievable number.
You can support this initiative by:
Including @eurogee in your auto voting list.
Resteeming of this contest post
Donating steem/SBD to @eurogee with memo: Show Us Your Witnesses Contest
Always upvoting this contest posts.
Witnesses are the pillar, the corner stone of Steem blockchain. Without them, no transaction will ever be validated and the security of steem blockchain will be highly compromised. Support us to sustain this initiative. Thanks for visiting
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I'm glad that you are doing this campaign, @eurogee. Since last year, I conceived the know your witnesses channel in @redfishpillar discord. Academic, location and other challenges are really keeping me from executing lots of things, which I envision.
New Steemians especially, not excluding veterans will benefit a lot from this witness campaign of yours. Keep the flag flying!
@maryfavour, founder of @redfishpillar project & initiator of @steem-serbia.
Hello @maryfavour,
Wow, it is great of you to have thought of supporting witnesses.
Since ever I learnt about crucial roles of witnesses, I have been doing a lot in line with @lukestokes monthly witness voting engagement report.
Thanks ma'am. Please be dedicated to your academics for now.
Thanks for supporting this post
@eurogee, the Steemivangelist and the founder of @euronation Newbie's Support Team
Allow me to put something to you, as a small fish, I have voted for witnesses also joined discord, every time you try to ask any witness why steemit is down for over 8 hours a day or more today, even though I have almost 80sp, they either ignore you, or say do you think a 30 reputation deserves the same amount of traffic time as a 70? without explaining why, while you have not posted a single comment, or made a single post or even logged in, you are effectively locked out of the site? not even able to claim rewards to the wallet. What benefit is it voting for people, that do not even want to tell you what is going on and why? some transparency would be nice, some engagement even more so. or am I asking for to much, it seems so.
Then you haven't asked the right witnesses, as most of the "good" ones would explain that, though we get 10000 questions a day from random strangers, and we arent google OR responsible for the things you mentioned asking about even a little bit.
So a witness has no control over code or bandwidth then? excuse me if my question seems a bit silly. I can not find the answer anywhere to it. And have friends with over 600sp that get locked out for 8 hours a day. All I want to know, is at what sp does the site become stable? Thank you for your time. In advance.
I personally have never experienced any of the issues but I had heard people say it.
I guess you should reach out to @netuoso to clarify this. But I however doubt if there is an answer to his question.
@eurogee
Hi maryfavour... Hope you ll be fine.I am new here at steemit .Will you please elaborate this contest for me? It ll definitely help also and a lot of others too. thanks..Have a good day!
The role of Witnesses in blockchain cannot be over-emphasized. They handle the servers and are experts in cryptocurrency. They are the ones setting
mimimum SP deposits for account creation. They also validate signatures and timestamp transactions by including them in block.Witnesses feed the community on the current price of steem tokens.
They help in curation of steemians post
This contest is unique in many dimensions. Kudos to its initiator.
Thanks bro
On point. Well-done
Thanks
@adoore-eu with full support...
Thanks for participating. Your entry has been noted.
@eurogee, the Steemivangelist and the founder of @euronation Newbie's Support Team
Resteeming for you Adoore-eu ;) You've been a long time supporter of my witness and projects and a good friend who checks up on me. Thank you. Resteeming. Good luck here.
Thanks, @sircork you were among the early friends I made on steemit and I appreciate you for always being there sir.Thanks
Nwene I wish you luck.
Ndooh, Nnem
All the best my paddi
Great contest and I'm sure my washy steemit inlaw @adoore-eu is bringing home the price resteeming for you, the initiator of this is also a great mind in the midst of great people ride on sir.
Hahahaha, royal inlaw @royaltiesboss-eu. You are the only inlaw I know. Your wife is preserved and waiting for you. Am not washy, hahaha
Wishing you all the best
I appreciate
Nice one
Thanks dear
@adoore-eu, thanks for explaining the role of witnesses in blockchain especially to novice like me...will go and vote for them now, i don't really know you that much but i must say you deserve the prize...All the best dear.
Welll said. You are always on point
Bring the prize in dear
I love the uniqueness of these contest
Noted
I sincerely wish you all the best. You deserve it. You have my full support and vote.
This is a good contest and a rare one i must say!
I believe this will send a positive message to steemians that they need to encourage those behind the steemit platform with their votes instead of just blogging. Without these witnesses, it will be impossible to steem!
This is a welcome idea if you ask me. Thanks.
Thanks boss
This is a great initiative to bring awareness to Steemians the role of witness in the ecosystem as newbies and some old timers do not know the pivotal role they play. I do hope @euronation becomes a community driven witness soon under your leadership.
Hahahahahsh. Nothing is impossible.
Witness basically perform the following function:
Your entry has been noted. Thanks
I wont be surprised if you become a witness soon. U have what it takes. Especially the zeal to work
Thank you my brother
I've never engaged in any of these contests on steemit.
Contest like this is really nice, I'll love to try it and know how far I'll go
you should try and have fun...
Thanks
Great decision
Thank you.
This is good contest.. resteemed for more contestants !..
Thank you
I am really glad that, to know about this contest. i really like it. recently i setup my witness server but i'm very confused why any other witness didn't vote me and why i didn't get any blocks in my seed?
Sorry for your experience. I guess is only when any of the first 20 witnesses misses a block that it will be thrown to others to create.
This is cool. I had voted witnesses long ago, maybe I'll need do refresh now. Brb
Do try. Thanks
Your challenge was added to Steemit Contest Compilation (29.01-04.02): Win free SBD and STEEM for current week.
Thank you @eurogee for giving Steemians (especially minnows) a chance to get free STEEM.
Thanks
Yeah.... Good job
witnesses are people who creates blocks and uses consensus mechanism called delegated proof of stakes. The community elects witnesses to act as networks blocks producers and governance body, they are compensated with steem power. It is fundamental right for Steemian vote for witnesses, they process transactions of steem blockchain. TheyDecides about code changes and economic policies
The role of a witness can never be overemphasized in steemit blockchain because they are responsible for the smooth running of all monetary transaction in steemit.
Your entry has been noted
Witnesses perform the following roles:
They help create blocks for the steem blockchain
They provide an ongoing price feed of the value of steem tokens in U.S dollars.
Witnesses decide whether there will be a hard fork.
A witness plays a crucial part in how the STEEM network functions. Like I learnt, Steemit is just a fancy web interface on top of a large network called STEEM, which operates remotely similar to Bitcoin but they're the main producer of blocks (not miners) and they maintain a price feed, which is how SBD functions.
Thanks for this enlightenment @eurogee
Witnesses are the stakeholders in steemit's blockchain/economy. They are major investors in terms of man power in steemit's blockchain. They generate blocks, seed the blockchain and provide price feeds of the value of STEEM. They are more or less like miners of STEEMIT's currencies. Without them, STEEMIT can't exist.
Your entry has even noted
Below is my list of witnesses voted for in the contest.
Still exploring the full functionality of the witnesses but i know they are very important to the activity of the community.
Your entry has been noted. Thanks for participating
wow 2nd runner up award thanks bro
Witnesses are members of the community, positively contribute to Steem and Steemit in many ways, are qualified and experienced in administration of servers, and are experienced in cryptocurrency networks and software. Witnesses are expected to keep a block-producing Steem node running continuously.
Your entry has been noted. Thanks
Well, It's quiet simple no active steem witness no steemit or pay outs, if no one votes for witness and we end up with half of the witnesses inactive who's going to update the nodes? WE NEED THEM.
Your entry has been noted
Witnesses work enormously to see the sustainability of this platform, if voting for them is a way of saying thank you so what we waiting for, but while doing that please lets vote the right guys.
#steemsoccer1
You are very right my brother. Thanks
Did you all know that the top 20 Witnesses make over half a million a year and yet still don't deny rewards.
While we fight abuse that steals from the reward pool, they take more than needed while making over 95k STEEM a year. Don't vote for any top 20 witness that doesn't deny rewards!
Hahahahaha this is really funny. Why don't you become a witness and earn like them sir?
@eurogee
It is the plan to become a witness haha. Not necessarily to get into the top 20 though.
You can get to the top 20. Those who were there now started at above 100 position but as the day go by, they go closer. Everything is strategy.
Ohh its cool , i tried to vote As witnesses sir, so i can help also
nice contest.. good luck for all the contestans.. 😊
This contest is really cool.... Gonna help newbies
Cool and different kind of contest!
Think I should try this!
This is a good contest..
This is very cool. Increasing voter awareness is Paramount for the success of Steem. I will continue to support this type of content. Keep it up
Thank you very much @netuoso
Thanks
This is very cool
Keep steeming, bro.....
I am glad to be among your midst and support you in any contest you engage in.
Euronation all the way
Waooo, what a great show work by you sir @eurogee. This is an waited dream so far. The lord shall streghten you the more.
Thanks bro
This is exactly the kind of initiative that i adhere to, you are so wisdomised if i should use this english, nice one @eurogee
Thanks boss
this is very useful doing this campaign .. participate and win money
Wow!! muy bien hecho
@eurogee glad to see that legends like you come up in front for such moves
Thanks, though I am no legend
This campeign is really very important. Thanks for letting us know all this.
Very important part of steem! Thx
Hello