I have been a witness on Hive for over 1 year now, and I have just updated my server to get ready for the HF26 and maybe many more to come in the future!
I need to thank @someguy123 for the work he has been doing with his docker version of the Hive witness node, his project makes it very easy to be a witness! Thank you a lot!
I simply followed his tutorial to update my server:
https://peakd.com/witness/@someguy123/the-easy-way-to-upgrade-to-hardfork-26-hive-in-a-box
And everything worked, after a small troubleshooting, of course.
I have just signed and produced my first block with the software version 1.26.0 but the Hardfork will take place later, possibly some time during the next week if no major issues are found. The transition is expected to be smooth.
If you are curious about the Hive blockchain, this is the block that I have mined, seen through the brand new and amazing hivehub.dev block explorer:
Glad to see you're still at it!
How many hours was needed for your server to "catch up" with the blockchain? I mean the replay progress.
I am just curious.
@someguy123 wrote in his post that it can be anywhere from 6-8 hours, to up to 72 hours.
My data was corrupted somehow and I don't know why, so I deleted the Blockchain and downloaded and synced from scratch, altogether it took around 24h to download and replay everything. My new server is quite powerful so it was fast, my old server used to take a few days to sync from scratch. It does depend a lot from server to server.
The whole blockchain around 24 hours? This is indeed very powerful. I would think that it would take at least a few days to download it from scratch. Good to know that nowadays some servers are this powerful. Hopefully the transition to the HF26 will be smooth. I wish you all the best.
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STOPGlad to see such improvement and never relent, the future is near with us in cryptocurrency