enabling Hive-Engine witness node after year long slumber, step 1 - app update

[ervin-lemark]

It's been eight months since my Hive-Engine witness node has last signed the block. An eternity in blockchain world. After last autumn's #hivefest in Split I promised to myself and some friends that I will reawaken it. Well, it took me another half of year to get to it.

Today, after a message from my hosting provider that I need to pay the bill for next year's lease, I finally started enabling it. It was the proverbial kick in the butt and awakening call.

Hive-Engine witnesses overview and management) my node was inactive for 8 months, is stuck at some ancient block, yet is already upgraded to latest witness node version, to v2.0.2.As you can see from this screenshot (@primersion's excellent tool for

I am glad that my tiny upgrade procedure is still working. With it, it was a matter of minutes to bring it up to latest version. Here it is:

-- go to local top level directory for witness nodes cd /var/witness/   -- get latest node software, it's v2.0.2 git clone --recursive --branch he_v2.0.2 https://github.com/hive-engine/hivesmartcontracts.git he202   -- go into newly created directory cd he202   -- compile it npm ci   -- copy over config and environment files cp ../he20/config.json . cp ../he200/.env .   -- stop node app, delete it, run it anew pm2 stop app pm2 delete app pm2 start app.js pm2 logs   -- it's working! chain is 6134480 blocks ahead

Ps: hopefully, config didn't change. I'll check it later.

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Next steps

• download latest snapshot of light version of database, import it
• wait for node to catch up with the chain
• enable witness, start participating in block production
• go to discord server and tell the guys I am back
• distribute my votes - it's not much - 907 $WORKERBEE
• lobby and plead for votes to get to top 20 witnesses

The last step will be the hardest 😂

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Why am I doing this?

• because I want to contribute to community
• yes, server and hosting cost money yet there is small compensation for it - if I reach top 20 witnesses
• because I can & it's fun in a nerdy sort of way

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Tagging some friends to announce the begging for votes part:
@primersion @louis88 @ph1102 @liotes @kanibot @forykw - Danke, thank you, obrigado, hvala.

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better and better
:ervin :lemark

#2025 46/365

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Comments

[forykw]

I have some news I am going to release soon, in case people want to adventure themselves into such hardware =)

[ervin-lemark]

Great, keep me posted, please.

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[forykw]

I will =)

[investinthefutur]

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[primersion]

Great to see you back in the witness game🤩

[ervin-lemark]

Thank you, Danke für dein Upvote.

Btw, I might need to update config after all. I guess this list is outdated?

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[primersion]

you should check https://beacon.peakd.com for stable nodes🙂 i usually use api.deathwing.me, api.openhive.network, techcoderx.com, anyx.io and rpc.ecency.com.

[ervin-lemark]

Tnx, I deleted some inactive nodes and now it catching the head. Almost there.

When time, I will check the health of nodes with RPC scanner.

[ervin-lemark]

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[ervin-lemark]

To answer myself, looks like some weird formatting is going on with empty lines that become paragraphs and are wrongly nested. I fixed it by adding nbsp on empty lines.

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