What a ride man!!! I think lots of people can completely empathise and were in a similar boat. I got in around Christmas 2017. I watched from afar for a good while with cynicism, and finally just before Christmas FOMO win out and I acquired some Bitcoin and Ethereum.
I'm very tempted to put all my Crypto holdings into Hive, as with HBD interest rates and Hive voting returns I could drive more growth.
Yeah, I have been moving some other cryptos into Hive recently and increasing my stake. Of course it would be my luck that when I decide to put some HBD into savings, the interest rate will drop. Well, I currently have my witness set to 20% HBD interest so hopefully I can get up the ranks where my input will count more.
Is it difficult to try to set up as a witness?
Just need a server and run some code on it? Much more to it?
I'll jump on now and vote for you as witness - every little helps :)
I see you're friends with @bozz, who is a great guy so happy to vote for you as witness.
It is really not that difficult. You just need to be familiar with the Linux command line interface and understand how to configure a Hive node. It is also important to have high quality, always up hosting and meet the system requirements.
The hardest part is gaining support. Otherwise you are upside-down on the cost of running the witness vs rewards (such as my current situation)
Yes, @bozz is awesome and have been driving support my way. Thanks for the vote!