Witnesses and Seed Nodes
If you are a witness or a service provider committed to Hive, please consider operating a public seed node. If it proves to be reliable, we will include its address on our official list of initial seed nodes. These are nodes that hived will attempt to connect to upon startup. The current list consists of:
seed.hive.blog:2001 # blocktrades
seed.openhive.network:2001 # gtg
seed.ecency.com:2001 # good-karma
rpc.ausbit.dev:2001 # ausbitbank
hive-seed.roelandp.nl:2001 # roelandp
hive-seed.arcange.eu:2001 # arcange
anyx.io:2001 # anyx
hived.splinterlands.com:2001 # splinterlands
seed.hive.blue:2001 # guiltyparties
hive-api.3speak.tv:2001 # threespeak
node.mahdiyari.info:2001 # mahdiyari
hive-seed.lukestokes.info:2001 # lukestokes.mhth
seed.deathwing.me:2001 # deathwing
seed.liondani.com:2016 # liondani
hiveseed-se.privex.io:2001 # privex
seed.mintrawa.com:2001 # mintrawa
hive-seed.actifit.io:2001 # actifit
Source https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openhive-network/hive/develop/doc/seednodes.txt
Some of them are not feeling well; the desired overall health is 100%, while currently, it's half of that. It's not a big deal, to be honest, because only one working node is sufficient for the p2p discovery process, but we could certainly improve. This is especially true since, in the beginning, it was a requirement for a witness to operate, aside from their witness node, also a separate seed node.
If you are operating a seed node that meets the requirements of a public node (is online for 90% of the time, has a low-latency network of at least 100Mbps), please let me know.
Meetups
Where sadly I wasn’t present
This was the first time I missed HiveFest. The #FOMO was strong; I watched the live streams (or almost live). I hope everyone had a lot of fun out there.
Where fortunately I’m going
Recently I’ve announced a small EU based meetup, which apparently appears to be a little bigger than just tiny. Still small, but it has its own name and logo, as I hope to continue the initiative and in future host more various kind of events from small social meetups, developer workshops and maybe even hackathons.
Time will tell.
For now just couple of links about the event:
- HiveBeeCon - Save the Date - 7 October 2023
- Gathering at The Kingdom: HiveBeeCon in Kraków
- HiveBeeCon: Agenda Updates & RSVP
- The Royal Route to HiveBeeCon: Hive it Your Own Way!
- The Kingdom Without Limit
- Workshops at the Kingdom
It’s just a week away, but ask yourself: “Why not?” ;-)
@thebeedevs
New kids on the block? Not at all.
A group of skilled professionals doing blockchain wizardry.
What’s new is that they have just recently started to post about what they are doing.
Clive - an alpha version of a secure wallet is already available where you can take a first look at how it will work and even execute first test transfers.
You should really keep an eye on it as there’s a lot more to come.
Witness Votes
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What is really important for Hive is utilizing your governance votes to vote for witnesses and proposals. If you find yourself uncertain about who or what to vote for, consider setting your voting proxy to @gtg. By doing this, you'll automatically support the witnesses and proposals that I endorse.
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I should be able to provide a pretty decent seed node. Im in the UK a good central location, got the 100mbit upload and uptime is pretty solid these days.
Id assume idealy you'd be expected to run a node only as a seed node rather than just being a full node serving everything?
Right now I just have a full node serving everything
Every hived is a seed node, if you have 2001 port open to the public then it's pretty much what's needed. Having a FQDN is preferred... because it looks nice ;-)
Side note: It is critical to have a separate node for a witness node itself, but seed node is fine to be running another services, such as broadcast, blocks, or whatever plugins, including HAF.
oh in that case I would think seed.shmoogleosukami.co.uk:2001 should work fine.
I think I've also set it up so that if you ommit the 2001 port it'll still get directed correctly.
No, in this case you can't omit the port as it's explicitly for p2p endpoint of hived node.
See
p2p-endpoint = 0.0.0.0:2001.It seems it works so I will add it to my monitor, slowly over time it will gain "reputation" that shows its reliability.
Thank you!
telnet hiveseed.rishipanthee.com 2001 Trying 64.62.202.12... Connected to hiveseed.rishipanthee.com. Escape character is '^]'. ��~�T��U���]��O�ގ��o+�m��1�Connection closed by foreign host.Would you look at that, 1 more seed node(which has been running for quite some time), should PR this into the default config. Plus this is not running in Europe, but instead in sunny California.
Here's the server it's running on. Ain't it beautiful?
Also, is your seed monitor public by chance?
Added to my list. Beautiful.
When I see it up for enough time I will add it.
Thank you!
No, not public (yet?)
Good to know thanks. Do you happen to keep where(and with what host) the seeds are hosted by chance? Hoping that we got some diversity out of Europe, Germany and Hetzner by chance.
No, not really, and doesn't matter that much because my node is sometimes in one of: PL, FR, UK, CA. There are some work in progress to improve it significantly but more on that - I guess - next year.
Got one more seed that should be up and running from me shortly,
hiveseed2.rishipanthee.com. Should be synced up by the morning. Again in the bay area, but different DC with a different network providor(upstream here is 1299/Arelion vs 6939/Hurricane with other seed).Update: It's synced up.
Further update: hived is smart and adds all
A(and hopefully we'll get support for IPv6 in the future) records on a domain to the seed list, see the code here: https://gitlab.syncad.com/hive/hive/-/blob/master/libraries/plugins/p2p/p2p_plugin.cpp#L437-438. I've consolidated the 2 nodes tohiveseed.rishipanthee.comand will continue to add more to it as I spin up more nodes(hoping to get one or two in the Chicago area by mid next year).Thanks for the update. It is good to see the HBD% rate dropping and I hope more witnesses will follow suit.
good luck
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I am extremely interested in running a node.
Here I discuss the initial seed nodes list. Nodes on this list should be managed by witnesses and well-known Hive service providers, as they are expected to have expertise to efficiently run them.
Of course you could run your own hived node but first question would be - what's your goal?
So that seems like an easy fix then.
Big welldone to you on this. Node running can be a whole lot. Kudos.
Meetups can be so amazing and refreshing, I attended two or three during Steemit days and I believe everyone on Steemit are also on Hive.
More grease to your elbow 💪 @gtg 😉
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