Gotta love proof of stake, such low power usage... Oh cool, about two years ago I tried spinning up a VPS and started to replay the blockchain but it kept stalling and would not progress. I think the disk IO was too poor on the VPS's I was looking at.
I would be willing to run a witness at home, but I want to keep my IP address private. And I have yet to be successful in setting up a VPN client working on Linux. If I can figure out that part, so I can keep my privacy I would be open to trying out running a witness at home.
Ah damn, yeah shadows can be hard to deal with. I was very careful to space out my panels to stop shadowing. But I have a whole field to work with, so its easier for me.
Thanks for pointing that out, I indeed miscalculated. Edited the post :-)
No worries, these days setting up a wireguard should be pretty easy. Although keeping things private isn't. There's a lot of mistakes that can be made which will reveal your "location".
Just FYI, I'm not sure what are the rationale behind your decisions, but today you've removed a witness vote from me but approved a witness who is disabled, i.e. not taking parts in a witness schedule.
Check out the comment I left for him. He's resyncing and should be online soon.
While my witness was offline people still voted for me since I said it will be back online.. so I do the same for that witness.
If he does not come back online eventually I will remove my vote. I don't want to support inactive witnesses.
Fair enough :-) And what you didn't liked about mine if I may ask?
It was nothing personal to you, I just want reduce how many consensus witness votes I have outgoing and give them to smaller witnesses. I will be removing more votes as I need to make room for the smaller guys.
OK, makes sense, thank you, it's out of curiosity because getting a feedback is important. Especially that platform wide approval is decreasing (we've introduced expiring votes, and while it's making a healthier environment, it's also a challenge to keep people continuously engaged in the governance processes).
Its a hard choice to remove many that I have supported for a long time. And knowing everything you have done and continue to do for Hive. I will still support you.
I think Hive is moving in the right direction with expiring votes like that.. As a few up in the top 50 are basically ghosts.
Personally I have a lot of faith in Hive, and glad to have people like you building much of it.