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RE: Monitor Witness - Know your backup witness has failed before you depend on it

That description is far too broad. It shows that ChatGPT knows very little specific to the Hive other than that it is a cryptocurrency, since the description fits pretty much any blockchain. The sentence about "required balance" and "no double-spending attempts" in particular exemplify the problem - transfers, where that sentence fits, are only tiny portion of what is happening on Hive.

The true description that would be Hive specific should include topics such as:

  • DPoS - Delegated Proof of Stake mechanism for selecting producing witnesses
  • TaPoS - Transaction as Proof of Stake mechanism for users to prevent rewriting of blocks even in the event of total collusion from all top witnesses
  • forking - how the network determines which path is valid if there are competing blocks of the same number
  • OBI - One Block Irreversibility mechanism for speeding up block finality
  • hardforks - what are the rules that govern major changes in code
  • hard-vs-soft consensus (law vs gentlemen's agreement) - what are the differences and which parts of Hive belong where