Witness Node Setup
With the recent development In Hive Engine software, read Hive Engine P2P Launch Details by @eonwarped, there can, at last, be witness notes confirming Hive-Engine transactions. It is a very much needed step towards a decentralized and distributed side chain.
In May it will be five years since I've been a member of this platform. First Steem, then Hive. I always wanted to contribute to the ecosystem in more ways than just posting, commenting, and voting.
With this novelty, I see the opportunity to finally step into the shoes of a witness with the Hive-Engine witness node.
I did my first steps yesterday by reading the following official, sort of, announcements by @aggroed:
- Hive-Engine upgrade successful!, Witness system starts in ~12 hours!
- So far so good! 19 witnesses and 1500+ sidechain blocks!
There are already three great tutorials on how to set up the node:
- How To Set Up A Hive Engine Witness- Step By Step Guide by @rishi556 with everything explained splendidly
- One-Click Hive Engine Witness by @blervin with a full script to do it all in one go
- Step by Step Guide to setup Hive Engine Witness from scratch by @bala41288 who performed the setup for @neoxianminer
I need to mention the official launch announcement and documentation too, of course, prepared by @eonwarped:
- Hive Engine P2P Launch Details
- GitHub wiki document How-to-setup-a-Steem-Smart-Contracts-node.md
Great work, guys!
WORKERBEE
Besides setting up a node and becoming a witness you need witness votes as with Hive witnesses. Here the assets you stake and vote with is WORKERBEE.
Yesterday I bought a bit of WBs and tonight I converted my old DOGE stash into some more, then powered them up.
Three Hive-Engine witnesses that I have already cast my stake for are, with their Approval Weight before my $WORKERBEE power-up:
Powering up 461.538 WORKERBEE ...
Witnesses list after the power-up:
As somebody has said ...
Every little bit helps :)
Of course, I intend to cast my vote for the full contingent of 30 witnesses. I will do that when my node will be active.
Tommorow - setting up the node, official Hive-Engine witness application.
It will be a rainy day tomorrow. An ideal opportunity to do some work :)
I'll set up the node and publish the application. I hope I'll convince you to vote for me as a Hive-Engine witness.
Thank you in advance.
Additional resources
- the list of witnesses on TribalDEX
- the original Hive-Engine exchange
- LeoDEX exchange
- Cover image source
Better and better
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Hi, the links in this article about how to set up the hive witness nodes don't seem to work, do you know of any working links? Thanks
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Hive-Engine node software is now at version 1.8.0. There is a light node option too. Things are developing quite well.
Do you wish to join? Check out these links - https://primersion.com/he-links
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(1/1)@mindblaster, I sent you an on behalf of @ervin-lemark
Thanks for the information, with the help of Rishi on the discord I was able to finally able to get my witness online at home, it's running under the fireblaster account. It's hosted at home in my highly available infrastructure at home with IPv6. If you can send a vote to my fireblaster witness it would be much appreciated :) Thanks again for pointing me in the right direction.
Great to hear, congrats. YOu hav emy votes. It's not much though ...
Thanks for your vote, much appreciated!
@ervin-lemark denkt du hast ein Vote durch @investinthefutur verdient!@ervin-lemark thinks you have earned a vote of @investinthefutur !
Nice work. Thanks for the mention. Welcome to the witness club. I also bought a little WORKERBEE and powered up to vote my @kanibot witness. Like you said every little helps. 😉
Thanks and you are welcome. Have a great Sunday.
@bala41288
The witness node is up and running. Thanks for your support. Have a great Monday.
!invest_vote
@ervin-lemark denkt du hast ein Vote durch @investinthefutur verdient!@ervin-lemark thinks you have earned a vote of @investinthefutur !
Go for it! We need more witnesses, will you stand for decentralization and censorship resistance? If so then youll have my vote.
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@hivecoffee
Hey, thanks a lot for your support. I did it this night. The official announcement is yet to come but the witness node is running already.
Of course, it's all about decentralization, distribution of the load and responsibility, about community-based governance.
Here are the lists to check and vote for:
TribalDEX
HIVE Monitor
Thank you very much!
!invest_vote
@ervin-lemark denkt du hast ein Vote durch @investinthefutur verdient!@ervin-lemark thinks you have earned a vote of @investinthefutur !
Your current Rank (7) in the battle Arena of Holybread has granted you an Upvote of 18%
Thanks for the vote! Great to hear you are running a witness as well. Hope everything goes well with the setup of your node, otherwise just hit me up on discord. And you definitely got my vote, once your node becomes active :)
You are welcome and thanks a lot in advance.
At the moment, the biggest dilemma is where to lease a VPS :)
I think I'll skip Hetzner and go with Time4VPS or Avoro. I didn't decide yet.
Sounds good, i think it is a great idea to spread the witness nodes across different servers / companies
@primersion
I went with Time4VPS. A first Hive-Engine Witness in Lithuania :)
!invest_vote
Awesome!
Your witness got disabled, because you missed 3 blocks. Your ports seem to be closed. If you need help, come on over to the Engine Discord.
Yes, it looks so. I can't get to port 5001 from outside. Heading over to Discord ...
@ervin-lemark denkt du hast ein Vote durch @investinthefutur verdient!@ervin-lemark thinks you have earned a vote of @investinthefutur !
Where do I find the active signing key to be inputted into the .env ? it is not part of the normal 4 keys is it ?
Kind regards
Janhi @ervin-lemark, thanks alot for the links and the hints :)
Hi, you're welcome.
It's the private active key of the account you'll be using as a witness. So it is one of the infamous four Hive key pairs :)
Manage Witness button.You put the public active key in the form here (https://tribaldex.com/witnesses) by clicking on the
There you can also enable / disable your witness node.
The same can be done via script by calling:
node witness_action.js registeror
Good luck.
Hive Engine Script Updates.Also, check @blervin's latest post.
Good luck!