After seven years on the blockchain, I have built a server and am now waiting to my first block to mine. Price feed seems to be working, should update every 12 hours based on current settings.
So now I wait for my first transaction to process then my version and last block should populate in the witness tab.
Guessing that could be anywhere from now to 24 hours from now.
Update: I mined my first block two hours ago early Monday morning.
Server specs:
Source: Amazon.com
GMKtec Gaming Mini PC
Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS
AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS (Turbo 4.75GHz) 8 cores 16 threads
Radeon 650M mobile GPU
32GB DDR5 2x16GB (4800MHz)
2TB SSD PCIe GEN3.0 (Read Speed 3500MB/s)
1 Gbps fiber internet
UPS battery backup
Ran on solar power
Source: Amazon.com
Source: Amazon.com
Source: Amazon.com
I am currently ranked 121 with my own HP used to start me off.
Using @drakos's Jolly Pirate price feed v4.0
https://github.com/Jolly-Pirate/pricefeed
Special thanks to @themarkymark for helping me get the cli wallet working.
And thanks to @mahdiyari for help in the Hive discord during previous attempts to build a server.
Guides that were helpful during the build:
https://peakd.com/hive-160391/@gtg/hive-node-setup-for-the-smart-the-dumb-and-the-lazy
https://peakd.com/guide/@howo/how-to-run-a-witness-node-on-the-hf25-testnet
https://peakd.com/hive-139531/@brianoflondon/a-new-way-to-update-your-price-feed-for-a-witness
https://peakd.com/hive-139531/@drakos/witness-price-feed-v3-0-ready-for-hive-hf24
I would greatly appreciate your vote for me as a witness.
Woohoo congratulations! I've a few open spots I think...will cast a vote your way
Thank you, ah great.. glad to have your vote.
Done. ✓ voted
Always interesting stuff from our SOLO!!
This is why I like to keep a spot or two free. Voted!
Nice, thanks for the vote.
Hell yah!
I have to figure out who to axe so I can cast my vote now! Surely the profit as a small witness wasn’t the motivator. So what was it for you?
Since I have a background in computer science and spent many years supporting computer systems.. So I have wanted to try building a Hive server for awhile. But there were always some resources missing from what I needed to get it done. But now with everything I need figured I should give it a try.
Right on. Cast my vote this morning.
Many many congratulations for your big achievement 🎉
I'll surely vote you 😄
Ah thank you, appreciate the vote.
That's amazing my brother
You deserve it so much♥️
Thanks, I will do my best with my new responsibility.
Congrats!
much appreciated
Congratulations. I cast my vote as a witness, I wish you success.
nice.. really glad to have your support
Wah, congratulations...
thanks
Awesome! Was it hard to setup and run the script for it or rather easy? I'm still trying to figure that part out. Any doc you referenced?
It took me a few days to figure it all out. And some of the guides I followed had wrong port numbers, but luckily another witness helped me fix it and then things got much more smooth..
If you check out the peakd posts at the bottom of this post, those were the most helpful to me.
Great to see you in the witness line up. I hope you will provide good governance for the chain.
Thank you, I plan on producing blocks fast and efficiently.
Voted! Thanks for the initiative in producing blocks for the chain. 💪
Thanks very much for the vote
Very nice! 😁
Thanks much
Nice! Voted!
Nice, I appreciate the vote.
Congratulations man!
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No problem.
🚀 Always rising ⬆️
Ah nice, moving along quickly.
Congratulations! I am sure you will love mining on your own server. May you be a wonderful witness for the blockchain.
Sure will, feels good to help the blockchain.
Awwwwwwww congratulations🥳🥳🥳
You deserve it and you’d do super great but does that mean you wouldn’t be making your garden posts? The witness job can be really tasking sometimes you know.
Ah thank you, hopefully I am up for the task. Yeah I will keep making garden posts, but as winter comes around it will be good to have other tasks. Things slow down in the garden when its cold around here.
Ohhh alright, all the best okay?
😊👍🏻
thanks
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Thought it would take beefier hardware to run a witness node. Good luck!
Well now a days these mini PCs are quite powerful, you can run games at 1080p on them quite well.
I think you can run games on some USB sticks at 1080p now.
Yeah but not at 60fps :-)
Nice! It's amazing to see all that tech in such a small box. I used to build my own gaming computers and that looks to be about the size of the old power supply that was inside the huge almost file cabinet size box.
I've considered becoming a witness a few times, will be following you closely.
Looks like you already have a good jumpstart!
Good luck!
It sure is, I did not really consider these mini PCs up until just a year ago. But they are quite powerful, amazing the breakthroughs in tech we make with how small they are getting.
Hehe yeah the whole mini pc is about a quarter of the size of a normal PSU.
Nice, well if you need help let me know.
Yeah amazing I am already over 2 million in votes. That is way more than I expected honestly.
Thanks
I may rethink it soon. I was looking at spinning up an AWS or Azure instance, but seemed hard to justify the subscription expense. This idea is definitely worth additional thought.
Congratulations Sir!
Very happy for you...and what a responsibility...look at all this equipment...thank you!
Kind Regards,
Bleujay
Thank you very much, it is indeed a responsibility but I think I am up for the task.
hehe yep, I had fun getting the server all built.
Congratulations 👏
I would surely cast my vote!
Much appreicated
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Congratulations man. You've got my vote..
nice.. thank you very much
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You got my vote!
nice, thank you.
I must conclude that the process (my way to become a witness) itself seems to be quite complicated, as I can easily see that you are receiving a large number of congratulations. In any case, I'm already out of the running. I get congratulations when I manage to untie the laces of my shoes, which I usually try to prevent from being stolen by tying a double knot around them.😣
So I can use some of those congratulations and pass them on to you. At least I managed to make it through the Witness Vote without any major injuries of any kind. 😊
It is indeed quite a bit of work to set it up, but well worth it I think.
Hah well glad you have a solution to stopping your sneakers from being stolen.
Congratulations 🎉 @solominer! Voted ✔
Ah thank you old friend... really appreciate the support.
Congratulations on your new achievement.😊
Sure is.. quite the day
It is. I hope for more support as a witness.😊
A vote for you my friend, well deserved.
thank you very much for the vote.
congrats mate.. Voted
ah thank you
Let's goooooooo
Hah yeah buddy.
This is great, congratulations dear friend @solominer for this great step, needless to say you can count on my support. Voted
I wish you much success
Much appreciated, this you very much.
That's some pretty lovely news, of course you will get my vote 😁
nice, thank you very much.
nice , i have a simular mini pc standing here might use it for mining too some day in the future :)
i've been using it for gaming these past months and imost say it's very stable so far .
https://www.minisforum.com/new/support?lang=en#/support/page/spec/95
bought mine with 1tb ssd and 64gb ram
still have my big pc for gaming if needed amd ryzen 9 5950 + amd 6800xt ;)
i will support your witness with all my accounts .
Oh nice, I have two mini PCs now.
One is used for watching Youtube videos and other media on the couch. It was really basic, cost about half of the mini pc for my witness. And then one is "gaming spec" and its much more powerful. I use that for my witness server.
These PCs are good for POS mining, but will probably not much good for POW mining.
That's great, my friend! I'll give you my vote! I'm going to talk to some friends in the Brazilian community to give you a vote of confidence too!
Nice, thanks for the support. Oh that would be great.
I'll share it with some friends, and if they have any votes left, I'll ask them to support it.
Witness approved 👌
Great, I really appreciate it.
Hah nice
Congratulations and success!
I was pleased to give you my vote.
thank you... Nice, I really appreciate it.
That great, @solominer!!!
Let me vote!
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Yep, glad to support the network..
Ah thanks!
Done 🖖
🤝 thanks much