You are viewing a single comment's thread from:RE: Why you should vote for @themarkymark as witnessView the full contextkenseikid (40)in #witness-category • 7 years ago Im still relatively new to steemit, how exactly does the witness process work and whar is it for?
A witness primary job is to produce blocks as the system is delegated proof of stake and not proof of work. (There is no mining).
We are also responsible for maintaining a price feed that is used in many internal systems.
Witnesses also have a few tweakable parameters we can change and have a say in the consensus-driven final setting. These are:
That's the full job description, but many witnesses do a lot more than that and act as community leaders and trusted advisors.