Why not just do it openly without charging? He doesn't seem to have anything to offer for this money, you can find out everything you need to know by searching for the stuff, talking to existing witnesses and experimenting.
he runs his own community and there might be some in his community that may or are not at a that level of tech expertise. So I think he compiled this course for a particular demographic.
Good question I have not set it up yet! My hope for the course was to motivate those with the interest in mining to focus on becoming a Steem witness and invest in our community. The target audience is mainly those on YouTube that have not converted to Steem yet and might be sold on doing it with the opportunity to be a witness. Getting started as a witness with the votes is challenging and this way I limit who I help to who helps me get my witness setup and who takes the course which is available for $27 a month along with all other courses or $297 along with every other course I make for life.
It's best to learn in Steem by doing. Set one up for sure. Even though I have some reservations about making a course on becoming a witness without having done so, I think it will be a net positive for Steem to get some new people in on the technical side.
You are welcome for that. Good job with this guide by the way, I can tell you checked things out because some guides (like my old key guide) aren't accurate with the key permissions/abilities. I left a comment there suggesting that any suggestion for a password change needs over-the-top emphasis on properly keeping it. https://steemit.com/steemit-guides/@jerrybanfield/the-steemit-account-security-tutorial-june-2017
he is working on it.. remember he isn't a tech guy per say
Vote me (i.e @mattgimel) for witness on Steemit.com
Why not just do it openly without charging? He doesn't seem to have anything to offer for this money, you can find out everything you need to know by searching for the stuff, talking to existing witnesses and experimenting.
he runs his own community and there might be some in his community that may or are not at a that level of tech expertise. So I think he compiled this course for a particular demographic.
Good question I have not set it up yet! My hope for the course was to motivate those with the interest in mining to focus on becoming a Steem witness and invest in our community. The target audience is mainly those on YouTube that have not converted to Steem yet and might be sold on doing it with the opportunity to be a witness. Getting started as a witness with the votes is challenging and this way I limit who I help to who helps me get my witness setup and who takes the course which is available for $27 a month along with all other courses or $297 along with every other course I make for life.
It's best to learn in Steem by doing. Set one up for sure. Even though I have some reservations about making a course on becoming a witness without having done so, I think it will be a net positive for Steem to get some new people in on the technical side.
@pfunk thank you also for your outstanding guide on becoming a witness at https://steemit.com/steemit-guides/@pfunk/a-full-steemit-user-s-guide-to-steem-witnesses which helped motivate me to get started!
You are welcome for that. Good job with this guide by the way, I can tell you checked things out because some guides (like my old key guide) aren't accurate with the key permissions/abilities. I left a comment there suggesting that any suggestion for a password change needs over-the-top emphasis on properly keeping it. https://steemit.com/steemit-guides/@jerrybanfield/the-steemit-account-security-tutorial-june-2017