As a witness we aim to take our duty towards all of you that vote for us seriously and as such I do need to apologise for the lack of communication.
We had a bit of problems with our server and with the witness software.
For some reason it crashed. We did notice this in time and took our witness offline but failed to let all of you know about it.
So for that reason we did not miss any blocks which is a good thing but It took us out of commission for over a week
Now, our Technical guy @sirwries tried to fiddle with the code for a while and fix the issue but failed
So we did the setup again completely from scratch.
That means there is good news : we are up and running again and confirming blocks.
The sad thing is our price feed. For the last few months we had it working but once in a while it just stopped for no apparent reason.
We (he is because I am really really bad at writing code) are now trying to create something ourselves to get our price feed going without having to worry if it will fail.
So here is the team from @swisswitness apologising but also happy to be back up and running...
@swisswitness It is normal for a witness server to have such issues, this technology is very new and there are many flaws and mysteries yet to be discovered.
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yes but honesty and communication are also important, hence the post
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