The Reports from the Witnesses aims to provide the community with a summary of what all the witnesses have been up to. Every week, I collect all of the reports from the individual witnesses and assemble them into a single aggregated report. New witness announcements and witness suspension announcements are included in the report as well.
Witnesses can continue posting their posts to the witness-category and/or witness-update tags, and I will assemble everything I find there. If I miss any reports, just let me know and I will correct it. If you want to direct message me a report via chat, that is fine too.
Historic Reports from the Witnesses can be found here:
https://steemit.com/created/reportsfromthewitnesses
So without further ado, I bring you the seventy fourth edition of 'Reports from the Witnesses'!
^ Special thanks to @snook for our new image :)
Reports from the Witnesses 2018-05-20
@gtg - Witness Position #2
@lukestokes.mhth - Witness Position #10
@aggroed - Witness Position #11
@anyx - Witness Position #17
@curie - Witness Position #19
@fyrst-witness - Witness Position #44
@adsactly-witness - Witness Position #49
@steemgigs - Witness Position #53
@dragosroua - Witness Position #60
@jackmiller - Witness Position #61
@justyy - Witness Position #62
@sircork - Witness Position #65
@emrebeyler - Witness Position #71
@krnel - Witness Position #76
@jatinhota - Witness Position #85
@block-buster - Witness Position #90
@yehey - Witness Position #106
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@intelliwitness - Witness Position #115
- intelliwitness UPDATE - May 19, 2018 - I am losing $150 USD a month to bring a reliable witness node
@danielsaori - Witness Position #120
@davinci.witness - Witness Position #127
- DaVinci Actualización de Witness #4 (Versión en español)
- Aggiornamento DaVinci Witness #4 (Versione italiana)
@castellano - Witness Position #130
- ¿Para que sirve y no sirve un nodo de la Comunidad Para la comunidad?
- Espíritu de @Castellano, espíritu originario de STEEMit y realidades migradas
@thekitchenfairy - Witness Position #139
@ety001 - Witness Position #158
@pjau - Witness Position #173
@lux-witness - Witness Position #193
@scottcbusiness - Witness Position #204
Some Notes:
- Many witnesses do not report every week, and prefer to only report when they have updates.
- I recommend that you include communication as one of your criteria for evaluating witnesses, but keep in mind - it is not the only criteria. There are some witnesses that prefer to work "behind the scenes", and do not do much as far as reports.
- For witnesses that are not currently posting any reports, I would encourage you to provide the community with at least some insight into what you are currently working on :)
Remember to vote for witnesses!
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If you aren't sure who to vote for, check out this Witness Voting Guide.
Thanks for the report. As a very new witness (2 weeks and still no block to sign) may I take advantage and ask a few questions?
Notice for instance: adamm, resteemable, geoffrey, lafona, gingerninja. They are in various stages of putrefaction - for instance lafona hasn't minted a block in the past 18125 hours which is 755 days or more than 2 years ... His last minted block was below block 1 000 000. His bones can only be identified through DNA analysis
Can you maybe help me make sense of this situation ?
as hinted at by steem.bitcoiner.me or is it just a presentation issue ?
For me it looks like a security weakness of the current implementation: one could imagine a witness in the first 20 creating "decoys", witnesses that only sign a block or two and then are stopped. Based on the 30 votes available, and people's inertia and disinterest the "decoys" would remain there to eat up slots in the schedule and thus increase the frequency at which the first 20 witnesses get to sign blocks. Is that interpretation correct ?
Thanks in advance
They are not eating up slots. They are not alive, look at their signing keys.
Thanks,
then how should this schedule be interpreted:
Let's say (189) lafona moves from position [58] up to position [1] (among "backup witnesses" where busy.witness appears in the snapshot below:
Then what happens at the next round, is lafona picked to appear as the 21st / backup witness in the current round as we see here busy.witness appearing about 40 seconds later ?
Or is a dead witness skipped and if it's skipped, how, by what mechanism, which part in the code looks at what parameter in order to decide whether to include or not to include lafona, geoffrey, adamm in the next round ?
And if it skips these dead-witnesses and does not include them in a round, I would also like to make sure that that part of the code doesn't also skip new witnesses (such as lux-witness) just as it skips the dead witnesses.
Many thanks for your patience
To be honest I wouldn't even worry about what position you are, it changes, you move up and down. That queue scheduler website thing makes zero sense to me.
But with the amount of MV you have, you will get about 5 blocks a month currently. I calculated it to be roughly 1 block a month per 31 MV you have (if outside the top 20).
But in answer to your question, I have no clue how the code controls it. As long as its working, does it really matter :p
:-) Thank you for your answer.
In my case I'm not in the "witness business" for the rewards but in order to learn and reuse the chainbase / steem code for other blockchain projects. Therefore in my case it matters A LOT ! :-) That is precisely why I started a witness, to understand how it works !
When you write "look at their signing keys", where do you see those ? I didn't manage to see what you are looking at exactly.
Steemd, steemworld
Signing keys that are stm1111111111111
They arent active witnesses
Oh, indeed, cool, thanks, got it !
Fair enough, I'm not in it for the reward either, I just like being apart of it. Gives me something to do :p
But any way, I hope someone can answer. Because I certainly have no idea :)
Its a difficult task to perform, thanks for your effort. This really is a useful data
Well it's a nice thing that you get to assemble all these wonderful reports into one piece and then we can get to read from anyone we wanna keep a tab on. I have gone through some and I must say that some of them can only be understood by programmers . So detailed and technical. Lolz
You are very welcome!
Thank you for including mine!
Great work @timcliff
Really you do such a hard work.
Its not easy to get data from each and every witness . but you do . so i appreciate your hard work .
Keep it up . its very useful too . thank you for such an amazing work
You see every week you do this, you keep us updated with what is happening at the witness corner. You’re really much appreciated for this cause believe me knowing what’s happening with our witnesses is thoughtful of you to initiate. You’re much appreciated
@timcliff thank you for putting this info. together in a way that is easy to read and digest :)
This is not an easy task, hopefully the existing witness can contribute in their field.
greatful data it will help a lot
Thanks for the witness reports. Have a nice day. Cheers
Its really amazing work finished by you.
thank you for share your witness reports for us.
Thank you so much for share The Reports from the Witnesses 2018-05-20.
its really hard work because its not easy to collect every witness data.
No new witness this time, that’s interesting to me. Thanks for the update Tim. Also, what are your thoughts on apply for the MSP witness vote?
MSP is a great project. I support it through delegations. It is great that they have an open and transparent policy for their witness voting. As far as me personally applying, I have a policy of not directly asking for witness votes, and applying for a MSP vote would kind of be a violation of that. It also seems their votes would be better used on 'minnow' witnesses who need the vote to help them climb the ranks.
That makes since.
can provide us a post how to mine steem. step by step.
It is not possible to mine STEEM. Steem uses DPoS witnesses to produce blocks. If you are interested in setting up a witness node, here is a guide: https://steemit.com/witness-category/@timcliff/steps-for-setting-up-a-witness-node-the-manual-way
sorry for non relating comment.
hello @timcliff,
my fb group members are reporting that steemit accounts are approved.
they have been waiting for 2 weaks.
i have collected there emails and usernames.
can you check them.
Please reach out to me on steem.chat.