Witness Update from me @c0ff33a ☕️ the road to HF21

Currently I am active rank 63 on the Witness list, I appreciate all the support I have received in Witness Votes and continue to do my best to support the Steem blockchain, promote it especially to external social media sites and encourage our existing active Steemians new and long term.

My Primary and Back up Witness servers have been running very smoothly on v0.20.10, I had been running v0.20.11 on my primary server but it stopped processing blocks while still running at one point, and it always needed a replay once it had been stopped - a bug that has since been resolved.

You should be aware by now that Hard Fork 21 has a staging date of August 27th, on that date if a super majority of the top twenty Witnesses are running v0.21 then the hard fork will be adopted and all other backup Witnesses must update to v0.21 if they wish to keep producing blocks. I must emphasise that no Witness will be able to run v0.20 if v0.21 is adopted - once the Blockchain is forked only v0.21 software upwards will process blocks on it. I have seen mention by people that they will unvote Witnesses running v0.21 because they do not agree with the changes in it - the top twenty will make this decision and if they go with v0.21 all must follow - there is no option. Voting for Witnesses itself is a personal choice, and should anyone decide to unvote most or all Witnesses is free to do so - although in reality the only difference that will make is any that are already low down the Witness rank will just be loosing more money while supporting the Steem Blockchain.

On the subject of Witness costs, at the current value of Steem it is very unlikely any Witness outside of the top 50 is covering the cost of a single Witness Server, let alone a back up as well (for those that have them). This means it is more important then every you support your favourite active Witnesses with a vote - every vote counts and can help them gain a little more in block production rewards when you give it. Certainly if you have spare votes my two super active Steemian Witnesses @thekitchenfairy and @enginewitty deserve a vote.

The steem-engine continues to gain new and interesting tokens, I have added my own COFFEEA token - the main aim of this is to be a reward token that can be given in response to quality posts and comments. You can buy and sell the token on the Steem-engine market, and if you hold enough you can also give one to the person you a replying to in a comment by typing !COFFEEA in the comment. The bot is crashing quite often at the moment which I believe has something to do with api changes, so if you use the command and nothing happens it is most likely offline - all I can do is log into the server and check it every so often - but if it goes when I am asleep it could be ten or more hours it is offline. Have fun with it when you can, and give the token where you enjoyed a post as a reward.

@steemmonsters launched Guilds this week, where players can group together and build there guild strength by contributing DEC and completing daily challenges. Together with Witness @enginewitty we have created an @thealliance guild, which is by invite and already at capacity for our current rank. As we gain DEC and complete challenges as a team, there will be more spaces available - head over to the Alliance discord server look for monster chat channel to show your interest.

That is all for this short update, I am sure the next one will be post HF21 - It's going to be an interesting one for sure. I will leave you with a selfie outside the Brazilian Speciality Coffee Association headquarters in Varginha.

Last Confirmed Block Number 35,235,541 Last Aslot 35,339,293
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If you enjoyed my post don’t forget to leave an Upvote, feel free to comment on what you liked or where I can do better even. Follow @c0ff33a for regular and varied posts, photography, my weekly VLOG, posts on coffee roasting and brewing - just follow and see.

To grow your presence and following on Steemit, be active in the community Discords that offer the chance to learn, network, share and be found. The #SteemitRamble discord https://discord.gg/HZYzEry hosts a range of shows where you can join in and get your name shown, every Thursday there are two Pimp My Post Thursdays which are hugely popular and give you an opportunity to get your posts seen.

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The picture to the right kindly sketched by the wonderful @bridget.art , be sure to check her incredible art out https://steemit.com/@bridget.art

" A Shy Old British Geography and Biology Geek, is a Nut addict and loves Coffee and obsessed with Jax Jones" as @steemflow describes me.

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The greatest challenge we face on Steemit is getting our posts seen, I have always believed the simplest and best value way of doing this is by commenting on the blog posts of others, the more you engage people and interact with them the greater the chance they will visit your own blog and return the favour. Other then spending all my free time commenting on Steemit posts, I also distribute coffee roasting machines and also espresso coffee machines and roast my own Speciality Coffee Range. being one of the premium coffee suppliers Yorkshire including a wide range of filter coffee sachets

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2017 blogging, 2018 Witness, 2019 COFFEEA TOKEN