RE: Information Finding Championship - Season 1: Round 8 (Kryptocek's journey to eternal glory)
Word. I voted for ats-david for witness. And I was thinking about putting a little note in the rounds in the future to suggest others look into voting for him as well since he's sponsoring the competition.
And yeah! I think we're in an amazing spot considering were JUST got started, it's lining up really nice and if things continue to go well, this could be a major contest here on steemit in the future. :) I didn't really plan any of this, it just kind of spontaneously happened! But.. I'm happy with what is happening for sure!
My understanding is that witnesses are sort of like our "politicians".. They vote for some issues regarding steemit and I think they also run a node which keeps a backup of all the information on the steemit blockchain, I also think they get paid a very umm.. Healthy amount for their work.
I thought there was only around 30-40 witnesses, but I guess there's more than 50 now?
Either way, from what I've heard the "witnesses" are sort of like the "superstars" of steemit, so you didn't just find a whale.. You found one of the superstars of steemit!
And thanks for the nice words at the end there! :) This started out with humble origins, it will be curious to see what kind of ceiling it hits in the long run.
Whatever ends up happening I'm super curious to see, keep up the great work man!
Awesome I think no matter how many votes we get he'll be pleased either way! It would be nice to get at least a dozen and maybe by the end of the season close to two dozen depending on how big it gets!
Yeah I believe thats pretty spot on! Very good way of looking at it. I definitely do know they get paid because I think in one of David's post he sorta explained what he was doing with the money and lots of it is going back to the community in some way.
Yup I guess now that its growing more and more people are getting into it! I know he's only been doing it for 3 months so maybe why he's not in the top 50 yet!
I couldn't agree more we're all in this together. Excited for the next challenge!
:)