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There's various posts on Steemit explaining what witnesses do. By default, this is just a normal seed server (sort-of like a bitcoin super-node), but you can use this for witnesses too, just gotta adjust the config.

It's definitely easy to set up. On a default ubuntu box, you can copy and paste that one-liner command, and you're done. Ready to go. No configuring at all.

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