Steem News, Review and Gossip#4
This video was made for Dtube - but today with the HF I cant seem to upload it and really wanted it posted before the HF happened so I have now uploaded this video to Youtube
Hay everyone and welcome to my weekly Dtube video
Today is hardfork day, where steem updates to a new version of software. This means there are some changes that you should be aware of.
The first change is around Voting Mana and how your voting power will be affected with power ups and power downs
You can get more detailed information from this post
https://steemit.com/steem/@themarkymark/hard-fork-20-voting-power-and-powering-up-down-changes
There are also changes on the Dust vote threshold. All votes will be reduced by around 1.5SP worth of RShares. The aim of this is to discourage the use of bot farms and you can read more about it here
https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@crokkon/how-will-the-hf20-dust-vote-changes-affect-the-vote-values
Its time to change your auto voting habits if you vote in the first 15 min because these votes will no longer count in terms of value. To understand this is greater detail do have a read of this post
the responsibility of how accounts are created will be passed to witnesses. A new account creation token will be available and you can use some of your RShares to acquire these if the witnesses do not leave the parameters as 0. If they do leave it as 0, the steem paid for account creation will be burned and delegation will have to be given so the new accounts can transact.
You can read more about that here
@fulltimegeek is setting up a witness server and we are eagerly awaiting an announcement from him so do keep a witness vote free. And shameless promotion, don’t forget to vote for @steemcommunity as one of your witnesses too.
Watching now! Thanks for this!
And let's hear it for @fulltimegeek!!
Thanks Ewe for the propaganda campaign LMAO ... I actually got my witness up and running this morning. I now need to make a post describing my setup configuration and troubleshooting tips. It's been quite the learning experience!
WOOT x3!
HF 20 TEST
Loud n' clear!
We can hope for this hardfork to bring something good for us the users
Resteemed.
Thank you @paulag for this informative video and for the witness recommendation to your followers. It's GREATLY appreciated.
I look forward to contributing as much as I can to this spectacular blockchain :)
Also, I'm sure it'll be a long, hard grind becoming a top 20 witness. We have a lot of steem champions up there already that deserve the spot.
yes there are a lot of steem champions up there in the top, and you are deserving of a seat with them. I wish you all the best and will be promoting your witness when ever I can.
Thanks for being so active in steem and useful for the community, I included you and your post in my recent post about the hard fork, I'm very positive about it. ☺