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RE: Witness report 2018-03-22 - Two weeks, two blocks
First of all, congratulations on your second block!
Second of all, thanks for explaining what the block is for and all.
Third of all, if all the witnesses are offline, that means no Steemit? or if only a couple are online, that means slow connection to Steemit? So where is the data/blocks stored? On each witness computer or server?
Sorry, I'm no IT person so my knowledge and understanding only goes so far.
Very good questions of which I’m still studying. My current understanding is if there are no more witnesses then you cannot add anything new to the blockchain ie no new post, comment, upvote, transfers etc... existing ones should still be available on seed nodes. But this assumption might be wrong, I’m still digging through the search and planning to ask some of the top witnesses. The blockchain is stored on witnesses servers and seed servers.
As soon as understand that bit, I will share it in a next report.
Thanks for the info. I remember reading somewhere as a witness you would need to leave your computer on. Anyways I will wait for your next report to learn some more. Cheers!
That is correct. The witness server needs to be on 24/7/365.25.
But I'm a backup witness (not top 20) so my server uptime is not critical.
My witness server is not on a personal computer at home, I'm renting a dedicated server that is not even in my own country. Currently, I'm paying it off my own pocket and the STEEM I earn every time I generate a block is far from generating enough money to pay off the server itself. So I'm working my way up by getting more witness votes in order to at least generate enough to now worry about the rental fees because as Steem gets more popular, witnesses servers need to be upgraded. My current server has 32GB of memory and is at the limit, in few weeks 32GB won't be enough and I will have to upgrade to 64GB or continue using memory compression that makes my server a little slower. The upgrades means I'll have to pay USD100+ per month.
lol I didn't know there is exactly 365.25 days in a year. Cool fact!
Dam not cheap to rent a server.
Great to see you are serious about becoming a witness and eager to learn more about it. Also thanks for sharing and taking the time to explain things to us.
I'll go cast a witness vote for you now.
haha :-) we get a 29th of Feb every 4 years. So that's in average 0.25 extra day per year.
Thanks for your support, I'll do my best.
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