You are viewing a single comment's thread from:RE: Steemit Basics: How do I vote for Witnesses and Why Should I?View the full contextView the direct parentr4fken (-13)(1)in #help • 8 years ago So, it's basically another word for "miner"?
It is like a miner. The main difference is that, instead of hashes deciding who goes next, it is the votes that decide.
Is this the modified PoW "mining" that steem.io talks about? Or is a witness completely separate from Steem's mining?