If you setup just one witness and many miners (multiple computers set a miners only) all of the rewards will go to the witness account used. If you set multiple machines to be both wintesses/miners you need to use different witness accounts on each system.
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Sorry I snuck in an edit above without seeing this. How is this possible to have a PC with a miner but no witness.. how could it possibly know what witness to use to actually "witness" or send rewards to? I mean its a totally separate PC right?
I am trying to figure this out too: Are you saying that you should use the same witness (your main account name) on all miners. Wouldn't that break the rule "for any given account, you do NOT want more than 1 node configured as witness."
No, you should not use the same witness account on multiple systems!
People just configure multiple different witnesses for different computers, just take a look at steemd.com witness queue and you will see many accounts with the same username and a number after that.
Did you figure this out? I'm trying to wrap my head around it to. Can we just use arbitrarily named miners on a remote pc with our main account private keys and it will give it to that witness? I'm worried the miner instance will solve a block and then not know which witness to give it to.
It seems like the goal of trying to up your hashes and odds of hitting a block for the same account by using multiple machines isn't really feasible.