WHO IS A STEEM WITNESS ? | BENEFITS OF VOTING FOR A WITNESS & HOW TO VOTE FOR A WITNESS

in #steemgigs7 years ago (edited)

If you've been on steemit for a while , im sure you must have come across steem.supply and if you've not heard about it before or used it before, you can check it out here.

Steem.supply is a tool that helps you keep track of your steemit earnings and gives you a tabular presentation of your rewards (both from post and comments). It's cool and easy to use

Steem.supply was made available by @dragosroua, a witness on Steem Blockchain who have been contributing to this great community and giving us daily snapshots of the cryptocurrency market. You can check out his blog here.

BUT WHO IS A WITNESS ?

First of all, there is nothing like STEEMIT WITNESS, It's called STEEM WITNESS.

Simple explanation:A steem witness is a person who runs nodes to create blocks that is needed for steemit.com and also provides prices feeds. Steem uses a process known as DELEGATED PROOF OF STAKE or DPOS to delegate witnesses.

These witnesses are voted by steemit account (you and me) and each account on Steemit can only have a maximum of 30 votes.

How to know which witness to vote for

Well, there are actually no clear specifications that I know of, but most times I vote on witnesses who have greatly contributed to Steemit and has affected a lot of people.

Why should care about voting for witnesses

This whole witness thing is just like politics, (not politics remember, I said "just like") because your vote counts.

The rank of a witness depends on your vote, if you don't vote them in, they won't be there and if you vote the wrong guys in, they'll be among the top bad witnesses.

WHO CAN BECOME A WITNESS?

Well, last time I checked, anyone can become a witness. But there are some qualities you should possess.

You need to be trusted and have some powerful and reliable server with good bandwidth to run the steem node.

There are more to this, but I'll explain in another article, but that's like a simple explanation.

So basically you can vote for any witness, just make you make the right voting choice. I only vote witnesses whose project or tools I use every day.

To vote, just go https://steemit.com/~witnesses and vote on your favourite witness.

list of witnesses i have voted


  1. Jesta creator steemdb
  2. good-karma creator of esteem app
  3. curie Helper of good writers
  4. jerrybanfield the man who brought me back to steemit after i abandoned my account
  5. klye brain behind steem.global
  6. utopian-io Supporter of contributions to open sourecee projects
  7. yabapmatt
  8. joseph
  9. dragosroua creator of steem.supply
  10. blockbrothers

Witnesses i will vote later today

  1. steemgigs
  2. someguy123

Below is a screenshot of top 10 Witnesses

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if you have someone you wanna vote for an the person is not among the top 50, just search for the witness's name as seen in the screenshot below.

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i am sure this write up was simple enough , so Vote Wisely




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Wow... I found it very helpful sir. Little mis-spelling or pronunciation of word can have great effect ooo.

First of all, there is nothing like STEEMIT WITNESS, It's called STEEM WITNESS.

Thank you.. I would not have noticed if not for that. Now i know the correct thing.

You're welcome sir

Thanks for this update sir
I was just reading up on this...you have simplified everything

Yes, I had to drop this today because someone asked

meep

boosta

I really appreciate this info bro...

I appreciate you checking out my blog

Honestly you opened my eyes to what witness really means because have being confused before now. However I have heard a lot of good report about curie and now that he is in your list again, I feel it is sufficient reason to vote for him as my witness. #teamcurie

Yes, I think that's good reason to vote, that's actually the reason I voted for them too

Waiting to hear more on witnessing in your next post. Thank you

mehn thanks alot ,i have been searching yo understand this witness since like morning and you just did it for me easily .i wanted to vote @steemgigs because he his hekping people ,i have to go and do that

I am englightened. Thanks

I'd definitely vote, this guys have really contributed to this platform. Thanks for sharing. Kudos @samstickkz

We have a new Nigerian witness, I will try vote for him, I heard him speak on steemnaira discord and he seems to have good plans.

What's his name

His username is @doctorvee I just got it from someone.

OK, thank you sir. I'll contact him asap

Oga stop "this sir" thing, hope say you dey prepare to dey Abuja on 10th February))

Wow, enugu meet up is same date sir. Might not be able to sir

Oww too bad, how come this thing clashed like this.

Thanks for bringing this to light for me.

Thank you for this explanation sir.
Simple and easy to understand.

Thank you @zingybite for reading

It is simple enough... Will be taking my tone to choose though... But at least now i see why it is needed

Simple and easy to understand.
Thanks, @samstickkz.
Now I know it's not Steemit witness but Steem witness.
Resteemed!

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Good post...

Worth updating, is discussion of using a proxy, if you're new and want someone with more knowledge to vote for you, until you can research specific picks.

Peace.

Thanks for this steemit education I believe those who have not voted any witnesses should do so by voting the right guys.
#steemsoccer1

Thank you sir

I found this very helpful... Now I understand the steem witness better

You're welcome dear

Thank you very much my boss for this great work of explaining the Witness Situation. Now I'll use this information and make good decisions in making votes which will help the Steem Blockchain.

Keep the great work going.