Witness Votes Are Important!
Some of you might have heard it many times already but still the Witness Voting Engagement isn´t too high among all active Steemians. Therefore it simply can´t be said too often that it´s in our Power to make sure that only honorable and capable Witnesses keep our beloved Blockchain up and running!
What Are Witnesses Actually Doing For Us?
Well we could make it complicated and get into all the tech details on what a Witness is actually supposed to do like running a server, maintaining a price feed and if possible even running his/her own seed-node. But I guess many would just stop reading from then on so that I want to keep it simple.
Steem Witnesses are running the system, confirming upvotes and transaction on the Blockchain to keep it all working for us. So to make it very short, as long as they keep their systems up and running properly we can enjoy steeming without any issues 24/7 the whole year 😊
Our Current Top 20 Witnesses Or The Keyplayers!
The Top 20 Witnesses are actually the most important ones for the Steem Blockchain as their servers handle the majority of all produced Blocks. So take a look at the current Keyplayers from whom you might possibly already know some due to projects just like MSP, the esteem app or others.
Vote For Your Witnesses Now!
Don´t worry it´s definitely not difficult to vote for your witnesses but rather pretty simple and can easily be done in less than a minute. So in case you love the Steem Blockchain, then please take the time to click on the link below and vote for your Witnesses 😉
That´s the link: https://steemit.com/~witnesses
- How to vote for one of the Top 50 Witnesses
The first possibility to vote for a witness is by simply clicking the button left to their name. But that´s just possible for the Top 50 Witnesses of the Steem Blockchain.
- How to vote for another Witness
In case you want to vote for a Witness ranked 51+ then you´ll have to scroll down to the bottom of the page and type in his or her name while confirming it with the "Vote" button on the right.
- Allowing someone else to vote for you
In case you don´t feel like voting for Witnesses yourself or are simply too lazy to update your votes over time, then you may as well allow someone else to vote for you. To do so you have to scroll to the very bottom of the page, enter a name and confirm via "set proxy". After doing so you basically copy the votes of the Steemian you chose.
Any Questions?
I know that it´s not really easy to understand all the details about Witnesses and why they are so important for the Blockchain in the very beginning. So in case there are any open questions feel free to ask them right here in the comments 😉
I´ll do my best to answer them all the best possible way while as well rewarding the best comments and questions at the same time 😃
I set a proxy to a big guy, but not because I'm lazy. It's just because he's been on here longer.
It´s basically the same for me. I´ve just recently set @reggaemuffin as proxy for my account as I just feel like he´s making reasonable and good choices especially having deep tech knowledge that all Witnesses should have ;)
I did not know these things, thank you for detailed explanations. My question is how often should we vote, for example, every day / week / month? Thank you
The Most important thing is that you at least vote once ;) After that you might like to review your votes from time to time only or whenever you feel like adding or removing some to keep them up to date :)
Probably something I need to spend some more time on, but I think I only have 5 - 10 witness votes at this time. Don't want to set a proxy vote because I feel this is something to important to rely on someone else to do it for me.
Well you don´t have to fill up your votes all right now. You can still add some over time ;)
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I am still confused. how important the witness was. so they make every busy day about the witnesses. I really do not understand it so far. I have chosen it. but there is no feedback for me. then what's that witness for?
please explain my friend .. i am very stupid in this case. forgive me friend
hmm let me try to put it in a very simple way. Whenever you want to surf the internet you someone to process the data you put in and that´s what the Witnesses are doing, they process your data so that you can enjoy the benefits of Steem. Of course it´s all happening in the background so that we as normal users don´t have to care about it at all :)
and whether or not my chosen witness can find me. that I have chosen him as a witness for me? and what if a steemians did not take a witness even though only one person. oya, the more we have witnesses will be enough baika or even worse. sorry I'm disturbing your time @steembusiness. :)
too add to the points of @steembusiness the comments that you are making on this post will be recorded in a many locations. Those locations are handled by the witness servers. in other words your work is recorded and kept by the witnesses
ohh thanks for the explanation. I understand why I have to choose a witness. many thanks for the explanation. I hope the witness is my choice. now teapat. :). success always for you @robinson
Nice post
thank you.
nice post
very nice article, thanks for sharing.
Great to know there is a system like this. I casted votes based on how active each one is and relevance of content. Followed some of the witnesses too.
That´s one aspect but to be honest do you just want some good bloggers to be responsible to keep a 250 million Dollar Blockchain running? To be honest I don´t want that to happen as it´s only the developers who can assure a proper functioning in the long run.
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I voted for the sake of liking Steemit and understanding the importance of it, but is witnessing like mining?
It might be considered as similar but you need to get the acceptance of the Community to do it profitable.