There had been no drama since the blockchain freeze a week ago. My witness and seed nodes are still up and running and I'm still producing my daily block. It seems that most witnesses have now updated their witness server and are now running steemd v0.19.5, those who have not are still suspended. You can check what version of steemd each witness is running on @drakos' witnesses page, it is the "Ver." column left of the "Price feed" near the end.
Dead Witnesses
Dead Witnesses (inactive witnesses not running a witness server anymore, showing in red in Drakos' witnesses page) are still receiving votes from Steemians who probably either:
- don't know the witnesses they are voting for has stopped operating, not all dead witnesses have announced that they have stopped producing blocks
- are too busy to notice
- don't care
- do it on purpose
Please note that new witnesses, who have not yet produced a block,
are also shown in red in Drakos' witnesses pages.
After having received enough votes, they will eventually produce a first block
and the page will get updated and will show them as active.
Thank you to @sapphic a new Steem Witness for the reminder!
Top 100 witnesses now displayed on the witnesses page
Dead witnesses are like obstacles dropped on the path to witness visibility. Let me explain: the official witnesses page until recently, was showing only the top 50 witnesses when we have 129 active witnesses. Since the update to 0.19.5, that page is now showing the top 100 instead. That is an exciting news for a lot of lower ranked witnesses who were in the shadow and are now receiving the free marketting they deserve.
However, the top 100 ranking also counts dead witnesses. Lets take myself as an example to see how it is affecting me. I'm currently the active witness number 105. Does it mean I only need to climb up 5 more ranks to be publicly displayed to all Steemians? NO... I actually need to climb up 26 ranks because there are 21 dead or temporarily inactive witnesses in front of me. The top 100 ranking is counting inactive and dead witnesses making me the witness number 126! So I'm not only competing with actively contributing witnesses (a lot of whom are awesome Steemians) but I also have to compete with dead ones in order to get seen.
Here are examples of dead witnesses (from the top down) and Steemians who are still voting for them:
Jerry Banfield
@jerrybanfield has recently announced that he is terminating his witness operation and will not come back "Disabling My Steem Witness = More Earnings + Votes for Other Witnesses". He is still receiving votes from 7,597 Steemians totaling 34,218 MVests of voting power. His top 10 upvoters are: @pumpkin, @hendrikdegrote, @haejin, @roadscape, @glitterfart, @amiramnoam, @xaero1, @done, @czechglobalhosts, @jerrybanfield.
Wackou
@wackou has stopped producing blocks 2051.7 hours (over 85 days) ago but is still receiving votes from @pumpkin, @freedom, @roadscape, @riverhead, @steemed, @delegate.lafona, @pharesim, @steempty, @done, @slowwalker and over 4 thousands other steemians.
Roadscape
@roadscape has stopped producing blocks 6506.7 hours (over 271 days) ago but is still receiving votes from 2,994 Steemians including: @freedom, @riverhead, @arhag, @adm, @pharesim, @steempty, @bitcube, @hr1, @onceuponatime, @surfyogi
What next?
Steemit Inc. does not want to display more than the 100 top witnesses in the official page because passed that point there are more and more inactive/dead witnesses. Although in my humble opinion, the density is very similar up to the rank #150.
It would be nice if you guys spend some time an double check your witness votes and update accordingly. Especially current witnesses or former witnesses who should know it better.
Maybe @ivoted can also help with a tool or a report that can help Steemians better see if they have voted for dead witnesses?
Meanwhile, if you have not voted for your 30 witnesses uyet
Witnesses I've voted for
@aggroed @anyx @ausbitbank @bobdos @comedyopenmic @cryptohazard @curie @drakos @evildido @gtg @guiltyparties @helo @jackmiller @klye @lux-witness @noblewitness @patrice @pfunk @pharesim @pjau @quochuy @qurator @someguy123 @swisswitness @teamsteem @thekitchenfairy @timcliff @utopian-io @valorforfreedom @yensesa
Team Vietnam
General news
This new Vietnamese community I've setup is growing and made some good progress. The membership has now climbed up to 123 members. @teamvn is now regularly posting statistics and the moderators are regularly reviewing the upvote list for quality content creation and plagiarism/copy-pasting.
We also have some curation channels to promote quality content from our members:
- @lenancie is leading the @curie and @c-squared curation for Vietnamese posts
- we have recently had the honor of welcoming @waybeyondpadthai as the #esteem curator assessing posts from Vietnamese members creating content via the mobile and desktop @esteemapp
- @symonp manages the curation of Vietnamese @ulog posts through our own Discord server and also on @dynamicsteemians' side
Team Vietnam members as translators for the Davinci/Utopian joint project
@utopian-io and @davinci.witness are now combining forces to re-enable translations on Utopian!
Witness Update #5 Davinci meet Utopian.
There is a recruitment process for translators in various communities. Steemian can apply by submitting an application post describing themselves and why they are suitable for the role along with an audio presentation of themselves.
Today, @davinci.witness has announced new positions for the recruited roles in their update post:
DaVinci Witness Update #8 - New teams formed
Congratulations to @carlpei (application post) for your new role of Language Moderator and to the new Vietnamese translators:
- @symonp (application post)
- @adam.tran (application post)
- @lantracy (application post)
- @lecongdoo3 (application post)
- @lenancie (application post)
Summary of some of my other contributions
| Project | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Steemed Phish | Chrome browser extension to make external links more visible and alert you on Phishing/Scamming links | Steemed Phish |
| Dtube Community Support | This project by @evildido allows users to run their own IPFS node and pin videos in order to cache them for longer. Dtube has the tendency of deleting non-popular video after few days only. I helped Dockerizing the project for an easier deployment on almost any platform. I've also contributed by running two nodes, one in Australia and one in Canada to cache #teamaustralia and #teamnz videos. | Dockerizing Dtube Community Support |
| DiscoSteem Bot | This is a Discord/Steem bot project by @planetenamek. When I started Steemulant Bot for the Vietnamese community, I didn't know the existence of DiscoSteem Bot and wanted something written in NodeJS. I've ended up continuing my own project as it contains code and logic for personal use and for the Vietnamese community. But I've decided to share some useful features that can benefit the users of DiscoSteem Bot and will continue to add more functionalities as I go. | Dockerizing DiscoSteem Bot |
| A Dollar A Day | This is a project run by @pennsif and will donate 15 SBD every day to a charity | "A dollar a day" fundraiser - Karaoke Singing: Le chanteur malheureux |
| Team Vietnam | I started a new Vietnamese community on Discord and developed @teamvn, a community bot to help grow the Vietnamese community and help them create higher quality content. | |
| POCKET-JS | This is my Javascript (NodeJS) port of the POCKET confirmer by @biophil. POCKET is an experimental crypto token on top of STEEM. | POCKET-JS Confirmer |
Credits
- The image at the top has been generated with the Canva app using my own photo.
Related content
- Witness Update 2018-07-05 - Witness and Seed nodes updated to v0.19.5
- Witness Update 2018-07-03 - The day the Steem blockchain froze
- Witness Update 2018-06-02 - A little witness success
- Witness Update 2018-05-25: @teamvn the Vietnamese community bot
- New Steem Witness announcement! Greetings from @quochuy
- My first votes for Witnesses