just let me put this out there from the jump -- if you a a content creator on youtube and you are constantly on the go, making content each day, travelling a lot, digital nomad without a base or regular income then becoming a witness is probably not gonna be for you. . ..
HOWEVER!
if after being on the platform for three/six months and things are going well i suggest you explore and create a witness node, pay for hosting, get a decent company to host it for you, go through the instructions, get setup, pay the bills, learn how the witness stuff works and give back to the steemit community, the more of these seeds and witnesses nodes we have the better the scalability and infrastructure the platform will be, it's an outgoing cost for sure but coming up soon is an optimized version of steemd, the code that you need to run to process blocks on the steemit blockchain -- the more nodes the more reliable the platform will be and if you are using the platform ain't it fair to help it?
the st33m amplify project is an effort to bring vloggers, content creators, youtubers and to bring in general the bloggers of the world into steem and show them they can add steemit to their income streams and have a more open, ad-free experience and share the wealth of their own successes over here on the platform instead of a centralized blog that currently pays them little adsense or nothing at all.
check out the other episodes before this. . .
ep1, ep2, ep3, ep4, ep5, ep6, ep7, ep8, ep9, ep10, ep11, ep12, ep13, ep14, ep15, ep16
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