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That is a nice article and i am glad you brought it up. I feel that witnesses are more than often neglecting their responsibilities after they get enough support. Price feed affect each and everyone's earnings hence they must be accurate. I do not want to be getting more rewards than i am supposed to and i do not certainly get less. You've got my vote. Keep up good work!

Thank you. Fortunately, the good witnesses at the top are doing their job well. I'm glad to be one of them, and will continue my efforts in contributing to a sound platform for everyone.

Now THIS helps me to understand what the role of a witness is, AND it informed me of the importance of keeping up-to-date price feeds. I'll be checking out the link provided and educating myself further before voting at all for witnesses. Thank you!

I am not even making a block/day so the price feed is my lower priority. I would like to start the seed node but cannot currently. I want to support more steem with my witness work but I cannot do more right now.

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

I had my price feed up and running since day one. I too started with less than a block a day. You can run the price feed on the same server as the witness, it doesn't require any additional resources. However I totally understand your position. The post was aimed more at the ones with decent ranking who don't seem to care about their setup.

You're so nice for commenting on this post. For that, I gave you a vote!

Yeah I know ;-). We know the main issue with dPOS is voters apathy and seeing it first hand is not reassuring. I feel like not enough people (or SP) care.

I didn't know I was that high(#107) in the ranking. So I just took some time and put up my feed. My only complain is that it doesn't use more exchanges as per https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/steem/#markets.

Also steemian.info rocks!

On other hand, remembering to focus on the price feed can also be a method of proving to potential voters that you are a capable witness :)

ahah one has to choose his battles. Actually the price feed or my having a seed node won't make a difference for most voters. The list of things I want to do for/around steem is already packed: check the security of the (brain)wallet, assess security in general, advance on a PoC ledger nano+steem, write and interact even more,... As long as I stay motivated, I feel like I can do a lot. It's a work in progress to be a full fledged witness. A block per day will be my goal.

I plan on running for a witness as well , hopefully I’ll get there being a woman

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

Anyone can build their witness node as long as you can manage your own server or someone to manage for you. Can afford losing some $$$ money in the process. Though if you have a lot supporters e.g. Whales and friends, ask them to vote for you.

And extra hours hanging out :)

And guess what. I've created a step-by-step procedure on how to Setup a Witness Server too.
https://yehey.org/witness-update/@yehey/howto-setup-witness-node-by-yehey-updated-tutorial-guide

We love to see your Witness node up and running.

I'm sure you could. Being a woman has nothing to do with it though. It's about being able to technically run servers, bring positive things to the platform and of course gathering lots of voters. We have @patrice who started witnessing a while ago and she's been doing well so far. But please, no cat fights 😸

I meant to say like I know majority of witnesses are men . :D

What does that change?

😼

I need to work on the "gathering voters" part.

Just have realistic expectations. Doesn't matter what gender you are. I do well because I've been working with @steemcleaners since the beginning. I also started @spaminator.

I have the skills to run and maintain a server but I'm not a developer or programmer so I don't have any expectations to make it into the top 20. And I'm fine with that. I'd like to hang out around 40-50 but there are a lot of witnesses who both run a reliable server and have other valuable contributions to the community.

Thanks for the advice ! I know it’s a work in progress but I think it’s about time now

Beautifully explained and well said dear drakos. I am honestly surprised to learn how many top witnesses aren't publishing price feeds, given the simplicity of that process ..

Let the force be with you Pai Mei.
Wait, is he the opponent of Jacky Chan in Drunken Dragon?

I even provided a step-by-step procedures on how to update the Witness price feed.

Cheers,
@yehey

WowOWOWow .

.interesting.

thank you for keeping on top of this, I don't totally understand it but clearly this is some important oversight

I plan on setting up as a witness soon. I have an odd question. I see that the price feed can be done from any computer. Is it possible to complete this task before becoming a witness as sort of a step up process?

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

You need to broadcast your witness first, telling the system you're up. Then you publish the price feed which is one of the parameters you set for your witness. To regularly publish the feed, you can use Conductor or Steemfeed-JS, respectively ran with python or nodejs, both multiplatform options.

Its pretty good post, you wrote hugely thing that to be knowed by everyone for feed. Ny reading this can guide everyone to analyze how it move. Thank you very much for this post @drakos. I like it best and really appreciate this. Im very sorry @drakos, in this right time my upvote didn't change much.

I'm just a little fish but this article was a great insight into the mechanism of the platform. I guess I should take time to read the white paper some day.

You do the witness running you're doing amazing well, while I do the choosing and following.
Amazing guy @drakos

Checks own price feed

Pai Mei will be pleased.

Yes, he is always pleased with good witnesses.

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Thank you for this article, my feed was offline for long, but you inspire me to fix it.
I use not docker version and start it with pm2 looks better to me.

This post has received gratitude of 11.81 % from @appreciator thanks to: @drakos.

I am so happy to read this post, I noticed this also some weeks ago. I was serious thinking, how is this possible. You got an Wittness Vote from me.

Thanks :)

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hi friend drakos law your post i had a doubt because on one occasion the SBD and the Steem were canceled sometimes higher because I understand that it depends on the witnesses according to how the price feed is carried out, or clarify that doubt please

@drakos :) Great info... up vote :D hehe to get their attention...love it!

You got my witness vote @drakos just voted! :) Hope this helps and thanks again for helping to support my post! Its greatly appreciated and glad I could return the favor!

Would you please support me if you would like a few bitcoin writing :)

Nice one drakos.i found your links so helpful remain blessed

Thank you,for your nice post.