Intent to Witness

This is my post about my intent to witness and what I can contribute to the Steemit community as a witness. First, I would like to start with describing my witness server as well as what I am already doing for the steemit community. Finally, I will wrap up by explaining my designs on the future of steemit and my role in it as a witness.

What I Contribute as a Witness

My Server

Here are the specifications for the hardware I am running on. I run a multinode Kubernetes cluster. The plan is to expand as my user base grows. My witness node is a full node.

Node 1
CPU	2 x 2.6 Ghz 8-core Xeon
RAM	10 GB
Disk	10 GB SSD

Node 2
CPU	2 x 2.6 Ghz 8-core Xeon
RAM	10 GB
Disk	10 GB SSD

Node 3
CPU	2 x 2.6 Ghz 8-core Xeon
RAM	10 GB
Disk	10 GB SSD

Witness Node
CPU	4 x 2.6 Ghz 8-core Xeon
RAM	1 TB
Disk	4 TB SSD

Network connectivity

I am currently on a 100Gbps+ capacity network; however, I am working to gain access to the internet2 backbone which will offer over 10Tbps network capacity and guaranteed 100Gbps.

For Minnows

Recently, I was asked

What do you stand for and support?

to which I replied, "I'm for high quality software built on the blockchain. Bots are superficial. It's time to go for building real software."

... which yielded ...

How does this help minnows?

It means:

• More opportunities for investment
  • Right now minnows have few options
    • Create content
    • Buy votes from bots
• Alternatives to trending feed and voting bots for getting your content visible
• Alternatives for content creators to create content
  • Right now, you just have a blog
    • The blog is saturated with unrelated content competing for the same rewards in one huge melting pot
  • I want alternatives for users.
    • User interfaces that are meaningful to the kind of content you want to create
      • Not just a reskin of the condenser
    • Tools for users to publish and promote their content
    • Interfaces that allow good content near the surface instead of well-financed content.

There are different types of users on steemit and they clash daily as different cultures fight to find equality on an economic scale within the platform. That is as artists find that to excel within the steemit economoy, they find they need to become savvy crypto currency investors in order for their content to surpass or even compete with that of savvy crypto currency investors. It's a culture clash that leads to the saturation of lesser content.

I understand the frustrations of minnows and my proposed solution is to take steemit to the level users deserve.

A Voice Against Abuse

I stand against bullies, trolls, and reward pool abusers. There are bad actors among us that aren't interested in investing in the community of steemit. I am part of several communites and am a founding member of We-Resist(@the-resistance)

Discord https://discord.gg/USYwcMh

Our community and bot focuses on supporting minnows that unfairly suffer downvote loss from grumpycat. This is not a campaign against grumpycat nor are we defenders of spam content. Rather, we protect minnows with good content that are unjustly attacked. We believe that users are the future of steem. It is wrong to support bad content and drive away users creating good content.

Software Development

I am a regular contributor to Utopian and have several projects to help users within the steemit community. I would like to develop more meaningful software for the community.

Exifr

This is a bot that provides EXIF data for photographers on their posts. See Introducing Exifr

we-resist-bot

This is an ethical voting bot. It votes to help users that are victims of downvote abuse. See we-resist-bot

Telegram Reply Bot

Allows users to conduct correspondence on posts through telegram. See Telegram Reply Bot

Steem bot Examples

Some examples I have developed of bots for steem

To Infinity ...

My end-goal is to start a community of developers that are focused on the highest quality (enterprise-level) software. There are development communities out there, but these communities are inward focused rather than outward focused (looking at you Utopian).

I want to make high quality, SLA-worthy, apps and give other developers without the resources to do the same thing. I want to make it so regular bloggers on steemit with a decent amount of experience can build high quality applications and deliver enterprise-level uptimes and service without having to fork over tons of cash to VPS providers.

I know there are really good developers on this platform, but they're stuck with cut-rate service because they can't afford to get into AWS, digital ocean, or rackspace to deliver high end SLA to users. The best they can get is privex VPS and even then they have to manage most of the maintenance.

Here are Some Applications I Want to Build for the Platform

Support me, and we can make this real. I have outlined the projects at my request for help.

Please Vote Your Favorite Witness...Me!

Vote for r351574nc3