Hey Again, Steemitizens!
Here is an update on the state of the union of my witness role and technology from me speaking in my capacity as one of your elected steem block chain witnesses.
This is my first report as a witness. My server was established about two weeks ago as of today and has run continuously ever since:
I entered the listings at the bottom, was first seen on the list at #189 and have risen to #106 since then in just 13 days. I am filled with gratitude to all voters choosing me as one of their witnesses.
[Late breaking edit just 5 hours after posting!] Since posting this five hours ago, I have risen to position #103! THANK YOU ALL!
As of today, August 30, 2017, I have caught two blocks successfully:
At this time I have not missed any blocks:
And I am successfully publishing my price feed as well, with this entry appearing just moments before typing this sentence during the creation of this post:
The following accounts are proxying my witness votes:
My server is located at a cloud host called vultr.com and has the following specifications:
It is running quite efficiently and with perfect stability. It is quite adequately configured and has no trouble consuming the block chain and updating the price feed as indicated by the following stats:
Here are the other witnesses I vote for, on behalf of myself and the accounts trusting me with their proxied votes:
My primary project continues to be participation in the P.A.L. Network / Minnow Support Project discord, where I have been awarded a medal of honor for my work to create and staff and otherwise execute operation of a 24/7 fully interactive live audio/video broadcasting network called the MSP Waves Broadcasting network, or as we call it, MSP Waves Radio. I created a website supporting the initiative, established streaming servers to run the network and we now have 22 show hosts and hostesses providing seventeen 2-hour live infotainment shows running each week with more in the works for release in the very near future. With the help of a hand picked team of volunteers, including @r0ndon, @ma1neevent, @globocop, @uniwhisp and of course, P.A.L. Founder @Aggroed, we have fostered an environment where we can enable voices to be heard throughout the community to contribute to the greater good of all we can reach and serve.
I continue to work every day to help with many other P.A.L. Network/MSP initiatives based on my core values and principles of kindness, generosity, gratitude, patience and strive to help P.A.L. Network/MSP foster an environment of Peace, Abundance & Liberty on the block chain for all our MSP members and the steem block chain ecosystem at large, and wherever possible, bringing these principles out into the world beyond the block chains borders.
I am always happy to answer questions or lend a hand to anyone whenever I can. Just let me know how I can be of service, and if it's within my power and time constraints to do so, I will certainly be happy to respond accordingly!
Just like that, this post is over.
Full steem ahead, steemitizens!
Tune into my show: Monday Night Minnow School on The MSP Waves Radio Network
Get more info about this and other great steemit MSP talk-radio shows at:
http://mspwaves.com
Believe in me and my values and principles also? Well, I'm a witness who believes in steem, steemit and YOU!
Vote for me, @SirCork, as witness to show your support.
Witnesses I support:
@aggroed, @teamsteem, @gtg, @timcliff, @clayop, @ausbitbank, @dragosroua, @roelandp, @jesta, @personzzz ( @personz ), @someguy123, @thecryptodrive, @netuoso, @rycharde, @good-karma, @lukestokes.mhth, @drakos, @theprophet0, @swelker101, @steemed, @anarcho-andrei
and co-witnesses @followbtcnews & @crimsonclad
Think you deserve to be on this list too?
Earn my vote. Tell me why!
Be sure to learn what witnesses are and vote here!
All Steemitzens should be choosing their preferred representatives to make reliable, positive, growth oriented steemit.com and steem network decisions for us!
The Peace, Abundance, Liberty Network (PALNET) Minnow Support Project (MSP) is the home base for any minnow's best new friends!
Find us on Chat with the PAL/Minnow Support Project peeps at: https://discord.gg/HYj4yvw
Just learning about all of this stuff, but I trust your work and will give you my vote!
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Thank you, I will do my best not to let you down! Stop by the PAL Discord linked in my post and get to know our nearly 5000 strong minnow "club" - tons of great new finny minnow friends await your arrival!
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I'm beginning to understand more on the witnesses role. Now I'm planning to maximize my vote on the witnesses and I'll vote you along with my 30 votes.
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Thank you so much!!!
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Happy to have you on board as a witness buddy..lets do an interview some time
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Thank you so much! I'd be honored to do an interview! Contact me on the pal discord. I'm sircork there as well, of course! https://discord.gg/ns779Gq
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I'm not only voting you, I am trusting you with the rest of your list that you are supporting and I am going there now to make sure my votes reflect that.
You da man @sircork and congrats on your (soon to be dwarfed) ride so far.
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Wow thank you for your confidence! I try to choose wisely for everyone's future. You can just proxy to me if you like, at the bottom of http://steemit.com/~witnesses just proxy to sircork and I'll watch your back!
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yes, but I support a Spanish witness too, who is probably not on your radar.
And @rycharde too.
But I will follow your lists to the best of my ability.
you da man, and I really appreciate you, so thanks for the offer.
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I added Rycharde last night or this morning - he and I had a great chat. I don't know the spanish one though? I have five votes left, enlighten me!
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I will come back soon and try and do just that.
I don't really know too much about him (or her) but they are doing a lot for the Spanish language community.
@cervantes, I am talking about.
sorry got to rush, the typical, the houndbeasts are revolting
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Thanks for getting back to me!
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I don't really know if I can add anything to what I said there above. They seem like they are being very supportive of the Spanish speaking community, but I have spent most of my time in English, as you know.
I think the first three witnesses I supported were @reggaemuffin, @aggroed and @cervantes, I think in that order, but I could well be wrong too.
Their bot welcomed me right on my first post as I tagged it Spanish too.
However I am sure I couldn't work out how to vote for witnesses for the first few days.
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There's nothing like a bit of transparency as to what people are doing on steem and in the role of witness. Loved your stats, did the usual follow, upvote, resteem I'll pop across and give you a vote as well. :-)
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Thank you so much! I am as clear as mud, probably, but I am always at your service for clarifications!
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Nice work Corky. You have my vote.
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Thank you so much! <3
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and you have mine @choogirl haha
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meep
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Er... How? I'm not a witness.
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Nice one , and I heard your radio show the other day one day I will tell you the mystery of the name. There is a story
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We can trade, my name has a story too! Thanks for reading and listening to the shows!
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I love Sircork! He'll make a great Witness!
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Aw shucks! Thanks boss! I love you too, my bromo!
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to me stability is the ultimate, and I see you take that very seriously, my friend. good job! Will check to see if I have you marked as a witness, if not, I will add you
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Okay, just voted for you, my friend
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Thank you so much!!!!!!!
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Very good - I will vote for you, for sure. Maybe I will witness one day too.
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Thank you @ura-soul, it's been a minute since our paths last crossed! I hope you are well!
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You are welcome! Yes, I'm doing well - injoying my time here on Steemit. Currently, we are doing house renovations here, but once that's done I'll be amping up what I am posting here. :)
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Awesome! I'm remodelling the office building I am lease purchasing as well, it definitely bites the time and wallet departments! See you in the steem!
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👍👍👍👍
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Thanks!
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Woo-hoo! So happy to see you climbing up there mate! Top 100 very soon, well i was sure about it anyway!
You are doing a great job my friend, wish you lots of success ahead!
Steem On!
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Thanks old friend! I work for you, so I'm humbled and thrilled you are happy with the job I'm doing! Get your butt to our discord and bring your wife!
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I will come soon man, i'm really very busy with the launch of my cooking contest tomorrow. I sent you a message on discord, may be you did not notice it! Once all running you'll see me quite often!
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Good work Mr. Cork. I like that witness list, many similar names to those I have voted on :-)
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Thanks Monsieur Catguide! Cheers mate!
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Thorough and convincing update. Thanks @sircork!
Resteemed!
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Thank you very much for all you do as well Sir!
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We are an awesome fam!!! As good as it gets! 🤠
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Indeed!
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Very Nice Post sir; Voted and followed you. I want to learn from your experience on steemit.com. So kindly see my posts and vote me and follow me. As we can see our future posts. Thank you @sircork
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Thank you very much for your kind compliments. It's difficult for me to take the time to individually coach people at this point, but I'd be happy if you would join the Discord Linked In the post above which is a chat room for new users like yourself and I think you will get all the assistance you need there in our channels designed for users just like you. Hope to see you there soon.
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Awesome man, I don't believe we have "met" yet but I am a thankful fan of your work with PAL and the discord channel! I know that there is a very low voting rate among users for witnesses so I have been looking to add a few more to my list. I just voted you as witness as I feel, judging by your previous work and other info presented in this post, you will do a good job making decisions/working for the greater good of the community. Thanks for all that you do and nice to run into you.
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Thank you! I am humbled to hear my "work" - which I consider a joyous pleasure, even when it can be exhausting and frustrating at times to be certain is something you have come across and found value in! I appreciate your vote and I hope you'll visit us in the PAL discord and we can actually "meet" real soon now!
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Sounds good friend! I'll stop in soon.
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Awesome! See you there!
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I love stats, and I love your no-nonsense delivery of said stats. Good info, good server, good hosting, and I know you're a fine person as well, so certainly worthy of a vote. Voted!
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That's how I roll bud, I'm a strictly nonsensical no-nonsense kind of guy! :D
Thanks Negativer, seriously though. I am very flattered and appreciative of you and the good Doctor, always there for me, both of you. And in turn, I'm here for YOU!
See you in the funhouse!
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Well great post...take the upvote of a newbies..followed :)
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Thanks!
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i would vote for you corky, cept you are already my proxy. i like your show and your dedication and the stories you tell. it shows me you have heart. best of luck to you.
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Thank you Torico. It has been a pleasure beginning to get to know you and to entertain you on MSP Waves and to be of service in any way I've been able to add value to your visits to the MSP / PAL Network discord channels.
See you on the air and in the chats!
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So many witnesses, so little time. How do I manage all of this @sircork?
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Go to http://steemit.com/~witnesses, scroll to bottom set proxy to "sircork" and I'll do it for you, son! :D Where you been hiding out anyway?
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I know...more tongue and cheek. Proxy shall be set to full cork overdrive.
Just busy...probably just need to grow some balls, drop 5 jobs/projects, and push on Steemit.
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Don't get crazy man! Just drop in and say hello now and then :D
Your votes are in mediocre hands, but I'll give it my bestest for ya!
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I'll take mediocre corky hands over my dingy paws any day ;)
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Well, I gotta hand it to you. That comment gets a handy upgoat!
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I see what you did there :)
Get a grip man!
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Ouch! Way to slap me down, son! :-)
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i like what i'm seeing here... i'm going to put you on my short list to vote for , ty
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Thanks! But as I've said to the others, don't vote on my server stats, vote on the principles you believe in which many witnesses have perhaps better than me. I just work here. I'd love for you to read my witness intro/bid post though and if you still feel the same way then, I'd be grateful for the lift of your vote so i can reach a goal of using the witness income to expend on doing good for those less fortunate in the community here.
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Ill give you my witness vote and I hope you can give me yours. Good luck.
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I checked you are not a witness. Does your witness server have a different account name?
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Thats wierd. Well I succesfully voted for myself and have two other votes. https://steemdb.com/@chillbill my seed is processing etc... how did you check? Im still very new to this.
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I didn't know it was possible NOT to be in the top 200, but that may be the case? You do not appear on this page.
https://witstats.steemliberator.com/witness_list
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Thats right I dont appear there, Im not thousand....but if you vote for me and its accepted, then Im live as a witness. If I wasnt the reply is that Im not an account.
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That makes sense. I am on the air live in 10 min at http://mspwaves.com but I'll check you out later tonight. Do you have a witness manifesto post describing your values, goals, and community contributions I can review?
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I guess this does it. https://steemit.com/witness-category/@chillbill/5ha4jt-chillbill-starts-a-steem-witness
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Ah yes. I read every word. You are a humorous and obviously intelligent soul who provided a very amusing read there. Well done. You clearly want to understand the process and overcame great hurdles to get to the point of an operational witness. I really mean all that sincerely.
However I cannot give you my vote. Not in good conscience.
Being a witness on the steem block chain is not the place for experiments nor people who are not 100% absolutely certain of their belief in this platform and the steem block chain technology's future, despite it's foibles today. It is not the place for people who have selfish intentions as you insinuate with the kissy-kissy metaphors. It is not the place for people who are not actively engaged and invested in the platform with their efforts, contributions and projects.
It is the place for people who invest their energies into significant projects that add value and contribute to the experience of the block chain residents and users. "Proof of Work" means more than just how the current block chain is made transparent and effective and proving you processed some blocks. PoW is about actually DOING some work, sir. It is about creating value and contributions that are available to the entire community and steem ecosystem.
Neigh, in fact it is the place for people who are 100% committed to actually enhancing and building this ecosystem with their individual and group contributions.
It is the place for people who want to play kissy kissy with the block chain users. Not just with themselves. That's where you misinterpret what is happening here and how it is getting done.
But given your inspiration comes from a man who brought an alleged 10K users here, most of whom don't actually participate in the platform beyond his self aggrandizing page, and who has a history of serious mistakes of selfishness and abuse of visibility, I am not shocked you learned these lessons wrongly from that source.
Spend some time on the platform. Come to love it and believe in it's future and offer something of significant value to the community and you might earn my vote. I liked your writing styles and we would probably enjoy having a beer together, if I drank. But I cannot give a vote to you, because it's not about you, it's about 100% commitment to this place. Not an experiment and not a joke. You're either all in, and certain of it, or you are on the fence or all out. There is only one kind of those I can vote for, and your post makes it clear you are in the middle, not the initial category.
All this is especially true for me because several users proxy their votes to me along with their trust I will make choices based on the kinds of criteria I outlined above. I'd be remiss if I squandered those votes on experiments.
Stick around though. You appear to have potential to learn and grow. I won't hold Banfield against you, if you can transcend him and yourself to become a believer, a contributor and a giver and not a skeptic, tinkerer or taker.
Only time and the experience will tell.
Good day.
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Very Informative, looking to earn vote
Please visit
https://steemit.com/education/@fawadsolangi/coin-the-education-1-campaign-to-help-student-with-education
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I don't respond to "follow for follow", vote begging or spammed unsolicited links. Please take the time to read the section of the post at the end about joining the PAL Discord and come learn how to be a successful minnow, and not a link spammer on other peoples posts. Thanks!
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Congrats!
Sounds like you are doing a great job!
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Thanks, I'm givin' it my bestest! :D
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I got out of bed at 2am to support this <3
love you corky.
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Oh Sammo that wasnt necessary but im grateful and flattered and humbled! we need all the sleep we can get man please go back to bed and rest well and for many hours although I know none of us can stay away that long from the work we do here. I love you too man!
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