In 6 days, we'll be locking in HF19. One of the many roles of a witness is to decide whether a hard fork is good or bad. I personally don't see any issues with HF19, and will be updating at least 24 hours before.
The biggest change users will notice, is the Linear Rewards Curve. This makes votes more "fair". Read more here
What's new?
- Linear rewards curve (making voting fairer)
- (RPC NODE) Ability to track just one account to save resources
- (RPC NODE) Optimized plugin loading
- Ability to remove delegated SP without issues
- Fixed various bugs, including account creation fees
- Witness feeds older than 7 days will now be properly ignored
- You can no longer delete comments that have a positive vote
- Various other small fixes
Updating to HF19
As far as I'm aware, there are no breaking technical changes for node operators. Steem-in-a-box currently has a HF19 RC available (must manually install via docker), and I will publish a new dockerhub release when HF19 is finalized.
If you're running Steem-in-a-box and would like to try out HF19 prior to release (may be unstable!):
docker pull someguy123/steem:v0.19.0rc2
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Yes!! My votes are about to go from $0.05 to $0.2, I'm a happy dude.
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How do you calculate the vote price?
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I see an issue in that some others seem to agree with. Most people will only vote 10 times a day now. This creates an incentive to vote for yourself. It is easy and fast to vote 10 times on yourself because that is only 10 comments you need to make. Currently if you wamt to vote on yourself 40 times per day you need 40 comments to upvote. I dont like this change.
Yes i am aware that you can set the power of your vote and all that, but I am saying this incentivizes voting for yourself more than currently.
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Good point. Add to it that not all steemians can adjust their voting power.
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Making voting more fair is like music to my ears. You put in a couple of hours and you make only cents, that has been some of my earlier experience. Looking forward to a more rewarding experience here not only financially but socially as well.
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So in the linear curation reward update, will that help minnows get more curation starting off? I do need to do some more research on some of the platforms so I can finish voting for witnesses. Thanks for sharing :)
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It's definitely possible it will help minnows get more voting power, I'm not sure how it affects curation, but I can only assume that increased voting power = higher curation rewards
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Ok thanks. Also, the max vote is being raised from .5% to 2% which will drain voting power faster. Will it also regenerate faster? I like the idea of it benefiting more active users.
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What's the rationale behind "You can no longer delete comments that have a positive vote"? And does that apply to top level posts as well?
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Yes, not being able to edit them would make some sense at least, but not being able to hide ("delete") them I'm not sure why.
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Very excited to see the new "Linear Rewards Curve" in action. Now if we can work on making it easier for new users to create an account. Steemit will continue to boom. Thanks for all your hard work. Voted for Witness!
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It's kind of funny that we call it that, isn't it.... a "linear curve"
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Thanks for the update! This will change everything and in my opinion it is what will propel this platform into the future! The fairness of Steemit voting was always in question. I feel like this is a step forward in a big way!
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voting for you to witness now!
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Anything to make steem find its right place in the block chain world . a grossly undervalued asset
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Think the lineair reward will make steemit more interesting for new people. On the other hand, allready having a waiting lists shows how Many people are trying to get in. Will that issue Also be solved soon?
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@@ -4,16 +4,29 @@
d effort
+, @someguy123
. Keep u
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I'm ready baby!! Let's all make STEEMIT BETTER... Best Community online 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
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Are we going to lose all accumulated rewards like the last HF? I hope not. Because it will not make for a happy community.
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Wao.. Cant wait for it. Good work
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The new linear reward system is going to be amazing for minnows! Can't wait!!!
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Thanks for the HF update @someguy123. Definitely looking forward to seeing how the linear rewards benefit the community, especially the minnows!
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Some great work...
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Thank you for this!
Upvoted and following you.
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A worthy post! Thank you
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Thanks for the update!
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Nice
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Great news thank you for this.
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Hey. This is why I'm glad im voting for you! Thanks for doing all that you do! Is there a way we can see which way all the witnesses vote easily? Best to have informed stake holders aye!?
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good info, appreciate the info . upvoted.
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WOW Absolutely amazing!
Thanks for taking time to put effort into your post it really means alot <3
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these updates are going to be great for the platform, and for new users.
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I appreciate this update and information @someguy123 - learning every day - me aka newguy123
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Thanks for the info!
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@someguy123, is it possible for an only slightly technical person to be a witness. I am no computer nerd, and I don't program, but I can learn. Is there any hope for someone like setting up a witness node? And maybe one day making it to the witness list?
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is it required for a witness to have a huge amount of steem power, probably 10k sp or more?
Is setting a witness up on a VPS safe?
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no, you can be a witness with 0 SP
yes it's perfectly safe. you don't need to hold your active key on a witness server, unless you want to run your feed on it, and even then, most VPS providers have high standards of security.
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great work:) thanks for info!
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thanks for the info -- i love Steem and am new so i want to know all about it as soon as possible - i decided to follow you and upvote to help you keep this moving up ..love n light D
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@someguy123 I can see that the changes are very positive. GO STEEMIT!
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great work! upvoted and followed :)
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I guess I can hardly wait for this to be effective. Do we Steemit users have to do something or will this be automatically be in effect?
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what do you think about Steem rate after this event ?
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It's possible it could go up even higher, since it could attract more new users who thought the previous rewards system was unfair.
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Thanks for your reply and I hope it is go up :)
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Cool!
And now the waiting:
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Already voting for ya!
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Is anon.steem down?
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Hi,
It must've been an issue on your end.
I get email alerts if any of the sites I operate go down (including AnonSteem). AnonSteem is up at the time I write this, and I haven't had any emails during the night saying it's been offline.
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Yes, thank you, I was using dot com and not dot network.
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Thank you very much for the information provided!)) For me your post was useful. I vote and follow.
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