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Witness (re)Announcement

Witness ^(re)Announcement

After 1 year and 4 months, I'm officially back in the witness game! To understand why I have decided to come back, you should probably understand why I left in the first place.

I wrote my witness resignation post, where I described the issues I had, but mainly it was a problem with the low price of STEEM, high server costs, and PayPal banning my account. I also lost my passion for the project, Steemit Inc. was dumping hundreds of thousands of STEEM every month.

While Hive still has some of the original problems, I have much more faith in its success. My personal financial situation has also improved, so now I can afford to run a witness server again, plus recent changes to hived software made it easier to run on cheaper hardware (my server has only 32 GB RAM instead of 64 GB).

I was thinking about starting a witness again since the birth of Hive Blockchain, but I was unsure if I want to go back to the politics game (not many of you know this, since , but I suffer from social anxiety, so campaigning for votes is not my favourite thing to do). But after a recent Twitter poll, I was encouraged.

My server

I'm running Hived v1.24.2

CPU	RAM	Disks	Location	Network
AMD Opteron (8 cores)	32 GB DDR4	2x2 TB SATA	France	100Mbps

Backup ^{^}

CPU	RAM	Disks	Location	Network
Intel i7 9700k	16 GB DDR4	2x512 GB SSD (raid 0)	Slovenia	10Mbps

^{^not online 24/7, but can be added fast if the main server goes offline}

Goals & Projects

Decentralization: Supporting decentralization and stability of Hive blockchain (as every witness does).

Wrapped Hive *: We are working on a decentralized system that would replace current "custodial" one. I'm hoping to have mainnet running before December, but since we changed our original plans (one central node and validators) and replaced it with even more decentralized (only validators, each validator acts as a central node for some time), it might take longer.
Wrapped Hive Engine tokens: Since a very successful launch of wLEO, some other HE tokens are also working on getting their own wTokens. If you are interested, send me a message on discord. P.S. Code is open-source!
Different open-source tools: Such as Creator (part of it is used in HiveOnboard.com to solve scalability issue), Sharer (it's offline due to low demand), Posh Bot *.

^{* I have received compensation for these projects.}

The current main goal I would like to achieve are:

Getting wHIVE decentralized network running.
Getting wHIVE listed to major DeFi platforms (Balancer, Aave, Curve, Maker...).

How to vote:

Thank you for reading,

@fbslo.

P.S. Should I bring ~~Steem~~ Hive Snake back?

Comments · 38

@kharma.scribbles(58)· 1354d
Iknow this is old, but it still brings to question: Your obviously an active witness as your still running a node, but how active in your mindset in HIVE are you? What are your plans now? Any previous goals you achieved?
@poshbot(59)· 2144d
@poshbot(59)· 2144d
@tan.app(45)· 2146d
^{Congratulations @fbslo, You Earned 2.067 TAN & Curators Made 2.067 TAN.}

^{Join CORE / VAULT Token Discord Channel or Join UPMELINK Web Site} ^{TAN Current Market Price : 0.200 HIVE}
@urun(69)· 2147d
Like i told you on Twitter, vote is done! :)
@traciyork(75)· 2149d
@niallon11(77)· 2149d
Great to see it.

P.S. Should I bring Hive Snake back?

Also, of course you should.
@pocketrocket(66)· 2149d
Bravo, @fbslo ! Of course bring the snake back, please. Here it can be call Hiveconda ;)
@defigem(46)· 2149d
Welcome back, you made a great decision now. We hope for a great success of Hive blockchain
@roshandhaker1(25)· 2149d
Nice
@hiro-hive(75)· 2149d
I am voting for you if anything I can help you can freely talk to us
@joeyarnoldvn(68)· 2149d
About time, that Twitter poll was an awesome idea, as you can see people want you.
@theguruasia(69)· 2149d
@fbslo, Wanna remove some & add you with my witness proxy! !tan

Cheers~
@onthewayout(62)· 2149d
I was looking for another witness to approve, so you have my vote.
@ohabrizvi(56)· 2149d
Welcome back, have a good journey ❤
@jacuzzi(75)· 2149d
YEA! Welcome back! Looking forward to seeing your posts and updates.
@v4vapid(73)· 2149d
Done and done. Great work on the Wrapped projects and opening new possibilities for token holders. Cheers!
@inalittlewhile(68)· 2149d
Congrats and thanks for all you are doing for HIVE. Voted. 👍
@tipu(68)· 2149d
🎁 Hi @fbslo! You have received 0.109 HIVE tip from @amico!
Check out @amico blog here and follow if you like the content :)
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@beerlover(65)· 2149d
^{View or trade BEER.}

Hey @fbslo, here is a little bit of BEER from @amico for you. Enjoy it!

Learn how to earn FREE BEER each day by staking your BEER.
@amico(67)· 2149d
Will get my vote, mate!

!BEER !tip and a huge hug!
@beerlover(65)· 2149d
^{View or trade BEER.}

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Learn how to earn FREE BEER each day by staking your BEER.
@steevc(80)· 2149d
Great to have another witness. Good luck with it.

!BEER
@artem-sokoloff(68)· 2149d
Hi. I have a lot of questions about inside Hive working. Could you help me as a witness?

I write posts about Hive. Look my teg #hiveinside. Thank you.
@ervin-lemark(76)· 2150d
Welcome back as a witness :)

Vsp srečo!
@maitt87(75)· 2150d
I'm new in the platform, but you have my complety support. You have my vote!
@hivetrending(70)· 2150d
Voted for your witness! I’m not sure what Hive Snake is exactly, but I say yes! Bring it back! And tell me more about it.
@edgarsart(74)· 2150d
Great, will vote:)
@misterc(63)· 2150d
Welcome back 🙂

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@acidyo(85)· 2150d
I'll be redoing my votes after the HF and will definitely vote for you. Thanks for all the work on hive!
@brianoflondon(77)· 2150d
I'm voting for you! All my $UNI came from you!
@nathanmars(75)· 2150d
Already voted.

Thank you for everything you do for our HIVE
@rishi556(72)· 2150d
Well thats a really easy decision to make. Gave you a vote(from hextech, I proxy to there).
@theycallmedan(80)· 2150d
Will get my vote, cheers Fbslo!
@bluerobo(70)· 2150d
very nice! glad you are back!
@michelmake(65)· 2150d
Good news, you have my vote! :)
@poshbot(59)· 2150d
@crazy-andy(74)· 2150d
You have my support!

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