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Witness Update (22.7331) - Pick a great Steem Frontend - Please vote Community Witnesses - SteemWallet Apps back.

roelandp@roelandp (78)2364d

Steem is in the news, Steem is hot! Steemy! Watch out for the sun tho.

In all seriousness, what a bizar week this was. We have the single largest stakeholder calling in his friends with billion dollars owning exchanges to overrule a temporarily safety measurement (softfork 22.2) and centralise the Steem chain around most probably 1 server running the show.

When I got the news of the hostile centralised take-over I was flabbergasted. Bam. This is it. The end of Steem. Four epic years together with so many of you. But I also thought... the community won't end. The community is out there. It's on the discords, the telegrams, the steem.chats. But the thing we have in common, what brought us together. That might have ended. I pulled SteemWallet.apps (now back online), I was at the verge of pulling the plug on my servers. Not out of rationele, but emotion.

But then the community voting started to happen. Large scale. At first it looked impossible. 86 Gigavests was the top witness spot before the sock puppet Tron Fakes took over with the help of Binance and Huobi and now the number to beat was 140 Gigavests of voteweight after Binance / Huobi withdrew their votes.

And then... slowly but surely the community votes started to pour in. Amazing! And now, currently we are at 7 witnesses in the top20 list, effectively having the community back at the table, at least to block any unwanted forced Hardforks from Tronit Foundation.

But mind you, this is thanks to Binance / Huobi stopping their votes. They might still change their mind again, and start voting more with their customer's custodial funds, for example for the reasoning: We need to unlock our funds and the new hardfork will give us that unlock. However Huobi and Binance could also simple start power down their customer funds and getting liquid steem within 7 days after 1/13 of the powerdown conversion is completed.

This is not over yet. 26587_xlarge.jpg

Please continue to vote for community witnesses, reach out to anyone you know with steem, ask to vote!

  • Please use all 30 of your votes.
  • If you are with the community, against centralisation of the Steem chain... Pick witnesses that don't run 22.5 software.
  • If you vote for any of the following witnesses: goodguy24, cloudysun, eastooowest, hunger365, paintingclub, flyingfly1, waitforyou1, jumphigh, toke2049, coronashallgo, night11pm, car2001, agirl10000, bostonawesome, happylife123, nicetry001, aheadofslow, high46, respect888, onestepaday, please reconsider your votes as this is a single server running 20 witnesses!

Are you on Steemit.com? Consider an alternative!

If you are using Steemit.com understand that this website is now owned by the same people who called their exchange owning friends to overrule the community elected witness list. If you feel that is not ok, consider using a different website to explore the Steem blockchain. I don't want to spread fud, but in the light of recent events, it might be a smart move to consider alternatives.

And boy are there alternatives. I am currently typing this blogpost on SteemPeak.

SteemPeak.com

what a beauty. Support for Tribes, Communities, Build-in Wallet (include Steem-Engine token support), Steem Proposal voter, Witness voter, Draft posts and Templates. Best of all, secure login / transacting with Steemkeychain (audit-able software) so no need to paste your private key in a browser screen. https://steempeak.com

eSteem apps for Desktop & Mobile

A beautiful app available for desktop (mac & win) and iOS & Android phones. Long standing and in active development! IIRC they are also coming out with a web based app. Open source developed. https://esteem.app

Busy.org open source steem interface

Busy is yet another interface for the Steem chain. A beautiful minimalistic design. However there seems to be no active development going on. Yet you can! The source code is available and MIT Licensed on https://github.com/busyorg/busy https://busy.org

Additional steem software tips:

Signalling 22.7331 22.1 instead of 22.4444 (for now)

I have updated my witness nodes to signal 22.7331. This is software version 22.1 compatible with all current consensus versions out there. I started signalling 22.4444 as a protest, well aware of the symbolic meaning of 4 in Justin Sun's native tongue. The idea behind it (for me) was to signal the Death of Steem with it's centralization. However, I got word that some people might find it disturbing to have their transactions included in these 22.4444 signed blocks, so hence I changed my protest indicator to 22.7331. Where 7331 is a reference to my recent newly assigned "badge of honor": Hackers! 7331 according to Urban Dictionary: Uncool, or non-leet. The opposite of 1337 (leet). Having poor computer skills. However this versioning might change as consensus is reached among the community witnesses.

Update: I reverted to vanilla 22.1 after some discussions. Thx @pfunk.

Thank you for your reads, thanks for your votes. Keep em coming. See you on the chain!

Comments · 52

  • @theb0red1(68)· 2359d

    I know it's a weird time to ask with all the drama, but any plans to update the SteemWallet app? Mainly the browser, it would be GREAT to have custom bookmarks and maybe even tabs(?)... Another part of the browsing experience that is lacking is swiping to go back a page.

    Another thing, if I try to approve a proposal on steempeak on the steemwallet app, the transaction always fails, "unable to serialize transaction: operations: No serializer for operation: update_proposal_votes"

    Thanks 😊 😎

  • @jeffjagoe(77)· 2360d

    the Busy.org presentation in Krakow was full of so much promise.... and then they kinda just disappeared. Would love to see them bounce back strong. I still use it for posts every now and then.

  • @trendotoken(59)· 2361d

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  • @mammasitta(70)· 2361d

    I am glad to see you back! This community is stronger than “some” might have thought. It’s my home since June 2016! I expect every single One of you to fight for keeping it safe. Thank you!

  • @emsonic(75)· 2361d

    Steempeak is great!

  • @kramgelo(54)· 2362d

    Now I know who to vote.. good read.

  • @steemitboard(66)· 2362d

    Congratulations @roelandp! You received a personal award!

    Did you downvote Steemit's posts because its owner converted it into a sockpuppets factory? OK, you deserve that badge!

    You can view your badges on your Steem Board and compare to others on the Steem Ranking

    Do not miss the last post from @steemitboard:

    Use your witness votes and get the Community Badge
    Vote for @Steemitboard as a witness to get one more award and increased upvotes!
  • @steemitboard(66)· 2362d

    Congratulations @roelandp! You received a personal award!

    Look's like you do not like Justin. Did you really downvote him?

    You can view your badges on your Steem Board and compare to others on the Steem Ranking

    Do not miss the last post from @steemitboard:

    Use your witness votes and get the Community Badge
    Vote for @Steemitboard as a witness to get one more award and increased upvotes!
  • @arcange(79)· 2362d

    Congratulations @roelandp! Your post was mentioned in the Steem Hit Parade in the following categories:

    • Comments - Ranked 1 with 115 comments
    • Pending payout - Ranked 1 with $ 135,14
  • @mintymile(69)· 2362d

    Right, aliens invading Steem Blocchain

  • @mintymile(69)· 2362d

    I don't know how to vote, I tried earlier did not work, I vited long backfor one witness. Let me try again... I don't understand this signaland frequency stuff... but I take it that Steem COmmunity is fighting to save from centralisation!! ...cool.

  • @yasu24(70)· 2362d

    Thank you for supporting Steem community. I resteemed this article.

    Posted using Partiko iOS

  • @jahid80(25)· 2362d

    Good

  • @treepi(65)· 2363d

    So, the witnesses made the first hostile act by removing Justin from using Steem he purchased. He retaliated and somehow hes the bad guy?

    I don't understand this whole thing. If anything I'm more on Justin's side, and I didn't like him before this lol.

  • @homeless-city(58)· 2363d

    full support here and calling more beery and even non beery friends to vote

    steem is community

  • @steemitboard(66)· 2363d

    Congratulations @roelandp! You received a personal award!

    Thank you for the witness votes you made to support your Steem community and for keeping the Steem blockchain decentralized

    You can view your badges on your Steem Board and compare to others on the Steem Ranking

    Do not miss the last post from @steemitboard:

    Use your witness votes and get the Community Badge
    Vote for @Steemitboard as a witness to get one more award and increased upvotes!
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  • @yogajill(67)· 2363d

    Great energy here. Yes! Whatever becomes of this, See you on the chain. Steem on! ❤

  • @rynow(73)· 2363d

    Nice post and thanks for the tips on alternatives to use!! I will give SteemPeak a try!!

  • @olegw(69)· 2363d

    Promoting Steemit Alternatives websites and interfaces initiative https://3speak.online/watch?v=olegw/lbaopemt

    Video is made inspired by your post!

  • @theguruasia(69)· 2363d

    @roelandp, I think exchanges also learnt a lesson. Hope we could win this battle! $trdo

    Cheers~

  • @helpiecake(55)· 2363d

    Hello!

    This post has been manually curated, resteemed and gifted with some virtually delicious cake from the @helpiecake curation team!

    Much love to you from all of us at @helpie! Keep up the great work!

    ![helpiecake](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmeThZpxxWtJyh8xjAgUnc8CpFEQ8w6LfdJzRhWSUt4m12/output_mZmzVo.gif)

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  • @adityajainxds(72)· 2363d

    @roelandp we are in support with you , just keep running the fight. And sure will use different websites as you suggested. Thanks.

  • @zuerich(72)· 2363d

    Steempeak rocks :D

  • @rmach(72)· 2363d

    Good call. I'm using Steempeak from now on as first choice. Stay Strong.

  • @kus-knee(74)· 2363d

    Good post, good work by you and good move in changing the witness number!!!

    You are important to this place that I've called home for almost 4 years!!!

  • @zaibkang(67)· 2363d

    As you mentioned we can use other dapps and websites like esteemapp @esteemapp ,@steempeak etc instead of steemit.com But if steemit.com fully controlled or overtaken by justin sun and his team .over SP steem power and steem coins are safe or not are we able to used over steem power SP after that?

  • @streetstyle(72)· 2363d

    I am now wondering when the next "I survived Justin Sun/Tron's Takeover of Steem" SteemFest ?

    If the Steem Blockchain survives this and We Truly gain our Blockchain back, it will be one for the history books when it comes to blockchain history. We are truly plowing through a new frontier. Awesome!

  • @reeta0119(78)· 2363d

    I am already using steempeak and no more steemit.com from now onwards. Thanks

    Posted using Partiko Android

  • @coinchaos(63)· 2363d

    Oh look he said please. Ha Ha Ha forget you losers! Go to a different chain if you can not handle a little competition. Peace out!

  • @fernandosoder(67)· 2363d

    Why is the "SteemWorld" creator and maintainer supporting Sun Yuchen's minions?

    image.png

  • @bagofincome(64)· 2364d

    BOI is for the community! Together we stand strong! Together we can achieve anything!

  • @justinparke(78)· 2364d

    Yeah, it is bizarre seeing Steem usernames I know so well on google news feeds and other mainstream media outlets. For better or worse, Steem is certainly getting some publicity. This is the closest I've ever been to celebrity. When all the Steem drama began, I was in the middle of helping @KidSisters create a post about their experience making the Steem Whale spray in the Netherlands.

    We are here in Suriname, and our girls are learning Dutch, so it seemed fitting to make a post about making the whale spray in the Netherlands. When calm is once again achieved on the blockchain, we will finish this post. Keep up the fight @roelandp!!!

    !BEER !giphy boycott !trdovoter

  • @joeyarnoldvn(68)· 2364d

    This is an excellent summary of what has been happening. Justin Sun is the technocratic blockchain version of Rothschild, assuming IBM is not.

  • @viraldrome(67)· 2364d

    You can't upload pictures on busy these days, the only reason I use it is the busy bot upvote. All these front ends depend on factors I don't trust. Whenever I start using stuff like chainbb it ends up shutting down.

  • @celestal(73)· 2364d

    Seeing this happening out of the blue, I missed a couple heart beats, but seeing how the community fights for its chain brings me hope. There's no other than the Steem community out there in the crypto space, and we've gotten a lot of publicity because of it. Too many unclarities were there, starting from Ned's actions, that led to this, but hopefully there's going to be more discussions between Tron/Sun and Steem community to come up with a solution.

    Hang on there Roeland!

  • @alexs1320(72)· 2364d

    So you are basically paws, fighting for BLocktrades and 20 guys who were investing 100$ per month and cashed out 2500 $ for running a server.

    Stupid, stupid communists...

  • @leoplaw(72)· 2364d

    I switched to SteemPeak a few days ago. Fantastic! It is what Steemit.com should have been.

  • @kudfa(53)· 2364d

    We are here to support the community and choose true human witnesses

  • @dalz(81)· 2364d

    https://twitter.com/justinsuntron/status/1235504562674348032

    There are talks in the Korean discord atm between with JS... happening now .... someone should step up from the witnesses

  • @revisesociology(82)· 2364d

    Binance not powering down yet worries me.

    They could cover their liquidity I imagine with around 2M Steem per week from the staged PD.

    The fact that they're not suggests they're waiting for an aggressive immediate PD HF, which in turn suggests a hostile take-back to make that happen.

  • @fitzgibbon(61)· 2364d

    It's great to feel the renewed energy between the lines you've written. Challenging times are ahead, but don't lose hope. Things are not lost until we abandon.

    The last week may well have been the most impressive display of community power we've ever seen in the crypto-space.

    #SteemOn

  • @lauch3d(66)· 2364d

    I used all available accounts to vote against CZ. Now that we are all awake we could also talk about the general tendency for centralization. It is not as if the old witnesses were not elected by one ninja-stake entity, so how will you ensure further decentralization?

  • @hotbit(59)· 2364d

    Being a witness, would you mind to express your view on 30 for 1 voting rule, which leads to centralization of steem governance and allowed exchanges to swap all 20 top witnesses? Steem blockchain multivote security vulnerability

  • @littlenewthings(73)· 2364d

    I was actually wondering why there was the Nivea lotion there... then I realised..... hahaha.... That's epic choice @roelandp

    Long live #steem

  • @bobskibob(61)· 2364d

    This is just starting ... democracy will prevail

  • @paulag(74)· 2364d

    Reading that, I could feel all of your emotions, the lows and the high. Steem on :-)

  • @steevc(80)· 2364d

    It's been a tense time and we're not out of the woods yet. Thanks for sticking with us. We need the true witnesses to keep the moral high ground. Blocking Steemit's actions was not ideal, but Justin had shown he can play dirty and I see Ned backing him up. It may be just business to them, but this community means a lot to us. I hope we can survive this somehow.

  • @joythewanderer(81)· 2364d

    good to learn about 7331

  • @syehlah(62)· 2364d

    I might not be able to join the community anymore. Because right now my account is having problems so the items are no longer suitable for me. Thank you Roland for all your help for supporting me on steemit.

  • @mindtrap(75)· 2364d

    Stay strong Roeland. Community stands with you guys. Amazing what we can achieve united.

  • @asimpleman(46)· 2364d

    When I got the news of the hostile centralised take-over I was flabbergasted

    But you guys were the ones who made the centralized take over of a legitimately owned Stake? He just took steps to protect himself from your hostility