#steemstem

Announcing a SteemSTEM Witness and Seed Node

For the past few weeks, we at SteemSTEM have been running a witness (@stem.witness) quietly as we continued to become familiar with necessary processes and performing updates during the Hardfork 20 transition period.

We are now ready to officially announce our entrance into the witness list.

The stem.witness configuration

The SteemSTEM witness (stem.witness) is being run on a Hetzner server hosted in Germany with the following specifications:

Intel® Xeon® E3-1275 v5 Quad-Core
64 GB DDR4 ECC RAM
2X 512 GB NVMe Gen3 SSD
1 Gb/s Bandwidth

With sufficient room to expand both ram and storage space as Steem’s needs continue to grow with time.

We are also running a broadcast node (with the same server specifications as described for stem.witness) to assist others who would like to have access to the blockchain.

Please have a look to 159.69.58.17. _{[OK, maybe in a few hours as we are currently replaying, after the upgrade to 0.20.5 earlier this morning.]}

Why Is SteemSTEM Running A Witness and a Node?

We have been and continue to be dedicated to growing a community of STEM posters and supporting the creation of high quality STEM content on the Steem blockchain.

Our plans include the upcoming - very soon ;) - release of the official SteemSTEM app enabling us to grow our userbase to new heights. With this app in hand, we hope to reach research institutes from all over the world and bring them on Steem as primary sources of scientific information on the Web. In other words, we aim to utilize the Steem blockchain as a STEM communication medium.

The success of the SteemSTEM project is deeply linked with the success of Steem as a whole and as such we wish to do our part in maintaining the security of the blockchain as well as to continue to show our dedication to Steem.

With the issues that have been on-going with the HF20 transition, we have also thought about the way in which we could help better. And it is all about testing. Being a community of several hundreds of active Steemians, our best option is incontrovertibly to make use of this size to participate in the testnet efforts, trying to assess how a relatively large number of users could make Steem behave.

How To Vote

To vote for the SteemSTEM witness, please go to https://steemit.com/~witnesses and type stem.witness into the box at the very bottom of the page:

We thank you for your support and continue to thank each of you for the opportunity you all provide us to grow and develop a STEM community with the potential to change the very nature by which cutting edge information is shared on the Internet.

Comments · 71

@kawsar210(50)· 2753d
You allredy have my vote for witness. Thanks for suport.
@snaxteam(62)· 2758d
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@rycharde(64)· 2876d
You got my vote, plus 2 proxies with it. You're already at #86, so no need to type in the name; that's a phenomenal start for a new witness!
@fancybrothers(66)· 2886d
First place is coming soon :D keep up the good work !
@rudyardcatling(65)· 2887d
7k a month ... :) it's ofcourse not for the money, as they say. I'm happy to see you upthere, you sure get my vote
@reinhard-schmid(67)· 2887d
Although, as an artist I am not represented in the STEM world, I like your initiative and it looks to me like you know what you are doing. May the votes be with you! 👽
@sndbox(77)· 2887d
You have our vote @steemstem team! Thanks for all you do to draw in and cultivate STEM talent in the Steem ecosystem :)
@olamseu(51)· 2888d
Congratulations @steemstem for becoming a witness. Will do the necessary for sure.
@zen-art(69)· 2888d
Voted and happy 💚
@anaestrada12(68)· 2888d
Congratulations for this great achievement, well deserved the work they do in the community is admirable are a great example to follow for the new communities in steemit
@amestyj(72)· 2888d
Saludos estimados compañeros de @steemstem, ya ejercí mi voto, me parece interesante las propuesta que realizan, sin duda alguna nos convertiremos en una gran biblioteca científica virtual. Éxitos !
@erh.germany(68)· 2888d
Done. @stem.witness has my witness-vote.

Good that this is happening. It seems its a lot of effort to work as a witness, in particular all this technical questions. I lately tried to understand the discussions about the hard fork and ... failed.

Happy Birthday, so to speak! :)
@arcange(79)· 2888d
Congratulations @steemstem! Your post was mentioned in the Steemit Hit Parade in the following categories:
- Comments - Ranked 4 with 130 comments
- Pending payout - Ranked 3 with $ 80,05
@lupafilotaxia(76)· 2889d
I already gave my vote, congratulations to all the team of #steemstem in good time become part of the list of witnesses. Let's continue, growing.
@hillaryisidore(63)· 2889d
You have my vote,steemstem all the way
@cityofstars(66)· 2889d
Thanks and still waiting for the mainnet of steem project next year :)

Peace.
@mr-aaron(56)· 2889d
I would have loved to vote again but unfortunately I can only do that once. I believe in the community and you have my vote

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@carloserp-2000(69)· 2889d
This is great, we are the best blockchain community :D
@cmplxty(78)· 2889d
Nice you have my vote. I think this fork has benefited more people because we saw the need for more community involvement in the process; there certainly seemed to be a sore lack of testing the fork before releasing it. Thanks for joining the witness ranks!
@olasamuel(65)· 2889d
vote casted. This is very great for the community
@terrylovejoy(63)· 2889d
You definitely have my vote. I also can't wait see what you have you guys have up your sleeves with the STEM app.

PS your now at position #84 :)
@indianteam(55)· 2889d
Nice to see SteemStem as a witness

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@emperorhassy(67)· 2889d
Voted...... Now on #84

@steemstem deserves to be in the top 20 list of witness.

I really commend the management of @steemstem for the great work they are doing.

Tbh, isn't there a way to just push @stem.witness to the uppermost top of the list? They are really needed there.

Thanks.
@trumpman(82)· 2889d
Neat! I don't have my active key with me as I am on a weekend trip, but will vote for you first thing when I return home. Will spread the world around too a bit to some folks that give jack shit about science but do care about steemit (and projects that bring value to it)and have some open witness spots. ^_^
@masterwriter(58)· 2889d
God knows how long i have waited for this. Here it comes! This is a plus to #steemstem and steemit.

Welldone guys! Good job!
@mlmtraffic(51)· 2889d
He is in hospital

Please help him https://steemit.com/online/@mlmtraffic/liver-is-not-well-please-give-your-support
@mlmtraffic(51)· 2889d
He is in hospital please help him https://steemit.com/online/@mlmtraffic/liver-is-not-well-please-give-your-support
@muhammadnuman786(41)· 2889d
Server refused to connect
@sergiomendes(77)· 2889d
Maybe I should know more about steemstem but I don't. Eheheh need to do my research. Anyway good luck and will be looking for more about steemstem to see what is all about 😉

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@the-alien(74)· 2889d
This is great! You have my vote for sure. You guys having doing a great job for a while.
@reinaseq(55)· 2889d
Wonderful, I already gave them my vote as a witness, they do an extraordinary job and deserve our support!!
@steemitboard(66)· 2889d
Congratulations @steemstem! You have received a personal award!

2 Years on Steemit _{Click on the badge to view your Board of Honor.}

Do not miss the last post from @steemitboard:

SteemitBoard knock out by hardfork

Support SteemitBoard's project! Vote for its witness and get one more award!
@cyprianj(69)· 2889d
Steemstem already has my vote, go steemstem...... Steemstem all the way🙌
@jamiba(45)· 2889d
One of the witnesses who really have a vision. Keep it up, boys!
@osariemen(55)· 2889d
First of all I must commend the team for this awesome step up, quick question - why the separate steem account?

Let me go and vote, very important
@ex-nova(27)· 2889d
Bueno veo muchas respuestas positivas... Lo que me intriga es saber para que me sirven los testigos, disculpen mi ignorancia, fui a ver a la votacion de testigos me sale que tengo 29 votos, me gustaria saber que hago con esos votos, que gana uno mismo al votar por un testigo. Gracias
@bengiles(51)· 2889d
I appreciate everything you are doing, you have my vote :)
@bluerobo(70)· 2889d
Hetzner. Nice. I hope it works well. Im interested in how well this setup works out in the long term
@tking77798(62)· 2889d
You got my vote! We're at 84 now.
@irelandscape(63)· 2889d
Well you'll definitely get my (small) vote. And yes, witnesses really need to cooperate and do a serious post mortem of what went wrong with HF20 upgrade. The mainnet should never be upgraded as a whole at once. A couple of nodes at first for app developers to try. Then scale up progressively.

Backward compatibility should be paramount so that nodes with new software can work with nodes with older software.

Anyway, all common sense stuff really. But it requires good partnership between steem developers and witnesses.
@gentleshaid(75)· 2889d
I'm happy this finally made it to official announcement stage. Steemstem is one of the reasons I'm on steemit and will do my possible for the continuous growth of the community and the project as a whole. I won't only be voting, but I will also make it a point of duty to canvass support for stem.witness. congratulations to the management and the entire steemstem community
@mcfarhat(71)· 2889d
well done, you got my and Actifit's vote :)
@isnochys(67)· 2889d
What is your opinion on delivery and execution of HF20? Did you test it before?
@cowboysblog(65)· 2889d
I hooked ya up! Got my vote!
@cowboysblog(65)· 2889d
I'm still learning all this stuff but this was some good information.
@ajayyy(65)· 2889d
Very cool, just curious, why do you have a separate account for the witness?
@dacx(64)· 2889d
Great project, have my vote.
@hiroyamagishi(69)· 2889d
Voted. Hope you can bring more value to the community
@jaki01(77)· 2889d
I am happy to read this!

I (together with all of my family members here on STEEM) will vote for @stem.witness as soon as I will be back home from my Asian trip (I don't like to use the active key while traveling ...).
@alexzicky(61)· 2889d
Great initiative you are quickly climbing the ranking of witnesses I think I did well to vote as soon as you started. 😊

Good job!
@banditqueen(52)· 2889d
lets make steem price go up woohoo
@davoy(40)· 2889d
The only one deserving of my vote is @steemstem, and i gave it to you... I see you are already on 87.. Way to go!!!
@alexander.alexis(64)· 2889d
OMG OMG OMG OMG 👏

Shut up and take my votes....😤
@agmoore(76)· 2889d
Resteemed. Will vote later (weak VP). I feel more confident in the platform with steemSTEM as a witness
@samminator(78)· 2889d
I've already cast my witness vote. This is a brilliant initiative. The best is yet to come, because we can only get better.

SteemSTEM to the moon
@vikisecrets(80)· 2889d
You have my vote and support from a STEEM and STEM lover 👍
@donkeypong(76)· 2889d
SteemSTEM is a great project and community. From the beginning, this has been one of the finest initiatives on Steemit. The people operating it are selfless and are passionate about science. You guys have my vote and I encourage others to support this witness as well.
@valth(69)· 2889d
You have my vote! I see you're already at place #88, which is not a bad start at all.
@astrophoto.kevin(69)· 2889d
Cool :-) stem.witness got my vote! Science rulez!! :-P

I'm very curious about the app and how the things evolve.
@n4zrizulkafli(60)· 2889d
Finally! I've been wondering for so long why is it steemstem would not want to run for witness. Anyway, best of luck and I've already set up steemstem as my proxy.
@penderis(71)· 2889d
It is cool you are going to be a witness but all exemplary that you will be running your own public node. The other big apps with their fancy delegations need to follow your lead and contribute more to the infrastructure of steem like this.
@greenrun(66)· 2889d
Awesome. Voted :)
@sco(65)· 2889d
Cool to see it officially announced. And obvisously, you have my full support.
@uyobong(78)· 2889d
This is a long awaited project and experience. Kudos to the @steemstem team for their wonderful works as well as prospect. I see my dreams here. Congratulations! If there were possibilities to vote twice, I think @stem.witness deserves it.
@theaustrianguy(73)· 2889d
Easy Vote. Great initiative, cool members like @sco. And since I believe that the future of Witnesses will be teams running for those positions rather than single characters, this vote is an easy choice. Good luck as a witness!
@tcpolymath(69)· 2889d
First witness question - what does 20.5 do? 20.4 was announced but this is the second time I've seen an upgrade to 20.5 mentioned without details.

Edit: found it in the github. I'm not sure what that bug would have done unfixed, but it isn't a notable change from out here.
@isnochys(67)· 2889d
You have a Xeon processor, too ? Can you time the replay? It takes me 20 - 24 hours. Witnesses on i7 take 3-5 hours
@lordneroo(74)· 2889d
Wonderful news, you have my vote and deservedly so for everything you have been doing to promote Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics on the Steem Blockchain!
@toddrjohnson(54)· 2889d
Excellent. You will have my vote once you are done replaying. I just reviewed the witness page and voted for all witnesses who have been providing constructive criticism on the HF20 rollout and how some of the changes are not beneficial to those who are actually engaging and providing content. SteemSTEM is a bright spot on Steem--the antithesis of those who see Steem as a place only for their own gain.

Proud member of #steemitbloggers @steemitbloggers
@zonguin(62)· 2889d
That's a great idea! This doubles the value of your project. Now the STEEM blockchain will work a little bit thanks to you ;-) I wish the project, the team and the STEM content authors the best of luck! You have my vote: D!
@phage93(69)· 2889d
Nice!!! Cmon guys! I'm going to vote for you!