Witness Node Setup

With the recent development In Hive Engine software, read Hive Engine P2P Launch Details by @eonwarped, there can, at last, be witness notes confirming Hive-Engine transactions. It is a very much needed step towards a decentralized and distributed side chain.

In May it will be five years since I've been a member of this platform. First Steem, then Hive. I always wanted to contribute to the ecosystem in more ways than just posting, commenting, and voting.

With this novelty, I see the opportunity to finally step into the shoes of a witness with the Hive-Engine witness node.

I did my first steps yesterday by reading the following official, sort of, announcements by @aggroed:

• Hive-Engine upgrade successful!, Witness system starts in ~12 hours!
• So far so good! 19 witnesses and 1500+ sidechain blocks!

There are already three great tutorials on how to set up the node:

• How To Set Up A Hive Engine Witness- Step By Step Guide by @rishi556 with everything explained splendidly
• One-Click Hive Engine Witness by @blervin with a full script to do it all in one go
• Step by Step Guide to setup Hive Engine Witness from scratch by @bala41288 who performed the setup for @neoxianminer

I need to mention the official launch announcement and documentation too, of course, prepared by @eonwarped:

• Hive Engine P2P Launch Details
• GitHub wiki document How-to-setup-a-Steem-Smart-Contracts-node.md

Great work, guys!

WORKERBEE

Besides setting up a node and becoming a witness you need witness votes as with Hive witnesses. Here the assets you stake and vote with is WORKERBEE.

Yesterday I bought a bit of WBs and tonight I converted my old DOGE stash into some more, then powered them up.

Three Hive-Engine witnesses that I have already cast my stake for are, with their Approval Weight before my $WORKERBEE power-up:

• @h-e
• @primersion
• @rollie1212

Powering up 461.538 WORKERBEE ...

Witnesses list after the power-up:

As somebody has said ...

Every little bit helps :)

Of course, I intend to cast my vote for the full contingent of 30 witnesses. I will do that when my node will be active.

Tommorow - setting up the node, official Hive-Engine witness application.

It will be a rainy day tomorrow. An ideal opportunity to do some work :)

I'll set up the node and publish the application. I hope I'll convince you to vote for me as a Hive-Engine witness.

Thank you in advance.

Additional resources

• the list of witnesses on TribalDEX
• the original Hive-Engine exchange
• LeoDEX exchange
• Cover image source

Better and better