This Is A Friendly Reminder To Take A Minute And Vote For Your Favourite HIVE Witnesses.
It's very easy to do, you dont even need to leave the comfort of your home,..or smart phone for that matter!
Witnesses Play A Key Role In Maintaning The Network
Actually they play a few key roles such as:
- They produce the blocks that keep record of and validate your transactions.
- They maintain a price feed, informing the network of current values.
- They determine consensus, and collectively accept or reject network updates.
- Many witnesses not only maintain network nodes but contribute in other ways such as development work, and community initiatives.
- Reliability, witnesses need to maintain their node in such a way that they do not miss blocks.
Witnesses Earn Based On Their Rankings
That ranking is determined by people like me and you. This is an opportunity to support witnesses that you think are reliable, and add value to the HIVE blockchain.
Many Witnesses Support Blockchain Gaming
Here are a few that I know of, and there's surely more:
It's worth taking a minute and heading on over to a witness interface, and updating your votes. You have a total of 30 votes! Also take the time to ensure you're not voting on a witness running an out of date version, or who is currently offline.
Unfortunately there are many votes currently being wasted on witnesses that are no longer operational, but this can be avoiding by taking a minute to go and update your votes, let's do this! 馃憡