This is such a great post. I was kind of looking for all that info, but HIVE just keeps being confusing in many ways and I don't want to bother my master too much with those newbie questions if I could just search for it. This post is going to be saved in my "Hive Article" folder.

Just the other day I was scrolling through the witnesses (which I thought where just decision makers, didn't even know that a witness is a server) as PeakD included it in their "Wallet" page. And there are SO many inactives! Isn't there a mechanism that just takes that way after a year of being off and out of service?

Anyway, I clicked on the link to make sure that I already voted for you, and Keychain gave me the "Ooops" message. Thanks again for answering a lot of questions I hadn't even asked, but should have asked!