As many of you know, witnesses are the ‘miners’ of this STEEM blockchain. They record the transactions that occur here on the steemit platform (along with all the other platforms that run on STEEM like DTube and Utopian). The witnesses produce blocks, set price feeds, and educate us on the overall health of STEEM. You can check out the list of witnesses here.
I don’t understand all the technical aspects of a witness and that is why I have my geeky teammates @mellofello and @andykapps to help in researching witness-related topics and who we as a team BeeYOU should vote as witnesses. We are slowly reviewing the list of witnesses and determining who we should support with our minuscule SP worth. Our team BeeYOU will have some interesting posts coming soon on some of the witnesses!
Every person that spends time on steemit should be vested in who we as a community should vote for as a witness. These are the representative of our platform!
What is this contest about?
So my contest today will be on sharing your thoughts on witnesses. Tell us anything you would like to hear or know about our witnesses. Tell us why you voted for the witnesses on your list. Simply share your thoughts on witnesses and you are entered in this simple contest!
I will start off with the reasons why our team voted for the witnesses we did. I shared this comment on @abh12345’s delegation post and will do so here too with some slight editing.
Who are the witnesses we support?
We have voted for 6 witnesses as a team. Going down our team's witness list, in no particular order:
Our #newbieresteemday community has been supported by @abh12345 from the very start, which is close to 3 months now when our community was established. Asher has stopped by our members’ blogs to show his support, host a weekly curation and engagement league, and is delegating over 1332 SP across the 8 members of our Newbie Resteem community that ranked in the top 11 of his community engagement league (out of 300+ contestants). If you've ever received an upvote from myself or @davemccoy and many of our team members, then know it is possible through his delegation to us. He simply has the community welfare at heart. Mello met @paulag from the blockchainbi discord room and is also impressed with her dedication to the community.
They definitely have our witness vote!
📌 steemcommunity is staying as a team vote for witness.
@timcliff - Mello is the first of us to have interaction with Tim. Mello read his posts, researched him, liked what he stood for, and outright admires him (that's an outright compliment coming from someone who initially thought steemit was a pyramid scheme). I read Tim's witness and ocd posts and like him too.
Tim has graciously agreed to have Mello interview him on a Q&A post so we can help our newbies learn more about Tim as a person and witness. We hope we can help our newbie community make an informed decision before casting their vote. He will be our first witness in our interview post series! We received his responses back on the Q&A, now just have to find some time to write an engaging post.
📌 TimCliff is staying as a team vote for witness.
@curie - I voted for curie since I have seen their support to the newbie authors (even veteran ones). It gives the undiscovered authors with beautiful voices and talent hope that their work could one day be recognized. I can't say I've seen any other support elsewhere yet. They have the community spirit at heart so my vote goes to them.
📌 Curie is staying as a team vote for witness.
@yabapmatt - Both Mello and Andy went to the steemit meet-up in our area and met Matt. They were mighty impressed with him as a person and witness (again, that's an outright compliment from these two who were never fully onboard with steemit until after meeting Matt).
Matt has also graciously agreed to having Mello interview him on a Q&A post, which will be after Tim. He is also supportive of our #newbieresteemday community when he learned of us.
📌 YabapMatt is staying as a team vote for witness.
@qurator - I voted for qurator since I am a member and they have shown support to the community. However, I would like Mello to do his due diligence for us before we commit to this witness vote as a team. Just because we are a membership club does not dictate they should have our support. I know they are involved in supporting their members, but I haven't done much research on them myself. I do appreciate their continued support because their 1.1 or 1.2% upvote value does help.
I've reached out to Qurator about a Q&A session with Mello. No response back yet.
❓Qurator is staying for now, but pending further review and research.
@steemgigs - Ahh, Terry. He is @surpassinggoogle for those that only know of his personal account name. He is a big supporter of the Phillipines and Nigerian community. Sadly, I'm not part of that community and don't receive support from him (he did hit us with a 1% upvote on my ABC's of Curation post and brought over his curation trail, nice!). Just because I'm not a part of his community does not mean I don't see the support he show others here on steemit. For that, he has my witness vote.
📌 steemgigs is staying as a team vote for witness.
Contest Rules remain the same as all the other Let's Talk! posts but an extra $1 SBD will be an added prize on this one.
❤️ BONUS Prize 🎖: $1 SBD to the most awesome comment. The winner will be selected by our BeeYOU teammates.
Second stipulation: I will pick an Active Member from the #newbieresteemday initative to send the $1 steem required for sponsorship. The member will be the person sending in the sponsor request to @steembasicincome for the winner of this contest. By doing it this way, I can help to support a member of the Newbie Resteem initiative along with the contest winner.
@steemcommunity – a new witness team to come onto the scene, announcement made 3 hours ago. This up and coming witness is a duo team with
@paulag.
@davemccoy and many of our team members, then know it is possible through his delegation to us. He simply has the community welfare at heart. Mello met
@timcliff - Mello is the first of us to have interaction with Tim. Mello read his posts, researched him, liked what he stood for, and outright admires him (that's an outright compliment coming from someone who initially thought steemit was a pyramid scheme). I read Tim's witness and ocd posts and like him too.
@curie - I voted for curie since I have seen their support to the newbie authors (even veteran ones). It gives the undiscovered authors with beautiful voices and talent hope that their work could one day be recognized. I can't say I've seen any other support elsewhere yet. They have the community spirit at heart so my vote goes to them.
@yabapmatt - Both Mello and Andy went to the steemit meet-up in our area and met Matt. They were mighty impressed with him as a person and witness (again, that's an outright compliment from these two who were never fully onboard with steemit until after meeting Matt).
@qurator - I voted for qurator since I am a member and they have shown support to the community. However, I would like Mello to do his due diligence for us before we commit to this witness vote as a team. Just because we are a membership club does not dictate they should have our support. I know they are involved in supporting their members, but I haven't done much research on them myself. I do appreciate their continued support because their 1.1 or 1.2% upvote value does help.
@steemgigs - Ahh, Terry. He is
@surpassinggoogle for those that only know of his personal account name. He is a big supporter of the Phillipines and Nigerian community. Sadly, I'm not part of that community and don't receive support from him (he did hit us with a 1% upvote on my ABC's of Curation post and brought over his curation trail, nice!). Just because I'm not a part of his community does not mean I don't see the support he show others here on steemit. For that, he has my witness vote.
