OH. Some reading for you: @propolis.eng/hive-witness

Hive witnesses|Reference: HIVE Whitepaper (2020) https://hive.io/whitepaper.pdf are block producers for the Hive blockchain that operate servers called witness or consensus nodes. They also take part in governance activities: setting price feeds, Hive account creation fees, HBD savings interest rates and accepting protocol changes in blockchain hardforks