Small victories can accomplish huge results

This is sort of a motivational call to the HIVE community... but first, let me show you something SO NICE that arrived from Portugal! 😱🤩

Not sure if this exists in New Zealand, but if it does it's probably super rare/expensive. My father used to brew this and it would be common to see my grandfather when eating dessert, dropping a few drops of this in his chocolate mousse. 😋 ...old times!

Now back to the subject... 🗳️

I am calling up (and hopefully encouraging) every single user that still votes for "stale" HIVE witnesses to go there and unvote them 👉 https://peakd.com/me/witnesses.

Why?

If a witness does not broadcast a message saying it's meant to be disabled (because it's retired or is doing some maintenance), and the node that should be supporting it is not running, they will become stale eventually. This makes it harder and messy for voters to see for whom they should vote for and there are some other technicalities that matter too but I won't go through them here.

Example of stale witnesses:

They are not necessarily bad people, but their voted status is not healthy.

Note: This post has be revised several times, with help of Hive account@felixxx and Hive account@arcange. If you like their work vote accordantly. See discussions bellow the post to understand more of the changes. Apologies if I made it more confusing for some. That's was not the idea...

How can you change this?

All they need to do is disable themselves by broadcasting the same witness_update (cli_wallet) call but instead of using their own key, use the null signing key:

block_signing_key   STM1111111111111111111111111111111114T1Anm

Then when/if later you are ready to sign blocks again, you can execute the update again to your key. Costs nothing (tiny bit of RC only) and it helps everyone.

Everyone that votes can help!

It's like checking your inbox... but takes only a few seconds (I have lots of emails). You have 30 votes to cast (and keep checking them at least once a month) or you to can assign someone you trust to vote for you as proxy at the end of this page. You will be asked to sign with your "Active" key.

Let me know if with this post I dragged you to check your votes or if you chose to update your proxy, etc... I will send you some 🍺BEER and 🍕PIZZA tokens just for the effort.

The Tourette's Petition 🍀 progress

Foremost, my deepest thanks to everyone that helped on this one, back from when I posted this here.

(link to petition)

The Petition was closed on 01/12/2021 and is currently waiting to be presented to the House of Representatives... there were 6866 signatures.

I am not sure if this will be enough to capture the attention or current priorities, but at least is a great representation that there is a problem around to be recognized.

🖐️HIVE5's!

Have fun, good luck on all the gaming, and lots of teaching "how to play" to new players.

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