Let's forget for a while about the political war, and other money-related shit... just focus on the purely technical aspects. As you probably know, or should know, Witnesses are the foundation that keeps

It's been said many times. But now is the one time it really counts. According to their last post, Steemit Inc. is planning a Hard Fork that lowers Power Down time to an extent that would completely destroy

Hey, after months of being quiet, this is my quick witness update to let you know, that my servers are still running, are up to date and I'm still producing blocks ;-) As you probably already know, after

Hello Steemians, we are pleased to report that MIRA has been released to the public. Now any witness, developer, or other node operator can take advantage of the significant cost reductions that result

Hello Steemians, as part of our strategy for improving the economic sustainability and decentralization of Steem, we are selectively rolling out advertisements on steemit.com. This is only an experiment

The last weeks were crazy for all witnesses. Bugs, crashes, blockchain issues, steemd upgrades in the middle of the night and never ending replays, but finally... HF20 is live. I'm not going to comment

Hello Steemians, tomorrow is the planned switchover date for HF20. After last week’s halting incident, we performed an exhaustive audit of the relevant blockchain code (specifically “config constants”)

In today’s post, we will provide you with a summary of the changes in the Velocity Hardfork (i.e. Hardfork 20). The goal of this post is to be the definitive guide for all of the changes included in the

A few months ago, I decided to take the plunge and start getting involved with development for the Steem blockchain. I have learned a lot through the process so far. In this post I will share some of my

Without the People of Utopian, Utopian.io is little more than an ideal and vision. It is the community of contributors, moderators and community managers that make Utopian what it is. In this weekly series

Background A blockchain is a type of distributed database, where all of the nodes in the network use a set of rules to agree on what data should be in the database. These rules are called "consensus

Nie wszyscy zdają sobie sprawę z tego, że cały Steem funkcjonuje dzięki delegatom (z angielskiego witness). To oni tworzą nowe bloki całego blockchaina, co przekłada się na możliwość publikowania, głosowania,

Who to vote for as a witness and why should we all participate in the process? I will share my thoughts today and also explain why I'm voting for @noisy among others to be a witness on the steem blockchain.

TLDR: no. 32GB servers with fast storage like SSD or NVMe are still good enough to run low memory nodes. The trick here is to keep the shared file in RAM (tmpfs device) and SWAP located on a fast disk(s).

As a witness, I use many different checks to monitor the reliability of my nodes. After few issues some time I got a good understanding which scripts can really catch the issue at an early stage and which

Hello Steemian! Few days ago we adding first post witht our new interface for blockchain Steem. Today we want show you some picture and gif of our works after a few days :) TL;DR We olmost finish: Mobile

From a technical point of view, preparing a consensus node is the simplest thing we have to do as witnesses. The setup can be done in a few hours, it's just a running piece of software on a decent hardware.

Hey, since my last witness update, I have spent a lot of hours trying to understand how the Steem bandwidth acts and I summarized my findings in my last post "What is behind the Steem bandwidth

The last bandwidth issues inspired me to start my own debugging. I'm an OPS guy and when I'm facing issue I need to understand it and find the root cause. Steem Blockchain provides a bunch of raw data,

Jeśli zastanawiasz się dlaczego widzisz ten komunikat to znaczy, że prawdopodobnie przekroczyłeś limit dostępnej przepustowości... albo... blockchain Steem zaczął się bronić ;-) Co to jest bandwidth