Posted under the wrong account.

Edit: I decided to just power through and get things updated tonight. Ended up having to upgrade my whole server from Ubuntu 16 to Ubuntu 18 in the process. Because who doesn't like staying up until 2:50am

My thoughts as a consensus witness on the current status of the Steem blockchain. First, please read this soft fork 22.2 joint announcement by the current consensus witnesses. Edit: Justin Sun has responded

As you may know, I'm passionate about blockchain technology and decentralizing all the things: Steem decentralizes media, eosDAC decentralizes governance by building DACs, FIO decentralizes blockchain

As I've posted about many times, I'm a big fan of DPoS and on chain governance. I've given talks at conferences about DPoS and plenty of interviews, some of which you can find here, which include DPoS

Yesterday, September 17th 2018, was our last full day in Puerto Rico and unfortunately it wasn't spent enjoying the beach or visiting some cool places (I'll be posting about our adventures in the future).

Here's a quick video update of what happened last night when the STEEM blockchain froze. Getting three text messages all at once was certainly a freak out moment! Finding new error messages in the logs

This is a complicated topic which I'll say up front most people are not willing to really, truly do appropriate work to care about and understand effectively. If that's you, and you're okay with trusting

I realized today I should be resteeming my Witness Update posts from my @lukestokes account to this account so people can easily get up to speed with what I've been up to as a witness. I'll try to do that

This account belongs to @lukestokes and will be used for automated activities including running a witness node in Germany. See my witness post for more information.