In this post I will be talking about engine node snapshots, which play a substantial role in the operation of the Hive-Engine sidechain.

The Hive Authentication Services provide a way for any applications, (either web, desktop or mobile) to easily authenticate users without asking them to provide any password or private key. Source: In

In this post I will be giving an update on how Hive-Engine light nodes are coming along and an update on a few other small changes.

Image Source: Hive Engine Light Nodes The Hive Engine sidechain has been running for quite some time now and since its start a lot of new smart contracts were added. This and the increasing usage has led

Image Source: This is a short update regarding Hive-Engine Snapshots and the corresponding proposal. Small Adjustments I upgraded the storage of my server, so there is enough space for the snapshots for

Image Source: This is just a short update about the proposal I created 2 weeks ago. The proposal has been funded and started today - I already received the first payment of 10 BEE. A huge thank you to

Image source: I am running a hive-engine witness node since about a year now. I have been there since the beginning and have been trying to help as much as I can by running a Hive-Engine monitor site,

I haven't been posting for a while, but I still have been making small changes to the Hive / Hive-Engine Monitor page. If you have never heard of that before, the main purpose of the page is to check your

Here we go again The last week was very exciting with Splinterlands releasing their SPS airdrop. This resulted in the onboarding of a lot of new HIVE users and the price of DEC and Splinterlands cards

Time is flying by so fast.. It's already the first of July again and days are getting shorter. The good news is, yesterdays hard fork went really well. No real issues so far and the process worked out

The provider I am currently hosting primersion.com on is having a major outage. It's the second time this week.. This is really annoying and I am thinking of switching over to another provider. Probably

I just upgraded my hive witness node to version 1.25.0, which means I am ready for the upcoming hard fork 25 happening in about a week on June 30, 14:00 UTC. If you have missed out on all the other posts,

The Why Hive engine nodes read all transactions from the HIVE blockchain and when they discover a custom json operation with a special id (ssc-mainnet-hive), they process the transaction and add it to

This is a short reminder to check your witness votes. It is important to do so regularly to support witnesses, which are actively contributing to the HIVE ecosystem. A short summary on what HIVE witnesses

A little bit late, but I had so much on my mind today, that I totally forgot about HPUD. I almost reached this months goal of 30k HP before the HPUD, with a total of 29,959 HP accumulated in my account.

It's that time of month again ;) At the start of April I powered up to a new total of 28,500 HP. Over the course of the month I managed to acquire almost 500 HP, which brought me to 28,991 HP as of today.

Here comes the next update on my tool for HIVE / Hive-Engine witnesses primersion.com. I haven't posted an update on the tool for quite some time, but I have still been working on it in the last weeks.

Recently I shared @obvious's post about pruning all STE**M posts (you can read it here). After reading the post I decided to also prune my ST**M posts, first of all to "clean up" my ST**M account

A week ago @mytechtrail has asked me the following question: Back in the ST##M days there seem to have been more fields that could be configured for accounts. I started wondering why it's not possible

It's that time of month again and no, this is not an april fool's joke ;) I have powered up another 422 HIVE, which now brings me to a total of 28,500 HP: So compared to last month I am now 1k HP stronger.