Blockchain Wizardry

Six years of Hive. A decade of the platform. "Can you promise that I will come back?" "No. And if you do, you will not be the same." - The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey I'm a Hive witness,

This is a copy–paste friendly guide to get a Hive consensus node running for HF28. Simple recipes for: seed node witness node exchange / personal wallet node basic API node Docker version of all of the

"A wizard is never late..." The same applies to my witness updates. This is my weekly monthly regularly scheduled irregular one. My last post was four months ago, and my last proper witness update

As you all know, in replacement of the original Hive front-end, our great developers created another version, much improved, and we're now able to work on it. I was, I'd say, also involved in the creation

HF28 v1.28.0 HardFork is not something that we do very often. That's because Hive is pretty much feature-complete on Layer1 and already a perfect tool for a variety of use cases where a fast, secure, and

I’ll keep this one short(-ish). HiveFest starts soon. I’m in Kuala Lumpur and, in a few blinks, we’ll already be boarding planes home. If you’re around: come say Hi(ve). It’s our yearly “Oh wow, you’re

One Hundred Million Blocks on Hive! I’d brag about signing the 100,000,000th block, but it wasn’t me - @deathwing nailed it ;-) See for yourself: Why this matters (even if you’re new here): Blocks are

New avatar So, first things first: I’ve changed my avatar. Blame @roelandp - he asked me for my logo, and since my "company" is just me (that’s quite a company, if you ask me), the only thing

Hey, I'm Rishi556, your friendly neighborhood witness. I don't do much, but the things I do I try to do well. Here's my current seed node stats and future expansion plans for it. I've removed all seed

When most people hear “trust issues”, they think of breakups or drama-filled pop songs. But whenever money is involved (especially in the cryptocurrency realm), there’s a more expensive version: every

I was going to use this title on April Fools' Day, but I ran out of time. It's too good not to use, so I'm using it now. New Mirrornet Instance running our next HardFork version Produced through the Sora

This post is for informational purposes and Mirrornet operations coordination, intended for witnesses and developers who want to use the test environment. Mirrornet/Fakenet? Please refer to my previous

Test

Core Development 2024 Many people asked me to share a video that some of you may have seen during the core developers panel on the first day of HiveFest at Meštrović Gallery in Split (while being there

Hive consensus node - simple way Requirements: Hardware: x86-64, 32GB RAM, 1TB fast storage (SSD / NVMe) Software: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Assumptions: We act as user hive with uid 1000 and HOME=/home/hive We

A week ago, I marked 8 years since creating my account on this chain. Cheers! Generated with Illusion Diffusion HQ Upgrades (new release) If you haven’t done so yet, please upgrade your nodes to version

Me again. Usual doing/writing balance issues. Generated with Illusion Diffusion HQ The biggest minor release of them all There were some posts by @blocktrades already, but it's not enough to emphasize

Hey there, crypto fam! Guess what’s been shaking the blockchain tree like a hurricane? It’s DeFi—Decentralized Finance, for those not in the loop. And boy, is it turning heads, especially when we pit it

Blockchain Wizardry One might scratch their head as to why I chose this particular community to hold this post and announcement. I believe there is magic involved with what is happening with my game, NISM.

During the last Core Dev meeting, I’ve mentioned my Hive consensus node setup that consumes 7W of power. That was just my rough estimate, but because I was asked for more details, I took a closer look