Hey, Hivers! This is your friendly reminder to vote for your witnesses! Witnesses are who make the blocks of our blockchain, and being decentralized, we vote for the people we trust to do that. I periodically check mine to make sure I'm not voting for anyone who stopped making blocks or something like that.
Not sure how? If you are on PeakD, click on your name on the top right of your screen, and scroll down to where it says "witnesses":
This is what it looks like when someone has stopped making blocks:
You see the part where it says "last block" - theirs was 2 years ago. But they still have 1.9 million worth of HP voting for them. This is why it's important to check your votes periodically. Sure, this person is #106 in the ranking, but think about what that 1.9 million HP could do in votes for the active witnesses. I'm sure some of it is people who are no longer active on the chain themselves, but I'd bet some people just set their votes (or perhaps followed someone else's votes) and forgot about it.
And now on to my question...
All this time, I've been looking at "price feed" (where it says "2 years ago" in red) as I was scrolling through and taking that to mean "last block," because all the way down the list, you don't see the categories, but lo, it's the price feed, and not their last block. My question is, why for some witnesses this does not match? Doesn't making a block automatically update their price feed? I've been unvoting witnesses going "oh they didn't make a block in months" but really they probably have and they just didn't update their price feed in months. That's my error, but it did make me go ...huh? How is it that someone has last made a block minutes ago but their price feed is months ago?
I'm a normie in terms of the technicalities of blockchain, so if anyone could explain it without a bunch of coder lingo, that would be appreciated. 😅 Thank you to anyone who can enlighten me!
