As part of my upcoming witness campaign I've setup a server to run a permanent steemd seed node to help new STEEM clients sync up with the network faster! While the primary focus of this new seed node is infact to aide in the rapid distribution of the STEEM blockchain to fresh steemd clients it also serves a secondary purpose giving me a "sandbox" so to speak, allowing me access to study both the steemd and cli_wallet programs in an attempt to completely learn this groundbreaking software as well as create much needed STEEM client / API / RPC documentation.

Seed Node Server Specs & Total Monthly Expenditure

Seed node server is located in a datacenter by Beauharnois, Quebec, Canada.

Seed Node Specifications:	Monthly Cost (in various currencies):
2 Cores @ ~2.4 GHz	$17.99 CAD (Canadian Dollar)
8 GB RAM	$16.14 SBD (SteemDollar)*
40 GB SSD	0.0225 BTC (Bitcoin)*
RAID 10	4,949.19 ZWD (Zimbabwe Dollar)*
At Least 99.95% Uptime	*Prices as of September 13th, 2016

Total cost a year is ~$215.88 CAD. Paid out of pocket to support the STEEM network!

How to Add a Seed Node

Unless you run / plan to run your own STEEM node this information really won't help you.
Running your own STEEM node takes some knowledge in linux/bash command line and perhaps IT technical understanding above average consumer-mongoloid levels. I won't be going into extreme detail here as it's been covered other places (google it) but the easiest way to add my seed node is simply by adding the following text string seed-node = steem.global:2001 into your STEEM node's config.ini file.

KLYE's STEEM Seed Node IP:

steem.global:2001

Update on SBD/STEEM Coinpayments.net Listing:

Work continues onwards to research, compile and create proper documentation for the STEEM network and it's underlying technology. Currently a decent sized list of reference posts both here on Steemit and also on Github seem to have started the process of writing out an easily understandable set of instructions. The goal is to have STEEM's steemd / cli_wallet fully documented before the end of September, with that hopefully being enough catalyst to get Coinpayments.net to add our STEEM network currencies.

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