WITNESS WEEKLY @ 14 May 2021
I hope people found the first edition of Witness Weekly that I posted last week useful.
It was certainly an interesting post to research and compile.
I have learnt a great deal about the current witnesses from doing this, and I hope to continue discovering a lot more.
With the central role the Witnesses play for the Steem blockchain it will be really good if we start to hear more from Witnesses.
If any witnesses have any information they would like to share feel free to contact me on Discord (Pennsif#9921) or leave a comment below.
The Current Top 20 Witnesses
There has been one major movement with the witnesses this week.
@steem-supporter has dropped out of the top 20 and is now down at #32.
@rlawlstn123 moved into the top rankings at #19.
@rlawlstn123 appears to be a Korean who likes movies and Netflix dramas. His/her blog does not give much more information other than that.
This is @rlawlstn123's post from April 2020 announcing the witness...
As a new Top 20 witness the community would love to know more about you @rlawlstn123?
Any chance of an update / introductory post? Thank you.
The current top 20 witnesses for the Steem Blockchain on 14 May 2021 are :
| No. | Witness |
|---|---|
| 1 | @steemchiller |
| 2 | @justyy |
| 3 | @steem-agora |
| 4 | @dev.supporters |
| 5 | @future.witness |
| 6 | @dlike |
| 7 | @symbionts |
| 8 | @steem.history |
| 9 | @rnt1 |
| 10 | @hinomaru-jp |
| 11 | @inwi |
| 12 | @protoss20 |
| 13 | @hoasen |
| 14 | @scissor.sisters |
| 15 | @smt-wherein |
| 16 | @maiyude |
| 17 | @roundblocknew |
| 18 | @matreshka |
| 19 | @rlawlstn123 |
| 20 | @steem-dragon |
There are a further 20+ active backup witnesses up to @jianan at number 44.
All top 40 witnesses are running the current 0.23.1 version.
Most of the witnesses from #43 and below are 'former' witnesses that are running old witness versions (0.23.0 or 0.22.1) and have now moved to another blockchain.
Details of all the witnesses can be found in @steemchiller's Steemworld.org or on @symbionts's list at...
@steem.history also publishes a regular listing...
New Witnesses
@successgr has launched a new witness this week - @successgr.with.
@successgr has delegated 200K SP to the witness account to support Korean Steemians directly...
@successgr.with is currently at #35 in the witness list.
The other recently started witness @xpilar.witness has now moved up to #36 on the witness list.
Witnesses News & Updates
@steemchiller produced some very useful stats for @pennsif showing the breakdown of Redfish, Minnows, Dolphins, Orcas and Whales. These figures were featured in this Steem News post (item #2 and the second comment)...
It will be great if we can obtain these figures on a regular basis as they are a useful metric for judging the health of the platform.
@justyy (#2) has put out several technical posts this week including...
He has also posted the stats showing that the SteemYY.com registration service is now the second largest account creator for Steem...
@steem-agora (#3) makes daily posts for their 500 SP power-up voting service, and also regularly supports @etainclub in his development of PLAY STEEM.
@symbionts (#7) have given an update on Ecosynthesizer's new facility for viewing pages...
@symbionts runs the @ecosynthesizer curation project, the ecosynthesizer.com multi-chain block explorer and the
Steemsentinels cybercrime awareness and prevention tool.
@steem.history (#8) puts out a number of very useful daily posts covering witness listings, Steem Power rankings and the STEEM system config...
- STEEM witnesses list (21.5.14)
- STEEM effective steem power list (21.5.15)
- STEEM rich list(21.5.15)
- STEEM system config (21.5.15)
@steem.history reported on the problem that was affecting the Steemit Wallet recently...
@steem.history also sponsors the monthly SPUD4STEEM Power Up contest run by @kiwiscanfly. (@xpilar also sponsors this contest).
@ayogom, who runs the @rnt1 witness (#10) (@zzan.witnesses), puts out daily posts on a variety of Steem related topics including this week...
- We inform you about the witness voting method (direct voting & proxy delegation)
- Setting up the Steam Witness Node Part 2
- Another community of Steem Chain "sct"
- Another community of Steem Chain "zzan"
- How to use red letters in Steemit
@ayogom also reported on the issue affecting the Steemit Wallet that has now been resolved...
@wherein, who runs the @smt-wherein witness (#15) and the @nutbox witness (#41), is mainly working on the PNUT project. It released more news on the PNUT airdrop this week...
@steem-supporter (#32) reported earlier in the week that he is setting up a full API server with MIRA...
It also posted about improvements being made to the Steem-Auto app...
@steem-supporter has also revealed that he has recently tested posted positive for Covid-19...
@italygame (#33) are still working on the new Steem Fanbase auto-voting tool but there have been no further updates this week...
@italygame also is a main supporter of the Steem Italy Community run by @girolamomarotta.
@roadofrich (#34) is continuing to develop the new @SteemField alternative Steem frontend and mobile app (based initially on the former SteemPeak). They put out regular updates in English and Korean including...
[EN] "SteemField" Steemit Website development. - update / Login, Upvote, Comment etc
[EN] "SteemField" Steemit Website development. - update / Communities, Post, Upvote
I hope people find this new Witness Weekly digest useful to learn what the Steem witnesses are doing.
It will take a while to track down all the witness information. My apologies to any witnesses who I have missed. Please comment below on anything I have missed or contact me on Discord (Pennsif#9921).
In the meantime do remember to vote for witnesses...
Thank you
Pennsif
[ graphic by @pennsif ]
Very interesting! Thanks.
Thanks for taking this on @pennsif! It is much needed, as I really know very few of the witnesses these days, except for @steemchiller and @xpilar. I like to know who I am voting for, before casting witness votes...
I am hoping we will hear more from the witnesses...
Thank you to bringing up this. Some of the top witneses are not contributing anything significant. I wonder who voted for them.
There used to be a tool to easily see who has voted for each witness.
I am not sure of the best way to see that now.
Probably @steemchiller could get us with that.
You can see the votes on https://steemworld.org/witnesses by clicking on the chart button:
@maxwellmarcusart
That is perfect - I hadn't spotted that before.
Thank you
Hi, this is cool. Thanks for the link.
Thanks for the updates, it's helpful
You are welcome.