Live April 2018 Witness Update with Questions and Answers!
Thank you for giving me the chance to serve as one of our top 20 witnesses on Steem as seen at https://steemian.info/witnesses. I intend to be available every week to listen to what you have to say during this live stream on @dlive every Wednesday from approximately 10 am to 11 am EST!
Update! The @dlive servers are not working for today for me and the recording of this live question and answer session is now on YouTube! Next week we try the @dlive servers again!
Not sure what a witness is? Reading https://busy.org/steemit/@gmichelbkk/what-is-a-steem-witness-how-to-vote-and-why might help answer a lot of questions. The short answer is that witnesses are responsible for the function we think of as mining in other blockchains with the top 20 witnesses voting whether to accept new hard forks and producing the majority of the blocks while the backup witnesses in positions 21 and below stand by to serve in the top 20 and produce collectively one block every 63 seconds.
If you want to learn more about everything I do as a witness, will you visit https://busy.org/witness/@jerrybanfield/steem-witness-roadmap-for-jerrybanfield-in-2018 because this post shares the main projects I work on each day?
Executive Summary
The main contributions I make as a witness are promoting Steem and helping fund growth projects. I resteem every growth project funded and have a developer that nearly has a functional P2P Steem/USD exchange beta ready including SteemConnect and a basic interface.
For those that like data, here is a picture of my Google AdWords account this month showing 1.8 million impressions in April for ads that promote Steem! We may have an effective way to promote Steem indirectly to entrepreneurs looking to launch smart media tokens even after the Google cryptocurrency ban takes effect in June 2018! The budget for these ads is at http://jerry.tips/steemads
Here is my Twitter where all of these impressions are free and 95% promoting Steem with @busy.org links mostly to other authors from https://twitter.com/JerryBanfield.
Last 28 days on Facebook nearly all of the reach going to busy.org and steemit.com again mostly featuring other authors because all my resteems go to Facebook also from https://www.facebook.com/jbanfield.
Yesterday I made an hour and a half pitch video for Steem on YouTube and Steem at https://steemit.com/dlive/@jerrybanfield/3ffc3520-426a-11e8-836a-b9befc1a6029!
Time for Questions!
Will you ask me any questions you want answered or tell me anything you want to hear now because I am available to listen to what you have to say for the next hour?
Thank You!
Thank you very much to @transisto for helping me see the value of presenting this information to be accountable for what I am doing to promote Steem outside of steemit.com each month.
I appreciate the nearly 7,000 of us placing witness votes for me as seen at https://steemdb.com/@jerrybanfield/witness under the votes tab. When you want to join us, will you please use one of these links because we feel good helping each other grow and building stronger relationships?
Setting a witness proxy is ideal for never having made a witness vote and not wanting to actively maintain 30 votes at https://steemconnect.com/sign/account-witness-proxy?proxy=jerrybanfield&approve=1
Placing a witness vote is best for those already having voted and wanting to make every vote manually along with removing inactive witnesses at https://steemconnect.com/sign/account-witness-vote?witness=jerrybanfield&approve=1.
While I may have used up the work thank you in this post already, I am grateful you took the time to read about this witness update which I intend to do every week on @dlive same time and place as today!
Love,
Jerry Banfield
Wow berniesanders and his (or her) six sockpuppets accounts really shown a lowly plankton his huge e-penis (or e-tits).
I would laugh if it wasn't so sad. Wasting all that voting power to downvote a plankton who never made more then one steem on a comment or posting. And more then ever I fear that the egoism of the orcas and whales are going to destroy Steemit.
The disdain that Jerry Banfied received on this platform is one of the few things he actually earned. His following, his façade, the persona he conveys... these things are bought. Jerry is the foremost witness interesting in profit versus promoting a more ideal ecosystem favoring manual curation.
I yearn for the day that he answers me since long ago but suspect it will be avoided for there are no truth for which he can stand on. His position is indefensible under critical scrutiny. Some people are able to be persuaded by tricks and craft facilitated by money for witness votes. Not me.
I am persuaded by competence and forward thinking. Jerry's approach demonstrates he has no grasp on either. He sure can market but his game is one of smoke and mirrors which will leave a BAD taste in peoples mouth.
If Jerry really is concerned about Steem, he will hire people to better police his and his colleagues bots because I have grown weary of doing it for free.
That might all be true. But @berniesanders using bots to indiscriminately down vote each and every comment, including critical comments like mine, is not the answer either.
Quite the opposite. Both sided deploying The Bots Of War will destroy Steemit.
I too think that steemit should favour manual curation. But I fear it is to late for that. We would need some painful (for the whales) changes to salvage Steemit.
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very cool jerry!
I want understand. @jerry r you saying steemit blockchain will be slipt that mean Hard fork will occur
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Hello @jerrybanfield
Congratulations on your entry into the exalted Cadre of top class witnesses. You have worked do hard to achieve this and man! You truly deserve it! Congratulations once again!
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@eurogee of @euronation community.
Keep up the good work. I have already voted for you.
Hello Mr Banfield, Sincerely I want to appreciate all you have been doing here on steemit and outside steemit. Just as @jareen61 rightly said, you alone seem to be worthy to be on that list......
congratulations on your entry into the exalted cadre of top class Witness
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I think you are the only qualified person to stay inside the position, whose tireless work and every ad in social media makes me very impressed because you work harder to stay here, hopefully you will go much further and the front path will be more accessible for you. You could retain this director.
hello @jerrybanfield
I always follow your footsteps, I think you have tried so well that you get the best.
Hi Jerry nice video!!! i really enjoy it!!
good luck and good luck