...Block Party Update

Good morning my fellow blockchain enthusiasts, what an interesting few days it has been,
Some people might not know, but I have GAD, whats that you say? well it's not fun.

Generalised Anxiety Disorder is something that I live with everyday, most days it's not an issue and I control it with medication and coping strategies I've been taught by therapists. It works most of the time.

This week not so much, a perfect storm brewed, things at work are not goign well, I'm really unhappy there and I need to change jobs, my girlfriend is away, so I'm kinda by myself and then I left myself short of money and ran out of meds.

Ok technically I didn't run out of meds, cause I had my Xanax, but I try not to use it.

Anyways long story short, I thought the best idea was to limit my time and online and disengage socially for a bit, the disengage socially is a bit of a joke, as who has friends am I right?

So last night I'm feeling a lot better I'm back on my meds, my girlfriends is coming back soon an well work is work I can deal with that, so I go online, it's at this time I discover the 0.19.6 and 0.19.11 updates to witness servers and I notice I'm about due for a block, so it's time to act fast.

1. disable witness

2. jump onto #witness channel

3. update docker image many thanks to @someguy123 for keeping the repo updated.

4. update config.ini many thanks to @drakos's custom config.ini example

5. replay the blockchain

6. monitor replay via docker logs and netdata (if your not using netdata to monitor your server then, please check it out.

7. sync to the blockchain

8. update witness specially the account creation fee 0.200 after reading @derangedvisions's post discussing a comment by @pfunk
   .I've updated my minimum account creation fee vote to 0.2 STEEM. This effectively (if enough witnesses set it to 0.2 as well) prices accounts at a minimum of 6 STEEM deposit or 0.2 STEEM + 29.8 SP delegated for at least a month. Because the price of STEEM is now at about $1.07, I believe that the current minimum of $3.21 or so of STEEM for an account does not do an adequate job of limiting the potential impact on abusing the network's namespace. This is one of the tasks of witnesses.

9. enable witness

10. go to bed

So how did it all go, well so far 0.19.11 has been stable and is actually using about 2.5 gig less swap file for the blockchain...and I didn't miss my block, YAY

Not much else to tell...Oh wait the winner of the 10SBD, from my last update, well that's @snook congratulations and thanks for supporting my witness.

till next..

yours forever in the blockchain

Sapphic

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