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RE: Stop Playing Around! Vote for REAL Steem Witnesses!
Many of witnesses have to power down to pay for their infrastructure and other operating costs (producer rewards are in Steem Power so there's no other choice if you don't have other sources of viable income). I've never powered down for all those years, but what if I'd need some to cover my operation costs?
I, and probably a lot of people, would be interested to know what it actually takes to run a witness, from machines to power cost, and time ofc. Normies like myself don’t know anything about this nerd business and might just think it's something easy and fun, which I’m sure it isn’t.
I read yesterday that it cost around 1000 bucks, but most of these guys don't need to power down because of this. Something else is going on in the background, trust me.
It's a lot of fun, usually during SteemFest :-) also, many of the witnesses loves what they are doing and we have here a whole great piece of technology so amazing environment for all crazy weirdoes to develop for Steem and themselves.
But true, there are also hard times... more on that when the dust settles down ;-)
You are basically all crazy masochists and I'm grateful for you. I'll be here sipping wine and posting selfies while you do the hard work behind the scenes.
Well how much do a normal person get payd to pay their bills? A good full witness cost +- 250euro a month. You must take free of your day job that must be paid to cover costs and some to cover steem costs.
Most witnesses allways powered down.
That's why steemit inc also powered down to cover costs.
I hear you but I'm sure that that's not the case this time and it sending a bad signal to the steem community.
I completely understand what your getting at @oldtimer. If you check above I left a comment as to why I think (just a guess really) @blocktrades is powering down right now.
Because we are fighting a tron bot 🤖 army there are many effective strategies that we could deploy to derail all tron efforts... not all of which can be executed on chain. We have a war on the exchanges as well at the moment and someone has to set those guys straight. But it has to be done in such a way as to not let the cat (or acorn! 😹) out of the bag so to speak!
By the way! A BIG, “Hello!” from another fellow Edmonton dweller! I poked around and followed your blog!
So I’m curious! Do we have any Steem Meetups here in Edmonton? I would so show up to those... in fact, personal trainer that I am, I have been considering organizing a couple pop up fitness/Steem events in the area... figured it might be fun to meet people and get the word out about the Steem Blockchain. 😺
My guess is that they are going to fork steem and sell all of this steem they can to put into their new steem... thoughts?
I think the whole system is need of revamp (after this current situation is resolved).
So why I'm not powering down?
And even in case of fork it doesn't make sense, because balances will stay.
(not a financial advise though)
Good question. Why are you not?
I believe in what we have here.
I just wrote in my post :-)
Because you were never invited to the illuminati parties...
It's as simple as that, just take a look at 4 years of history of powerdowns.
This topic comes from time to time.
Many are now doing full power downs and they were just started within the past couple days. Different than what you are talking about here.
Removed all my Witness votes from those doing a full Power down.
Hi @offgridlife! Before you do all of that maybe read my thoughts about @blocktrades powering down. (You can find it under the top comment in this post.)
There are a lot of things to consider... one of which is what is happening off the Steem Blockchain. With 3 delinquent exchanges interfering with the decentralized governance of the Steem Blockchain... someone has got to deploy some action/consequences to those exchanges. If done right the this could even mean bullish movement in the price. If we can move the price of Steem up... it makes us less of a target for the likes of the Justin Sun’s of the world.
For the wealthy investors that will invest in the Steem Blockchain there are only good considerations for a higher buy in price. The higher the buy in the more committed to this blockchain they will be.
If I were you... I would take a positive angle. I have decided to do just that with a 12,230 Steem Power Up (with more to come!) I trust this community and I trust the witness’s who are keeping the Steem Blockchain alive.
I’ll give you a #HighFive for your open minded thoughts and ideas! 🙌
Well a Partial Powerdown would make sense.... not a full Power down. I will review the ledger and Vote some back in....
Actually @blocktrades in the only one Not powering down ....
There is an epic hype about freedom.
I have a hunch: Free people can't be controlled.
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