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Krazywitness and the adventures of the broken blockchain

krazywitnessPosted for Everyone to comment on, 4 years ago4 min read

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Witness Update/Community Update

As the top witness, community leader and often considered "the face" of the team, I felt it was important for me to speak about the clusterfuck we just experienced.

so here it goes...

About 24 hours ago our Blockchain was mended, after being down for about 4 days. sidenote: I said our because it truly does belong to all of us. It is only with the help of all the witnesses working together that we were able to "patch" the blockchain.

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krazywitness
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god
kantos
faddat
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@relaylogix, @lexiwitness, @chuckyfucky and @daking are worth mentioning as they were involved in the entire process also. A special thanks to @baabeeta for preparing a patch to make it possible and Mr Bushkill gets a special shoutout for updating the witness guide and starting the process of patching (I just really want him to be the hero of this story.

Warning: This next bit is just me.

not the team, not the witnesses, just a krazykrista speaking, I will try my hardest not to get excessively sappy.

Sadly, with the blockchain breaking, the community is starting to break a bit also. This started awhile back, but this last week or so has been the boiling point. Many important community members (who are also large stakeholders) are not sure whether they will continue on with the project or not, some have announced they are leaving, and I believe em. I am trying to remain a positive force in all of this, but it is exhausting. It gets hard here because I do have "a dog in the fight", several if we are being honest. I love people on both sides of this.

I said all of that to say this, I won't be abandoning the community, many people have done so in the past and you all deserve better than that.

The Community came FIRST

This was a blockchain/site that was launched for the community. Not the other way around, many people have came and went over time and we have unfortunately made a ton of enemies (see dick pics). Many of you have been around long enough to know the history...so I won't go into it here, although I should probably go into it at some point in a later series of posts. There is a lot of history here, some of it is beautiful and some of it is messy.

I will take some blame here

I was actually camping when the shit storm began, and I will not take all the blame, but atleast some of it is mine to shoulder. There was a time when the communication between the team and the community worked a bit better. Myself and a couple other team members (I won't finger them here) took community concerns/feedback back to the larger team and tried to build with those concerns in mind. After HF4 the development slowed way down, and there just wasn't a ton to communicate. All the shows largely stopped at this time also. I'm not making excuses, nor am I trying to place all the blame on the team, I have mad love and respect for all the people who make up the team, they are like family to me. I'm just acknowledging that I fucked up as the leader/the face in this aspect. We DID create something great and whatever happens next, happens. The team may just be another part of the history.

Important

There are several new witnesses and several recently disabled ones that are not returning. If everyone could check and adjust your witness votes that would be appreciated.

A couple years ago @officialfuzzy took a group of people he trusted, put them in a discord group together and said "hey, you guys want to help me launch a blockchain?!". It has been such an exciting and terrifying journey, and I am so so so thankful for it!

All the Love-

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Come visit me in Whaleshares Official Discord:

I'd love to meet you <3

https://discord.gg/3pqBXKY


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