📝 What is "State of the Witnesses"?

State of the witnesses will be a regular update provided to the community on the status of the Whaleshares witnesses. The intent is to keep members informed of what is happening on the platform and what witnesses are doing. It is important that members of the community vote for witnesses that represent them and are driving the platform in the right direction. These updates are not intended to be all inclusive, but should only be a portion of the information used for your decision making.

In addition to the overall status, each update will also feature one witness in the "Witness Spotlight". This will allow the community to get a deeper look into the person/group behind the witness and how they play a part in the Whaleshares community.

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📈 Status

There are currently 22 witnesses disabled in the top 50, which is up 2 from last report. Please review your witness votes. Any witness disabled for more that 24 hours should be un-voted, at least temporarily until they become active again.

Disabled witnesses in top 20

• @lexiwitness (disabled 2 days ago)
• @beyondbitcoincas (disabled 2 weeks ago)

Many of these disabled witnesses have votes from users that are no longer active on the platform so their votes will not be removed. So you may want to consider voting for active witnesses below the top 50 to help move them past these longtime disabled witnesses.

Active witnesses outside of top 50

• @rishi556

Witness voting is a responsibility of all member and not just a one time deal. Everyone should make it a habit to regularly review their votes and make adjustments.

And as always, if you don't feel comfortable choosing witnesses to vote for you can always choose to proxy your votes to someone you trust who has taken the time to identify witnesses they feel are right for the platform.

Top 20 Witnesses that have missed 10 or more blocks

Note: There was an issue discovered with the visibility flag setting and an updated version of the witness code has been released. This was causing some witnesses to hang and miss large numbers of block as seen in the list below. This can also be attributed to some of the witness that missed large numbers of block in the last report as well.

• @bushkill-witness (1469)
• @lexiwitness (1471)
• @altruistic (1504)
• @powerpicswitness (1484)
• @kantos (1504)
• @nuthman (1670)
• @god (1498)
• @shane (1493)
  

  Stats

Rank	Prev Rank	Owner	Missed Blocks	Δ Missed Blocks	Votes	Weighted Votes(V)	Created
1	1	@krazywitness	6287	0	777	13658629179699	8/14/2018
2	2	@bushkill-witness	1556	1469	578	13226887283271	8/14/2018
3	3	@dbread-witness	2987	0	459	13156540129274	8/21/2018
4	4	lexiwitness	7252	1471	409	13147436304531	9/11/2018
5	6	@altruistic	1819	1504	449	12089630868718	9/8/2018
6	5	@ijmmaiwitness	321	0	412	12059697114207	10/26/2018
7	7	@powerpicswitness	4655	1484	502	11790456176449	8/13/2018
8	8	@unity	507	1	310	11104845907949	1/26/2019
9	10	@moonunit	4682	0	307	10679653287453	10/29/2018
10	11	@kantos	4830	1504	292	10597232980026	12/5/2018
11	12	@nuthman	2380	1670	162	10110899101834	12/17/2018
12	9	beyondbitcoincas	4648	0	524	9909272384631	8/13/2018
13	13	@ceruleanblue	2234	0	243	9757464557198	9/24/2018
14	15	@optimism-witness	2006	0	169	9348841696779	2/20/2019
15	14	@god	2247	1498	271	9331461388470	8/30/2018
16	17	@shane	3078	1493	120	8358344581477	4/13/2019
17	18	@singas	65	1	103	8337224798762	2/17/2019
18	16	@bangzi	46	0	224	8290030697058	8/17/2018
19	19	@startail	3801	0	158	7565648263410	8/13/2018
20	20	@met.witness	1967	0	153	7269147116992	12/22/2018
21	21	ienrikex	4247	16	359	6504577716566	8/17/2018
22	23	@lit	2436	45	150	6373629588378	3/8/2019
23	25	@revueh.com	17	0	64	6237390539083	6/28/2019
24	24	@sahkan	118	0	119	5944157860092	8/13/2018
25	22	kennybll-witness	9879	0	233	5904655076441	8/13/2018
26	27	@steem2wls	154	0	106	5706362324354	4/6/2019
27	26	@gamers	422	194	57	5224708216519	4/11/2019
28	28	@kid-witness	66	0	67	5016796764716	3/5/2019
29	29	@oasis	370	186	43	4865252754989	7/1/2019
30	40	@nlbloggers	4	2	46	4417776475408	9/8/2019
31	30	snug	3701	0	158	3922995528977	12/19/2018
32	31	jepu	1627	0	319	3555940338367	8/14/2018
33	32	project-atlas	1292	0	135	3426250037958	1/6/2019
34	34	deranged-witness	675	0	213	3286339357628	10/14/2018
35	35	wls-africa	302	0	317	3135192503452	9/1/2018
36	33	constelacion	394	0	186	3120744998667	11/21/2018
37	37	platformswitness	3	0	93	3057421337303	1/24/2019
38	36	photochallenge	9	0	132	2942733670002	2/20/2019
39	39	nsfwizard	1572	0	186	2939136713294	8/30/2018
40	38	clockwork	229	0	132	2906780097720	8/14/2018
41	41	eder-witness	276	230	25	2584867488169	7/10/2019
42	42	neoxian	169	0	151	2139310007624	12/25/2018
43	43	@actualized	165	86	15	2039679846569	7/2/2019
44	45	@minnowsupport	201	128	33	1992273987200	1/24/2019
45	44	aquacy	170	0	134	1895202723176	9/8/2018
46	46	nepd-witness	1510	0	186	1829037512592	8/14/2018
47	48	comedyopenmic	21	0	108	1700535713551	9/18/2018
48	49	profanereviews	8	0	90	1700083615712	11/8/2018
49	50	contests	88	0	119	1586244917875	8/14/2018
50	51	adsactly-witness	61	0	119	1172361983951	11/13/2018

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⭐️ Witness Spotlight ⭐️

There is no spotlight witness this report as no witnesses have provided their responses.

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💡 Previous Witness Spotlights

Update #	Spotlight Witness	Update #	Spotlight Witness
1	kennybll-witness	2	artwhale-witness
3	black-man	4	beyondbitcoincas
5	jepu	6	krazywitness
7	intelliwitness	8	nepd-witness
9	lexiwitness	10	ceruleanblue
11	ienrikex	12	nsfwizard
13	ijmmaiwitness	14	altruistic
15	god	16	kantos
17	unity	18	powerpicswitness

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🚨Calling All Witnesses

If you would like to be the "Spotlight Witness" in an upcoming report, please let me know!

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📰 Witness News!

1. @ijmmaiwitness - Reward Information Overview
2. @lexiwitness- Witness Node is up and running again
3. @ijmmaiwitness - Transactions Overview Back Online - How it works
4. @lexiwitness- Community Witness Update
5. @ijmmaiwitness- Some Info is Available Again - Don't like it? Don't use it!

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🐳 Get Involved!

• Vote for Witnesses.
• Want to learn more about the Whaleshares platform? See the Whaleshares whale paper.
• Interested in becoming a witness? See the Whaleshares Witness Announcement.
• Stay tuned with official updates and announcements on the Whaleshares Discord channel.

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📚 Thanks for Reading!

• If you find this information helpful, I hope you will consider supporting me (bushkill-witness) for witness.
• If you are a witness and are doing something to support the community, please use the tag #witness-update in your post and it may be selected for mention in the next witness update.