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Witness Announcement

ijmmaiwitnessPosted for Everyone to comment on, 5 years ago3 min read

Together

Say blockchain and people immediately get visions of computers, wires, flickering lights, computer code, network and money generated out of thin air.

The whaleshares blockchain, for me, is best depicted in the image above. People, different people, working together, exchanging thoughts and opinions. Together trying to build a great community. A community with its own blockchain.

Witness Server

The whaleshares blockchain has a number of great witnesses already. When it comes to witnesses, you could say, the more, the better. To keep the blockchain alive, it is probably best to have witnesses all over the world. My server is in the Netherlands. Let's hope that is a blessing and not a burden.

Being a Witness

Apart from keeping the server running I hope to be useful to the community in other ways. My ambitions go further than just that server and being a moderator on Discord. I would also like to run a node in the near future, build some tools to make blockchain data easy accessible. That is enough tech talk for now.

Directly on the Platform

The open structure of our sharing and caring blockchain platform has a downside. Not everyone is in that sharing and caring mood when they enter the platform. Some have easy money on their mind. This mindset can easily lead to copy paste posts.

It is obvious, looking at the "plagiarism report" channel on Discord, people are annoyed when they come across posts like that. I want to make it one of my priorities to take action when plagiarism occurs. This is a task no one can do by themselves, but as a community I am positive we will be able to tackle it.

Communicate and Educate

Instead of flagging plagiarized posts, there will be communication with the posters, there will be communication with the rewarders, and there will be an attempt to educate, help the posters to create their own content. This will not always work, but to me it is more than worth the try.

Witness Votes

Do you want to support my initiative? Use 1 of your 30 witness votes, to vote for me.
Jump over to the Block Producer / Witness page and cast your votes. Simply click on the (^) up arrow next to my username "ijmmaiwitness" and use your private account or active key to lock in your vote.

While you're there, please consider voting for more awesome witnesses. You have 30 votes, don't leave them unused. With the new signup process in place, witnesses are the ones who decide, who can and who can't, join the community. Select people you trust with that task. Thanks for reading my witness announcement.


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