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馃惓 Whaleshares State of the Witnesses - Update #2

bushkill-witnessPosted for Everyone to comment on, 6 years ago9 min read

馃摑 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.


馃搱 Status

Full Launch 馃殌 on September 1st, went off without a hitch and the witness nodes continue to run smoothly. We have picked up 9 new witnesses from last report bringing the current total to 34 witnesses.

I have also changed from provide pure number of votes to the weighted vote value. This gives a better indication of witness ranking.

Current
Rank
Previous
Rank
Witness Weighted Vote Missed
Blocks
Created
1 1 powerpicswitness 2012103678000 1 08/13/18
2 3 krazywitness 1584299505000 2 08/14/18
3 2 bushkill-witness 1543640183000 11 08/14/18
4 8 artwhale-witness 1356564378000 36 08/13/18
5 9 beyondbitcoincas 1313325293000 699 08/13/18
6 5 black-man 1310509595000 29 08/13/18
7 4 intelliwitness 1213002153000 28 08/14/18
8 18 dbread-witness 1082005218000 11 08/21/14
9 6 jepu 1045172916000 12 08/14/18
10 10 kennybll-witness 1030908714000 27 08/13/18
11 7 startail 991500625000 13 08/13/18
12 11 nepd-witness 980975232000 1 08/14/18
13 12 whalebook 938453409000 26 08/13/18
14 16 ienrikex 914144902000 30 08/17/18
15 13 clockwork 770048695000 1 08/14/18
16 15 blckchnd 750777618000 2 08/14/18
17 14 contests 730944566000 4 08/14/18
18 17 yensesa-witness 718403716000 0 08/16/18
19 19 sahkan 701198834000 5 08/13/18
20 22 bangzi 639476394000 1 08/17/18
21 20 solaceworkshop 635265014000 1 08/24/18
22 nsfwizard 558030553000 6 08/30/18
23 god 541062020000 97 08/30/18
24 23 csxcommunity 494783737000 6 08/21/18
25 wls-africa 407792537000 0 09/01/18
26 24 lucashunter 363554856000 6 08/26/18
27 21 cyberdust 339284138000 129 08/14/18
28 kwaskoff 271511628000 1 08/31/18
29 25 tnan0rken 243233028000 206 08/20/18
30 finteh 197993110000 24 08/31/18
31 hemangmehta 186987212000 0 09/04/18
32 cuttie1979 54249056000 3 09/01/18
33 vadbars 18009284000 30 09/03/18
34 chronocrypto 142000 0 09/06/18

猸愶笍 Witness Spotlight - artwhale-witness 猸愶笍


馃搶 For those who don't know much about witnesses, in layman鈥檚 terms, can you give your thoughts on what is the job of a witness?


Despite of what many think and many others do, the job of a witness in Whaleshares is and will be purely functional. See, the idea of running a witness is not only to provide back up to the blockchain but also to provide value and support in as many ways as possible to the community and Whaleshares.

馃搶 What brought you to Whaleshares?

The idea of Synergy that we have been building and designing since the beginning of the project with our team of developers is what caught my attention me since the beginning and what made me work on it since before it was a thing.

馃搶 What is your background and how does that make you a good witness?

I am a professional illustrator, concept designer and art director. And, thanks to our team, I am constantly bringing value to Whaleshares. How? By making our vision of Whaleshares to come true in several ways:
  • By keep working on the design and art of the whole platform and its appends. By orienting it mostly to the community involved and creating a better experience of the user.
  • By bringing ideas and creating new functional features inside and outside the platform.
  • And particularly by supporting the art-and-photography-related-content and community (through the @Pixel account) and the development of Whalebook (through the @whalebook account).

    馃搶 What excites you most about being a witness?


    The idea of having tools to support the art community, the development of our platform and bringing a fast response when needed. All for the dream we are all working on making real.

    馃搶 Are you running any projects on Whaleshares?


    Yes, I am part of the Official Dev Team of Whaleshares and I am developing the features that already appeared but mostly will appear in the next couple of months, and I have worked and I am still working on several appends from Whaleshares such as Whalebook, Sharebits, MasDacs, few more that I can鈥檛 mention just yet, and a personal project related to support the artists that don鈥檛 have a proper income but are hungry for arts.

    馃搶 Do you have or plan to have a WhaleToken? If so, tell us about it.


    I do have one Whale-Token and a second one that haven鈥檛 been created yet.

The first (and personally the one I feel related and proud at most) is called Pixel and its goal is to reward the efforts and hard work of the art community through competitions and daily/weekly/monthly rewards to those that are actively looking further to improve their set of skills and progressively improve the quality in their canvases and their eyes as their goal.

The second one is for supporting The Whalebook project. This whale-token is designed for rewarding the people that give their ideas, support with new feature proposals and help to manage the upcoming lots of information, content and server expenses that Whalebook will have. Since the token hasn鈥檛 been created yet I would like to keep its name as discreet as possible.

馃搶 What are your goals as a witness?


To keep bringing value and tools to the community to create more and more synergy, and to help to change the lives of people for better.

馃搶 What do you see as the biggest challenge for Whaleshares and how do you think it should be addressed?


I am personally concerned about the future abuses that user may try to do. But I believe we have set up a whole set of rules in the platform that will at least help to avoid such abuses without restricting or limiting the freedom that good-quality users have.

馃搶 If you had to vote for only one witness (not yourself) who would it be and why?


That鈥檚 a hard one. I believe @baabeetaa would be my first choice.

The why is pretty clear: He made Whaleshares possible and he is the core of the development of the team. His response is always positive and it doesn鈥檛 matter how, he always helps others to find a solution. He totally deserves it.

馃搶 Tell the community why you deserve their vote?


I don鈥檛 really feel comfortable speaking so much about all what I do and what I have done for this to happen or why I deserve this or that. I think it is somehow pedantic. But voting for my witness means few things:

  • It means that you support the art and photography community.
  • It means that you support the development of the design and features that are being created for Whaleshares.
  • It means that you support the development of side projects directly related to Whaleshares, such as Whalebook itself.
  • It means that you support the efforts for limiting the abuse and that you support the reinvestment of the mined reward back onto the platform and its community.

Thanks!


馃挕 Previous Witness Spotlights

- kennybll-witness

馃摌 Get Involved!

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




If you find this information helpful, I hope you will consider supporting me (bushkill-witness) for witness. I would also like to thank @kennybll (@kennybll-witness) for help with the script to pull the witness status, and @anritco (@artwhale-witness) who did the header art (and all the awesome art for Whaleshares). Please consider these 2 witnesses when voting as well.

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.

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