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I have worked tirelessly on my STEEM Witness server for a solid week as of today. I tried many setup examples offered in the steemit.com interface. The best one by far has been provided by Hive account@yehey. Posted outside of steemit.com so that it can be updated as required to keep it current.

Getting the the witness node itself built was not the biggest issue for me, the price feed turned into my monster. I worked on https://steemit.chat/channel/witness with Hive account@bobinson and Hive account@yehey for a few days until I finally figured out that the problem was a bad character. Not a typo but literally an incorrect Character as seen here.

Yes it is the little things that will get you. I'll be honest I am not sure how I got this unless from cut and paste.
So starting from a scratch blank config.json file and typing everything instead of using copy paste yielded the correct results. A correctly published price feed.

as seen on Hive account@drakos cool tool here https://steemian.info/witnesses.

Now I saw in the last Reports from the Witnesses 2017-01-01 published by Hive account@timcliff that some witnesses were publishing a discount rate in their price feeds due to the volatility in the $SBD prices currently going on.

It would be nice if witnesses knew if this was something we should all be doing and if so what the line of code is to add to our config.json file to implement the discount rate. It would also be good if we had a place we could look on a regular basis to see if the discount rate needs to be adjusted or removed.

Perhaps I can work on providing this service myself. Even implement an SMS service to let witnesses know when changes have been made, price feeds broken, fork updates etc. This couild perhaps help keep the witness node members more up to date with changes. I own a ColdFusion website hosting company so I have access to servers, rack space and bandwidth to implement projects at relatively no extra cost to me.

But for now, I am just waiting for more votes for witness and for my 1st block so that annoying red strike-through text can be removed from my name in the witness list.

If someone could provide the code needed to add the discount feed I would appreciate it in a comment below.

Just my two STEEMS Worth.
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