Great job Hive account@arhag on the patch! Also thank you Hive account@alphabeta who I noticed was active in promoting the issue https://steemit.com/steemit/@alphabeta/warning-supercomputing-has-taking-over-witness-queue

So to confirm:

steem/programs/steemd/witness_node_data_dir/config.ini

no longer needs the active key for any specified miners? I had actually wondered why that ever was required since steemd is already in the background.