So my witness node has been running for a while now
I am running the 19.2 version and pretty used to maintaining it. I will make a tiny modification to use more RAM since it is close to my actual limit(24GB). I still have room with my 32GB until I need to change setup.
I never update the price feed more than once a day before until I stumbled on @drakos rant on price feed. I really thought I was very low in the witness ranking but on https://steemian.info/witnesses, you can see that I am N°147 as full rank, and N°107 if you only look at the active ranking.
Hourly feed up and running.
I am using https://github.com/Someguy123/steemfeed-js.
You can also use https://github.com/Netherdrake/conductor.
I might not that they use bittrex and poloniex. It would be nice to use the other exchanges from coinmarketcap. The day I learn python or do some Node JS, I will make a pull request...
Getting some support
Here is some support for witness below rank 80 by @jerrybanfield. This is very cool. Witness like me are far from covering the expenses of running a witness. I usually add a lot of writing to put them down but yeah I am losing money doing. I can afford it for now so I am happy to do it.
My goal is to reach 1 block/day.
I am mainly focusing on the security side of the platform and users.
You can support me (and other witnesses) by voting.
Vote for witness @cryptohazard
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