Following all of the recent drama with the hostile takeover of STEEM, my witness server now runs the first version of the code that is available for the new fork of STEEM called HIVE. My first hive block

The 'fun times' of blockchain governance continue and @justinsunsteemit has recently posted a list of questions for witnesses so that he can decide who to vote for. Clearly this is a contentious situation,

I started missing blocks on my server an hour ago and saw that the top 20 STEEM Witnesses have been replaced with brand new accounts created by TRON/Steemit inc. Having just read through the steemit company

Thanks to @someguy123 for providing the package of the patched code for Steem that was needed following the recent freezing of the blockchain - post HF21. After over 24 hours of outage we seem to be moving

A bug was discovered with the codebase of Hard Fork 21 and so a further update has today been released - Hard Fork 22. My server is now running HF22 and serving blocks with it. The fork will activate globally

After a full replay and upgrade to the HF21 version of the steem witness server code - my witness node is now once again live and serving blocks. Thanks to all who worked so hard to make the process relatively

Hard Fork 21 has gone live and we are testing the results on the live network. My witness is temporarily disabled as I am not upgrading it until the new code is shown to be reliable this time. All going

It's been 6 months since my last witness update post and it's not because I am slacking! There hasn't been a huge amount of changes in the witnessing world lately, so I have been focusing on other areas

After some delays, I have now updated my witness servers to the latest version of the Steem software (0.20.6). So far they are serving Steemy blocks just fine. :) The new version is a bugfix release addressing

Woo! I made it to position #95 in the Steem User Authority table, as put together by @scipio and friends. I covered @steem-ua previously here and at that time I was hovering just below position 100 so

A few people have asked me recently for my thoughts on which witnesses to vote for and why. Here's my breakdown of the ones I currently vote for and why I vote for them - you can use my logic to vote for

I was looking at the graphical display of the distribution of witness votes here on SteemReports and noticed the huge impact that votes from the @freedom / @pumpkin account have on witness positions..

For many of us, the last few days have probably been among the busiest ever as witnesses. If something breaks with Steem, the coders involved have to work very hard to locate the problem and fix it, plus

I wrote a reply earlier to @reggaemuffin's post on proposals for improved requirements for future hard forks of Steem - some good points are made in there. In my reply I related my experiences working

As you can see, as of this time, the Steem blockchain is functional, but continues to 'harmonise' the new system of 'resource credits' that is intended to improve the network in a variety of ways.. As

Thanks to @someguy123 for being on top of managing his software to make upgrading witness servers a simple process.. My primary server is now serving blocks again, ready for Hard Fork 20. :) We now have

Phew, it's been a tough day here today, but at last I have my primary server replaying the blockchain in anticipation of going live with the working version of Hard Fork 20 for Steem. In case you aren't

One of the main reasons I was initially attracted to use Steem is its independence and decentralisation - after years of being delisted and outright censored on G+ and Facebook, a blockchain based solution

Following a lot of work from various core coders of the Steem blockchain, patches have been rolled out to repair the bugs introduced into the blockchain during the recent attempted deployment of the new

As you have no doubt realised by now - Steem has been offline most of the day. This is largely due to issues encountered during the adoption process of the new version of the Steem software across the