Update Your Witness Vote

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There's actually no doubt that most of you might have been getting notifications about your witness vote getting expired in the next one month from now.

It is also a bit devastating that most Hive users tend to overlook or ignore this important information probably because some of us don't really know the importance of voting for witnesses on the blockchain.

Importance of Voting On Witnesses on the Hive Blockchain

The fact is that every Hive user on the Hive Blockchain will definitely possess Hive Power (HP) which implies that you are also putting in your stake on the Hive Blockchain. There's also no doubt that you also own part of the Hive Blockchain whenever you put your stake on Hive.

Also, anyone on the Hive Blockchain can be part of the Hive Witness provided such users are willing to contribute positively on the blockchain by creating more blocks on the Blockchain, this explains why they are sometimes called "Block Producers". They also make consensus decisions for the future development of Hive. They are also known for ensuring stability of the Hive blockchain by operating and running reliable nodes on the Hive Blockchain. These Witnesses must be well respected and trusted in the Hive community. Also, they should be known for their positive impact and development the community.

So don't be surprised when you see some users telling you to vote for them as a witness on the Hive blockchain while some may even reward you for voting for them to be a witness on the Hive blockchain.

30 Slots Available for Witness Vote

You will definitely agree with me that Hive happened to be a hardfork of Steemit blockchain and the initial condition or code set up by the developers then was that every user on the steem Blockchain is entitled to vote for only 30 witnesses which also applies to the Hive Blockchain. This implies that as a Hive user, you only have a maximum of 30 voting slots for the available number of witnesses on the Hive Blockchain.

This means that you are only meant to vote for maximum of 30 witnesses on the Hive Blockchain. This is really why you should vote for users who deserves this posts because the witnesses on the Blockchain are just like our drivers or chauffeurs, once the driver of a bus or car isn't skilled in driving then the passengers may experience severe accident which can lead to loss of lives and properties.

The witnesses are also meant to share their prospects or mission to develop the Hive blockchain. It's really great we have some witnesses fulfilling their ambitions just exactly the same way they planned to make it happen.

How To Vote for Witnesses on the Hive Blockchain

There are multiple ways to vote for the witness of your choice on Hive blockchain. I actually know of three different methods but I'm quite sure we may have Hive users knowing some other method apart from my three known method. I hope you share your method of witness voting via the comment section below as this will also serve as a means of learning to other users.

These are the three methods i know of when it comes to witness voting on the Hive Blockchain ;

#1 Hive Blog

This seems to be the most widely used or common method for witness - voting on the Hive blockchain. This can be done by using
https://wallet.hive.blog/~witnesses.

You can copy and paste the address on your browser and then vote for the witness of your choice by clicking on the "upvote" button as shown in the image above.

#2 PEAKD

The second method is to make use of Peakd interface by logging into peakd.com and then click on the witness section after clicking on the toggle bar menu.

You can simply copy and paste this link https://peakd.com/me/witnesses into your browser and then begin your witness vote.

All you need to do is to click on the vote icon as shown in the image above.

Once you've click on the vote icon, you'll notice the tick appears to be in a light blue box as shown in the above screenshot.

#3 HIVE KEYCHAIN

The last but not the least is option is by making use of Hive Keychain. This is also one of the easiest method used for witness voting even though some users might not be really aware of this method.

All you need to do is to set up your Hive Keychain account and then click on the governance icon as shown in the image.

Then you click on the vote button to vote for your desired witnesses as shown in the image above and once your vote has been completed you have the voting icon automatically changed to white colour as seen in the image.

Check Out Some of the Witnesses I Voted for on the Hive Blockchain and their Impact in the Hive Community

I stated earlier from the beginning of this context that there are some important factors you are meant to look out for when it comes to voting or selecting your desired witnesses on the Hive Blockchain and these includes how trustworthy or reliable the witness is and most importantly the witness level of impact on the Hive Blockchain.

I voted based on these two categories and I must say I have never regretted my decision. There's also no doubt that different people will also want to suggest whom you should vote for as witnesses on the Hive blockchain but I will advice you also consider these two factors when casting your witness vote on the Hive Blockchain.

These are some of the witnesses i voted for on the Hive Blockchain and I was also able to explain the reason behind my vote for these set of witnesses as explained below ;

#1 BLOCKTRADES
You will definitely agree with me that Hive account@blocktrades is currently the leading witness with the highest number of vote on the Hive blockchain estimated to be around 89M HP.

Apart from the popular exchange project developed by Hive account@blocktrades which enables Hive users to exchange their Hive and HBD tokens to other cryptos like Litecoin (LTC), Monero, and other available tokens via https://blocktrades.us/en/. I love the fact that Hive account@blocktrades has always been working effectively on Hive software and they are also known for updating the community about their level of development almost every month.

The last time I checked, the team was able to implement a p2p network system on Hive nodes which makes it easy for direct the exchange blocks over the p2p network. This is in accordance with the 12th update from Hive account@blocktrades as quoted below;

Hive nodes can now directly exchange blockchain blocks in compressed form. Previously each node would receive new blocks in uncompressed form, then compress them locally before storing them to their block_log file. In our most recent changes, the p2p network protocol has been enhanced so that when a node connects to a new peer, the two nodes inform each other of whether they can accept compressed blocks (only nodes compiled with the new code can accept compressed blocks, older ones can only accept uncompressed ones).

There's actually no doubt that the Hive community is definitely being impacted by Hive account@blocktrades for their great efforts in producing more blocks on the Hive blockchain and this is why Hive account@blocktrades really deserved my witness vote. I am also optimistic about Hive account@blocktrades making more impact in the Hive community as time goes on.

#2 LEOFINANCE
One of my favourite project on the Hive blockchain is Hive account@leofinance. As you can see I'm also posting this content using Hive account@leofinance interface due to the fact that I'm able to earn free $LEO tokens for creating contents that has to do with cryptocurrency, finance and blockchain technology.

There's also no doubt that Hive account@leofinance community has also been one of the fastest growing community on the Hive blockchain with over 13,000 members.

I love the fact Hive account@khaleelkazi and other Hive account@leofinance team are really doing a great job when it comes to promoting Hive and developing the Hive blockchain through Leofinance projects by introducing PolyCub, LeoInfra and most importantly the Leofinance mobile app which makes it more easier for users to publish their content on the Hive blockchain and get rewarded for their content.

#3 STEEMPEAK
The ubiquitous Hive interface which is widely used by most Hive users known as Peakd is one of the best project produced by Hive account@steempeak. Much thanks to Hive account@asgarth and his team for coming up with such a wonderful development on the Hive Blockchain which enable Hive users to experience a complete decentralized system on the Hive Blockchain.

According to the team latest development update published by Hive account@peak.open which can be found here, the developers are really doing a great job regarding the development of the HiveHub platform and most importantly the notification feature which enables users to decide which notifications they would like to receive in the Hive community.

You can keep checking out for more update via Hive account@peak.open as this will definitely enable you to know how Hive account@steempeak is impacting the Hive Blockchain positively and this is why they deserve my vote as a witness.

#4 GTG
There's no doubt that Grandalf the Grey also known as Hive account@gtg is the second most voted witness on the Hive blockchain with a vote worth of 88M HP. He is also a great developer and IT wizard in the crypto space.

I became more obsessed with Hive account@gtg project on the Hive Blockchain which has to do with the Hive Mirror Net. The Hive Mirrornet was developed by Hive account@gtg to enable witnesses, developers and "power users" who are more knowledgeable about hived and cli_wallet to test their project on the Hive Blockchain. There's also high chance of mirrornet growing to be a playground for developers to tests their apps before going doing the same in the real world.

#5 GOOD-KARMA
If there's someone who has made a huge impact when it comes to decentralized social media platforms (cryptocurrency ) and blockchain technology, you will definitely agree with me that Hive account@good-karma should never be left out.

I could remember back then in the early years when Steemit was still the only decentralized social media platform being used by most of us back then, Hive account@good-karma really made it very easy for most of us to publish our content and earn free tokens by developing one of the most widely used app on Steemit known as esteem App. This is just to show how passionate he was back then when it comes to decentralized social media app development.

Today, Hive users can now start publishing their contents and earning free rewards from their contents through the Hive account@ecency App developed by Hive account@good-karma and his team. There's also no doubt that Hive account@ecency community is also growing since there are some Hive users also making use of Hive account@ecency mobile App on the Hive Blockchain.

I love the fact that Hive account@good-karma has always been impacting the Hive community by making it more easier for users to utilize and access the Hive blockchain. This is one of the reasons Hive account@good-karma got my witness vote.

#6 ROELANDP
I'm quite sure most of us here would have been reading or probably hearing about hivefest. Anyways, Hive account@roelandp is popularly known to be the originator of this great event and I love the fact that he is using this great event to bring every Hive members together in which the community members tend to meet themselves physically and share ideas about the development of the Hive community and Hive Blockchain as a whole.

I became more interested in voting Hive account@roelandp for witness when I also got to know that he is the developer of Hive Wallet and I was also aware of his great effort in fixing the bugs generated from the Hive wallet.

I am highly optimistic that Hive account@roelandp will definitely help in developing the Hive community with his programming skills and I also hope i will definitely get to meet him physically in future Hivefest event.

#7 OCD-WITNESS

OCD happens to be one of the top growing community on the Hive blockchain and the #ocd hash tag is also a commonly used tag majorly used by most content creators in the Hive Community. Much thanks to Hive account@acidyo for curating good quality contents on the Hive blockchain even though he's also the founder of Hive account@ocd, Hive account@ocdb, Hive account@ocd-witness and my favourite of them all which is Hive account@poshtoken.

It's really great earning additional rewards just by sharing your posts to twitter with the help of Hive account@poshtoken. There's also no doubt that Hive account@acidyo has also helped in growing the Hive community by bringing in new members into Hive through his method of incentives and on boarding programmes which has help in driving more traffic into the Hive front-ends.

I definitely hope Hive account@acidyo and his team will continue their great work and development in impacting the Hive blockchain positively more than we can ever imagine.

#8 STOODKEV

If you are really following this write up, i stated that Hive keychain is one of the best Hive tool that can be used to vote for the witness of your choice. The fact is that the founder of Hive keychain is Hive account@stoodkev and there's also no doubt that this tool has helped in solving lot of problems on the Hive Blockchain.

I am able to engage in the below activities using Hive keychain ;

• Sending and Receiving both Hive and HBD tokens from Hive Users
• Powering Up and Powering Down my Hive tokens
• Buying and Converting Hive and HBD
• Access to my Hive and HBD Savings
• Delegating my Hive Power to other Hive users
• Access to my Hive tokens just like we have on hive-engine
• Access to Governance voting
• Access third-party apps on Hive Blockchain

I definitely hope Hive account@stoodkev will adopt more development on Hive Keychain in future such as minting NFTs on the Hive blockchain using Hive tokens and many more.

#9 THEMARKYMARK

For Hive users who are more conversant with Leofinance, you will definitely agree with me that Hive account@themarkymark is actually one of the content creators with good content when it comes to Cryptocurrency related content.

I mostly find his content more informative most especially anytime he conducts his Ask Ms Anything (AMA) session in the Leofinance community.

I also love the fact that he has helped in eradicating Spams and promoting good quality content in the community. It's not also a strange news that Hive account@themarkymark is the founder of an NFT project on the Hive blockchain known as Hive Punks. According to his recent publication which can be found here , it can be observed that he is also planning to collaborate with other crypto project which may definitely help to increase the use case of Hive Punks NFT as quoted below;

I am willing to collaborate with your project to facilitate an airdrop of your tokens to my user base free of charge. You reach a valuable interested audience without having to do any of the development or research, and my user base gets more value out of their NFTs, a win win for everyone involved.

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Developing and promoting NFT projects on the Hive blockchain will definitely be a great advantage to the Hive ecosystem since it requires the use of Hive to buy such NFTs and thus, it helps to make Hive a crypto with a more valuable use case.

#10 THREESPEAK

Threespeak is also one of the witness I found worthy of getting my witness voting due to the fact that the project is running Hive full API node and engaging in different encoding operations to create more blocks on the Hive Blockchain. I sometimes refer to Hive account@threespeak as "Hive YouTube" since it involves content delivery through storage and high quality video on the Hive Blockchain. This implies that users are able to watch and upload video related contents on the Hive Blockchain

It's also a great news to know that the team is also working hard in building Hive account@spknetwork on the Hive blockchain which will enable hive users to mine free Larynx Tokens as time goes on. The project will also promote offchain infrastructure incentivisation for web3 on the Hive Blockchain. SPK Network provides the ability for video platforms and content creators to interact with the decentralized social graph, while rewarding infrastructure providers with SPK governance and BROCA gas tokens.

Eleven Witness Voting Slots Available

As you can see I still have few slots left for my witness voting. Some other witnesses i voted for are Hive account@ausbitbank, Hive account@arcange, Hive account@therealwolf Hive account@yabapmatt, Hive account@quochuy, Hive account@pharesim, Hive account@steemitboard, Hive account@neoxian, Hive account@actifit making me have a total of 19 utilized votes with 11 voting slots available.

Feel free to suggest Hive witnesses that deserve to be voted for via the comment section and it will be more appropriate if you can share their witness statements or impact on the Hive Blockchain as this will enable me utilize my remaining available witness vote.

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