Hi guyz,
I am one year old now. Much has happened since the last time.
I stopped beating about the bush and plunged my head first into the honey pot, but plunged into the whole thing and naked.
One moment we must stop asking right questions and be in the matrix, follow the white rabbit and live the experience.
The Origin
A new witness is born
The first problems, the server
Being a witness starts with the creation of a steem account. We chose
Then comes the server. We chose to work with 
| Witness node | Dedicated Server in EU |
|---|---|
| System | Ubuntu 16.04 |
| CPU | intel i7 |
| RAM | 64 GB |
| Disk | 2 * 240 GB SSD> |
| Network | 1 gbps |
| Price | $120 / month |
Then you have to remember the computing courses from university, to keep close your best friend google and ask questions to the group #witness on steemit chat. Thanks you to 
For security I mainly followed the 5 posts of 
Security set up on the server (hackers, thank you for skipping this part)
- ssh connection by public / private key
- Firewall
- Fail2Ban
- I still have email sending issues for installing Tripwire but this is the next step
To setting up the witness node, I followed the Steem-in-a-box post from the excellent 
In order to not miss block, I made some optimisations on the server
- zram for RAM compression
- synchronization of the system clock
- disabling ipv6
- netdata.io for ressources tracking
- upgrade to the v0.19.3 of the blockchain version
We also update the SBD / Steem price every 6 hours through 
I must say that I am proud of our server. I learned a lot by putting it in place. This is what our server looks like today.
The power of the Community
When I started to ask question about how to become a witness, everybody warns me that it is not easy and that I must give something to the Community. We talked late in the night with 
However, it's true that being active in the Community is very important because at the end it is the Community that elects its witnesses.
Initially our
With this ranking, in a month, we processed a block and therefore received as reward of 1 Steem Power (SP). You can not imagine the pleasure and the pride of having its first block, and without any more problem.
The Community is therefore essential because the principle of publications also applies to witnesses. The more votes you have, the more steem you have.
That's why you must start with the idea of helping the Community, because at the beginning, it's a losing business.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank those who voted for us. It's thanks to you that we had our first block. Here are the biggest contributors:
Dear Steemains, if you like our work or just like us lol, you can vote for us by clicing one this picture
Other projects are in progress but it is too early to talk about them at the moment...
The new world
This video The bitcoin bubble makes me laugh each time lol.
I often hear the sentence "to the moon" in the new world. What does to the moon mean? Maybe that there is no limit, maybe that the limit is the moon. If that's it, then you think small dear Steemains. Reaching the moon is not so far 384,400 kilometers and not so hard, it seems that we have even made it.
In my first post The new world: Day 2 - The thirsty desert, I said that this world is a desert. After a year I am more than convinced. In the new world it's us the limit, and our soul is something much more difficult to reach than the moon. We are limited by ourselves, by our fears, by our ego, by our imagination accustomed to the old world. Everything has to be done here, there is place for everyone, there is only to start and have fun. That's what I do anyway.
You can vote for us as a Steem Witness here:
https://steemit.com/~witnesses
