It's been a whirlwind couple weeks now.
So we completed the HF20.4 upgrade a couple of nights ago, and once the RPC nodes were up to date, it allowed many of us to get back up and running, which I was thankful for as I was having issues with the 20.3 release causing issues with my witness. So here's what I was dealing with, while trying to keep things running.
- There was a "bug" that did not change the account creation fee for those not in the top 20
- The
account is brand new, which means that with the 20.3 bugs, I did not have enough RCs to broadcast any changes to correct the fee.
- My main account
, was just short enough mana to delegate to
- It wouldn't have mattered anyway as there was a bug not allowing delegation to "count" immediately.
Fortunatley, as soon as HF20.4 kicked in, I was able to perform the above with no issues.
Now, we're currently sitting in spot 166, which kind of turned out to be a good thing for this particular circumstance of having the witness on a brand new account. Any higher and there would have been missed blocks like crazy.
Last night around midnight my time, I noticed a couple of new commits to the steem git. Uh oh, that means a new patch is about to drop, which it did shortly thereafter.
Now, the bad part of being low on the list: You are never sure that your update went okay until you get a block to confirm. We had yet to receive a block in the 20.4 patch, so I did not know for a fact that I had everything correct.
We were informed that this update could be done without a replay (takes about 5 hours or so depending on specs) but would be better for the chain if you do a replay. So I had a decision to make. Do I roll the dice and replay and miss what may be the only block I get for a day or so, or do the "soft" upgrade and replay after (Again not knowing how long it will be until that block comes). I went for the soft upgrade, and waited for that block to come. Fortunately, the block came, was accepted, and confirmed that we are on 20.5. PHEW!
As of this writing,
So unless 
https://steemconnect.com/sign/account-witness-vote?witness=steemcreative&approve=1
THANK YOU!
TL;DR
The new witness is
You guys are awesome.
