Witness Update #10: 19/11/2017

Being a Steemit witness is not only running a witness server. You have to get involved with the community and try to make it a better place. Here are my actions since the last Witness Update:

Another fun week just ended! This one was very interesting, as I took an initiative to start a public MySQL DB for Steemit Blockchain. Here is a sum of my actions since my last witness update!

Steemit

Witness Server

Server keeps going strong since the move that happened a few days ago. Signs on average 2 blocks per day and I couldn't be more happy about this!

Witness Position

Nothing happened here, I got some votes and I'm sitting nice & tidy at #103 (#94 of active witnesses only)

Blockchain Database

And now, this Witness update gets interesting! As I wrote at the beginning of the post, I took the initiative to start a public MySQL database of the whole blockchain. As of writing these lines, the sync is still ongoing, and there are around 4 million blocks to be indexed (out of the ~17.35 million). I decided to do this since SteemData's MySQL is not available right now.

Next steps are to ensure the optimal database performance, and announce the full details (this will probably happen via Hive account@utopian-io, check this project out if you are an open source developer!)

You can read the project's official announcement here

Greek Trail

We are trying to raise awareness and promote Steemit in Greece, and we need your help! Each one of us is doing it in their own way.

For example Hive account@trumpman is regularly raising awareness for the activities of Hive account@greek-trail (thank you Hive account@rouketas & Hive account@skapaneas for doing all those awesome things!) and donating rewards from the Greek Trail posts to the community account to help with the expenses of those activities.

Then, there is me! I'm regularly donating funds to the Greek Trail account, mainly from various post rewards. This month we have already raised 48SBD (combined with Hive account@trumpman's donations) and there are more on the way)! You can find my latest donation report here

The guys behind the Hive account@greek-trail are usually converting those donations to power up the account and cover all other costs from their own pockets.

Muse Blockchain

Hardfork 1 was activated a few days ago, and everything seems smooth. There are a few tweaks that should be made for the next HF, but it is still early.