WHY YOU NEED TO ENDORSE URA-SOUL AS WITNESS
Many people are still conceiving wrong information about Who a witness is. How does it work. As a result of that, high percentage of steemians have not voted for any candidate of their choice.
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Who is a witness
A witness performs crucial tasks on how the steem network function although Some people might have something different from this. As a witness you need to be willing to perform your task with diligence.
Simple definition:Witnesses are the computer servers that run the Steem Blockchain.
Without witnesses there is no Steem, Steemit, DTube, Utopian.
WITNESS PERFORMS THE FOLLOWING TASKS
- They help to produce blocks thus which help to process transaction.
- They determine the price feed, which relates how steem dollar worth 1 US dollars in steem.
- They make important decisions on steem
It's pertinent we know all these before going to vote any candidate so that we won't regret our votes.
WHY YOU NEED TO VOTE URA-SOUL
Ura-soul has the following requirements that can qualify him to be a good and active witness.
As a person who runs other social network, He has a good knowledge about the steemit blockchain and definitely has a server that can run the steem blockchain.
The server specs
8 Core (16 Thread) Intel CPU
96GB RAM
110GB SSD Storage
Unlimited Bandwidth
Ubuntu 16.04
He has technical capabilities and understands great concepts about steem.
Ura-soul has a full support and trust from the steem occean tool community and We all endorse him to represent us as witness.
ACHIEVEMENTS OF URA-SOUL
First of all, I am gradually expanding Steem Ocean, which is my space on the web for providing insights, statistics and features that I would like to see integrated into Steemit.com, but which aren't here (and aren't likely to be here any time soon). I have added a variety of minor updates and improvements in the last couple of months which add up to make the service more simple to navigate and provide additional insights that we will all find useful when examining users of the blockchain.
I also ran a contest to celebrate 3000 followers and to promote Steem Ocean which was a success and I delegated 500 Steem to the winner for a month and the winner was...!
Next up, I found I was even being soft censored on Steemit, by the tech manager of Steemit himself. So that then took up a bunch of my time, investigating the issues related to that and deciding how to respond. That issue is on hold, pending further developments. I later found a post where he admitted to being anti-democratic and pro shadowy manipulation!.
I explored the legality of copyright infringements as they might apply to witnesses, which is something I have not seen addressed before but which is absolutely fundamental to the continuation of the platform. I then also looked at this from the perspective of child pornography being found in the bitcoin blockchain and how that relates to Steem witnesses.
I highlighted that two witness accounts are dead - with one account being actually openly sold... So if you are voting for 'Steempty' or 'Imacryptorick', then I suggest redirecting your votes as they are wasted.
I suggested a scheme for bonus curation rewards for onboarding new users to Steem - although this is of little use as long as the signup process is broken!
Next up, I went on a bit of a campaign to try to make the witness voting process fairer. I first exposed this here and then made some initial suggestions in a more detailed post here. This post shows that the top 50 witnesses receive a boosted amount of votes compared to the others, most likely because they are more visible on the main witness voting page in Steemit.com. I provided a design for an improved witness voting page too, though I don't see any movement to implement it.
I took part in
's alternative lifestyles show on MSP waves several times - in this episode I put some time into explaining the problem with the current witness voting process. In this episode we focused on veganism - I'm last in the show - so skip to the end if you want to listen to me.
I most recently attended the London Crypto Currency show with
and many other well known steemians. It was a lot of fun and I recorded a promotional video for Steem Ocean at the Steem stand (which I put a bit of help into building before the event started). That video should appear on here soon.
I intend to continue evolving Steem Ocean to make it ever more useful, I am planning to start developing the features for monitoring downvoting soon.
My witness server is still going strong and is more stable following the integration of the price feed script from
, so thanks for that. I have no plans to upgrade it yet.
I need to focus on getting more votes for my witness in order to get more funds in to pay for increased hardware and also to fund projects and ideas as they arise. So some of my time will be focused into 'campaigning' a bit more over the next few weeks.
We will soon start to see the initial shape of things to come from the EOS project and also maybe Steem's SMTs - so there will be a lot of shifts and changes to the blockchain in the near future. I am making sure I leave space open in my schedule to respond appropriately in ways that are most supportive of the future of Steem!
We have all reasons now to all vote 
Lets all join hands and vote a hard working man, a man who is deligent in his duties to be amongst the top 30 witness.
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