Witness Server updated to run 0.20.9
We updated our witness servers to the latest version of Steem: v0.20.9:
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STARTING STEEM NETWORK
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initminer public key: STM8GC13uCZbP44HzMLV6zPZGwVQ8Nt4Kji8PapsPiNq1BK153XTX
chain id: 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
blockchain version: 0.20.9
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The update went smooth and no blocks were missed. Success! We will continue to take our responsibilities as a Steem witness seriously and will always keep our witness servers up to date.
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An Oracle-D Hivemind Node
We are pleased to anounce the launch of hive.oracle-d.com - A public hivemind node.
According to the official Hivemind Github repository, Hivemind is a
Developer-friendly microservice powering social networks on the Steem blockchain.
If you want to learn more about Hivemind checkout this post by 
We run our Hivemind on a dedicated server with 128 GB DDR4 ECC RAM and an Intel Core i7-5820k.
You can check our nodes' status at: hive.oracle-d.com/health
The following methods are available through our Hivemind Node:
condenser_api methods
condenser_api.get_followers
condenser_api.get_following
condenser_api.get_follow_count
condenser_api.get_content
condenser_api.get_content_replies
condenser_api.get_state
condenser_api.get_trending_tags
condenser_api.get_discussions_by_trending
condenser_api.get_discussions_by_hot
condenser_api.get_discussions_by_promoted
condenser_api.get_discussions_by_created
condenser_api.get_discussions_by_blog
condenser_api.get_discussions_by_feed
condenser_api.get_discussions_by_comments
condenser_api.get_replies_by_last_update
hive methods
Additional to the condenser_api methods Hivemind comes along with are some extra methods that are subjected to change in future releases:
hive.db_head_state
hive.payouts_total
hive.payouts_last_24h
hive.get_accounts
hive.get_accounts_ac
Important Information
Hivemind itself is still in alpha. That means it should not be used for production environments. Developers may use our Hivemind node for testing and development.
Example call
curl -s --data '{"jsonrpc":"2.0", "method":"hive.db_head_state", "id":1}' https://hive.oracle-d.com
Direct Database Access
If you need direct access to the postgresql database contact wehmoen#0001 on the Oracle-D discord and explain your usecase.
We can grant you read only access to the hive database and the following tables:
hive_accounts
hive_posts_cache
Providing a daily snapshot
Oracle-D provides a daily updated snapshot of the full Hivemind database.
Before downloading check https://hive.oracle-d.com/dl/status.txt
If the response is DONE you can download the snapshot via:
https://hive.oracle-d.com/dl/hive_latest.sql.gz
For a complete guide on howto use this snapshot checkout 
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