Thank you for the mention @consciouscat.
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BTW, I noticed I miss your witness vote 😢
Would you mind casting one to me? It would be much appreciated!
Oh! Thanks for pointing that out, my love! I'm still getting my head around all things Web 3.0 and I really don't get the whole witness thing very well! But after some digging around (because I don't know how to use HiveSigner - yet) I think I have voted for you as a witness! (Gladly) 😃
And, for the sake of my learning @arcange, could you tell me if you or someone else you trust/like has written a really good post on the role of witnesses and what you guys/ladies are doing? I want to learn and I don't know where to look!
Thank you for your support @consciouscat, really appreciate it! 👍
On the Hive blockchain, witnesses serve the role of validating signatures and timestamping transactions by including them in blocks. A block is any group of transactions (posts, votes, transfers, etc) that update the state of the database.
Witnesses are generally expected to manage a reliable block-producing node, implement a failover system, maintain a public seed node, tune blockchain operating parameters, publish correct price feeds, author/discuss improvement proposals, review code changes, and be active! Some contribute to core repositories. Some fund the development of other apps and infrastructure projects.
Every round of block production begins with the shuffling of 21 witnesses: the top 20 witnesses (by vote), plus one backup witness. Each is given a turn to produce a single block at a fixed rate of one block every 3 seconds. If a witness does not produce a block in their time slot, then that time slot is skipped, and the next witness produces the next block.
You can see the witness list here
You can see the live block production [here)(https://hive.arcange.eu/schedule)
You're welcome, !LUV 😉
Thank you for the explanation. 🙏 And I can confidently say that my clever brain understood almost all the individual words and very little of what it means when I put it altogether. !LOL
What this reinforces for me, yet again, is how grateful I am that we are all so wonderfully different and that people like you who like developing, building and maintaining tech type things allow people like me to share my heart felt words on a(n online) page so others may consume them. 😃
So thank you for this. Keep up the great work, being you. Til next our paths cross. 😊
Can I interest you in a little row-mance?
Credit: Happy Valentine's Day
@arcange, I sent you an $LOLZ on behalf of @consciouscat
Use the !LOL or !LOLZ command to share a joke and an $LOLZ. (1/6)
@consciouscat(1/5) gave you LUV. 
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You're invited! - LUV's 1st birthday celebration!