why my witness is down

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What happened

I had to temporarily deactivate my witness, because the hardware failed.
A disc broke and it had to be replaced.

Solved

I have set the server up again and it's currently indexing the block_log.

This will take a while. Once it is finished and caught up to the current block, I will activate the witness again.

Missed Blocks

I missed 1 block because of it.

Earlier , I missed a bunch of blocks because I had some trouble setting everything up.
That is all solved now.

If nothing breaks, this should run stable for a while.

Fallback

I only run for backup, and I can not afford a fallback-server.
Whenever I have to do maintenance, I have to deactivate the witness.

Should the Hive price and my witness votes allow for it, I would love to upgrade one day.

Please consider voting for @felixxx witness



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I have not a lot of HP bit you got a Vote.

How to disable a witness?

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Like a vote or a post, Hive has a special transaction: witness_update.
By making a witness update, you 'activate' the witness (block signing queue), by updating with a special 'null' key, you deactivate (leave the queue).

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Thank you.
Started few days ago on Blurt as witness and as soon as i get some experience i want to try it on hive too

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That's cool. I'm glad it is back. What will happen if a witness misses a block or more? Any penalty?

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Of course, my friend, let's hope these problems are resolved very soon

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I'm quite confident that you will put everything back in place and activate the witness again.
As well, I hope you'll be able to upgrade one day, and I wish that day would rather be sooner than later.
At the same time, I'll try to build my HP as much as I can, so my vote would be worth more to you. (People here would say that I will try to hit two flies with one slam.) 😉😄

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I have been meaning to vote your witness, it just keeps eluding me, is there a direct link, please?

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