The future on Hive is looking so bright right now you need to wear those funky Hive emblem shades @cawdawg Witness is already developing (or should be) and while we all enjoy the benefit of the current price pump remember this would never even exist without the hard work and personal investment of our top twenty Witnesses and many more.
All this feels so far removed from way back in March 2017 when @oldguyphotos I was following on YouTube mentioned a new social blogging platform that gave cryptocurrency rewards. It looked interesting enough to become a long term hobby, and although many things have changed since then including the time I have spare to devote to it - I'm still here enjoying what is one of the most exciting and evolving blockchains around.
And in that time I have invested in Hive and also in hardware to support the blockchain, by 2018 I started running a Witness server to provide back end support of the blockchain, followed in 2019 with a second Witness @whiterosecoffee. By 2020 I also deployed a Full API Node https://api.c0ff33a.uk
Once I had worked out how to get nodes working, I then set about using the five servers I have dedicated to Hive more efficiently by setting up two API nodes to feed two Hivemind nodes - splitting calls between all four speeds up https://api.c0ff33a.uk and now https://rpc.c0ff33a.uk uses two of them with the @ecency RPC Proxy
The cost far outweighs the benefit even at todays Hive value and taking into account Witness rewards (which only increase as your votes and ranking rise) but it was never about being profitable, running Witness servers and Nodes was more a technical challenge and I have learned so much in the past few years.
Throughout this journey for me the most important aspect of Hive is to keep staking your Hive, holding value in Hive because that Hive Power you have earns you rewards through curation - and if you manually curate with care you can generate an impressive ROI you will not see keeping it liquid and dumping whenever the price rises.
Four years, it's been a journey and an experience but the best has yet to come.
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Happy 4 to you dear Robert, its been nice crossing paths with you here. Wish you loads of success and many more heart warming times for you here. Cheers!
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Great Info. Congrats on making it this far... I'll double check my witness votes. Kind regards.
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Wow man, congrats on 4 years! Representing the North very nicely there. 89,000hp?! Crikey. Smashing it man.
Keep up the great work!
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Congratulations mate, it has been a path of great perseverance.
Excellent work!
Great achievement in many ways my friend. I have actually been DM’ing with Witty inquiring about running a witness node. I highly doubt that I could handle the API. But I want to learn. Congrats👍
You've come a long way, baby, to get where you've gotten today! Congratulations!
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Congrats on the anniversary and thanks for providing these services to the blockchain. It's only possible due to our dedicated witnesses.
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Hmm... I think I first joined a few months after that. It has been a wild ride. More so for you than me, as you've taken a much more active role than I have — despite my uni major being computer science, when I start to dive into the tech specs of how a witness works my vision starts blurring and I get overwhelmed very quickly.
Anyway, congrats on the journey so far!
good work on everything you have done on Hive to make it happen!
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Hi @c0ff33a
@livinguktaiwan suggested I connect with you. So happy I can be a part of #teamuk.
I am new to hive, please take a look at my #introduceyourself blog https://peakd.com/introduceyourself/@l0tti3/brit-in-south-africa
So good to be able to connect!
@c0ff33a sorry, I just realised that you already re-blogged my blog. Thank you for this! Still new and getting used to things around here 😆