Honestly look at crypto and think future. Blockchain mining is irrelevant. The distributed ledger is the innovation and the real takeaway. Some would argue mining is a gimmick more or less. It's a "fair" way to launch a "fair" coin, until you look at ZEC launch and realize people are greed mining for unfair start and manipulate the hash rate depending on price. Same shit never changed.
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Yeah I didn't say mining. I said witnesses. You still need copies of the blockchain replicated it at various points. This is what makes it something very difficult to take down.
So this means the data needs to be replicated.
Steem already doesn't really need mining. It does need its witnesses though.
Witness / Seed Node runner here.
All seed nodes keep a record of the current blockchain to distribute to new
steemdclients syncing to the network and catching up on the blockchain.As for witnesses my understanding is what the server is actually doing is validating the proposed blocks put together. My understanding is that STEEM is capable of running in "Pending" mode as well in the event of witness failure, I may (and often am) wrong though. In this case though normal functions of the chain would cease as you'd not be able to validate blocks.. But you would be able to still collect data.
Mining was literally added onto STEEM as another way for people to get them.. It's unnecessary and served only as an entry point to miner types not wishing to partake in blogging or interaction to earn STEEM.
Thanks for chiming in @klye. I have heard that but I am sure some people here have not so I appreciate your input as always.