ROLES WITNESSES PLAY IN THE STEEM BLOCK CHAIN

*It is no longer news, that witnesses maintain the activities that take place within and outside the steem block chain by putting in blocks, time stamping transactions (such as posts, transfers, exchanges, votes, etc) and validating them with signatures.
This however, has ignited the true and worthy saying by an erudite steemian and leader @eurogee ;

NO WITNESSES = NO STEEM.

A screen shot of 22 witnesses I have voted