Hey everyone,
It’s a tough day for me, and I wanted to share some important news with you all.
As of now, my Hive and Blurt Witness nodes will be shutting down, due to a lack of funding and hosting support. These nodes were previously hosted over at Shmoogle’s server, under his network, but he has decided to remove my virtual machine. Since the server was never under my ownership, I have no control over this change, and unfortunately, this means my witness nodes will go offline.
This is especially hard for me to announce, because I’ve spent a lot of time maintaining those nodes and supporting these ecosystems the best I could. I’ve never been against Shmoogle's decision — it's his server, and I respect that — but it’s still sad to see it end this way.
Why It’s Happening
All my funding and effort recently has gone into NekoLive, my biggest and most ambitious project. I integrated crypto payment systems like Zenzo, Hive, Blurt, and even started on Steem and PIVX, aiming to make a fully decentralized streaming platform.
But changes come fast, and not always in our control. Without steady support or donations, and now losing my hosted environment, I no longer receive witness rewards or any resources to keep everything going.
What This Means
❌ Hive/Blurt Witness nodes will be down
❌ Zenzo payments will no longer be functional
❌ Minecraft modded servers will be shut down
❌ Other backend services may go offline
This sets me back a lot — almost like starting from square one again.
Please Keep Supporting NekoLive 💜
Even with all this, I’m incredibly proud of what I’ve built with NekoLive. It’s my vision of a community-powered live streaming platform, a spiritual successor to Mixer / Beam, with ultra-low 3–5 second latency, custom-coded from scratch.
I built nearly everything myself — 3 intense weeks of non-stop coding, with just a little help from a few amazing friends. I’m still adding new features constantly, and I’m not giving up. I just need your support more than ever now.
If you’ve ever appreciated what I’ve contributed — whether to Hive, Blurt, Zenzo, or NekoLive — now’s the time to show it. Donations, words of encouragement, or simply sharing NekoLive with others can go a long way.
Thanks for sticking with me through everything.
I’ll keep building. Just keep believing. 💖
Official Post https://peakd.com/@shmoogleosukami/witness-update-outage-and-scaling-back
so its time for you remove witness @steevc for alloyxuast and included myself. maybe someday i rehost it but lack funding is issue right now
My script should check if a witness is active. Sorry to hear you can't continue, but I appreciate your efforts.
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if want help get witness back online please support it and make sure select right goal over here
i be glad if we return witness back online just lack able running at home and server vps is expensive right now https://donategoals.nekosunevr.co.uk/