It has been a wild ride on this blockchain since we started our love for Steem after the hive fork happened . I have been thinking a lot of application lately which includes different aspect of this blockchains sustainability .
As we know majority of the users around here have been welcoming to me and few of them being hostile as well .
I will start a with some major historic moment that has been unspoken till date .
My Irony with @bullionstakers started when i purchased a vote and apparently got upvoted from @ranchorelaxo , well the downvote started that day and i am still getting his downvotes . It stopped when i was in the top 20 witness list but as soon as i smacked down it has started again , but i'd really not care .
My first timer conversation with bullion stacker is pasted below once he started flagging me and offered me to work for him if i'd like an upvote instead of flags
I'd apparently had to take that deal because I don't like flags . But things did not went well . I even have been flagged because a whale literally don't like my logo . How welcoming is that .
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Well I did created a bot that scans for anyone who been purchasing votes form selected accounts and flags where i suggested him to go flag but that wont work because he wont flag whales ,, he only hates new comers and minnows .
Period .
I was quite fascinated about few bots and apps that existed while there were many developers around this chain and one of them was Steem Auto , Me and my team from India (I am currently Based in Nepal and I work for HP/HPE - if you like to know ) decided to give it a rebirth after madhiyari dumped it . It was hell of a job and honestly we don't till date understand the part of those codes we been hosting .I reached out in discord servers looking for madhiyari but he was not welcoming at all , and why'd he be as he already started hating this chain and was moving to hive . Tho we decided to put all efforts and brought back steem auto , Today i feel like we should have just started something similar from scratch instead of forking it . The project had three versions on a single repo , no information on what specific versions are used to and why the upgrade was needed and it was never like forking a git project , reading the installation instruction and hosting it , It was hectic . It fucked us all and took us a month and more to just understand the deployment . We are not very awesome developers here in steem but we did worked on the voters exchange club in the past and had some experience on it .
So happy ending at least we have had a running project that people would like and i believe this led us to the top 20 witness list as well . That was more happy ending .
some people have helped me a lot and i don't wanna tag them here as they don't like me anymore and i am grateful to those peoples .
We even post daily analytics on steem auto like madhiyari did @steemauto and received good support from the PH-FUND team and i would like to applaud to @crypto.piotr for his selfless and continuous support to us . (We love you buddy) . At the same time we also had got @steemcurator05 account for a month and did voted those post from this account as well . We literally got thrashed from other top 20 witnesses (Specifically one ) because i used that account . I immediately sent those keys to the rightful owner asking her to change that .
I had three running account on steem , one operated by my wife @rupajee , which she completely abandoned as she is pregnant now , One for my husky @pluto-husky who i love more than i do to myself and i still post his pictures as i think its better to post on steemit than in Instagram , had my dog got support here I'd bring thousands of dog owners here in steemit , my dog is an Instagram celebrity . Much love for him | Period
In those times i was thrashed by a witness which led other witnesses believe that i actually am doing so
and example would be this
Well garbage it is but 4300 + people use it . SO be it I don't fucking care . There are more garbage projects here on Steem which even is not related to what core Steem blockchain is about . To be honest any thing can be in Steem including games , DEFI and stuffs because it gives us free resources as per stake and is replenished over time , no gas , no fees whatsoever.
After the operation of steem auto and me becoming top20 witness i tried to create a marketplace on the steem blockchain but i quickly dumped the idea as i was told it was a garbage project as well . Well garbage be it but i tried , HAD SATOSHI not tried to launch bitcoin , you wont be reading this post , so i believe we should at least try than criticizing someone else . the post link @steem-supporter/ann-open-market-https-opnmarket-com i still have those source code , its built in python so if you want to continue feel free to ping me .
I did met good friends like @xpilar and his team who even invested in me and we are working on some great stuffs that might be helpfull to the community and i will not dump the idea even if anyone calls it a garbage .
Things were going quite well until we had a breach in steemauto which went unnoticed for few days and trying to fix those stuffs , it went more kaboom .! I'd like to apologize to @upmewhale as the bug executed some fanbases that were not there and people including me profited from it and i am ready to refund the vote value ,provided that you require it , i am in your discord , just ping me .. cheers .
We had also launched a bot on discord server which basically notifies you about actions on your profile on the blockchain . The idea was to create something like gina , but with the notification option in steemit , its kindda useless with very few people using it but its there , if you want it just hit the server and register , its pretty easy .
Coming back to my stories I am writing this post today as three things happened
- Today i tested negative for COVID-19 and its good to be still alive , and my sister and my grandmother tested Negtive as well
- Its been quite a while i was isolating myself and today as i got to get out , I found one of my old packet around , opened it smoked that good pot i have been keeping since few moths and i am high (Not that much that i'll do silly things ) .
- Some pathetic things happened
I would like to tag @xeldal here as he seems to be a whale and upvoting some spams after the breach in our system happened (which is completely under control now ) , but today back to back three peoples came to me telling i manually removed this account from there trail . One even offered me a witness vote in return i re-enable the trail manually . I think these kinds of people are wolves leeching this chain wearing a sheeps outer so that they look good but they are not .
Missing that whale vote it seems ..LOL
by the way @ph-fund have also the trail paused i guess and i was looking in the database
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Being accused to be a something i never was and neither i am is the worst thing that i will ever face .
We detected the breach and thanks to @bstrail who reported it on time and i quickly head over to their telegram to understand what had happened , seems few trails were executed manually through cli and spams were being voted . I even reported one of those spam account to reportspam channel in our witness discord server where majority of the witnesses like @justyy @steem-agora @dev.supporters @ety001 are and even there are individuals who operate @steemcurator01 and @steemitblog , but i guess no action was taken apart me downvoting those content .
If you guys go look into https://steemworld.org/abuse-finder you will see tons of rewards there , but guess what everyone gets scared of touching a whale it seems .
Back in the days i used to downvote a lot of spam resulting to loosing witness votes . An example @munsters/5yzwex-sierra-wireless-inc-swir see rewards here and if you see anyone Downvoting let me know . because they simply wont , because whales are who keep this chain floated ,
If a chart deserves that much reward then i think my dog or my wife deserves way more rewards than that , correct me if i am wrong .
Back in the days when whaleshares started i remember participating in a conversation where we debate over either self votes were good or not and came to a conclusion that it is absolutely OK to vote yourself if you think you deserve that reward , i agreed upon this statement till date and don't think larger rewards are bad because you invested money to buy that stake and curated contents wasting your time so that your stake grows and you can give yourself that reward .
Anyway today i though steem auto was too much of responsibility to handle when some whales get in action so i am thinking to completely bringing it down with my witness server and resigning from steem forever or at least allowing only white listed peoples to create curation trail so that i don't have to worry about anything and only allies are gonna be white listed.
I also seek answers that if i was wrong at any point and i loose that top 20 position ,i'd apologize . :)
I also seek an honest opinion from steem users about me and my actions on the chain , negative and positive opinions are all welcomed .
special request to @bullionstackers to not flag my posts please as he thinks i am a sucker
and for the other guy laughing at it , Downvotes incoming bro .
As i have invested my time , money and focus on this chain for a long time . this is kind of regretful to think about resigning but i do am thinking about this seriously . I hope to get some feedbacks which might ease my mind .
if i am to bring steemauto down i will allow anyone to operate it as well as teach how to setup it and give my keys of steemauto.app so that they dont have to make any changes and simply use it as it sees fit. (Including the domain )
I will keep my nodes running for 6 more months as i already have paid for the servers
signing off
Steem Supporter
At the end i would again like to Put a statement .
Everyone likes to make money and 99% users here are to make money - including witnesses , content creators , curators . Dont fake that you are here to help someone else to make money as that will sound literally funny ,, nobody wants to waste time for free, if you don't agree then you are an idiot . So it is better that we help each other and We Grow Together . The reward funds are enough and we don't have to fight for it . So no flags only peace (Remember Proof of Brain -- No Spams).