Curiosity got the better of me and I decided to see how long it would take to do a full resync of the STEEM blockchain. I figured it would take a few hours... but damn was I off. I am currently at hour 24, that's right a full day and it's not even finished yet...
Currently at block 13,240,000 out of 15,160,000 and I have a feeling it will take another 10 hours to finish the rest. Once complete I will have a the actual time for a full resync. Depending on when the next hard fork occurs (which will require a full reindex) we could be talking 48 hours or more to resync. This is quite a long time, what will this mean in the future? I'm not sure, but it doesn't seem like a good thing anyway.
Luckily 🤓 ok maybe its not luck 😉 I decided to run this resync on a new machine so that I will have no downtime for my witness. I also ran it on a new machine because it was time for an upgrade...But I'll get into that on my final witness update post! I also have it set to kill my other witness server running once it gets with on 200,000 blocks so not to double produce a block... again. I've been warned
Hopefully see you soon for my final v0.19.2 update post 😂
1. Go to the Witness Voting Page on Steemit.com
2. Scroll down to #49 blueorgy
3. Simply Click the UpVote Button!