Witness Update - lukestokes.mhth

What I've Been Up To

Updated my seed node with @someguy123's low memory configured docker image. The replay time was just under 1 hour:

Done reindexing, elapsed time: 3307.20483299999978044 sec
3307/60 = 55.116666667 minutes
Sadly, I missed by first block due to my own error. During the recent concerns over bandwidth issues, I rushed to join my fellow witnesses in updating the blocksize to 131,072 from 65,536. In doing so, I accidentally used the wrong public key from an older witness server and as a result missed a block.

Public Service Announcement: double, triple check your update_witness command to ensure the public key matches your config.ini private key.
Disabled my witness node, upgraded to v0.19.1 RC1, and replayed the blockchain, also on low memory mode.
```
  "blockchain_version": "0.19.1",
  "client_version": "v0.19.1rc1",
```
Thankfully, my witness monitoring script is still working like a charm and sent me a text message both when updating my seed node and my witness node. If you're running a witness and want to be alerted before you miss a block, give it a look.
We moved up a spot to 32! I think that's mainly due to datasecuritynode losing some votes as their node has been disabled for some time. Moving up the ranks at this point will not be easy, so every vote counts!

I could go into more detail as to why v0.19.1rc1 is so important and what the bandwidth issues are all about, but other witnesses did a great job of that already so I'll just link to their fine work.

It's been a long day at work that extended through dinner and past my kids' bedtime, but I was able to relax a little after that with some spirits and a couple of episodes of Game of Thrones. I then recovered enough to get to witness duties, update my node, and serve you fine steemians.

Thanks again for your support!

I'm currently holding position 32!

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Witness Update - lukestokes.mhth - July 19th, 2017

What I've Been Up To