RE: Could anyone who has been running a Steem Witness or Seed Node please post some specs for me?
Pretty much as expected and mentioned above.
The only acknowledgement of my sincere question was from dozens of bots, after which I could pretty much hear a pin drop. I figured I'd wait about 24 hours for a response (or at least a valid human to point me in the right direction) but this post was either buried before it was seen or simply ignored by anything but bots...
This post was never meant to be click-bait and was a genuine and sincere question on how I can help out and participate. I would have been fine with zero upvotes and just a simple reply because this post isn't about the money, it's was made in an attempt to support Steem as a platform not fatten my wallet.
It almost as is if running a seed node, witness, or supporting the network with hardware instead of content is a secretive/frowned upon endeavor.
No one likes to talk about it, mention it, or almost refuses to acknowledge the necessity of doing so to keep the network running and the blockchain alive and well as the network continues to grow...
I'll give this sort of question another shot later and try that tagging some of the more well known hosts to see if the Cabal is willing to talk or still wishes to remain a secret society.
Because so much time has passed I can't remove the comment about no one replying, but I did want to give a big shout out to @jesta for being the one human to answer my post after the Bot Swarm. I have since tracked down a Windows based client for hosting a Witness Node and Steem Miner v-12.2.
The exact algorithm used has been left as a bit an enigma on purpose even though the source has been released. If you're not a coder good luck with figuring it out because the whole deal is amazingly simple yet terribly complex at the same time. I'm linking the White Paper here because it does a much better job of explaining than I would.
As an added update here's the answer to my own question:
Now that I've been up and running for over a day, here's a decent idea of what one can expect .
I'm sure anyone with a newer i7 would stomp those stats into the ground but I've only tested mining out on the one machine so far. No idea how the software compiled for Windows 10 deals with hyper threading yet...