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RE: Explain Delegated Proof of Stake Like I'm 5

in #witness • 7 years ago

Thanks for the beginners course on DPOS, but I still have some questions. How does one become a witness? How does one vote for a witness? Do witnesses run full nodes? Where is the STEEM blockchain hosted? How big is the STEEM blockchain currently, and how many full nodes do we have? I have been wondering these things for awhile.

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     7 years ago 

    wow, I'll have to write an article about each of your questions...here goes

    1. One becomes a witness by setting up a witness....@someguy123 has great tutorials on what you need to do as far as your computer. Then, one has to constantly campaign to become a Witness, as well as do work for the Steem ecosystem.
    2. You would need to ask a Witness if they run full nodes, as I don't know.
    3. The Steem blockchain runs in a decentralized manner, meaning through computers (nodes) all over the globe that are connected to each other. Steemit.com is different from the Steem blockchain. Steemit is hosted on AWS.
    4. I don't know how big the Steem blockchain is currently, I think @someguy123 might know....and you'd need to ask @jesta, @good-karma or other Witnesses how many full nodes we have.
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     7 years ago (edited)

    Thank You for your reply! I will look into becoming a witness and setting up a node. I should probably go and read the updated whitepaper as well.

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       7 years ago 

      I have a question @stellabelle

      What is AWS?

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