It's past midnight here in Adelaide, South Australia - and I've just achieved one of my life long goals. I never really knew it as a life long goal, but the last few months on HIVE have seen me dedicate an enormous amount of time to writing, engaging with the community, and making some new friends. As of block 99,393,879 I am now running a Hive witness node!
https://vote.hive.uno/@holoz0r
You can vote for at the link above, but I encourage you to read further:
I believe in decentralisation of HIVE. I believe in having custody and ownership of your own stuff.
My witness node is located in my home, in Sunny South Australia. It is connected to the Internet using Fibre, and is connected to Electricity via Solar Panels and a battery. My power usage is so low at home, as a result, I am basically off-grid when it comes to power.
It is a server I own, one I can touch. One I can source replacement parts for if it dies, and one that I can turn a screw driver on if I have to.
My presence on the hive blockchain encompasses nine years and in my previous employment I have worked in Data Analytics, Business Improvement, Corporate Governance, Complaint Handling, Telecommunications and other fields. I am pretty good at seeing through bullshit, and bring an honest approach to all that I do.
I'm a bit of a nerd, can read documentation, and am a bit of a bulldozer when it comes solving problems. I don't like giving up.
My posting on hive is pretty varied, owing to my varied interests outside of posting to HIVE, so you are likely to see fiction, photography, game, book and film / tv reviews, as well as unhinged, heart-on-the-sleeve rambling.
My core belief is that content can bring value to HIVE. That we are a place where compelling human stories can be told without censorship, and reach a wide audience. My belief is that creatives will create things because they are compelled to do so, and will do it in lieu of the presence of any reward, because the reward is the process of creating itself.
My goal as a witness is to support original content creators, who use hive exclusively - through in depth comments, discussion, discourse, and manual votes. My secondary belief is that HIVE should be as decentralised as possible, which is why I love the fact that I now have a witness node operating in my own home - not in a data centre on leased hardware that I don't own.
I have made many friends here over the years, and have so many people to thank for keeping me locked into this place. Other than my prior employment, and my relationship with my family, and my wife - HIVE is the longest continuous engagement I have had in my life.
I'm here for the long haul. But right now, it is 00:55AM on a Sunday morning, and I need to sleep soon.
This is where I sit:
And just out of frame, on the right hand side of my digital paino:
The black box with the red sticker is the computer hosting my witness node. This machine also serves other important functions in my life, and has a long up time.
For the technical amongst you
- Running in an Ubtunu VM with 96GB of RAM and 900GB nVME SSD allocated, and 50% of the cores of an Intel i9 10900.
- On a UPS (the UPS is then backed up by the Solar Battery on the side of my house)
You can vote for me to be a witness below.
(you'll probably find me somewhere towards the bottom of the list)
https://vote.hive.uno/@holoz0r
https://peakd.com/me/witnesses
Or if you use ecency:
https://ecency.com/witnesses
Scroll to the bottom, copy my username into "witness outside the top 50"
"holoz0r", and cast your vote.
Thank you. :) Please ask questions - comment rewarder is turned on for this post. I will answer in the morning when I wake up. :)