Hello everyone, as you may have red we are sunsetting the steempress/Exxp witness and project

A new adventure as a solo witness

Even though we are sunsetting the project, I wish to continue contributing to the Hive governance. I believe it is paramount that we have technical witnesses who have knowledge of what is happening in the actual blockchain code, and are able to make educated decisions on what versions to run.

Who I am and what do I do

If you want a really deep dive, I wrote a post a while ago https://peakd.com/hive/@howo/my-hive-story

I've been co-running the @steempress witness for the past 5 years and for most of it I had the priviledge of being a top 20 witness. Directly impacting decisions like hbd rates, account creation costs or more directly what features we would run or not. And sometimes sitting in the war room with other witnesses for hours when someting went awfully wrong. (cough Hard fork 20 cough)

I am a developer so most of my contributions are technical. Back in the Steem Era I was testing steemit's code and successfully prevented quite a few bugs from reaching the mainnet, including a few chain-breaking bugs related to SMTs (you guys remember those ?).

When Hive forked away from Steem, I took a much more direct role in hive's development and started to contribute directly by writing feature. I worked my hardest to help kickstart the chain from nothing. Notably I wrote the code that removed all of justin sun's stake (sun was not happy and forked away my stake along with a bunch of others over on the steem side).

More recently, you probably know me for my work as a core developer on hive. I build features that directly affect the blockchain or the services that are vital to the functioning of the chain and it's features (eg: hivemind that supports features like communities). You may have interacted with some of my contributions like RC delegations, recurrent transfers, the ability to update a proposal and soon new communities types I also organize a monthly dev meetings where most of the developers can come and discuss various topics and post about it on my blog.

If you like my contributions and would like to support me in this new adventure as a solo witness please consider voting for me on your favorite front end:

https://peakd.com/me/witnesses https://wallet.hive.blog/~witnesses https://ecency.com/witnesses