Alright so I probably should have addressed this yesterday in order to stay on top of things, but the timing of it all is truly crazy. I'm actually sick right now (potentially COVID) and my brain has been turned into absolute mush. I should be resting more... my girlfriend tells me sitting at my desk is not resting! Can you believe that?!?
Yeah we got some drama on our hands here.
Would be nice to not campaign in this manner.
But also it is understandable.
But too be fair the 
So the fallout from this situation was that Rishi started a near 100% powerdown on
At the same time the value of a Hive node is a lot more than just the base cost of the hardware. Setting one up is a non-trivial task, as I am learning the hard way now.
Ah well I could give a more in-depth explanation of this conflict, but I'm treading dangerously close to escalating this situation for no reason whatsoever. Rishi and I had a civil chat in DMs and we are labeling this issue "creative differences". He gave me some advice as to how to keep the node running. The conversation was cordial.
Rishi is out, Sn0n is out,
Thus far I've rented a very cheap Hive-in-a-box privex node to try and keep
thus far.Watching the hextech rank bleed from rank #31 was surprisingly more alarming than I thought it would be.
I would humbly ask that you reconsider and vote for both Rishi and me if you have an extra vote, but also obviously it doesn't matter much in the immediate short term because hextech will surely be disabled for at least 2 weeks going forward. Also because it's a bare minimum privex node and I don't have much experience running my own witness it would make sense for hextech to continue bleeding on the rank-list. But if you'd like to boost my morale, go ahead and throw hextech a vote and I will continue on with the journey with my head held high.
And I never will again if it can be avoided.
Full time crypto for life.
It only makes sense that I would hunker down and take a more active roll within this community. Bull market sentiment has only just begun, and I even turn 40 next month. Such a weird timeline full of milestones. Ultimately my plan was always to get my act together and build a business on Hive. My focus has always been gaming, and now with all these advances to AI and such I think the grind will be much less brutal.
Sharing a node between multiple parties is not a super easy thing to do. Hextech was formerly in a situation where it was like a group project at school where one person does all of the work. Rishi was the one doing all the work.
If we've learned anything from crypto: it's that decentralized governance is difficult to achieve. Multiple users maintaining casual ownership of the same piece of hardware is often going to result in an unstable situation. I suppose I've had the privilege of learning this first hand. Without someone definitively in charge the situation inevitably becomes much more complex. Live and learn.
At the same time it's quite noteworthy that when we first booted up the Hextech witness sharing a node made a lot more sense. The hostile takeover was just wrapping up, Price of the token was often in the 10-15 cent range, and nodes were more expensive back then before getting major efficiency upgrades. Today Hive's bottom price is more than twice as much as it was back then, and nodes are much cheaper, making it much easier to run a node solo. We've made a lot of silent progress over these last few years.
Rishi is a great witness, and you should throw him and upvote during this campaign season. He works side by side with 
As for me I will take this as a sign from the gods that it's time to double down on Hive and keep the Hextech node active while putting more effort into several projects that I started but never seemed to finish. The whole Privex situation is temporary until I buy my own hardware (which should be easy considering my share in the powerdown from Hextech is worth well over $2000). Until then: keep grinding.
