Witnesses and Seed Nodes

If you are a witness or a service provider committed to Hive, please consider operating a public seed node. If it proves to be reliable, we will include its address on our official list of initial seed nodes. These are nodes that hived will attempt to connect to upon startup. The current list consists of:

seed.hive.blog:2001             # blocktrades
seed.openhive.network:2001      # gtg
seed.ecency.com:2001            # good-karma
rpc.ausbit.dev:2001             # ausbitbank
hive-seed.roelandp.nl:2001      # roelandp
hive-seed.arcange.eu:2001       # arcange
anyx.io:2001                    # anyx
hived.splinterlands.com:2001    # splinterlands
seed.hive.blue:2001             # guiltyparties
hive-api.3speak.tv:2001         # threespeak
node.mahdiyari.info:2001        # mahdiyari
hive-seed.lukestokes.info:2001  # lukestokes.mhth
seed.deathwing.me:2001          # deathwing
seed.liondani.com:2016          # liondani
hiveseed-se.privex.io:2001      # privex
seed.mintrawa.com:2001          # mintrawa
hive-seed.actifit.io:2001       # actifit

^{Source https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openhive-network/hive/develop/doc/seednodes.txt}

Hive Seed Nodes Health

Some of them are not feeling well; the desired overall health is 100%, while currently, it's half of that. It's not a big deal, to be honest, because only one working node is sufficient for the p2p discovery process, but we could certainly improve. This is especially true since, in the beginning, it was a requirement for a witness to operate, aside from their witness node, also a separate seed node.

If you are operating a seed node that meets the requirements of a public node (is online for 90% of the time, has a low-latency network of at least 100Mbps), please let me know.

Meetups

Where sadly I wasn’t present

This was the first time I missed HiveFest. The #FOMO was strong; I watched the live streams (or almost live). I hope everyone had a lot of fun out there.

Where fortunately I’m going

Recently I’ve announced a small EU based meetup, which apparently appears to be a little bigger than just tiny. Still small, but it has its own name and logo, as I hope to continue the initiative and in future host more various kind of events from small social meetups, developer workshops and maybe even hackathons.
Time will tell.
For now just couple of links about the event:

It’s just a week away, but ask yourself: “Why not?” ;-)

@thebeedevs

New kids on the block? Not at all.
A group of skilled professionals doing blockchain wizardry.

What’s new is that they have just recently started to post about what they are doing.

Clive - an alpha version of a secure wallet is already available where you can take a first look at how it will work and even execute first test transfers.

docker run hiveio/clive

You should really keep an eye on it as there’s a lot more to come.

Witness Votes

In the language of Hive, “Please like and subscribe” translates to “Please upvote and follow.” While this is commonly used for content, ending every post with this phrase can feel redundant.
What is really important for Hive is utilizing your governance votes to vote for witnesses and proposals. If you find yourself uncertain about who or what to vote for, consider setting your voting proxy to @gtg. By doing this, you'll automatically support the witnesses and proposals that I endorse.
Keep in mind: a voting proxy does not apply to posts or comments, only to governance votes.
TL;DR: Vote for witnesses.

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Seed nodes health, EU meetup reminder, and new wallet's first steps