### Do you know ? ### You can contribute to the @minnowsupport community by voting for these witnesses as your witness : @aggroed, @ausbitbank, @teamsteem, @theprophet0, @someguy123, @neoxian, @followbtcnews, and @netuoso. Together, they run a communal account that upvote minnows as long as you're a member of the PAL discord channel. Their goal is to make steemit grow by supporting minnows. ***A lot of users aren't sure who they should vote on for witness. This guide is intended to give some helpful tips on how to determine which witnesses to vote for.*** ![DQmSkMb7CgZUXc1ZbuUMczXVHfVcxRfFkfNDoe6z8WUjxCJ.jpeg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmSkMb7CgZUXc1ZbuUMczXVHfVcxRfFkfNDoe6z8WUjxCJ/DQmSkMb7CgZUXc1ZbuUMczXVHfVcxRfFkfNDoe6z8WUjxCJ.jpeg) ### What is a witness ? English definition for witness defines it as “A witness is somebody who has, who cases to have, or is thought, by somebody with expert to force declaration, to have information applicable to an occasion or other matter of intrigue. In law a witness is somebody who, either intentionally or under impulse, gives tribute confirm, either oral or composed, of what he or she knows or claims to think about the issue before some authority approved to take such declaration”. On Steemit, a witnesses produce STEEM and SBD by producing new blocks. Blocks are produced by Witnesses and those blocks subsequently become part of the blockchain which allow your posts get posted and your STEEM to be transferred. ### The Fundamentals Steemit.com is a social blogging platform fueled by a decentralized blockchain called Steem. The Steem blockchain produces blocks in 63-second rounds: 21 pieces for each round at an objective of 3 seconds between blocks. A decentralized blockchain needs a differed set of individuals running PCs to make these blocks. There are numerous answers for this, and Steem utilizes an accord system called Delegated Proof of Stake, or DPOS. In the DPOS framework, what are called witnesses in Steem are assigned by the aggregate Steem Power-weighted witness endorsement votes from Steem accounts. There is a farthest point of thirty dynamic witness votes that any account users can make to curb abuse, yet these votes can be included or evacuated whenever. The best 19 witness accounts with the most witness votes are designated to create a block each round. That leaves 1 block to be created by a backup witness, and 1 block to be delivered by a miner account each round. The backup witness is a relative to-endorsement timeshare of all witness accounts underneath the main 19 that have votes. This implies each record that has witness votes however isn't in the main 19 have a likelihood to create a square each round equivalent to their witness vote share versus alternate witness accounts additionally not in the top 19. A mineworker witness is an account that has furnished verification of-work by mining with the Steem customer to enter a line to produce a block. ### Witnesses Witnesses are in charge of discovering blocks, seeding the blockchain and setting evaluating encourages and loan costs. Witnesses are been voted for because they are trusted members of the community, decidedly add to Steem and Steemit from various perspectives, are qualified and experienced in organization of servers, and are knowledgeable about digital currency systems and programming. Witnesses are relied upon to keep a block delivering Steem hub running all day, every day/365. They are likewise anticipated to give a progressing value bolster of the estimation of STEEM tokens in U.S. dollars, set the mininum Steem Power deposit to make an account, set the APR% for the Steem Dollar financing cost, and later on might set extra system factors. Witnesses are additionally emphatically urged to run a seed-hub to give the blockchain to synchronizing customers. Witnesses are rewarded for these actions, administrations, and obviously running their node by getting powered up by 1 STEEM for each block they create. By being paid in Steem Power, witnesses are further boosted to be submitted long haul and furthermore to add to Steemit curation. ### Voting So, will you like to participate in the fun and vote for a witness or thirty ? Awesome! But, don't vote without consideration, below is how to know more about the people you're thinking of approving. ![IMG_20180508_233924_950.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmXBHNTnrspYCdAsoVKv86cynrnUqwD4CEnZQc3X2ojm8S/IMG_20180508_233924_950.jpg) ###### I'll just show the top 20 here for illustration **Note**; Each user can vote for up to 30 witnesses. You can change your witness votes anytime. The [witness page](https://steemd.com/witnesses) is a great place to research witnesses. It has a lot of great info that will help you look into your choices. It also shows the current top 100 witnesses. ### Voting for a witness is a way of saying "I support your work. I like what you're doing and I want you to continue doing it”. Conversely, removing your vote from a witness is a good way to let them know that you no longer agree with them or their policies. ### Deciding who to choose ### Witness URL I'm my own opinion, unless you're familiar with them already, the witness URL link![U5dshmYcdY3G6N5sUNboG7yVjCAJb5a_1680x8400.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmUjjm2hXx3SJvqMVRCvjPcofFM6Fb6TrrgvbLT1Yj1Qyz/U5dshmYcdY3G6N5sUNboG7yVjCAJb5a_1680x8400.png)is the best way to find out if a witness truly worths your approval. Regularly this is a connection to a Steemit post with a little bit info about themselves, the commitments they make to Steem(it), and frequently a clarification of their equipment, facilities, and capacity to grow to console everybody they'll be up to the test of higher loads after some time and aren't running their node on a common server insecure server. ### Activeness Something else I like to see in a witness is his/her activeness on Steemit. A witness needs to run a solid node and there is awesome incentive to that by itself, yet I need to see more than that. ### Price feed Keeping up a precise dependable value bolster is one of the key obligations of witnesses. This is utilized to decide the measure of STEEM that users will get while changing over SBD->STEEM. It is likewise used to figure the SBD 'obligation proportion', and the prices that appears on post payouts. The prices that witnesses report are appeared under the "Feed" section on the steemd.com witness page. ### Approval voting When you've decided that you want to vote to approve a particular witness, go to [Steemit's Top Witnesses Page](https://steemit.com/~witnesses), find their account, and click the upvote button, turning it green. To remove yourvote, click the button to make it grey. Remember your account is limited to approving 30 witness accounts at any one time (vote changing is unlimited however). ### Improving the community This is presumably the most imperative piece of being a witness. What they are doing to profit the community is truly what sets the witnesses apart. From financing and arranging projects, to making new applications and devices - the witnesses are pioneers of the community that are driving the project forward. What their vision of the task is, and what they are doing to accomplish it, ought to be a key factor in figuring out who to vote in favor of. ### Vote for your witnesses [here](https://steemit.com/~witnesses).

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