📄 What is 'State of the Witnesses' ?

State of the witnesses will be a regular update provided to the community on the status of the Smoke.io witnesses. The intent is to keep members informed of what is happening on the platform and what witnesses are doing. It is important that members of the community vote for witnesses that represent them and are driving the platform in the right direction. These updates are not intended to be all inclusive, but should only be a portion of the information used for your decision making.

In addition to the overall status, each update will also feature one witness in the "Witness Spotlight". This will allow the community to get a deeper look into the person/group behind the witness and how they play a part in Smoke.io.

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📰 Current Update

We currently have 20 disabled witness in the top 50, which is down from 22 in the last report. There is currently no active witness below the top 50.

Members have been doing a good job managing their votes and keeping active witnesses at the top of the list. 👏

Missed Blocks

Top 20 Witnesses that have missed 5 or more blocks since last report are:

@jrswab (244)
@subways (6)
@trees (12)

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📊 Current Witness Rankings

Rank	Prev Rank	Owner	Missed Blocks	Δ Missed Blocks	Votes	Weighted Votes	Created
1	1	@blckchnd	6	0	326	13496622186520	9/24/2018
2	2	@murda-ra	3127	0	227	13257012884207	9/25/2018
3	3	@bbq-iguana	38	2	277	11605728650359	9/23/2018
4	6	@jrswab	1292	244	202	11290144901791	9/27/2018
5	5	@powerpicswitness	75	0	318	11183846233118	9/24/2018
6	4	@smokeasaurusrex	209	0	243	11176579175025	9/24/2018
7	12	@grow-op	3470	3	188	11144910639002	10/2/2018
8	7	@mister-meeseeks	193	1	143	10691692801330	10/6/2018
9	8	@cannaweedness	70	4	118	10683739402308	12/31/2018
10	10	@subways	1103	6	187	10031283332519	9/24/2018
11	11	@trees	1898	12	189	9705179781893	9/26/2018
12	13	@roelandp	5	0	256	9560560731044	9/26/2018
13	14	@xtetrahedron	4	0	144	9386741721799	12/5/2018
14	27	@skylinebuds	1830	0	292	8588927955052	9/23/2018
15	16	@graylan	322	0	162	8531260654644	9/27/2018
16	21	@ihashfury	1	0	83	8339897484517	10/13/2018
17	0	@d00k13	0	0	22	8249863111344	7/7/2019
18	17	@toker	21	0	121	8115031701240	10/9/2018
19	18	@smoketerzai56	1618	2	106	8113462442338	9/24/2018
20	23	@herbncrypto	2	1	48	7819729119639	5/6/2019
21	19	@howhigh	198	0	149	7725910720033	10/4/2018
22	22	@easyrider	959	937	61	7341199699310	4/23/2019
23	28	@ganja	104	24	112	5478946947121	9/24/2018
24	26	@jah.witness	113	0	100	4454561767276	9/30/2018
25	31	@project-atlas	166	0	63	4452514256127	1/7/2019
26	33	@ijmmai	48	0	51	4193526755718	4/22/2019
27	34	@hightimes	0	0	53	4047573965864	3/29/2019
28	38	@wls-sweden	99	0	39	3826971869617	11/21/2018
29	39	@exnihilo.witness	23	0	30	3680515513256	11/26/2018
30	24	emeraldtreasury	325	0	96	3623864367419	9/26/2018
31	29	bbtc	578	0	79	3166813317718	9/24/2018
32	9	coffeebuds	1794	0	153	2719489170208	10/13/2018
33	25	blackman	148	0	219	2550508854620	9/23/2018
34	20	canna-curate	1660	0	100	2534314176431	12/18/2018
35	30	beyondbitcoincas	549	0	116	2509577850001	9/27/2018
36	36	intelliguy	1	0	52	1818784031332	10/10/2018
37	37	superclutch	639	0	13	1762880490789	12/28/2018
38	35	chronocrypto	3111	0	203	1679731456476	9/24/2018
39	44	xxoxx	219	36	18	1647816189488	3/7/2019
40	40	betgames	1607	0	78	1379652546994	11/10/2018
41	15	@moonblocks	1764	1446	112	1169658723260	9/27/2018
42	32	curationbro	5267	0	149	906553304343	9/24/2018
43	43	bangzi	10	0	89	562660372529	9/24/2018
44	41	luckylife	29	0	33	461356048315	12/3/2018
45	46	nathansternx	1768	0	87	282500100805	9/25/2018
46	45	moonunit	60	0	20	234760576674	4/14/2019
47	47	lucashunter	1481	0	56	146766681247	9/24/2018
48	48	ienrikex	1446	0	43	127361611284	9/24/2018
49	42	koh	76	0	29	122313887035	10/27/2018
50	49	smokinghotnish	54	0	40	115468114332	9/23/2018

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⭐️ Witness Spotlight - @d00k13 ⭐️

📌 Why have you decided to be a witness on the Smoke.io?

I want to learn more about the technology which has helped me in finding a therapeutic outlet through content creation in a way that support the network and increases my ability to support authors.

📌 What is your background and how does that make you a good witness?

I have little over a years worth of content creation under my belt and have done some minor maintenance
on gaming servers, currently running my own server operating as an IPFS node and witness from home. I
believe that I make a good witness due to my desire to engage and support authors. I may never learn
enough to contribute code directly but all projects need their loyal supporters and I am that!

📌 What excites you most about being a witness?

Knowing I am doing my part in contributing to the maintenance of the blockchain which makes everything
possible.

📌 What are your goals as a witness?

See SmokeTube become a reality one way or another!

📌 Are you involved in any projects outside of Smoke.io that you would like to share with us?

I am involved mostly on Steem & DTube as founder of #OneLoveDTube, I'd like to share it with you
as it is the legacy of a years worth of posting there. Our community slogan "We Will Get There Together!" says everything about me, I am all about supporting and the strength of community.

📌 Do you think Smoke.io has an important role in the broader cannabis community? If so, why?

Everyone needs a place where they fit in and suites them, so yes, those whom are interested in cannabis
while also being interested in crypto, or like myself the tech running the whole show, can find a welcoming
place to air their opinions while not needing to worry about censorship due to genre.

📌 Where do you see Smoke.io in the future?

I can see how with the right spokesperson it could easily become a central hub for nearly anything cannabis
related including online stores and the like using SMOKE for purchases.

📌 What do you see as the biggest challenge for Smoke.io and how do you think it should be addressed?

Biggest challenge is the stigmatism around what our niche community is built around, weed. Only way
to address it is by continuing to support advocacy furthering the understanding of mediicinal uses
of cannabis.

📌 If you had to vote for only one witness (not yourself) who would it be and why?

@cannaweedness, well bumping into @unnamed in the discord server and reading his opinion on the matter
of promoting smoke.io I get a sense of integrity which says a lot about potential vision had.

📌 Tell the community why you deserve their vote?

I have no intention of powering down earned rewards as I wish to increase my ability to support
others, that is SMOKE that will stay off of exchanges and not contribute to downwards selling pressure. I
would say most importantly I am a content creator, and my becoming a witness is evidence that anyone can do it, by voting for me your furthering that encouragement for others to travel the foot steps behind me in become a witness.

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👏 Thank you @d00k13 for taking the time to answer these questions and share your thoughts with the community.

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📰 Witness News!

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🎯 Get Involved!

• Interested in becoming a witness? Check out my Smoke Witness Guide .

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📚 Thanks for Reading!

• If you found this information helpful, I hope you will consider supporting me (bbq-iguana) for witness.


• If you are a witness and are doing something to support the community, please use the tag #witness-update in your post and it will be mentioned in Witness News! of the next report.


• If you are a witness and would like to be featured as Spotlight Witness in a future report, please reach out to me.

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✅ Support witnesses that support Smoke.io

Make your support count by going to Witness Voting and setting @bbq-iguana on 🔥!

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