📄 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

There is 28 disabled witnesses in the top 50, up 2 from last report. There is currently 1 disabled witnesses in the top 20, @jrswab. He is indicated that his node is in the process of re-syncing and will be back up today. There is currently 1 active witness below the top 50 - @eder-witness

There is some activity that I would like to make members aware of. @grow-op has been missing a substantial number of blocks over the last month (1215 last report / 1327 this report). These are NOT misses from a witness node being down and after 24hr would cause it to be auto disabled, but rather a running witness node that is consistently missing blocks in spurts. This also effects neighboring witness nodes and causes them to miss blocks. A substantial number of the missed blocks by witnesses with single digit misses can be attributed to this neighbor effect. This can go on indefinitely if not resolved. I have attempted to reach out in the witness discord and @cannaweedness buzzed them 5 days ago. While @grow-op remains in the top 20 every witness rotation is exposed. I highly suggest people consider removing their witness votes until this is resolved.

Missed Blocks

Top 20 Witnesses that have missed 10 or more blocks since last report are:

@cannaweedness (217)
@grow-op (1327)
@trees (186)
@d00k13 (29)

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📊 Current Witness Rankings

Rank	Prev Rank	Owner	Missed Blocks	Δ Missed Blocks	Votes	Weighted Votes	Created
1	1	@blckchnd	32	1	339	14029172593998	9/24/2018
2	2	@murda-ra	3131	0	237	13682447937107	9/25/2018
3	6	@cannaweedness	647	217	137	12366771280955	12/31/2018
4	3	@bbq-iguana	60	6	282	12002567174289	9/23/2018
5	4	jrswab	1312	11	207	11522213282708	9/27/2018
6	5	@grow-op	7453	1327	186	11431149621991	10/2/2018
7	7	@ganja	918	3	137	10816032284985	9/24/2018
8	8	@subways	2739	5	193	10473197996862	9/24/2018
9	9	@trees	2362	186	199	10177333940380	9/26/2018
10	10	@roelandp	9	3	274	10158853711277	9/26/2018
11	11	@jah.witness	1737	3	117	10117542401079	9/30/2018
12	12	@ijmmai	419	2	72	9906188797882	4/22/2019
13	13	@d00k13	772	29	63	9780229687272	7/7/2019
14	14	@hightimes	3	0	70	9194932763137	3/29/2019
15	15	@wls-sweden	102	1	59	9027127024826	11/21/2018
16	16	@graylan	326	2	171	9004229761166	9/27/2018
17	17	@ihashfury	4	0	92	8813612331180	10/13/2018
18	18	@exnihilo.witness	30	3	49	8782964700015	11/26/2018
19	20	@herbncrypto	614	1	69	8600382797470	5/6/2019
20	19	@smoketerzai56	1622	0	117	8565244640982	9/24/2018
21	21	howhigh	631	409	153	7860105784383	10/4/2018
22	22	@cryptosmokers	182	79	68	7796153288763	7/22/2019
23	23	@xxoxx	255	1	37	6914709037316	3/7/2019
24	24	@carpediem	21	0	33	6022870471785	8/9/2019
25	25	powerpicswitness	76	0	301	4772657827498	9/24/2018
26	26	mister-meeseeks	1797	0	113	4135955454275	10/6/2018
27	28	skylinebuds	3277	0	281	3682107514509	9/23/2018
28	27	smokeasaurusrex	1644	0	202	3015565974476	9/24/2018
29	30	toker	1138	0	106	2583832488593	10/9/2018
30	32	canna-curate	1660	0	87	2311707447088	12/18/2018
31	33	project-atlas	166	0	42	2255086928407	1/7/2019
32	29	emeraldtreasury	325	0	83	2075083347739	9/26/2018
33	35	beyondbitcoincas	549	0	106	2027479879682	9/27/2018
34	34	moonblocks	2207	0	111	2001040104342	9/27/2018
35	38	intelliguy	1	0	50	1808117685112	10/10/2018
36	39	superclutch	639	0	13	1755637723858	12/28/2018
37	40	easyrider	1372	0	35	1708601577960	4/23/2019
38	31	xtetrahedron	1438	0	112	1393222584675	12/5/2018
39	42	chronocrypto	3111	0	185	944705210901	9/24/2018
40	36	coffeebuds	1794	0	130	941017089726	10/13/2018
41	43	curationbro	5267	0	147	875700142023	9/24/2018
42	37	blackman	148	0	203	842264952205	9/23/2018
43	44	betgames	1607	0	67	822606429528	11/10/2018
44	41	bbtc	578	0	67	594108272107	9/24/2018
45	45	bangzi	10	0	80	420205065910	9/24/2018
46	46	nathansternx	1768	0	85	260101922374	9/25/2018
47	47	moonunit	60	0	16	226324061014	4/14/2019
48	48	lucashunter	1481	0	55	138021435903	9/24/2018
49	49	smokinghotnish	54	0	40	113959805845	9/23/2018
50	50	ienrikex	1446	0	42	109822666833	9/24/2018

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⭐️ Witness Spotlight - UPDATE ⭐️

Since it appears we have hit all the witnesses that want to appear in the spotlight, I think it is time to start a new round of questions. I have posted a request for what questions the members would like witnesses to answer. Please see the POST and add your questions in the comments.

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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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