@pfunk's Witness Post

avatar
(Edited)

Hey Hive community. I've met a lot of you online already but if we haven't, consider this an introduction. I came to Hive as a miner fairly early in its life. I created my account by mining on April 23rd 2016. Once I found out what Hive really was for, to enable and reward community-driven content and interaction on a blockchain platform, I was skeptical but very interested. I read the whitepaper outlining the model that Hive was taking to achieve this goal and most of my skepticism vanished. I was in.

I'm still in, moreso than before. A few people have made posts about being full-time in Hive and I can count myself among them. Here are some of the things I do to bring value to Hive and Hive.

Activity

I try to be a model Hiveian by commenting, curating, and actually reading/viewing/watching/listening to many of the unique posts we have here. I also participate and help users in over 30 channels on Hive.chat, where I also occasionally perform the role of moderator. You can also sometimes find me in Hivespeak and the Hive Talk Podcast discords.

I post. I was one of the first people on Hive to post topics on subjects other than Hive or cryptocurrency. If you go and scroll all the way down on my blog roll, you'll find my first post was a discussion topic about games and gaming. From the start my goal was to diversify the content on Hive, to make it a valuable platform that people outside the cryptocurrency sphere would want to join. Many others helped as well, and over time that goal has been partially achieved. I still think there is improvement to be made in onboarding people that might be turned off by some of the technical bits about rewards or the complexities of Hive.

Since then I have found the inspiration to share my own personal photography, and thoughts on various topics I'm interested in. It has unlocked something in me that was dormant. I've often had thoughts like doing a blog reviewing tacos or maybe a more eclectic set of topics but I imagined I would just be talking into a chasm and nobody would ever read them. And to get rewarded for sharing photography is unbelievably encouraging to push myself to learn and get better. I reinvested much of my post earnings back into content production: getting a modern DSLR camera and lenses, software, and a photo production-oriented monitor.

I've written a few guides to help people get up to speed with various aspects of Hive and Hive:

Witness

As a witness I have stayed active. I've been running at least one Hive node since I first successfully compiled it back in April 2016. I keep my price feed up to date and have adjusted APR and other witness parameters as I think is needed. I have never missed a hardfork.

I've always tried to spur discussion of major changes to Hive, especially when I thought they didn't make any sense. Such changes include a scrapped proposal to give 25% of a post's rewards as a handout to its comments, which I believed would only encourage low quality comments, botting, and gaming that system. Another proposed change I thought was a bad idea was to give the miner block producer slot the same amount of Hive Power rewards as the backup slot. I also share feedback in chat, on Hive, and on github when I see it's necessary.

Why I want your approval vote

I want your vote, small medium or large, if you trust me and approve of what I do in the Hive ecosystem. I'd also like more stake in Hive, not only to have a higher powered vote but also to bring my account investment in line with my time invested. I want to see Hive grow and succeed, and do what I can to make it happen.

Thank you to all the Hiveians who already have an approval vote for me or voted for me in the past. Without you I wouldn't be making this post to get to the next level. The rewards from this post will be used to cover costs for my current local advertising in development.

Post updated to make it less STINCy.

witness-category steem witness
0
0
0.000
116 comments
avatar
(Edited)

Hey, @pfunk,

THANK YOU for all that you do!

You are followed, upvoted, and have my approval as witness... ;)

STEEM ON! :) :) :)

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

You've always come across as a hard working, helpful and trustworthy member of the community, and I've enjoyed our discussions in the photography channel. You have my vote!

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

I gave you my (small :) vote a while ago, because I trust you and appreciate all that you are doing for this community.

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

I appreciate it @nelyp. Having approval from many individual real people is rewarding for its own sake, no matter their stake.

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

Thanks so much for your support with Open Mic @pfunk.
It's good to see all the other things you're involved with on Steemit.
You have my vote as a witness for sure.

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

I can't take much credit. You do all the heavy lifting. Thank you very much for your approval!

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

The community is having fun with the project and that's the coolest thing about it. Your support is much appreciated by everyone.

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

Pfunk for president :P

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

The question is... president of what? :O

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

The candy kingdom of course. Resteemed. Hope to see you back in the top 19 soon.

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar
(Edited)

And I shall appoint you the Secretary of Chocolate. Wait what's a president doing in a kingdom anyway? :P Thanks!

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

Good question hahaha.. you got me ;)

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

He's making the candy kingdom great again...."bigly".
You have my vote sir.

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar
(Edited)

You did well to post this. I have voted for you many times as a PHOTOGRAPHER and a mighty fine one at that! I had no idea though of your other contributions! I well head over now and vote you in as a witness!

@kus-knee (The Old Dog)

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar
(Edited)

Oh my, I've never had anyone bite me as a witness. This will be interesting! :P

Thank you!

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

You have my vote dude, in fact you have had it for ages. Great fan of the work you do for steemit and your blog posts too!

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

Thank you very much @meesterboom, I'm a fan of your work as well. Actually whenever I see your food/pepper posts I start salivating like a pavlovian dog. :P

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

Cheers man, that's exactly the effect I am trying for!!

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

You've definitely got my vote @pfunk, truly thank you for all your contributions to this wonderful Steemit community, I hope you become witness indeed. I'm going to check our your gaming post right now, I just posted a gaming article just now as I came across yours. The diversity and intricacy of content in Steemit is growing more vast and is going to be an enticing factor for more users in the near future. Best of success to you as a future witness, Upvoted!

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

Thank you @verbal-d! Diverse and niche stuff is definitely valuable to the growth of Steem. Websites will usually stagnate if the culture becomes a singular clique.

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

Wise words and you're most indeed welcome

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar
(Edited)

Shut up and take my vote! =)
PS you've had in for ages.... but still

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

For a newbie, this really covered a lot, happy to vote for you

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

I appreciate that. Welcome to Steemit!

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

Hey @pfunk, you have had and always will have my vote as one of my witness,s ! So let,s now Steem On and Up all together )

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

Thanks for sharing! Very good post, very interesting .. @pfunk Followed and upvoted! I'm new to Steemit, I invite you to visit my post, upvoted and follow me @Sandra16 Help me?

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

@pfunk, I believe you are one of the first witnesses I've voted for because of your participation in the community. I cannot believe how much time you spend in chat! Where do you find the time to do everything you do?

Perhaps if you see this and have the time, you could direct me to some good links to information on the difference between CPU and GPU mining? There is so much to learn, but I am determined to understand and perhaps one day begin mining as well. It seems to be the wave of the now and future.

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar
(Edited)

Thank you very much Meredith! As someone with a few CPUs and GPUs, most of them idle right now, I can say it's a total waste of time and electricity, most of the time. :P The short answer to why GPUs are faster is that they are designed for parallel operations, and CPUs are designed for serial ones. This old article on the Bitcoin wiki summarizes it. Ignore the stuff about AMD vs. Nvidia, it's not necessarily the case anymore.

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

Thank you @pfunk. The wiki sounds like a great starting point. I appreciate you taking the time :)

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

@pfunk you're a certified badass who puts your money and time where your mouth is, which is why you've had my vote for quite a while. Well done and much appreciated, as always. As a musician in the community, of course I also really appreciate your support of OpenMic, but you already know that. Thanks again for everything.

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

Thank you Jessamyn :)

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

Good job you doing up here. You have my vote for witness. Keep steeming.

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

I'm a little late to the party....I wasn't sure what all this voting was about - I get it now. You have my vote - one, because I come across your replies and see your presence and encouraging remarks and two, because I like how you presented in this post. I wasn't aware you were the man behind the curtain on so many projects.
One question I do have, if you have a moment, is how to organize certain posts that contain helpful guides. Do most bookmark them in their browser or is there another way within steemit that I am not aware of? Thanks.

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

Thank you very much @countrygirl! I'm not the only man behind these things. Many people contribute to everything on Steemit.

Regarding helpful posts, the new Welcome page has some good info and tips, including links to some posts. You can access it by clicking the shutter icon in the upper right on a steemit.com page, it's the 4th link down.

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

Who would I make a suggestion to about followers and those following? I would like to see those alphabetized so I can find people quicker. ??

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

Well, I go to my secret safe to take my active key and vote for you!
I think you are one of the most deeply involved in this platform people.

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

Hi! I am new here. please follow me, I know nothing. You seem great tho and congrats.

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

Can I ask that you, as I would like to see witnesses in general do, briefly describe where you stand socially and politically on a few issues of your own choice.

In my opinion, this gives a better understanding of the more personal motivations that could be driving a witness at some point in time.

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar
(Edited)

I don't know if most political positions are super relevant for a witness on Steem. Specific important issues like censorship and freedom of speech certainly are though. I have been a free speech supporter since I was probably about 10 years old and able to grasp the concept. I also am against censorship. I think things like the US FCC banning certain words from radio broadcasts and nudity from TV is absurd. Equally absurd is admonishing children for using "bad" words.

Economic issues are also relevant. On Steem, people's token balances and thus stake-based influence should be considered immutable. Dan had an idea once to make it possible to automatically void another's stake with your own, which I thought was a bad idea and would have fought it had it gone any further than idea stage.

Furthermore I think that a recent increase and then decrease of the witness-set SBD APR% variable was a bit of a bait-and-switch, because the APR% went from 10% to 15% in order to increase SBD demand, but was then reduced to 9% in less than a month. This wasn't done with any malice or intention on scamming SBD holders, but I still think it is cause for concern. I participated in this to some extent, and learned from it. For as long as the current system is in place, I don't think I'll ever decrease the APR% more than once in 30 days. I will take opportunities to lobby for a better system that accumulates interest at the current rate throughout a 30 day payment period, rather than paying SBD interest at the current network rate, even if it's less than it was for the other 29 days of the period.

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

Hi there! I've been meaning to check out your page as my brother is a super talented musician who I am encouraging to get on here. I've posted a couple of his originals on my page along with others and @luzcypher has been really encouraging. I started just under two weeks ago, and it's a fantastic place. I believe in where it's going. Ironically, I only recently learned about witnesses and what they do, I had no idea you were one until I got on your page just now. I just new you were a huge part of the music incentive here and I've seen a lot of great comments about you. It's excellent that you're a witness. I think it's important that those who do what you do are really involved with the community. So absolutely, you have my vote! I would love it if you could recommend other witnesses for me to check out. I have been doing some research when I can, but it would be much easier if they were all similar to you, ha! I'm self-governing and all about being free, so it' a no-brainer.
If you get a chance-and really you'll want to, it's an awesome song to start a Saturday on-- click on the link and check out my brother ;) https://steemit.com/funny/@dreemit/lazy-day-blues Going to vote for you now.

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

Voted for you in the witness page. Thank you for all you do.

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

You are welcome, and thanks!

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

I voted for your witness to.
Thank you!

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

yes thanks a lot will follow as well have a nice day

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

"Your voice is worth something" is a great tag line. Thanks for all that you do.
I found the witness page and voted for you yesterday. :-)

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

@pfunk - I have just started voting for witnesses today. I am fairly new and still learning, but a few members have stood out for being active supporters in the Steemit Community. You are one of them. I am happy to return that support for you as a witness.

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

Thanks for nurturing the community. You have my full support back.

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

I have voted for you as my witness. Thank you for your support @pfunk

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar
(Edited)

Great article! I vote and follow you , thumbs up!

ps. Totally agree with some of your points, we really need to increase the population on STEEM!

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

Helping in curbing abuse? Ah...you got my vote! :)

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar
(Edited)

Thanks for the help in Forums. You were my first witness vote. Thanks again.

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

Just put in my vote for you bro, been helpful since day 1!

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

I appreciate your role in helping to curb abuse, something important to this community and the reason you get my Witness vote. Thank you @pfunk for the work you do.

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

I have no clue what I am doing, however, I did press upvote for whatever reason...

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

good work, just gave you my votes!

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

I’m freshly unboxed into the steem world. I know of many artists that would love to be on here. Although it’s quite confusing at first the foundation of what’s being made here is very inviting. We artists,( I casually do include my crap as art$), are generally simple. We want to create, have it saved, have it enjoyed, and if possible make $$$ from it. Keep it simple and help us do this and we will flock here.
-M

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

cuenta con mi voto como testigo. cuenta con mi apoyo. exitos.

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

Have no clue what voting does yet, But I voted for you :)

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

Thank you! To put it simply, witness voting allows stakeholders in the Steem network to collectively choose who produces blocks, which keeps the blockchain going. It is a trusted position with responsibility, so stakeholders are incentivized to be choosy.

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

Been tryint to see which appropriate witnesses I can vote for, @Curie has been a tremendous help, especially starting brand new on the platform. Music promoter with @mysticravenpro, my ownpersonal music production @ravenking13 and my art/writing/magic blog is @ravenking.

Voted for you! Love your witness thread :)

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

Your price feed is 3 days old.
The second link on this post is broken.

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

Thanks. I updated the links, as you can tell this post is fairly outdated.

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

I got it from your witness link.
Can it be updated?

0
0
0.000
Reply