Following the recent outage, I am happy to announce that my Witness server is back serving blocks and the price feed for Hive. The Hive software has also been upgraded to v1.27.6. The server I am renting

As mentioned by @edicted here, the Privex hosting company that supports Hive was recently the recipient of some police action that led to some of their servers in Scandinavia being taken offline. In theory

Greetings to all on Hive, it has been a while since I shared a Witness Update and since my server has been offline for a few days, I thought I would take a moment to wish you all a great Solstice and New

Thanks to everyone who helped me deal with the niggling minor issues with upgrading my Witness node to Hard Fork 26. The server is now live again, serving blocks for Hive and the price feed is up to date

Hey Everyone, It has been a while since I posted a witness update. Sadly, that is mostly because I have been caring for my ill Father for the last 8 months, who has only recently passed away. So if you

Hi everyone. My witness server at Privex has unexpectedly lost internet connectivity and so far their support team has not been able to identify the cause. Nothing has changed from my admin area that would

Ahoy Hive community! It's been a while since I posted here but I have never left you! Unfortunately, I have been online much less this year due to my Father nearly passing on several times from serious

As I announced recently, I currently have over $1.7M worth of Hive Witness votes available for witnesses who openly state support for free speech on Hive and specifically in the context of the use and

Having been recently taking a closer look at the witness voting situation on Hive, it has become apparent that a lot of accounts aren't paying much attention to the topic and numerous people have said

Announcing a new witness voting proxy fund worth Millions - Nominate Free Speech Witnesses! It's been a while since I made a Witness Update for Hive. In part that's because I had to go to Australia for

As of 2021, I have run a witness server for Hive (formerly Steem) for four years! A lot has changed since 2017, so it's time for an updated Witness Statement from your local friendly soul, @ura-soul. In

I have just finished getting my Hive witness server updated to run Hard Fork 25. So far all is well. So far, the fixes to the HBD dollar peg seem to be working well and HBD's price has been closely following

Hey everyone, Just a quick update to let you know that my witness server is now online again after a performance drop on the machine it was housed in at Privex caused some dropped blocks. This is the 2nd

Hi Everyone, Unfortunately my server has been dropping blocks for a while and the cause has been traced to an overloaded node at Privex - too many hive witnesses on one machine, basically. I can't say

After a few days offline my Hive witness server is back! This is the longest period that my witness server has been offline since starting witnessing on Steem in 2017. In this case I moved server from

Hey everyone, Unfortunately my Hive witness has been offline for a few days. I moved it away from the server company I had used successfully for a long time to take advantage of the fact that one of our

Aloha to all! My witness server is now live on Privex running HF 1.24.2 of Hive - just served it's first block from this Fork version. The server was dropping blocks for 24 hours because I decided to relocate

@witnesssurvey just invited me to answer questions about my thoughts on witnessing - so here they are! What is your position/stance on bid-bots (ownership/delegations/opinion)? I have been vocal on this