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I manage delegate.bitcoinjim (3%), more as a hobby/challenge just to see if I could get it working, tho I am an ardent BTS supporter and do my best to turn folks onto the system.  I also am responsible for around ~1GHs of scrypt hashing (and a handful of X11) @ the pool.minebitshares.com pool.  I also intend to contribute to 2.0 by running a witness node. 
I really hope that even before 2.0 launches, we're able to continue to clean up the existing 101 delegates and trim some dead weight from there, and replace with active contributors.  It does seem a bit baffling that there are currently over 20% of the 101 who don't publish any feeds at this point.
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I manage wackou-delegate (3%) which I've had since the original launch of BitShares last year, and I just recently got btstools.digitalgaia (30%) voted in, for which I propose to further develop the bts-tools monitoring tools (https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,12534.30.html and http://digitalgaia.io/btstools.html), and implement the following infrastructure to help mitigate DDoS attacks on the BitShares network (https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,14501.0.html and http://digitalgaia.io/backbone.html)

My short-term plan is to adapt the bts-tools now to also work with graphene witness clients and then write the software to handle the backbone nodes. I plan to (hopefully) have something running for the launch of BitShares 2.0 (which also means I'm going to run as witness for BitShares 2.0 I guess ;) )

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I manage wackou-delegate (3%) which I've had since the original launch of BitShares last year, and I just recently got btstools.digitalgaia (30%) voted in, for which I propose to further develop the bts-tools monitoring tools (https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,12534.30.html and http://digitalgaia.io/btstools.html), and implement the following infrastructure to help mitigate DDoS attacks on the BitShares network (https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,14501.0.html and http://digitalgaia.io/backbone.html)

My short-term plan is to adapt the bts-tools now to also work with graphene witness clients and then write the software to handle the backbone nodes. I plan to (hopefully) have something running for the launch of BitShares 2.0 (which also means I'm going to run as witness for BitShares 2.0 I guess ;) )

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I manage wackou-delegate (3%) which I've had since the original launch of BitShares last year, and I just recently got btstools.digitalgaia (30%) voted in, for which I propose to further develop the bts-tools monitoring tools (https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,12534.30.html and http://digitalgaia.io/btstools.html), and implement the following infrastructure to help mitigate DDoS attacks on the BitShares network (https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,14501.0.html and http://digitalgaia.io/backbone.html)

My short-term plan is to adapt the bts-tools now to also work with graphene witness clients and then write the software to handle the backbone nodes. I plan to (hopefully) have something running for the launch of BitShares 2.0 (which also means I'm going to run as witness for BitShares 2.0 I guess ;) )

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I manage wackou-delegate (3%) which I've had since the original launch of BitShares last year, and I just recently got btstools.digitalgaia (30%) voted in, for which I propose to further develop the bts-tools monitoring tools (https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,12534.30.html and http://digitalgaia.io/btstools.html), and implement the following infrastructure to help mitigate DDoS attacks on the BitShares network (https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,14501.0.html and http://digitalgaia.io/backbone.html)

My short-term plan is to adapt the bts-tools now to also work with graphene witness clients and then write the software to handle the backbone nodes. I plan to (hopefully) have something running for the launch of BitShares 2.0 (which also means I'm going to run as witness for BitShares 2.0 I guess ;) )
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Good luck with this..

I been attempting for the past week to get a dead delegate voted out but it continues to fester.

delegate1.john-galt

As for my positions for minebitshares/bunkermining.. I have expressed time and again that the need for multiples is due to the limiting funding of the current model. The reality is we don't have 101, we have more like maybe 15 if that. Many developers have mulltiple 100% delegates.. and many older 3%ers that have been unresponsive in providing feeds.

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My plan for my delegates when we get to 2.0 is to put in a single worker proposal, get that approved, and then wind up all my delegates down to 1 witness + 1 worker. This is detailed in my bid at http://vote.bunkermining.com

Others we have not heard much from maybe because of other things.. be nice to hear where all the others are at.

I manage the following delegates in the 101:

delegate.rgcrypto - 100%
sollywood.sollars-com - 100% -- managed service
www.minebitshares-com - 3%
www2.minebitshares-com - 3%
minebitshares-reloaded - 100%
minebts1.bunkermining-com - 100%

Other delegates that are not in the 101 (though I think should be) that I provided managed services too are:

delegate.kencode
delegate.dposhub-org

You will note that among all the 101, I have maintained up to date feeds, and all of these delegates have operated with almost no downtime since we started managing them.

Also note we are the only ones that can survive extreme conditions.. even the atomic kind.

After our BunkerShares campaign we have new upgrades being done to our control panel and network infrastructure that is going to enable us to control servers in over 25 different locations worldwide from the bunker. I have plans to develop load balanced templates for any delegates we might manage so they have the option to have their servers run from a particular location as a primary and perhaps the bunker as a secondary.

I run a nuclear bunker data center.. sooo kinda have a lot of resources to bring to this space. :)

So there is my contribution to "The Purge" :)

All very true. All of your delegates for the mining project need to be voted in and certainly @kencode brings more value than many other delegates. He needs to be voted in asap!!

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I'd like to contribute to BTS2 via witness node ..

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I intend to witness for bts2

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Why two? because I started part-time distribution dev work (the Ubuntu PPA and now the raspberry pi project), and we're not allowed to raise the pay percentage

in bitshares2.0, i should have 1 witness node and possibly a "worker," but for now they are the same thing.
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Chemical, biological, nuclear.. natural disasters.. I got it covered. :)


Now, if you just had regulatory disasters covered...  :)


It's in the plans actually:

Something like this: http://www.wikihow.com/Start-Your-Own-Country

I am still tossing around name ideas.. but I do have associates who have been successful in this process.. and have an interest in the bunker.

Perhaps.. The Freedom Bunker Nation.... first Bitshares nation possibly! :)
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Chemical, biological, nuclear.. natural disasters.. I got it covered. :)


Now, if you just had regulatory disasters covered...  :)

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I think most of us have multiple servers spread out throughout the world, as well as synced wallets at home that we could switch block production to.  I think any natural disaster or industrial mishap would quickly be routed around by most witnesses.  An automatic switching script would make this very seamless.

I've recently been working to diversify the hosting companies I use, and would gladly work with other witnesses to ensure that we are not all hosted in the same data center.  I think this would help protect against multiple threats.

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Btw I wasn't referring to government crackdowns or illuminati or fancy schmanzy stuff like nuclear bombs or emps.

What I was talking about were single points of failure where any Bob the builder with one of them mini diggers could accidentally take out a big percentage of the entire bitshares network.

Happened to me just a couple of days ago where the entire city went offline and without power, just because of one single Bob the Builder mishap.

In short is there a way to identify single points of failure on top of trying and distribute the network just a little across the globe? In case of a nuclear holocaust I'd be all up for joining the bitshares lan-party in your bunker, I'll even bring my own tinfoil so we can fold hats together, but that wasn't what I was talking about.

There's a delegate for that ;)

https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=14501.0

In it he gives technicals on how to protect the network.. and yes.. now that he is in the 101 he will continue to work towards its development for 2.0 as well.

I have talked to him about potentially sending some resources towards this from Data Security Node in order to see it implemented.

 
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Btw I wasn't referring to government crackdowns or illuminati or fancy schmanzy stuff like nuclear bombs or emps.

What I was talking about were single points of failure where any Bob the builder with one of them mini diggers could accidentally take out a big percentage of the entire bitshares network.

Happened to me just a couple of days ago where the entire city went offline and without power, just because of one single Bob the Builder mishap.

In short is there a way to identify single points of failure on top of trying and distribute the network just a little across the globe? In case of a nuclear holocaust I'd be all up for joining the bitshares lan-party in your bunker, I'll even bring my own tinfoil so we can fold hats together, but that wasn't what I was talking about.

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You have done a very good job of it.  28,877 blocks generated only 130 missed.  99.55% uptime.  Best percentage in the over 25k club, and 15th in the top 101.

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Indeed. Nothing paranoid here. It's happening.

Anyway, I chuckled reading about 'paranoid undertones' from the guy who has his servers in fucking bunkers... ;) hehe (just to be clear, I do think it's actually good that someone is doing that.. found it funny, is all)


On a more serious note, anything we can do to diversity the network, we should. It's not just governments, also natural catastrophes, etc. If BitShares reaches critical mass, any such event causing a widespread interruption of the network is very bad news. I'm all for decentralizing as much as possible.

Chemical, biological, nuclear.. natural disasters.. I got it covered. :)

It should be a comfort that at present roughly 5% of the network is nuke proof... or to be more realistic of a catastrophic natural disaster threat to the network.. protected against solar flares.. the EMP from those events could/would wipe all data and your backups. Everything in the bunker, particularly the double steel encased copper beryllium lined node would be fine and continue to keep all your BTS bitGOLD etc safe.

Corporate espionage was mentioned.. EMP bombs would be and effective weapon against the network.. though the collateral damage to others data would to huge.. companies operating in their own shareholders interest though tend to not care... this ventures into paranoid a bit.. but as conditions in the world change where things like water and clean air and other resources tighten up.. this might become a new trend in attacks. Again though.. bunker is protected. :)

Anyways.. so far we got only a handful that have checked in.. where is everyone else?
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Indeed. Nothing paranoid here. It's happening.

Anyway, I chuckled reading about 'paranoid undertones' from the guy who has his servers in fucking bunkers... ;) hehe (just to be clear, I do think it's actually good that someone is doing that.. found it funny, is all)


On a more serious note, anything we can do to diversity the network, we should. It's not just governments, also natural catastrophes, etc. If BitShares reaches critical mass, any such event causing a widespread interruption of the network is very bad news. I'm all for decentralizing as much as possible.
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I am concerned with what appears to be a discussion descending into a strawman discussion with real world understand vs. General ideas of how distribution or decentralized can or should operate... I agree  that diversity is good and thus why I have planned for it.. but the paranoid undertones to where this is going is entering tinfoil hat space and to some looking on make it appear as though we are fighting an active threat of shutdown when real it is a strawman.

I don't know.. but how many bitcoin nodes were taken down by governments corporations or the illuminati?
It may very well be zero.

Governments are not the only entity with reason to decipher supposedly private transactions.
BitShares is designed for businesses, how many potential-businesses will be put off by the potential of corporate espionage?

I'm not sure if this is a strawman - I don't think such a threat was claimed to exist right now.
The success of bts depends on the decisions made now and in the future.
I don't think discussing the present and future security/privacy of Witnesses' and users of bts is unwarranted.
The fact is that we don't know what threats bitshares will face, if any.
Fail to prepare and prepare to fail.

I understand your aversion to descending into tinfoil hattery but I don't think anything has been said here that cannot be backed by evidence of some kind.
Almost everyone will object to being told that they are under control, but if you can't leave the country without a passport or start a business without permission then that is exactly what is happening.
Some will say such control is necessary, but that does not make it any less controlling.

Evidence of NSA spying just adds to that

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What we have today is the physical (did you mean online?) equivalent of having a cop following you all the time, recording where you are, what you say, what you read, what you think, who do you talk to, how often you do, and about what.
Sounds scary. Because it is.
Doesn't make it untrue or over-the-top to say so
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I am concerned with what appears to be a discussion descending into a strawman discussion with real world understand vs. General ideas of how distribution or decentralized can or should operate... I agree  that diversity is good and thus why I have planned for it.. but the paranoid undertones to where this is going is entering tinfoil hat space and to some looking on make it appear as though we are fighting an active threat of shutdown when real it is a strawman.

I don't know.. but how many bitcoin nodes were taken down by governments corporations or the illuminati?
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What is perfection anyway ? If you do it from a public place after randomizing your mac while running tails with electrum through Tor, that seems pretty efficient to me.

If it worked for Snowden, chances are it'll work for you and me.



I agree about privacy and the crowd. Unfortunately the privacy-aware among us are essentially painting big red targets over our own heads right now. There are some 'normal' people using things like Tor, but we need more, way more.

I've often wondered why the average joe/jane does not appear to care about such issues. What we have today is the physical equivalent of having a cop following you all the time, recording where you are, what you say, what you read, what you think, who do you talk to, how often you do, and about what.

It shouldn't be so hard to understand that this is a very dystopian state of affairs. And if only enough people would realize just how easy it is to turn it around, next week most of those programs would have crumbled already.

But we're getting a bit offtopic here :)

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It's not so much the provider that is anonymous, but the payment method
My point is that these anonymity mixers etc. are not perfect. And perfect is what is necessary for true privacy.

Unless you can link some evidence that a particular service is provably perfect?
The low volume of transactions make things very difficult. Sending 10 btc 'anonymously' is not so anonymous if the only 10btc transfer on the network at the time is your own.
Confidential transactions might solve this

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@Permie: I was alluding to the US being represented in blue (low corruption) in the map you linked. It is anything but. Many if not most of the civil right losses we have faced over the last decade and a half and a good chunk of the surveillance that has encroached our societies can in a large way be traced back to the US specifically, and to a lesser extend to the Anglo world (the 5 eyes). Corruption, deceit and totalitarianism are rampant. Yet somehow still mostly under the radar.
Apathy to the "Snowden Revelations" are testament to how little the public care for their own privacy.
If privacy is not perfect and easy to use, nobody but 'bad people' (persons noteworthy to the state, dissenters) will use it and it becomes more obvious.
Privacy needs the crowd to hide in, IMO
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The state does not possess magic pixie dust that renders strong anonymity technology like Tor useless. DPR made a bunch of mistakes and he was a high profile target, any error at that level of the game could mean the end, and for him, it did (Free Ross!!!).

It's not so much the provider that is anonymous, but the payment method. And in my opinion this remains an essential liberty that must also be preserved - being able to order a server online under a pseudonym. Write whatever you want and publish it. It's beautiful and it's worth protecting.

If you mix your coins right and use Tor (particularly if your client only speaks to hidden services), then it becomes very difficult if not outright impossible at the present level of technology to trace the server payment back to you.


@Permie: I was alluding to the US being represented in blue (low corruption) in the map you linked. It is anything but. Many if not most of the civil right losses we have faced over the last decade and a half and a good chunk of the surveillance that has encroached our societies can in a large way be traced back to the US specifically, and to a lesser extend to the Anglo world (the 5 eyes). Corruption, deceit and totalitarianism are rampant. Yet somehow still mostly under the radar.
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Haha US in blue, cool story bro
You don't agree political strong-arming should be avoided if possible?

How much political pressure would it take to take any of us down?


I don't share your trust of 'anonymous' service providers.
I'm sure many are legit, but honeypots are everywhere too

DPR (silk road) had their servers found, although I'm not sure how anonymous it was claimed to be.
If it's technically possible to de-anonymize in any way, you better believe the state will use their black budget tech, orders of magnitude more advanced than anything the public is aware, to get it done.
Forget about the legaility or repercussions - Parallel construction and deception are playground games to them.

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In August 2013, a report by Reuters revealed that the Special Operations Division (SOD) of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration advises DEA agents to practice parallel construction when creating criminal cases against Americans that are actually based on NSA warrantless surveillance.[1] The use of illegally obtained evidence is generally inadmissible under the Fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine.[2]

Two senior DEA officials explained that the reason parallel construction is used is to protect sources (such as undercover agents or informants) or methods in an investigation. One DEA official had told Reuters: "Parallel construction is a law enforcement technique we use every day. It's decades old, a bedrock concept."
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How much political pressure would it take to take any of us down?



of course if they are really coming after you, you have to assume that they are able to determine the address that is signing the blocks.  If this is hosted by a company that can be leaned upon.  It will be leaned upon.  Tor works as a delegate with 0.9.2, but I'm not sure it will work with 2.0. 

You also have to consider the fact that if the meatbag you live inside is thrown in a cage, paying with crypto won't be of any use.
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How much political pressure would it take to take any of us down?


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Haha US in blue, cool story bro

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Countries in blue will extradite to the US, I would say we want to avoid those countries where possible. But obviously the World Police are not the only threat.
 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_natural_disaster_risk
Top 20 countries least likely to have a natural disaster
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Qatar    1    0.10%
 Malta    2    0.61%
 Barbados    3    1.16%
 Saudi Arabia    4    1.32%
 Grenada    5    1.44%
 Iceland    6    1.55%
 Kiribati    7    1.78%
 Bahrain    8    1.81%
 United Arab Emirates    9    2.10%
 Sweden    10    2.26%
 Finland    11    2.28%
 Egypt    12    2.34%
 Norway    13    2.35%
 Israel    14    2.49%
 Singapore    15    2.49%
 Estonia    16    2.52%
 Seychelles    17    2.58%
  Switzerland    18    2.61%
 Luxembourg    19    2.68%
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Countries in blue have less perceived political corruption, red have more perceived corruption.


Country risk refers to the risk of investing in a country, dependent on changes in the business environment that may adversely affect operating profits or the value of assets in a specific country. For example, financial factors such as currency controls, devaluation or regulatory changes, or stability factors such as mass riots, civil war and other potential events contribute to companies' operational risks.
Red = more risk, green = less risk
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Is there a way to identify or measure geological distribution of the delegates? 

I'm starting to get the impression that a lot of the delegates are now clustering on a couple of small locations. Worst case scenario we'll have a large number of sockpuppet delegates with no actual separate infrastructure or benefit to security and robustness.

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Take for example the 10 delegates or more databunker is managing are they all on the same network connection? Nothing personal to you Data, it's just that you posted here, I'm sure there are others doing the same thing.

I agree.

We need to think about geographical location of witnesses and witness nodes, as well as the political location of witnesses and nodes. 

We need to model the most likely threats to the network.  Do we think they are collusion amongst witnesses, coercion of witnesses, or simply the prevention of block production through political, or other geographical issues. 

Data said that his nodes were working in multitudes of countries with a backup running at his compound.  He may be much more prepared for political pressure than the rest of us, but you have to ask yourself.  How much political pressure would it take to take any of us down?

I believe we need as many individual witness operators as possible, in as many political environments as possible.

We also need to think about where threats are likely to come from, and how best to resist those threats.  I still think a dead mans switch would be a good idea.  If you do not log into a node, and submit a command within the appointed time, the node changes its public data to something along the lines of "I have been compromised.  Vote me out"
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Is there a way to identify or measure geological distribution of the delegates? 

I'm starting to get the impression that a lot of the delegates are now clustering on a couple of small locations. Worst case scenario we'll have a large number of sockpuppet delegates with no actual separate infrastructure or benefit to security and robustness.

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Take for example the 10 delegates or more databunker is managing are they all on the same network connection? Nothing personal to you Data, it's just that you posted here, I'm sure there are others doing the same thing.
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You have done a very good job of it.  28,877 blocks generated only 130 missed.  99.55% uptime.  Best percentage in the over 25k club, and 15th in the top 101. 

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I manage dele-puppy. 

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I manage the following delegates in the 101:

delegate.rgcrypto - 100%
sollywood.sollars-com - 100% -- managed service
www.minebitshares-com - 3%
www2.minebitshares-com - 3%
minebitshares-reloaded - 100%
minebts1.bunkermining-com - 100%

Other delegates that are not in the 101 (though I think should be) that I provided managed services too are:

delegate.kencode
delegate.dposhub-org
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This is the new standard for workers. There needs to be a clear proposal for how much money is needed to accomplish a specific task in some period of time. So, I think that even the 100% delegates that the community may want to keep as workers need to re-articulate their mission with a well thought out worker proposal and again present it to the community for a vote.
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I manage the following delegates in the 101:

delegate.rgcrypto - 100%
sollywood.sollars-com - 100% -- managed service
www.minebitshares-com - 3%
www2.minebitshares-com - 3%
minebitshares-reloaded - 100%
minebts1.bunkermining-com - 100%

Other delegates that are not in the 101 (though I think should be) that I provided managed services too are:

delegate.kencode
delegate.dposhub-org

Thanks. More transparency like this from other delegates and we will get closer to figuring out what level of decentralization we actually have for witnesses.

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Good luck with this..

I been attempting for the past week to get a dead delegate voted out but it continues to fester.

delegate1.john-galt

As for my positions for minebitshares/bunkermining.. I have expressed time and again that the need for multiples is due to the limiting funding of the current model. The reality is we don't have 101, we have more like maybe 15 if that. Many developers have mulltiple 100% delegates.. and many older 3%ers that have been unresponsive in providing feeds.

My plan for my delegates when we get to 2.0 is to put in a single worker proposal, get that approved, and then wind up all my delegates down to 1 witness + 1 worker. This is detailed in my bid at http://vote.bunkermining.com

Others we have not heard much from maybe because of other things.. be nice to hear where all the others are at.

I manage the following delegates in the 101:

delegate.rgcrypto - 100%
sollywood.sollars-com - 100% -- managed service
www.minebitshares-com - 3%
www2.minebitshares-com - 3%
minebitshares-reloaded - 100%
minebts1.bunkermining-com - 100%

Other delegates that are not in the 101 (though I think should be) that I provided managed services too are:

delegate.kencode
delegate.dposhub-org

You will note that among all the 101, I have maintained up to date feeds, and all of these delegates have operated with almost no downtime since we started managing them.

Also note we are the only ones that can survive extreme conditions.. even the atomic kind.

After our BunkerShares campaign we have new upgrades being done to our control panel and network infrastructure that is going to enable us to control servers in over 25 different locations worldwide from the bunker. I have plans to develop load balanced templates for any delegates we might manage so they have the option to have their servers run from a particular location as a primary and perhaps the bunker as a secondary.

I run a nuclear bunker data center.. sooo kinda have a lot of resources to bring to this space. :)

So there is my contribution to "The Purge" :)
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It is not premature, but very unlikely to happen.

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One of the first things I think we should start with is asking all the 100% paid delegates to declare whether they are the ones actually running their nodes, and if so, are they still interested in running a witness node in BitShares 2.0 (at witness pay levels of course). Then we should go through all the other delegates in the top 101 and try to identify the bitsharestalk forum user who controls that node. If this person has publicly revealed their identity, then that makes things easier. Otherwise, we should try to determine how confident we are that more than one of those identified forum users are not controlled by the same person. This is of course impossible to do accurately, but we can get some sense of it by looking at the reputation and activity level of those users on the forum (at this stage few people would be willing to put in the time and effort required to make multiple accounts they control all appear to be active and individual people with their own unique thoughts and ideas). This process excludes otherwise viable candidates for witnesses who happen to not be very active on the forum, but in that case I think they either need to start getting active and/or reveal their identity if they really want to become a witness.

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With the move to BitShares 2.0 I think some delegate house cleaning is in order.

First, I think it is really important that we identify how many unique individuals there are who are actually running delegates (and standby delegates). There are many people who are running multiple delegates in order to help out others without the technical skill or the time to run and maintain a node. This is no longer necessary with BitShares 2.0. Any nodes run by the same person are a waste of money since they add cost without adding any extra decentralization of control. It makes more sense to have 30 witnesses each controlled by a unique person than 30 unique people collectively running 101 witnesses. And with BitShares 2.0 we finally have the flexibility to do that.

Second, many 100% delegates can either be consolidated or entirely removed. The referral rewards program is the replacement to marketing delegates. Do you think it would be premature to start the process of voting out those delegates that are no longer needed due to the referral program, or should we wait until BitShares 2.0 has officially launched first? Also, there is no need to have 100% delegates for all the individual devs who will be working for Cryptonomex. This will all be replaced by a worker proposal for a specific project that the Cryptonomex team will be working on with specified payment amounts, periods, vesting schedule, etc. This is the new standard for workers. There needs to be a clear proposal for how much money is needed to accomplish a specific task in some period of time. So, I think that even the 100% delegates that the community may want to keep as workers need to re-articulate their mission with a well thought out worker proposal and again present it to the community for a vote.