[Witness Proposal] roelandp

[Thom]

Welcome rolandp, glad to have you among the dedicated graphene witnesses! You have my vote (thru xeroc proxy) already.

Anxious to see your contribution to the security of the network.

Your hardware "portfolio" is excellent, top notch. Hopefully you can help us establish some witness standards to strengthen the security and robustness of BitShares.

[roelandp]

Your hardware "portfolio" is excellent, top notch. Hopefully you can help us establish some witness standards to strengthen the security and robustness of BitShares.

Thanks Thom for your proxy vote

[Pheonike]

Your expertise is welcomed and needed. I would love to see a Blockfolio style app or site dedicated to Bitshares ecosystem.

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[fav]

Your expertise is welcomed and needed. I would love to see a Blockfolio style app or site dedicated to Bitshares ecosystem.

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or for free marketing: help blockfolio to add bitshares dex api

[roelandp]

[member=31]fav[/member], i noticed that Blockfolio has the following pairs from Bitshares: BTS / BTC, BTS / CNY, PTS/BTC. You want them to have the Dex added as one of the exchanges to make them watch for?

[member=12185]Pheonike[/member] would this be an app were you can glance your bitshares portfolio iaw your account_balances? Sounds like a fun app / site to make. I can see when I can put some time in this. It is totally possible with the cli_wallet / websocket.

[fav]

Exactly, I want them to add bts as exchange, so that we can track our assets

[BunkerChainLabs-com]

Bunkerchainlabs-com proxy is supporting this witness.

[roelandp]

Bunkerchainlabs-com proxy is supporting this witness.

Thanks a great bunch!

[Pheonike]

[member=31]fav[/member], i noticed that Blockfolio has the following pairs from Bitshares: BTS / BTC, BTS / CNY, PTS/BTC. You want them to have the Dex added as one of the exchanges to make them watch for?

[member=12185]Pheonike[/member] would this be an app were you can glance your bitshares portfolio iaw your account_balances? Sounds like a fun app / site to make. I can see when I can put some time in this. It is totally possible with the cli_wallet / websocket.

Yeah, Just be able to track account balances.  Just add the account name and track profit/loss.

[roelandp]

Yeah, Just be able to track account balances.  Just add the account name and track profit/loss.

Cool, experimented a bit with [member=11456]svk[/member] 's libs and got some rudimentary working... WIP very much: I used your balance
Updated [member=12185]Pheonike[/member] ! Let me know if this is what you are looking for? Do you need additional data?

[bitcrab]

voted.

now there are only 19 witnesses, if roelandp is voted in, another will be voted out.

how about to increase the number of witnesses to let more effective witnesses in? [member=120]xeroc[/member]  is it possible for you to vote more witnesses?

[Thom]

Curious, WHY are there only 19 witnesses, did the committee vote to change that from 21 to 19?

From 24 to 21 to 19. Who or what is driving these changes?

We do have 2 new witnesses (rolandp and sahkan) who I believe will be great additions. I am curious tho on the drop to 19.

[Fox]

Curious, WHY are there only 19 witnesses, did the committee vote to change that from 21 to 19?

From 24 to 21 to 19. Who or what is driving these changes?

The number of witness slots is the weighted average of the number of witnesses voted for by a given voter (proxy). Proxies voting for fewer witnesses will reduce the witness slots, which is what recently happened, resulting in two slots being eliminated. The number of witness slots is always an odd number and may not be less than 11. The committee has no impact on witness slots.

[Thom]

Curious, WHY are there only 19 witnesses, did the committee vote to change that from 21 to 19?

From 24 to 21 to 19. Who or what is driving these changes?

The number of witness slots is the weighted average of the number of witnesses voted for by a given voter (proxy). Proxies voting for fewer witnesses will reduce the witness slots, which is what recently happened, resulting in two slots being eliminated. The number of witness slots is always an odd number and may not be less than 11. The committee has no impact on witness slots.

Thanks for that fox, I had no idea. Somewhere along the way I got it in my head it was just another committee parameter.

So if I understood you correctly the count is directly related to how many witnesses each vote proxy votes for. What do you mean by "weighted" average? And how do votes from individual accounts factor in?

In essence reduction of the number of witnesses gives the remaining witnesses more opportunities to produce a block and hence pay increases.

[roelandp]

[member=21490]Thom[/member] this is what I found about it:
http://docs.bitshares.eu/bitshares/dpos.html#how-many-witnesses-are-securing-the-network

HOW MANY WITNESSES ARE SECURING THE NETWORK
This is totally in the hands of the shareholders. If the majority votes for 50 witnesses, then 50 witnesses will be used. If the shareholders only vote for 20, so be it. The minimum possible witness count is 11.

I think here is the counter code: db_maint.cpp#L159