Hi there Blurtians 😅 (probably didn't spell that right)

Where do I come from?

Many of you might already know me, and I am coming from where most of us came, you know the place, give me a break. By the time HIVE forged itself I found it super interesting (as a Blockchain technology explorer) to follow how the community would split and how things would evolve.

My original account is @forykw and I am mostly on HIVE supporting the Blockchain community (at many levels, but I kind of like the gaming community) as much I can and running infrastructure on HIVE, HIVE-Engine and DLUX side-chains as @atexoras.witness (not an account on BLURT), and see how I can help further decentralize things.

But, as usual, time does not expand and you quickly run out of it. It's not like in the old days when following 10 blockchains was something trivial. Currently, is basically impossible (at least to me and at the code evolution level), especially if they are all different technologies, so I kept mostly focused on where I found to be most useful, could learn more, and where I mostly had things I could identify myself with.

Although my way of seeing things has nothing to do with "flags" or "races", I do enjoy some discussion from time to time and chatting about what is good or bad for blockchain evolution. We are all humans, explorers and we do have our own opinions, but the experience of being on multiple blockchains does really help on that overall picture. For me, the more you get out of your "comfort" zone, the more you learn! - in a general sense...

And for me, Blockchain culture should be open-minded. People don't need to destroy others in order to progress with their beliefs, if they have, I think it's obvious what happens already. The more we focus on improving what exists and decentralizing Blockchain technology, the more benefit all of us will have in this space.

Past Experience

I have been running nodes on, Bitshares, EOS, failed to try WAX but felt very tempted, STEEM (as @forykw), and then HIVE world (side-chains were/are a huge learning co-product). Now, adding BLURT too, and I have still others in the queue, such as the Crypto.com public open chain and some of their side-chains.

Aside from all the experiments done since 2013, when I actually entered this epic adventure, until probably 2017, it has been a quite diverse trial and error approach. Especially for all that Babylonia of Storage-related things like SIA, Storj (still run one), BURST, you name it...

But drawing a line quickly gets you so far right? I can't say where that line should be, because it's constantly changing, but I can sort of "feel" it (based on my so far experience).

What will I be doing as a witness?

I am mostly an infrastructure and troubleshooter person (not a dev) but I can read and write some code, and therefore I mostly focus on the engineering part of blockchain technology, sort of at the mid-high level arena, where there are also a lot of long-term strategies. Being somehow aware of how things work gives me some flexibility and in exchange, the ability to help others in some areas.

This is true no matter where I am, no matter the blockchain.

For sake of not repeating myself, you know where currently (and probably will continue for a very long time) most of my time goes, but that does not mean I can't learn from other communities, help them, or even exchange values with them in order to further support the evolution of blockchain technologies.

For now, the docker-based implementation will keep working on a node that is supported by UPS. So, unless the internet goes down, things will be wildly available. Then, depending on how things evolve in 2023, I might open it (RPC and seeding) to the world. I first need to understand where everyone is running from in order to understand if that's worth it.

Right, if you want any of the above to be around, you know where to vote, right? And anywhere, you are welcome to contact me. Just be sure it's me and not an impostor.

https://blurtwallet.com/~witnesses 👉 @forkyishere

Very important!

Don't forget to have fun, will you? Life's too short... try to be helpful and positive if you can. See yaaaaa...