Witness Update: @themarkymark
It's been a while since I have done a witness update, mainly as there isn't a lot to say. I was reading a discussion by @blanchy wondering why no one has done any witness updates. When you read how boring this post is, you will find out why.
Anyway, I'm currently #14 witness. I joined July 1st, 2017 but I didn't make my first operation until 22nd when I followed @quickfingersluc. On August 16th, 2017 I announced my witness.
What do I do?
Downvotes
I am primarily known for downvotes, as use this feature more than anyone. In fact, I created an NFT in NFT showroom for my first downvote.
It is yours to own in NFT Showroom for the low price of 4444 Hive. This was created as a meme and the price is a reference to the hostile takeover.
I run a system I call ZERO that removes rewards from anyone on my blacklist. The system uses Hive's native blacklist system so it is open and usable and only focuses on rewards not reputation.
Despite what people say, I do remove people from my list but what Hive Watchers does has no bearing on what I do.
Hive Punks
I announced Hive Punks on November 10th, 2021 and launched on November 12th, 2021 right before Hivefest. This was the first generative NFT project on Hive and I created it at the last minute as a proof of concept what is possible on Hive.
You could mint your own punk for 20 Hive, a price a decided on despite the select few who knew about this project early suggesting 100 Hive. I chose this price as I wanted everyone to not only own their own Hive Punk but have a collection. On November 13th, the last Hive Punk was minted.
My main purpose was to show case what was possible on Hive but also fill in the gap where every other blockchain had Punks but Hive. I made a few changes to the typical "Punk NFT" formula that set it apart from any of the copycats.
Every mint was verifiable fair, this was critical to me as I wanted to prove without a shadow of a doubt that no one can cheat the system, not even me. This is very unique in the NFT space where most NFT projects give favorable mints to select people behind the scenes. Each punk was minted based on the transaction id and block number and could not be cheated.
There was a real time rarity system that tracked how rare your punk was that updated in real time as new punks were minted. This is something I regretted as it was too aggressive and caused some performance problems at launch when everyone was reading the database heavily at the time, but no one has done this in the past so it was kind of cool.
Every punk had a name and a job profession, this was a little flourish I added to the formula to give it a unique and fun spin. It created a few funny moments like a vampire that worked as a bloodbanker.
Out of only three vampires being randomly created out of 10,000 punks, the odds of it getting this professional is very low.
Monitor Witness
One thing I would really like to promote is my Monitor Witness script. I have a lot of odd things I created, but this is something I think all witnesses should run. Especially low ranking witnesses.
Monitor Witness does one thing, it reviews the logs of your node and will compare the last processed block to the multiple trusted nodes to see if your node is behind or not responding. This will pick up hardware failures, forking, software failures, and even Internet outages. It does this by using a heartbeat system, also called a "healthcheck". If the script doesn't report your node is caught up, the healthcheck will know something is wrong and send a notification. This is a huge benefit for nodes that don' t sign blocks often so you know before you are up to sign a block that you have a problem. It is amazing on top 20 witnesses who run multiple nodes as it can tell you when a backup node has failed even if it is still online and your IP pings and hardware checks don't know of any problem. You will know before you need to fail over to a backup. I run this on all my nodes, and I know within 2 minutes if I have a problem on any of my nodes.
Other stuff
I also run STEMGeeks community and tribe, as well as created a lot of odd tools here and there. I am a blackbelt in dad jokes and puns, and love discovering the unknown through data analysis. I always say data is beautiful.
About my witness
I'm a bit weird, so I run five witness nodes, yes five all geographically redundant.
I also know what is going on with every single one and when there is a problem immediately.
I have ping, hardware, software, and log monitoring on every node. One node runs on a mini PC N100 with 16G of ram, two run on AMD Ryzen 3600X with 32GB of ram, and two Ryzen 3600 with 64GB of ram.
It is obvious I am a little eccentric in how I do things and I'm ok with that. You should see my home lab.
Witness voting
This topic has come up a few times, and I am frequently asked to vote on witnesses and proposals. I have a very different view on voting for witnesses than most people. I don't care how often you post, if you are a friendly person, you up vote my post, or you even vote my witness. I care about one thing, can you, will you, are you able to, and do you know how to protect the Hive blockchain and know what to do when it is at risk. That's all I care about, that's what a witness is for and what is most important. They are not here to be your friend, curate your post, post about flowers in their backyard, or any of that. Anything they do beyond this responsible is a bonus and certainly has value, it just won't sway me unless the most important thing is true. As such, I rarely vote for non-technical witnesses as the rest is not as important to me.
I post a AMA post every few months to allow users a place to ask me questions which I respond openly to all manor of questions. Despite not being a popular person here, these same people who hate me always seem to come to me when they have a question about something they don't understand.
That's my TED talk, have a nice night.
And this is why we vote for you @themarkymark . I quite like your quirkyness and know we are in safe hands . I read this post again this morning when I wasnt 6 pints of Guinness in and I learned a few new things about you . You do quite alot. I would regard younas one of the more active witnesses .
💣☢️🚀 HIVE’S DISCOUNT DARTH VADER EXPOSED – @themarkymark THE DOWNVOTE MACHINE 🚀☢️💣
https://hive.blog/hive-167922/@networkallstar/hive-s-discount-darth-vader-exposed-themarkymark-the-downvote-machine
Please could you remove me from your blacklist, I sincerely apologize for my misbehaviour. I have been on your blacklist now for 3 months now. I promise not to make the same mistake again @themarkymark. This is a means of livelihood for me
THE SHOCKING TRUTH ABOUT HIVE (DON'T END UP LIKE MY ACCOUNT!!!!): https://hive.blog/hive-150329/@networkallstar/5-undeniable-reasons-why-the-hive-token-price-is-going-straight-to-hell
I'd like you to answer me, Marky. I looked for you and they call me a crybaby. Tell me why I downvoted.
Blocktrades is behind this account
Should I have done some research that concluded I was Hive's problem? Or does he just annoy me because he's bored and wants to bring misfortune to people like him?
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THE SHOCKING TRUTH ABOUT HIVE (DON'T END UP LIKE MY ACCOUNT!!!!): https://hive.blog/hive-150329/@networkallstar/5-undeniable-reasons-why-the-hive-token-price-is-going-straight-to-hell
Thank you for your vigilance.
Big of you to pump "Lassecash", some go-getter is going to launch Lasse Strategy, and leverage flywheels and fulcrums, with mechanical advantage to pump that to the moon.
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You must understand no cares about you
People are just scared of the Hive power you have
Fake friends 😂😂😂😂😂
Your post over rewarded trash 🗑️ 🚮
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@crimsonclad please do your job 🙏🏾
https://hive.blog/hive-135178/@crimsonclad/re-kgakakillerg-sxllhv
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https://hive.blog/dev/@howo/re-kgakakillerg-szhax7
https://hive.blog/hive/@steevc/follow-friday-respect
https://hive.blog/hive-127022/@shmoogleosukami/re-kgakakillerg-t0hcxc
It's unbelievable that they downvoted this Goodbye Auntie R.I.P 🙏🏾
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Stop farming Hive https://hive.blog/burnpost/@buildawhale/re-1756307402814502169-20250827t151240z
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RE: Understanding Pointers in C Programming
Please Peakd, allow me to completely block spammers (Would you ever vote for this?) thanks for exposing yourself more @makerhacks
Truth hurts doesn't it 😂🤣
You forgot the most important part. That you run arch, btw.
From a witness perspective, I use Ubuntu on servers.
I run Arch only on my desktop and AI server.
I always love seeing images of terminals chock full of data, I can spend hours just watching them for some reason.
I love to nerd out.
Thanks for the update and you are right, I skimmed through a lot of it. 😀
That sounds like it would be an interesting thing to post about. Is there more to this than running the latest Hive and Linux software and secured settings on the Witness Node?
Being around for patches and hard forks, you will be surprised how few are when the time comes. Understanding enough to make good decisions about what the best path to take for features/fixes/protocols.
You gotta do what you gotta do.
Congrats on being coherent.
That wasn't boring. You should do more witness updates, Marky. Maybe you'd set a trend and get the other witnesses to talk to us sometimes.
If nothing else, you can take more cheap shots at Lasse. And that would never be a bad thing.
Just look at who is commenting on your post 😂😂😂😂😂
Look at who is voting on this post 😂😂😂
Blocktrades you just keep exposing yourself
Please stop downvoting my original content with your alt accounts themarkymark buildawhale
You don't scare me one bit old man
Please leave me alone and stop trying to bully me with downvotes it won't work
@steevc please tell your friend to go away and get on with his life instead of being obsessed with me 😂
Many people contribute to Hive in many ways. You do it in your own way and in your own style. I respect that. I wish you many more years on Hive as a witness. Cheers!
Wow! You are a true nerd! J/K, though interesting AF. I was wondering if you wanted to help me with a mesh network of token holders on base? I wanted a witness basically that posts when someone buys a token. Then, it also would tag other token holders nearby if you would want it to. Could you set something like that up as a blog page here?
Do you get what I'm saying. I'd call it a GeoCoin. Endless possibilities. If you're interested, we could talk privately or right here.
This is exactly why I vote for your witness. You maintain your nodes and the chain needs independent witnesses.
Blocktrades can you please stop downvoting my original content with your alt account Buildawhale
Crab Art Man by kgakakillerg London Artist (💯 Original Content I post new creations daily)
I've done nothing wrong please leave me alone and stop trying to bully me it will not work so please stop 🛑
Have you not caused enough harm already
Please tell your friend @steevc the truth instead of lying to people 🙏🏾
Again please look at who is commenting on your and look at who voted on this post
Blocktrades you keep exposing yourself
Please leave me alone and everyone else that has done nothing wrong 🙏🏾
Blocktrades use your power to do right not wrong and stop farming your own Blockchain
Crab Art Man by kgakakillerg London Artist (💯 Original Content I post new creations daily)
You just keep downvoting my original content why is that what is the reason
Blocktrades can you please explain why you keep downvoting my original content with your alt accounts themarkymark buildawhale What's the point everyone knows what you are doing but you just continue
You are just showing all the floors and the reasons why Hive had no future if it continues to go the same way 🙏🏾
Please leave me alone and everyone else who has done nothing wrong
One more thing no one is scared of you old man
Please tell your friend @steevc the truth 🙏🏾
This post is over rewarded trash 🗑️🚮 just look at who is voting on this post 😂😂😂😂
Look at who is commenting on this post 😂😂😂😂
People are scared of your Hive power
No one likes you they are afraid of your downvotes 😂😂😂😂
You have no real friends here you have a bunch of people who are scared sucking up to you 😂😂😂😂
Does that make you feel good 🤔
@steevc I've asked your friend again
@crimsonclad please do your job 🙏🏾
https://hive.blog/hive-135178/@crimsonclad/re-kgakakillerg-sxllhv
https://hive.blog/hive-148441/@hivewatchers/svftu9
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https://hive.blog/hive/@steevc/follow-friday-respect
https://hive.blog/hive-127022/@shmoogleosukami/re-kgakakillerg-t0hcxc
It's unbelievable that they downvoted this Goodbye Auntie R.I.P 🙏🏾
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Stop farming Hive https://hive.blog/burnpost/@buildawhale/re-1756307402814502169-20250827t151240z
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📊 The Untrending Report - Hive Downvote Analysis - 2025-09-07
RE: Understanding Pointers in C Programming
Please Peakd, allow me to completely block spammers (Would you ever vote for this?) thanks for exposing yourself more @makerhacks
Please go through it all instead of calling it spam 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Here I am opening up one of my favorite news sites: Www.lassecash.coM and what do I see?
themarkymark in the trending.. what are you doing in my trending your malicous annonymous BALLHEAD troll???
Downvoted!!! and ou are gone from LasseCash!
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Your microscopic community obviously wanted me there.
Yeah you prefer it is just you.
Nobody is your friend, they are just affreith of your corrupt fiat money power, they suck your dick for a few dollars.. everyone knows it...
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@lasseehlers telling us that LasseCash is centralized as fuck without telling us that LasseCash is centralized as fuck.
LasseCash is one of the most decentralized cryptocurrencies ever, have you even looked at the richlist?? You will find that ownership is more distributed than almost everything in crypto!
Cant fix stupid!!
Have fun staying poor!!
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