i am blockseater from Pakistan you can read my Intro Post HERE I am the Owner of the @stmpak.wit. This is 1st Pakistani steemit witness in steemit history.

I make some tutorials to understand what is witness and how to be a witness.

• 1st post LINK it's all about basic witness requirements and full of Noob Questions about being steemit witness.
• 2nd Post LINK its about Witness Processing and data downloading.

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Now we are going to add **price feed** andWitness properties and some necessary steps like:-

How to Update Witness properties?
How to Update Witness Price Feed in PM2 and Config?
How to Monitor Your Witness Server?

First, you need to make sure you have done all steps now it's time to covert your steemit account into the Witness category...
Once again simple and easy tutorial for noobs just follows the steps.

Cli_wallet update

You need to create a client wallet and make it secure with a strong password put their witness properties like this

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update_witness "your account name" "signing_key" "STM1111111111111111111111111111111114T1Anm" {"account_creation_fee":"10.000 STEEM","maximum_block_size":65536,"sbd_interest_rate":1000} true

justyy tool

i am sure you are confused now because you did not see these commands before. Okay, we will try sir @justyy tools to update witness properties, put your witness account name signing key that you generated before and Private key...

https://steemyy.com/witness-update/

Now check the account details you are online and become a witness with updated properties...

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Price feed

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Updating pricefeed is also a necessary part of being a witness. it's helpful to keep stable STEEM/USD and SBD/USD pairs.
same you can use docker to update price-feed or npm package. I am showing you with npm...

• Cloning Git in our VPS https://github.com/DoctorLai/pricefeed
• pricefeed folder
• install npm package
• configuration JSON file

These are necessary steps to completing pricefeed, click on this latest link https://github.com/DoctorLai/pricefeed
it is updated by @ety001 put these commands step by step.

First nodejs & npm install this section, Run the following commands to install nodejs and npm to run the pricefeed software:

make sure you update with
sudo apt-get update
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_9.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

Setup & Installation

After done this Clone project repository into the "pricefeed" directory and install using NPM:

git clone https://github.com/DoctorLai/pricefeed.git pricefeed
cd pricefeed
npm install

Update the config.json file with your witness account name and private active key
For config json do this comands

Go in pricefeed directory with this commands:-

cd pricefeed
nano config.json

put name and priv key save and exit with CTRL+o and x

Run in background with PM2

sudo npm install pm2 -g
pm2 start feed.js
npm i steem
pm2 logs feed
pm2 save

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At the last check, you successfully updated pricefeed or not

cd pricefeed pm2 logs feed

You can Join our discord for more info
https://discord.gg/MyrM3J6nyd

In the end i hope you enjoy the series it is simple and easy with dev tools I hope you will try to come as steemit witness, we also learn we don't need a heavy and full-time online PC or laptop to keep node active. just Trusted Virtual private server from the Data-center in just a few $$$

Keep Smile and VOTE @stmpak.wit

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Thanks again