I don't know why, but if you've set a witness voting proxy, your votes don't count.
That seems curious indeed, and it's good to know.
@initminer (which produces blocks if there are less than 21 witnesses)
Interesting, I didn't know there is a failsafe for this situation, to prevent the blockchain from halting. Has it ever been tested in the early days of Steem?
Yep, the genesis block was produced by @initminer, who received 0.001 SP for producing that block. @initminer went on to mine the first ~1000 blocks.
Ah, ok thanks, so it worked like a kick starter of the chain.