Dear Witnesses - Please increase your block size!
Over at the Minnow Support Project, we're getting bombarded with users complaining about the bandwidth problems. Turns out it's not just a UI issue, as @personz figured out.
Many users are unable to use their accounts without additional SP injected. They're terrified it's turning into a "pay to post" system.
A simple fix can be applied by the top 20 witnesses, which is increasing your block size to 131072. This will provide double the bandwidth, and help out the minnows affected by the bandwidth issues.
In the mean time, check out @neoxian's post. He's giving away SP to those with <10 SP to help resolve the bandwidth issue for new users.
I have been using 131k block size for over a month now, as a few others have too. See @timcliff's post for more details.
update_witness "yourname" "your-witness-post" "SIGNINGPUBLICKKEY" {"account_creation_fee":"0.020 STEEM","maximum_block_size":131072,"sbd_interest_rate":300} true
I highly recommend witnesses start to use the 131k block size ASAP, to help alleviate the bandwidth issues.
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Agreed, I've have upped my blocksize..so up yours!
Very clever!
Word up it's upped.
My block size is increased, but it matters little with my vote count ;)
Still, it makes sense to have the larger block size for even longer term.
I will up my bias in case I ever get enough votes to matter as witness.
Thanks for the mention @someguy123, I've now done this, as little of an effect as it is 😅
Other witnesses, get on board! Think of the minnows.
Also shout to @rycharde for noticing the
current_reserve_ratiohad completely bottomed out and getting me active on this 😊Props for locating and looking into this issue.
I've been doing this for over a month too...
Me too, my witness has been running with 131072 since day one of its setup (2 weeks now).
would it be possible to send all users 1 SP to help? An allocation could be sent aside daily to be used every few months.
I tried delegating 100SP and it changed nothing, so I think no, that will sadly not help...
I am new and have 46 SP (27 in parenthesis - used to be 25 - not sure how it increased). I've been having the issue on and off for about 24 hours. If this is the problem, someone with less than 10 SP would have it worse, I guess.
Yeah the less SP you have the easier it is to hit the limit. Hopefully the other witnesses react quickly.
That makes sense. Thank you for the answer :)
I don't even get what Witness is! Could you tell us more on what it is? But thanks for the information! :)
Witnesses find blocks for the blockchain. We are the backbone of the system.
I set my 30 votes up for my witness but I didnt see what I was getting out of it! It it a reward system? Also what else do I need to do once have allocated my 30 votes! Thanks
with your votes you can decide who represents the system. Like a government election, only that it is happening all the time.
I will check it out soon. Thanks!
Just to confirm. All I need to do is set my voting on witness and that all I need to do! A y reason why I carnt use the top 50 on the witnes page? Also what do you get out of the witness voting element? thanks for any help! @Williams858
You have 30 votes that you can give and take whenever you want. When you vote for a witness, you give that witness support, so that their voice on decisions that affect all steem is heard louder.
The top 50 witnesses can be voted immediately on the page, all other witnesses (like me f.e.) need to be inserted with username to vote for them.
A witness earns some steem every time they produce a block. And they get to produce more blocks the more you vote for them. So your vote decides which witnesses get to earn your share of the witness pay.
Happened the same here...
@williams858 one of our witnesses (thank you @pfunk) wrote a very comprehensive post about witnesses.
Yes I just read it! So just to confirm I need a server running 24-7? Just trying to get my head around it! ;)
Yes, or u can rent server space, make sure it gt backup power in case power go out.
Is there any tutorials on how to set it up? Thanks for the reply btw
Agreed. Ours was changed to 131K a while back and is needed by the top 20 witness's now for it to take effect. For a quick fix
I'm glad to see that people are increasing their blocksize.
Hopefully that mitigates the problem.
Thank you for your work @someguy123
@someguy123 A new user @ck-cake may have found a work around that should be looked at for clues on why this is happening. Here is her post. I haven't had a chance to test it since I'm in.
https://steemit.com/steemit/@ck-cake/quick-fix-to-the-bandwidth-limit-exceeded-error-message
Unfortunately, as of around 3:30pm Central, the issue still isn't solved