As you are probably aware of, the steem blockchain has halted for a few hours today due to someone power-down some negatived amount of vest 7 days ago.
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The Steem Dev team has acted quickly and rolled out the fix here: https://github.com/steemit/steem/commit/ecb2a90e9e2268e40916eb5bc57fde07aade5260
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The account assets are safe in this incident and the steem blockchain has resumed normal operations.
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Witness nodes hang and have to be upgraded to 0.19.5 manually. Thanks to the help (in particular @drakos @timcliff @therealwolf @emrebeyler etc) from #witness channel in steem.chat, I have followed the correct steps to upgrade (see @someguy123 ‘s post on how to upgrade)
Unfortunately, my node needs a replay/reindexing, and it took time – about 16 hrs this time.
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I check ./run.sh logs from time to time to monitor the progress of node reindexing. I can confirm from the docker logs ID | head that it clearly says blockchain version: 0.19.5 and as soon as I see the first line of Got XX transactions on block … by … I enable my witness node by conductor enable KEY.
After a few minutes, it started to produce blocks:
justyy producer reward: 0.991 SP – 2 minutes ago
Nice, although I am just a backup witness, I am still so thrilled that I do actually contribute to the steem blockchain – my ID is written to the steem blockchain about once every 2 hours – How Cool Is That!
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Thank you! Some of My Contributions: SteemIt Tutorials, Robots, Tools and APIs
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