Wackou witness thread

Wackou witness thread

<p dir="auto">I would like to offer my services as a Steem witness. <h1>About me <p dir="auto">An experienced C++ and python developer in the field of music analysis and real-time audio processing (and occasionally sysadmin), I have started dabbling in crypto in 2013 and since then have been absolutely fascinated by it. After understanding Bitcoin, I quickly moved to other cryptocurrencies that, albeit younger and not as established, had the freedom to move and innovate faster. I settled during the summer of 2014 on the nascent BitShares project, and have been a witness (delegate at the time) since then. Not only have I been convinced by the technological superiority of BitShares, but the vision and the ideals aligned perfectly with mine, and the concept of DAC profoundly resonated with me. I have also been a Muse witness since the chain launched, and for all that I have learnt by studying graphene (the generic blockchain framework on which BitShares, Muse and Steem are based), I would like to give back by contributing code and helping build an infrastructure for these networks. All the code I write can be found on <a href="https://github.com/wackou" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" title="This link will take you away from hive.blog" class="external_link">my GitHub, as I believe in open source / free software as a better way to develop software. <h1>My Mission <p dir="auto">Obviously, I plan to operate a reliable witness with as little downtime as possible. However, I also want to contribute to making the network as secure, safe and efficient as possible. <p dir="auto">A bit of history: during the first days of BitShares, being a witness wasn't as easy as it is now, and forks like the Fork of Joseph were dime a dozen at times (anyone remember the 0.4.25-0.4.27 versions? ;) ). This prompted me to start writing a couple of scripts and tools which I soon decided to package, document and release properly as the <a href="https://github.com/wackou/bts_tools" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" title="This link will take you away from hive.blog" class="external_link">bts_tools python project. I have since then expanded its scope and functionality to all graphene-based chains and try to cover all the tasks that are expected from a witness. For more details, please refer to the <a href="https://bts-tools.readthedocs.io/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" title="This link will take you away from hive.blog" class="external_link">documentation on ReadTheDocs as well as the <a href="https://steemit.com/steem/@wackou/btstools-release-0" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" title="This link will take you away from hive.blog" class="external_link">release post for 0.4, which is the first version to support Steem. <p dir="auto">I am also currently running the following seed nodes: <ul> <li><strong>bts: seed.bitsharesnodes.com:1779 <li><strong>muse: seed.bitsharesnodes.com:1781 <li><strong>steem: seed.steemnodes.com:2001 <p dir="auto">You can also look at the <a href="http://seed.steemnodes.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" title="This link will take you away from hive.blog" class="external_link">live status of the seed node which runs the bts_tools monitoring web app. There you can see that the server also runs seed nodes for the BitShares and Muse networks. <p dir="auto">So if you would like to have me as witness and support further development of the bts_tools python package, please vote for witness wackou by using the following: <pre><code>vote_for_witness <your_account_name> wackou true true <p dir="auto">Cheers!