16 Jan 2018: Witness Announcement

PBSA Announcement to Peerplays Witnesses

In December 2017, PBSA announced plans to implement new communication channels with Witnesses on the Peerplays blockchain.

PBSA has chosen to use Atlassian’s Confluence product as a password-access “Peerplays Witness Space” to facilitate better knowledge sharing, more effective discussion, and timely handling of new software releases, bug-reporting, and other issues that may affect the Peerplays blockchain. Apart from Witnesses, employees of PBSA and certain of PBSA’s partners will also have access to this space.

Witnesses must submit an email address to PBSA for account creation. This can be done following these two steps:

Step 1. Sign a message using MEMO key
The latest release of python-peerplays adds message signing. This feature can be used to verify that someone holds a particular Peerplays account. The proof works via the MEMO key and thus no funds are at risk. Instructions:

1. Setup peerplays command line tool:

   pip3 install peerplays
   # or
   # pip3 install peerplays --upgrade
   

2. Define the API endpoint to talk to (the default one will not work for you)

   peerplays set node wss://YOUR-API-ENDPOINT

3. Add your private memo key

   peerplays addkey
   # provide new local wallet passphrase (twice)
   # provide wif keys that you want to use
   # e.g. memo key for signing, active key for funds related stuff

4. Sign message

   peerplays message sign --account <yourtaccountname>
   # provide message then CTRL-D

5. Verify message

   peerplays message verify
   # provide message then CTRL-D

The message that Witnesses should sign is as follows:

“I hereby confirm that I hold the account <yourtaccountname> on the Peerplays blockchain, and that I wish the email address <youremailaddress> to be used by Peerplays Blockchain Standards Association (PBSA) for the purpose of creating an account on Confluence for Peerplays Witness communications. PBSA may also use this email address for direct communications with me.”

Step 2. Send signed message via email to PBSA
Send an email to witness@pbsa.info as follows:
a. Email SUBJECT should be “<yourtaccountname> signed email”
b. Email BODY should be the message signed as per Step 1 above

Once PBSA has received a Witness’s email and verified the signed message, a Confluence invite will be sent out to that Witness by PBSA. Please note that to encourage constructive discussions amongst active and popular Witnesses, invites will be made to Witnesses who PBSA deem to have a resonable number of votes and/or contributed significantly to the development of the Peerplays blockchain. with a minimum of 40 GigaVotes (GV) which is equivalent to having votes backed by 400,000 PPY tokens. (Update made on Mar 3rd due to recent voting changes since original announcement such that only 23 Witnesses sit above the original 40GV threshold).