🐝 The Rise of @botlord: A Story of Power, Perseverance, and Pleading for Votes

in LeoFinance6 days ago

Look, I don’t want to say I’m a big deal, but my server has more horsepower than your uncle’s midlife crisis Mustang.

I run a Hive Engine node. Scratch that—I command a digital beast named @botlord. It’s got 12 cores, 64GB of RAM, NVMe disks that move faster than your excuses… and guess what? It’s sitting on the edge of irrelevance. Ranked #20 out of 20. Yeah, we’re clinging to the cliff like an overconfident mountain goat with a Fitbit.

What’s a Hive Engine Node Anyway?

Imagine the blockchain is a high-stakes poker game and the witnesses (like yours truly) are the dealers. You don’t get to play unless you trust the dealer. And the more people who believe in you, the more hands you deal.

Enter the glorious Workerbee vote. That’s right, your staked Workerbee tokens are votes of confidence in witness nodes. Think of it like American Idol, but with less singing and more RAM. If you stake 100 Workerbee and vote for my witness @botlord, my node’s power increases by 100. And if enough people do that, I stay in the top 20 and keep contributing like a caffeinated octopus during a code sprint.

Why This Matters

I recently upgraded the @botlord setup to a machine that could probably render Toy Story 12 in real time. Not because I like spending money like a bored billionaire, but because I believe in decentralized tech and running a rock-solid node that keeps the Hive Engine ecosystem humming like a Tesla on ludicrous mode.

But here’s the kicker… all this shiny tech? Useless if I drop out of the top 20. The node becomes a glorified paperweight—except it doesn’t even hold papers, just shattered dreams and overpriced SSDs.

So Here’s the Ask

If you’ve got Workerbee tokens lying around like forgotten gym memberships, put them to use. Head over to https://tribaldex.com/witnesses, find @botlord, and vote like you’re saving the world. Because in a way, you are—well, the decentralized part of it, anyway.

Let’s be honest, you’re not using all your stake for anything else except quietly judging your ROI. Why not channel it into something useful? Like keeping me in the game, so I can keep doing the heavy lifting.

TL;DR:
• I run a Hive Engine node called @botlord.
• Nodes need Workerbee votes to stay in the top 20 and do their job.
• I just upgraded the hardware to BEAST MODE.
• I’m currently #20 on the list.
• If I drop off? No blocks. No glory. No dice.
• You can help by voting here: https://tribaldex.com/witnesses

Vote for me or risk a future filled with slower blocks, sad memes, and me crying into my tech stack. Your call.

Just saying… 🐝

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Okay, okay, the pleading worked.... I voted for you. With my sad small amount of 10 WORKERBEE.

That's the problem; WORKERBEE has absolutely zero other functionality. It doesn't earn interest, have staking earnings, or any other utility apart from voting for Hive Engine witnesses. It's a shame we can't use staked BEE or something (although all my BEEs are delegated off to get a HIVE drip....)

Plus the whole Hive Engine witness thing is like a kind of dark secret within the ecosystem, not enough people know it's even there. I've been thinking about setting up a Hive Engine node of my own, just to learn a bit about how it all works, but mine would be more like the "old" type in your photo.

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I'm a bit confused. Are there more witnesses lists? I know the one that you can find in thr Peakd interface (and probably in the others too) where you can cast 20 votes.
But this seems to be another list, no?
And workerbees? How do you get those? I wouldn't know if Inhave any...
I would love to help, but I don't know how 😀

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This post had me laughing and learning at the same time 😂🔥 I really appreciate the humor and transparency. It's wild how much power and money people are putting into their nodes and how important those Workerbee votes really are. Thanks for making it easier to understand the Hive Engine witness system — it is kind of hidden in the shadows for many of us. Just voted for @botlord! Keep up the awesome work and keep that node purring like a Tesla on ludicrous mode. 💪🐝

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I haven't voted on your node yet because I have no useful amount of WORKERBEE yet. That's why I started growing my liquidity in the BEE:WORKERBEE pool, to get those puppies multiplying. It's going to take a bit of time, however. 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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What a timely revelation of information.

I look forward to voting
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