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# Witness Update - 05/18/2018 

@witnessupdate is a daily update on what is happening in the witness community.

# Total Witnesses

| Active Witnesses | Total Witnesses |
| --- | --- |
| 129 | 607 |


# Missed Blocks

Witnesses who missed blocks in the last 24 hours.

**This is bound to happen to even the best witnesses and is not something you should remove your vote for unless it happens frequently.**  


| Witness | Missed Blocks | 
| --- | --- | 
| @xeldal | 2 | 
| @liondani | 1 | 
| @prc | 1 | 



# Highest Miss Rates

Miss rates is the percent of missed blocks out of all witness blocks for the life of a witness.  Missed blocks happen, this shows the frequency.

| Witness | Total Missed | Produced Blocks | Miss Rate(%) | 
| --- | --- | --- | --- | 
| @swisswitness | 1 | 3 | 25.0% | 
| @fbslo | 10 | 35 | 22.22% | 
| @thekitchenfairy | 2 | 11 | 15.38% | 
| @yensesa | 1 | 6 | 14.29% | 
| @jacor-witness | 57 | 376 | 13.16% | 
| @vesteem | 2 | 14 | 12.5% | 
| @pcste | 21 | 163 | 11.41% | 
| @ety001 | 3 | 32 | 8.57% | 
| @evildido | 7 | 76 | 8.43% | 
| @castellano | 6 | 78 | 7.14% | 



# Top Producers

Witnesses who historically produced the most blocks.

| Witness | Blocks Produced | 
| --- | --- | 
| @xeldal | 979,180 | 
| @clayop | 913,828 | 
| @blocktrades | 907,288 | 
| @pharesim | 893,960 | 
| @smooth.witness | 834,733 | 



# Stale Price Feeds

These are active witnesses that have price feeds that are disabled or older than 24 hours and produced a block in the last seven days.

A witness is responsible for producing blocks on the Steem blockchain and maintaining a stable up to date price feed.

Although the price feed is calculated on a consensus of the top 20 witnesses, it is important to have an up to date price feed.

| Witness | Last Update | 
| --- | --- | 
| @bobdos | 1970-01-01 00:00:00 | 
| @silversteem | 2016-09-14 08:20:33 | 
| @chainsquad.com | 2017-03-31 16:59:42 | 
| @aizensou | 2017-07-24 08:34:03 | 
| @bue | 2017-09-11 06:58:39 | 
| @hagie | 2017-10-04 18:16:54 | 
| @complexring | 2018-03-07 03:47:45 | 
| @firepower | 2018-03-26 18:14:42 | 
| @skenan | 2018-04-20 00:21:03 | 
| @sempervideo | 2018-04-24 15:26:00 | 
| @busy.witness | 2018-04-28 04:19:51 | 
| @bhuz | 2018-04-29 13:38:51 | 
| @blackwidow | 2018-04-29 19:11:15 | 
| @yuriks2000 | 2018-05-04 05:00:03 | 
| @valorforfreedom | 2018-05-04 14:00:03 | 
| @felixxx | 2018-05-07 19:52:51 | 
| @privex | 2018-05-13 08:00:09 | 
| @castellano | 2018-05-14 02:22:21 | 
| @fyrst-witness | 2018-05-15 19:00:06 | 



# New Witnesses

| Witness | Intro Post | 
| --- | --- | 
| @oneplace | https://oneplace.media |