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# Witness Update - 08/29/2018 

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

# Total Witnesses

| Active Witnesses | Total Witnesses |
| --- | --- |
| 133 | 645 |


# 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 | 
| --- | --- | 
| @pharesim | 19 | 
| @steemitboard | 3 | 
| @prc | 2 | 
| @therealwolf | 1 | 
| @ausbitbank | 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(%) | 
| --- | --- | --- | --- | 
| @ety001 | 12 | 71 | 14.46% | 
| @felixxx | 306 | 2591 | 10.56% | 
| @pcste | 22 | 203 | 9.78% | 
| @puncakbukit | 2 | 21 | 8.7% | 
| @fbslo | 13 | 142 | 8.39% | 
| @sapphic | 1 | 12 | 7.69% | 
| @jacor-witness | 67 | 833 | 7.44% | 
| @isnochys | 31 | 396 | 7.26% | 
| @guiltyparties | 97 | 1252 | 7.19% | 
| @exnihilo.witness | 1 | 15 | 6.25% | 



# Top Producers

Witnesses who historically produced the most blocks.

| Witness | Blocks Produced | 
| --- | --- | 
| @xeldal | 1,118,635 | 
| @clayop | 1,054,009 | 
| @blocktrades | 1,047,967 | 
| @smooth.witness | 975,376 | 
| @pharesim | 957,126 | 



# 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 | 
| --- | --- | 
| @silversteem | 2016-09-14 08:20:33 | 
| @chainsquad.com | 2017-03-31 16:59:42 | 
| @aizensou | 2017-07-24 08:34:03 | 
| @sempervideo | 2018-04-24 15:26:00 | 
| @busy.witness | 2018-04-28 04:19:51 | 
| @blackwidow | 2018-05-20 17:47:09 | 
| @complexring | 2018-06-07 17:49:18 | 
| @steemed | 2018-06-18 09:17:45 | 
| @swisswitness | 2018-07-29 20:41:15 | 
| @nextgencrypto | 2018-08-03 01:14:36 | 
| @pharesim | 2018-08-10 21:23:03 | 
| @emrebeyler | 2018-08-14 06:52:54 | 
| @asbear | 2018-08-14 16:13:30 | 
| @quochuy | 2018-08-17 22:00:24 | 
| @dragosroua | 2018-08-25 07:13:57 | 
| @felixxx | 2018-08-26 09:02:12 | 
| @steemitboard | 2018-08-27 22:01:09 | 
| @neoxian | 2018-08-28 02:01:54 | 
| @demotruk | 2018-08-28 07:12:42 | 
| @snackplus | 2018-08-28 14:34:15 | 



# New Witnesses

No new witnesses