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Gandalf the Grey

@gtg

IT Wizard, Hive Witness

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Gandalf the Grey
@gtg Jul 18, 2026, 11:07 PM UTC

How to lose all your peers in one block (a witness update)

> "A wizard is never late..." The same applies to my witness updates. This is my weekly monthly regularly scheduled irregular one. My last post was four months ago, and my last proper witness upda…

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Gandalf the Grey
@gtg Mar 20, 2026, 3:09 PM UTC

Thank you for passing by

Six years of Hive. A decade of the platform. > "Can you promise that I will come back?" > "No. And if you do, you will not be the same." > - The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey I'm a Hive witn…

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Gandalf the Grey
@gtg Nov 18, 2025, 2:55 PM UTC

Hive HardFork 28 Jump Starter Kit

This is a copy–paste friendly guide to get a Hive consensus node running for HF28. Simple recipes for: - seed node - witness node - exchange / personal wallet node - basic API node - Docker version o…

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Gandalf the Grey
@gtg Oct 28, 2025, 3:52 PM UTC

Brace yourself: HardFork is coming

# HF28 v1.28.0 HardFork is not something that we do very often. That's because Hive is pretty much feature-complete on Layer1 and already a perfect tool for a variety of use cases where a fast, secur…

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Gandalf the Grey
@gtg Oct 14, 2025, 4:49 PM UTC

HiveFest: say Hi(ve) in person

I’ll keep this one short(-ish). HiveFest starts soon. I’m in Kuala Lumpur and, in a few blinks, we’ll already be boarding planes home. If you’re around: come say Hi(ve). It’s our yearly “Oh wow, you’…

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Gandalf the Grey
@gtg Oct 6, 2025, 10:22 PM UTC

Muddy Confluence after Split. Also: OMG OHMB!

# One Hundred Million Blocks on Hive! I’d brag about signing the 100,000,000th block, but it wasn’t me - @deathwing nailed it ;-) See for yourself: https://explore.openhive.network/block/100000000 #…

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Gandalf the Grey
@gtg Aug 26, 2025, 11:08 PM UTC

Updates. Re: branding. It’s about me and the mirror. And also HiveFest.

# New avatar So, first things first: I’ve changed my avatar. Blame @roelandp - he asked me for my logo, and since my "company" is just me (that’s quite a company, if you ask me), the only thing I had…

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Gandalf the Grey
@gtg May 14, 2025, 8:05 PM UTC

SkyTeam Airline Alliance - Official partner of HiveFest

HiveFest is back for another round, usually unusual and boringly awesome as always. For the fourth time, we're partnering not with a single airline, but with the entire SkyTeam airline alliance as ou…

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Gandalf the Grey
@gtg Apr 20, 2025, 9:59 PM UTC

Trust issues

When most people hear “trust issues”, they think of breakups or drama-filled pop songs. But whenever money is involved (especially in the cryptocurrency realm), there’s a more expensive version: ever…

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Gandalf the Grey
@gtg Apr 13, 2025, 10:15 PM UTC

My Weekly Update (LOL)

I was going to use this title on April Fools' Day, but I ran out of time. It's too good not to use, so I'm using it now. # New Mirrornet Instance running our next HardFork version Produced through th…

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