ATTENTION LISK TESTNET STANDBY DELEGATES:Time for a reality check, so here it is.
At launch there will be 101 Active Delegates selected to forge Lisk on the mainnet.
These Active Delegates will be rewarded with 5 Lisk every 17 minutes in Year One, for 150K Lisk.
All other Standby Delegates get zero Lisk for running a Standby Node.
Check out this spreadsheet of mine, which can be edited by anybody:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bs7njoJwBTO31H2GJoWopNKKpAtggixsbZZiSIxQkRk/edit?usp=sharing As I write this there are 85 people forging as Active Delegates in the testnet, as seen in the "Top 101" tab.
These are the only 85 people in the world who have proven they can run a Lisk node.
Who do you think is going to be picked to be Active Delegates on the mainnet and make 150K Lisk in Year One?
There are 16 "sock puppet" nodes being run as second nodes by some of these 85 people. These sock puppet nodes are in deep red.
In the next few days before launch, these sock puppets are going to be replaced by 16 Standby Delegates who will be promoted to testnet Active Delegate.
With their experience, these 16 new Active Delegates are probably going to make 150K Lisk in Year One on the mainnet.
Check out the "Standby Delegates" tab in the spreadsheet. As I write this, there are over 600+ Lisk testnet Standby Delegates.
If you REALLY want to "stand out" be picked as one of the top 16 from this pool of 600+, you need to do the following:
1. Read this:
https://academy.lisk.io/lisk-setting-up-a-delegate-on-the-public-test-network-login-lisk-io-f53ae6d029ea#.a63weoqm62. Do it.
3. Find (or add) your name in the Standby Delegate tab of the above spreadsheet.
4. Fill out the information requested.
5. Go to the Delegates channel at
http://lisk.chat and start asking for votes!
6. Go to the Lisk testnet faucet and get some votes of your own at
https://faucet.lisk.io/In 48 hours, and frequently thereafter, I will start sorting Standby Delegates who respond to the top of this spreadsheet so they may stand out from the crowd.
May the best of the 600+ Standby Delegates be selected for the remaining 16 testnet forging slots!
