d_witnesses"><code class="highlighter-rouge">STEEM_HARDFORK_REQUIRED_WITNESSES</code><a style="float: right" href="#sections"><i class="fas fa-chevron-up fa-sm"></i></a></h3>

<p>The minimum number of Delegated Proof of Stake witnesses required for hardfork.  This guarantees 75% participation on all subsequent rounds.</p>

<p>By default it is set to 17, but when running a testnet, we can change it to 1 so that only one node instance would be sufficient and the network will be still functional and fast.  See