My STEEM journey... Part 6. STEEM blockchain analysis
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These blogs are a series of posts about my “digging deeper” into STEEM’s possibilities, apps and opportunities. I’m trying to learn as much as possible and I want to share these experiments and experiences with you my fellow STEEMians. It’s the kind of post series I would have loved to have for myself when I started here in STEEM. Well at least I try to live up to this ideal whit my articles. But again I do this for myself to document my – hopefully – progress here in STEEM. Maybe these are of some help for you too?
Anyways I’m very interested in your feedback!
Here the list of posts in this series I’ve published before:
190505 https://steempeak.com/steem/@doifeellucky/my-steem-journey-part-5
190504 https://steempeak.com/steem/@doifeellucky/my-steem-journey-part-4
190502 https://steempeak.com/@doifeellucky/my-steem-journey-part-3
190501 https://steempeak.com/steem/@doifeellucky/my-steem-journey-part-2
190530 https://steempeak.com/steem/@doifeellucky/thinking-about-my-steem-journey
I won’t put out a STEEM bounty for this one but I’ve bought upvote/resteem service from:
https://steemit.com/@raise-me-up
and
https://steemit.com/@superpromoter
Just to explain again… as I wrote in my first article on my STEEM journey I did not want to use any extra dedicated "boosting" by buying dedicated upvote/resteem services (but I’ve got vests placed for general “lifts” in recognition / see my delegations under https://steembottracker.com/delegation.html) for a set of articles. Just to see how they would be recognized organically.
So the articles 1-3 besides a STEEM bounty I put on the 3’rd article which can be a form of boosting too.
Here the overview of the different articles in regards to upvotes, resteems, comments and expected USD/SP values.
You can find my thought about those numbers in the previous posts. I wont get into that here again.
Only this!
I’m very thankful for all readers, upvotes, resteemers and commentators! Part of this journey is to check out where one can get to with such a set of posts in the form of experiments.
Log of activities and reports in this series so far:
- 190501 checked out and engaged with Steem basic income (SBI)
- 190501 checked out https://steemrewarding.com (auto upvote bot).
- 190501 checked out https://steempeak.com
- 190501 checked out @theycallmedan's initiative STEEM tank! I love it!
- 190502/190503 upped my engagement with SBI (Steem Basic Income)
- 190502 Looked at another automation solution https://steemauto.com/
- 190502/190503/190504 Checked out and used https://steemd.com/ intensively (see further down)
- 190502 Looked into http://www.steemreports.com/
- 190502 presented https://steamworld.org in the third article in the series.
- 190502 wrote about my application for qurator (https://steemit.com/qurator/@qurator/)
- 190502 Showed a little of https://isteemd.com/ to check out delegation comparisons.
- 190502 Showed how to use https://steembottracker.com/delegation.html by https://steemit.com/@yabapmatt to see active delegations of STEEM accounts
- 190502 As a result of my research regarding upvote/resteem services I chose Upmewhale for returns on delegated SP.
- 190502 Showed an example of ongoing successful manual curation by https://busy.org/@miti
- 190502/190503 got “STEEMified again… (see article 3 what I mean by that)…
- 190504/190505 Looked into different gaming apps and continued my blockchain analysis as mentioned in the last post. I looked at “MagicDice” in some depth too. Report follows in a few days.
- 190505 Invested some more in SBI (steem basic income)
- 190315 – 190505 Looked into Hivemind, Tower on top of Hivemind and different other query options.
My update for today on my "todo's" I've again placed between the bullet points. So let's see...
- learn something about STEEM or STEEM projects every day!
- ☑️ Yes I did that again! - There are still another 2 STEEM projects/initiatives left that I will look into one after the other. I will do that in the following days.
- Blockchain analysis: tools/methods...
- Short description…for this… I started digging deeper yesterday and today into our STEEM blockchain. I’m still in the middle of this so it’s to early to report much at that point but I can drop you some hints what I am looking for… - What are the most successful accounts doing besides their posts and curation to grow their following and SP? - From which account to account interactions could you come to the assumption that they are handled by the same individual or group of individuals? - Why is this of interest? I'll give you some more hints... pseudo intransparent upvotes/resteems, bidirectional referral handling (collecting on referrals, bonuses and so on) just to name two examples that are used to "make" more STEEM. - I stumbled over this while I was looking into how fellow Steemians invest into SBI.
To clarify... I won't drop any account names but I'll report about the methods and mechanisms that I see. I can tell you so much already... I was shaking my head a lot the last few days not because of what I've seen here but because how naive I was... hahaha!
Right here comes into play what I’ve been using for my different analytic approaches into the STEEM blockchain.
First and foremost the easy to use “frontends/apps” that I already named/showed a little in previous articles. I would add https://www.steemnow.com/ to this list for an easy look into the mosts recent things going on with a queried account. But if you try to export something let’s say into a local data base or even just into an spread sheet you have to step up your game so to say.
You could buy into a payed service like https://steemsql.com/ which is a complete, synched STEEM blockchain Representation in MS SQL server or you could try to find the right API and code something with Js or python or whatever you poison is. You could also and should IMO check out
https://github.com/steemit/hivemind
https://github.com/steemit/sbds
https://github.com/DoctorLai/SteemTools/
and you’ll begin falling down the rabbit hole deeper and deeper …. and, if you're anything like me, have crazy fun with it too!
But then again maybe some smart people building on the work of other smart people might have already done something to ease your lazy pragmatist soul that would make your STEEM “truth” search quest a little more easy even?
I can be very pragmatic too and I'm not shy at all to use what somebody else had already thought through and built. The best part is you don't have to be a coder or sql savvy to use what I’ve found myself to show you here:
please see this article on tower:
https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@emrebeyler/tower-a-rest-api-implementation-on-the-top-of-hivemind
and
Please check this this article on accusta https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@semasping/accusta-for-steem-export-to-csv-block-listener-v1-2-1
For my example here I’m using Accusta and my account as well as Steembasicincome.
So my goal was to look into who had spent SBI (steem basic income) shares on me.
So… here we go…
First go to https://steemit.accusta.tk/ and select the account you want to look into.
In the left pane you can select different views like "Authors rewards" for example.
Then select the “Transactions” query and the timeframe you want to look into.
After the query is done you can export the file to CSV…
And open it in Excel or whatever spread sheet app you’re using.
Now let's do the same with @steembasicincome.
Again select timeframe and then export to CSV.
activate filter and use text filter on columm 2 (message) for what you are searching for… in my case my account @doifeellucky.
Voila! Here’s my original enrollment into the program by @ceptocide555. Thanks again!
BTW time for me to return the favour!
So… now you have a pretty easy hands on method to do some STEEM blockchain analysis yourself.
Remember what I wrote in earlier posts about the reason I’ve been so amused about my own naivety?
Look at projects like SBI for example. Imagine you have at least two or maybe even more alt STEEM accounts. Ask yourself what could be more rewarding then spreading the love of SBI enrollment to a lot of other Steemians? Of course, using your hard earned STEEM to up your shares of your own set of accounts.
Just so you can see the contrast to what the founders of the program intended with steem basic income here their faq post:
https://steemit.com/steembasicincome/@steembasicincome/frequently-asked-questions
Next example... let’s say you find some nice affiliation program with some decent percentages in it when some account uses your referral link. Maybe you even get some shares in that operation that slings out some dedicated token on top of dividends. Maybe it’s some online game or set of games? And then think of the most popular games game sites here on the STEEM blockchain.
Interesting? Well then look into it if you like, I’ve shown you an easy method, or not.
To me it’s quite simple.
- If you leave possibilities open that can be seen as opportunities to make some returns these opportunities will be used extensively.
- It’s not enough to state what you want to happen if you don’t make sure you can enforce rules you can might as well not even voice them in the first place.
- I’m not even judging those who cease these opportunities in the slightest.
For those who look at such systems and make the most out of them it won’t be incentive enough to change their ways by just being frowned upon. It’s like the self upvoting of own posts. Some percentage of the accounts do it again and again and it’s just some statistic that shows up in some reports. It’s not liked by many Steemians still it’s done a lot. If you can’t give monetary incentive not to do it because for example curating or uplifting others by other methods is more lucrative then self upvoting, then you’ll have to live with this and even more it shouldn’t even be criticized in my opinion.
On the other hand, if the majority uses these methods in one or the other way some could see this as a broken system or blockchain for that matter.
Maybe it really is high time for some changes in STEEM?
Either way it’s like everywhere in crypto land or life for that matter. DYOR (do your own research) and come to your own conclusions.
You want to live by high morals and integrity, them being someone said that it’s not ok to self upvote for instance, then just don’t do it but don’t be a sour puss if everybody else does it.
I’m just saying…
So far my update for today. I'll keep you posted! STEEM on!
And again... of course I would like to hear from you about this post or the apps mentioned or your experiences or anything! Go ahead and leave a comment if you like!
Gif from my friend https://twitter.com/smilinglllama !