The Witness Voting Engagement Report - 2017-11-15
How Engaged Are Steemit Users in Voting for Witnesses?
That's what this monthly report is all about!
This month's engagement rate for accounts with 100,000 VESTS or more is:
24.19%
That's up 6.6% since last month, with a 9.2% increase in new users.
If you're not sure what a witness vote is, or why it's important, please see my older post Steemit is Free, But Your Witness Vote Determines its Future.
Witnesses, within a Delegated Proof of Stake (DPOS) blockchain like STEEM, are very important because they protect the blockchain and add new blocks to it. Unlike Bitcoin or other Proof of Work (POW) blockchains, there is no concern with centralized mining farms controlling or forking the protocol into something the users don't want. With DPOS, the largest stake holders get to pick who controls the protocol and those stake holders can change the witnesses at any time by changing their witness votes. For a detailed explanation of DPOS, see DPOS Consensus Algorithm - The Missing White Paper.
This report uses @arcange's STEEMSQL.
MV stands for Million VESTS.
VESTS are like vested shares in Steemit and relate to Steem by a ratio (486.871 Steem per MV as of this report).
VESTS impact the weight of your vote on posts and the influence of your vote for Steemit Witnesses.
Here's how I'm filtering the data:
All Accounts: No filter applied, includes all accounts.> 100,000: Accounts with 100,000 or more VESTS.> 0 Posts: Accounts which have posted at least once.> 100k & > 0 Posts: Accounts with 100,000 or more VESTS who have also posted at least once.Active: Accounts which have voted, commented, and posted a root post in the last 30 days.
The percentage values in parentheses show the change since last month's report.
The total VEST numbers listed below don't include accounts belonging to Steemit, the company, which are not currently participating in witness voting.
Overview
This shows the total number of accounts and VESTS.
| Filter | Accounts | % Accounts | VESTS | % VESTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Accounts | 449,634 (9.2%) | 100% | 189,600 (1%) | 100% |
| > 100,000 VESTS | 27,374 (3.3%) | 6.09% (-5.4%) | 185,276 (1%) | 97.72% (0%) |
| > 0 Posts | 195,455 (10.9%) | 43.47% (1.5%) | 127,940 (0.5%) | 67.48% (-0.5%) |
| > 100k & > 0 Posts | 19,124 (4%) | 4.25% (4.9%) | 126,119 (0.5%) | 66.52% (-0.5%) |
| Active | 40,789 (-4.8%) | 9.07% (-12.9%) | 61,648 (18.1%) | 33.27% (20.8%) |
Voters
This shows the total number of accounts and VESTS which have voted for a witness or set a proxy.
| Filter | Accounts | % Accounts | VESTS | % VESTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Accounts | 18,259 (8.8%) | 4.06% (-8.8%) | 122,393 (-0.9%) | 64.55% (-0.9%) |
| > 100,000 VESTS | 6,622 (6.5%) | 24.19% (6.6%) | 122,214 (-0.9%) | 65.96% (-0.9%) |
| > 0 Posts | 14,364 (10.8%) | 7.35% (-10.9%) | 95,942 (-1.3%) | 74.99% (-1.3%) |
| > 100k & > 0 Posts | 6,108 (7%) | 31.94% (7%) | 95,788 (-1.4%) | 75.95% (-1.4%) |
| Active | 6,805 (1.2%) | 16.68% (1.2%) | 50,161 (25.4%) | 81.37% (25.4%) |
Voting For Inactive Witnesses
This shows the number of accounts which are currently voting for witness accounts in the top 100 there not currently active witnesses. This number should be 0.
| Filter | Accounts | % Accounts | VESTS | % VESTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Accounts | 3,741 (-9.9%) | 20.49% (-9.9%) | 39,909 (-20.3%) | 32.61% (-20.2%) |
| > 100,000 VESTS | 1,444 (-10.9%) | 21.81% (-10.8%) | 39,869 (-20.3%) | 32.62% (-20.3%) |
| > 0 Posts | 3,534 (-9.8%) | 24.6% (-9.8%) | 39,295 (-20.3%) | 40.96% (-20.3%) |
| > 100k & > 0 Posts | 1,417 (-10.6%) | 23.2% (-10.6%) | 39,257 (-20.3%) | 40.98% (-20.3%) |
| Active | 1,576 (-22.2%) | 23.16% (-22.3%) | 22,086 (18%) | 44.03% (-17.9%) |
These are the inactive witnesses in the top 100 as of this report, but keep in mind some of them may only be temporarily inactive:
witness.svk
roadscape
steempty
arhag
au1nethyb1
cyrano.witness
tdv.witness
swelker101
picokernel
Have You Voted for a Witness?
If you haven't voted yet, please consider setting @lukestokes as your proxy voter. Otherwise, go vote for some Steemit Witnesses you've interacted with and respect to do what's in the best interest of the network. I hope that includes my witness, @lukestokes.mhth. If you're not sure who to vote for, take a look at some witnesses you respect and see who they are voting for via their account on steemd.com or steemdb.com. Some witnesses are very active behind the scenes supporting important projects, but not as active as bloggers, so keep that in mind when you vote.
Again, if you're not sure what a witness vote is, or why it's important, please see my older post Steemit is Free, But Your Witness Vote Determines its Future.
Thank you! I hope you found this useful.
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Hola amigo, muy bueno su aporte, yo la lo he votado como testigo gracias a un amigo suyo y mio que me lo recomendo... @swissclive Saludos @lukestokes. desde vnzla.
¡Gracias por tu apoyo!
hay que apoyar a los buenos,y usted es uno de ellos. bendiciones y siga adelante en sus proyectos en ayuda a la comunidad.
Me gustaría se diera una vuelta por mi blog, he realizado unas rosas de pasta de azúcar y mi hija de 7 años aporto su pequeña mano de obra en la ultima fotografia, espero que le guste amigo @lukestokes.
Very very great post. I like it!!!
Please stop leaving comments like this. It's just noise.
Great job , thanks for sharing
Maybe try adding comments with more value.
Your humility is going to take you a long way my friend.
nice post
Like...pole?
Comments like "nice post" don't really contribute anything of value. I suggest trying a different approach.
Not to bad I am glad to see that it is going up. I would love to be a witness myself but honestly I haven't got a clue as to how to get setup really wish I did would be happy to contribute that to steem and steemit.
I've now got 26 of my 30 witness votes allocated and it doesn't look like I have any that are no longer active. @lukestokes.mhth is on my list for sure! It's good that there's been a bit of an uptick in witness voting but we need to really encourage people to do this. It's not that hard and if you don't want to take the time to vet people, like you said, one can ALWAYS delegate.
Can I be your vote #27? 😂
You just might be! I’m about to go to bed but I’ll check out your profile and some of your credentials and definitely consider it in the next few days.
nyc post
Im really... really not following what I just read... I'm like... ok...ok... but I have no frame of reference...or I guess I haven't got in with the hip crowd
That's why I listed this post twice in the beginning and end of the report for those who aren't yet familiar with what a witness is or what they do. I hope that's helpful. If you have any questions, please let me know, and I'll do my best to answer them.
Yeah... I must have just blocked that out trying to absorb the information
Ya ya ya nice blog gam