But What about HBD?

Well due to my recent 'viral' (!) posts on visualization of some hive data, people have been asking me, have I counted the HBD saved in the accounts for my analysis. I have. By the way, the word viral is a overkill and a joke at hive, I guess you all know that, I am just being self-critical!

Generated with AI ∙ August 30, 2024 at 10:44 AM

This whole data investigation and visualization phase of mine reminds me of an incidence happened to me a long time ago in school. I was a big of a problem kid in school (I guess I still am!). In high school physics class, when my teacher was descrbing gravity with equations, I chimed in, did Newton really "invented" gravity? My poor teacher, bless her soul, was stunned by the question. I added, I mean gravity was always there, he just figured out how that stuff works, that is hardly invention, I guess loads of people could have done it! Back then in India, we get spanked by ruler for that! We were grateful for it! Later on in grad school, as I was working on my PhD thesis, one common joke or a sigh was, life was so much better for Newton, if I was born then, it would have been an easy PhD! LOL

I mean, I was thinking that I didn't really do anything new for this hive data visualization. The data is public. I am just visualizing it. I understand that might make a few people uncomfortable but, to that I say, deal with it! :)

OKOK HBD!

This is again the Top 2500 HP accounts of hive with their held HBD along Y-axis. Yes, I have added the liquid HBD and HBD in savings. Circle size is liquid hive holding, just to demonstrate most accounts, what we call regular poster, do not hold any meaningful liquid hive, at least at this zoom-to-all scale. You can see all the big holders of HBD.

Lazy-panda is the largest holder of HBD (1.98M HBD). The top 11 accounts holding (HBD+HBD Savings). There are total 4,326,393 HBD held in accounts liquid and savings. Lazy-panda holds 46% of the total held in accounts. Conventional authors only hold about 35% of the total HBD held.

I did simple linear bar chart for a reason. The lopsidedness of the distribution is clear that way.

The scatterplot above shows that there are few accounts that hold more than 10K HBD, and the ones that do are not really regular authors, which was the main premise of my previous analysis

As we zoom into 4K-10K HBD range, we begin to see some of our well known authors. However, they are still far and few.

Next we will zoom into 0-4000 HBD range.

There are lot of accounts in this area, but most didn't earn much in author rewards, which is the circle size. We will check the number of post next.

Nothing significant changed. I'd say most of the authors are not holding a lot of HBD, perhaps because this is a low hive price environment. Most authors try and convert HBD to hive/HP during this time, so that they can get a HP boost as they price rally.

There you have it, hopefully this helps answer the HBD question.