Witnesses secure the Steem Blockchain. It's an important role and each and every account holder gets 30 Witness Votes. These votes elect the Witnesses that get trusted with the job.
Image pixabay.com
I began a short series a few days ago, Steem - Get to Know the Witnesses. In this series I an analysing the digital footprint of the witnesses to get to know them a bit better and help inform my witness vote. I welcome discussion during this series and I hope it raises awareness of who we are electing to manage the Steem Blockchain.
There may be different philosophical reasons in the community for choosing witnesses and this analysis (and my choices) are not intended to judge right or wrong but I wish to inform the community what the different witnesses have written about, what they stand for and how active they are in the community.
Furthermore this discussion is not intended to be technical in nature but will instead look at some Graphics and Stats to help us get to know our witnesses, especially the top 20.
Interests
Some of the witnesses develop great apps and platforms for the Steem blockchain. As pointed out yesterday by @richq11; witnesses such as @ausbitbank spend time developing steemviz and @jesta develops steemstats which enriches the community.
I frequently see witnesses volunteering time help people out on Steemit.chat or over on discord. There is no metric that can capture all this activity but we can get to know what witnesses write about on Steemit by looking at the tags they tag their posts with.
So What Tags do each of the top 20 witnesses use?
link to full size image
- Per Witness, tags in red shows lower frequency of occurrence. Brighter colours show higher frequency of occurrence.
Thanks for reading, I feel like I am getting to know the Witnesses a bit better with this series. Join me again next week as I continue my analysis ...
Previous posts in this series:
- https://steemd.com/stats/@eroche/steem-get-to-know-the-witnesses-part-1
- https://steemit.com/stats/@eroche/steem-get-to-know-the-witnesses-part-2
Thank you for reading this. I write on Steemit about Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Travel.
Ahh the latest ! Ive been really enjoying reading the fruits of your deep research. Too few people bother with their witness votes ( though i think 30 is far too many) and many of these witnesses never post.
Hopefully now we know a little more about these mysterious yet critical beings, more people might be encouraged to cast a vote
Best wishes to you :-)
What a quality blog series, I could spend hours looking at these! Really important we all get to know the witnesses and so will be resteeming. Cheers
So it is important for users to vote for witnesses and know their witnesses before they vote.
For a newbie, that's another term to understand. Obviously, one will reach at this stage only after he has mastered what it means to have SP, Steem, and SBD :D
I have vote for 30 of My witness @eroche, In the past I do know much about witness as the secure of the platform, after I got @jasonshick article Meet our witness, I got the point and there was awesome experiences @jasonshick pleasently me to translate in Indonesia,absolutely that very useful information for our community in Indonesia. Now I have your article to improve My knowledge about awesome people on the platform, our witness.. Thank you for share Amazing information, Re-steemed.
Awesome @dilimunanzar, there is another post today which you may find useful. Thanks for the resteem.
Yup sir, I am reading on :D
Thank you for sharing information, at least I began to understand what it is and who are the witnesses. Regarding the tags they use I think it's good information for me to try, if allowed.
In this steemit I might be trying to understand and follow some of the information presented by the stemians, including the information you shared here, thanks @eroche.
Thank you for any information that is useful to us.
and thank you for giving us a chance
Join @eroche in the next week when I am in the post and further information.
best regards Steemians.
Every accnt needs withness, knowing the withness better before you klik as your witness.. Is it alright my asume? Good post. I improve my acknowledge.. Thanks
Great post. I thought we each got one so I was scratching my head trying to decide. 30 makes it much easier.
Thanks
I hope I get the chance upvote you
cool photography and good article, I choose you, I want to see my post and do not forget to follow my account @feryykama, and do not forget my upvote, kalou you upvote me 100%, I will kirem sbd big se 0.100.
this post is vary important for us
thank you for sharing
I listen to your writing, because it adds my knowledge in #steemit
ini merupakan posting yang sangat penting bagi saya. terima kasih @eroche
Your welcome. Thanks for reading.
Yes, you are welcome
Thank you for the very useful information for us who have given us the opportunity to join @erohce Next day and information.
So from the graph above does it mean that @curie talks about himself/herself an awful lot? ;)
:)
Thank you for this @eroche. I actually have only one witness vote since I didnt know the others but with your chart I think Im having one more. Just keep posting my friend you are helping us! 😄
I'd be interested to see part 2 and part 3 for the top 20 to 50 if you ever feel like it.
Ill definitely get to that this week.
I have gotten sidetracked analysing the votes for individual witnesses which I will post about tomorrow. What took me in that direction was a quick look at Steemreports http://steemreports.com/witnesses/ There are a few very big hitters in there voting for witnesses. This makes up a huge proportion of the votes for the top guys. I think after I decide who to vote for I'll have another series for witnesses to help them see who to seek votes from. I am sure there is a lot of potential there for lobbying certain big voters who haven't updated their witness votes in a while.
Getting back to my analysis for helping me decide who to vote for I agree getting to know the witnesses using analysis similar to Part 2 and Part 3 for the next 30 will be interesting. Ill run that off and see what they have been up to, the only issue with it will be that it will probably be very skewed due to the fact the next grouping will have come on board at various times. The top 20 all started out around as witnesses around the same time so its a more meaningful comparison, but Ill run the numbers and see what it looks like.
Thanks for stopping by.