Top Hive Earners by Category | Authors, Curators, Witnesses, DAO, HBD Interest | February 2024

[dalz]

Ok, HiveSQL is back and running so its time for our regular program!

Hive has multiple methods to distribute inflation that helps its token distribution and stay decentralized. With the addition of the HBD savings interest there is now a total of six ways the inflation on Hive is distributed: authors, curators, staking, witness, DHF and HBD interest.

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COVER

Here we will be looking at the overall inflation distribution for HIVE, looking at the following

• Authors rewards
• Curators rewards
• Witnesses rewards
• DHF/DAO rewards
• HBD interest
• Cumulative rewards

Top Authors

Here is the chart for the top 20 Hive authors that earned the most in the month.

Note: These are not totally accurate numbers because there is a conversion on VESTS to HIVE, for simplification. Also some of the top beneficiaries like the hbdstabilizator, reward.app and 3speak are excluded.

I have made a breakdown in the author and beneficiary rewards.
Author rewards are one of the most know in the blockchain as a lot of users are attract for them.

@oflyhigh is on the top followed by @erikah and @cryptoandcoffee.

There are around 8.1k accounts that have received rewards in February 2024. The median payout is 13 HIVE, while the average is around 82 HIVE.

Top Curators

Here is the chart for the top 20 Hive curators that earned the most in the month.

@appreciator is on the top here, followed by @alpha and @blocktrades.

The accounts above are the biggest curators on the Hive blockchain. Hope they will do a great job in curating and making this place grow.

Top Witnesses

The top witnesses’ earnings charts look like this.

I have included more than 20 accounts in this chart to show the drop in earnings after the 20th spot. The top 20 are earning around the same amount of HIVE (HP), around 10k per month.

There seems to be a healthy competition among witness now, especially around the 20th spot.

The DHF/DAO Payouts

Accounts that received funding from the DHF/DAO in the period.

DHF workers are paid in HBD, and the numbers above are in HBD.

A total of 16 accounts received funding in February 2024.

The @valueplan account is on the top here followed by @keychain, @peak.open, @leofinance, @vsc.network etc.

Note on the special @hbdstabilizer. I have excluded this account from the here, since it is dominant on the top, with almost 347k HBD received in the month, but since technically it’s not keeping those funds, it is excluded from the list.

Top HBD Interest Earners

Here is the chart.

The @lazy-panda is on the top here with 22k HBD, followed by @newsflash and @alpha.

Top Earners Cumulative

From the data above we can compile the payout for a single ranking on overall top earners on the Hive blockchain in February 2024.

Here is the chart.

Note: These are not totally accurate numbers because there is a conversion on HBD to HIVE implemented, and VESTS to HIVE, for simplification.

I have separated the different earnings for the top accounts accordingly.

The @valueplan account is on the top, followed by @appreaciator, @lazy-panda, @alpha etc.
Mostly DHF and curation accounts on the top, but some HBD interest accounts as well.

All the best
@dalz

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P.S. Most of the Hivers want to check the author rewards so here is a longer table with the top 100.

Rank	Author	Total	Author rewards	Beneficiaries
1	hbdstabilizer	201,592	0	201,592
2	null	39,302	0	39,302
3	reward.app	6,486	0	6,486
4	spk.beneficiary	3,467	0	3,467
5	oflyhigh	2,643	2,643	0
6	erikah	2,408	2,157	251
7	cryptoandcoffee	2,210	2,210	0
8	mcsamm	2,099	2,099	0
9	taskmaster4450le	2,032	716	1,316
10	kkarenmp	1,954	1,954	0
11	edicted	1,753	1,753	0
12	alokkumar121	1,649	1,626	23
13	tarazkp	1,612	1,612	0
14	steemychicken1	1,442	1,442	0
15	leofinance	1,427	63	1,364
16	trumpman	1,381	1,381	0
17	liketu	1,374	0	1,374
18	libertycrypto27	1,344	1,344	0
19	tattoodjay	1,322	1,322	0
20	silversaver888	1,314	1,314	0
21	castleberry	1,309	6	1,303
22	anggreklestari	1,308	964	344
23	lordbutterfly	1,272	1,272	0
24	collinz	1,242	1,242	0
25	incublus	1,239	1,174	65
26	alexa.art	1,205	1,205	0
27	mipiano	1,193	1,065	128
28	bozz	1,180	1,179	1
29	zing.fund	1,166	0	1,166
30	papilloncharity	1,140	1,119	21
31	daveks	1,136	1,136	0
32	acesontop	1,133	1,133	0
33	elizabeths14	1,130	828	302
34	yolimarag	1,129	999	129
35	slobberchops	1,123	1,122	1
36	mango-juice	1,110	1,110	0
37	gooddream	1,105	1,097	8
38	nomnomnoodle	1,083	1,083	0
39	strawhat	1,064	988	76
40	pinmapple	1,054	1,054	0
41	detlev	1,043	1,043	0
42	soy-laloreto	1,033	607	427
43	roleerob	1,019	1,018	1
44	rivalhw	999	999	0
45	revisesociology	998	998	0
46	acidyo	997	890	108
47	irenenavarroart	997	997	0
48	macchiata	995	620	376
49	dalz	981	842	139
50	galenkp	979	979	0
51	ewkaw	972	911	61
52	belug	967	967	0
53	mrspointm	961	961	0
54	taskmaster4450	949	913	35
55	danielcarrerag	947	925	22
56	yanes94	910	910	0
57	baibuaza	906	906	0
58	bala41288	900	900	0
59	jlinaresp	894	885	10
60	omarcitorojas	894	812	82
61	bdmillergallery	892	872	19
62	steemflow	888	880	8
63	onyfest	875	875	0
64	fotostef	875	872	3
65	nathyortiz	867	867	0
66	sagarkothari88	863	316	546
67	riverflows	861	861	0
68	bhattg	839	746	93
69	ybanezkim26	833	125	708
70	zekepickleman	823	823	1
71	julsdraws	815	815	0
72	rak7	811	811	0
73	bdvoter.cur	809	809	0
74	josehany	806	806	0
75	lauramica	804	663	140
76	mypathtofire	801	801	0
77	jychbetter	793	680	113
78	hopestylist	792	792	0
79	edwarlyn11	783	783	0
80	hetty-rowan	782	696	86
81	mukadder	781	781	0
82	arcadecolony	773	772	1
83	deanliu	765	765	0
84	rtonline	763	763	0
85	kryptodenno	759	759	0
86	silviared945	758	758	0
87	lucianav	748	748	0
88	dbooster	748	746	2
89	burlarj	742	738	5
90	cetb2008	740	740	0
91	marnaza	738	738	0
92	aleister	737	737	0
93	lovelingling	736	736	0
94	ifarmgirl	730	730	0
95	bruno-kema	730	730	0
96	bxt	727	727	0
97	flemingfarm	717	717	0
98	sugarelys	716	716	0
99	shawnnft	715	715	0
100	thisismylife	709	704	4

Comments

[yeckingo1]

It is interesting to see in the last graph how almost no authors appear and the only one that appears is Null. He didn't think Hive would burn so badly.

[libertycrypto27]

Wow it is a great satisfaction for me to be in your chart because it happens very rarely.
Thank you as always for writing useful content and interesting analysis
@tipu curate

[tipu]

Upvoted 👌 (Mana: 45/55) Liquid rewards.

[dalz]

Congrats to you, well deserved!

[videoaddiction]

I think HBD earners might decrease if the price of HIVE goes on hiking.

[rafzat]

I love how some people maintain being on this chart
It is lovely

[nonameslefttouse]

Hopefully some of those top earners are at least disappointed with the amount of views their posts get and want to do things to bring those numbers up. I'm sure the money feels good but being on that list must feel awkward.

[dalz]

I will probably say ... dont blame the player blame the game ... there are no incetives in earning from views

[nonameslefttouse]

And I'd probably say something like attracting thousands more interested and potential paying supporters would come with quite a few benefits. Perhaps there are no incentives earning from views, but there are plenty to be found when earning from viewers.

I give up...

[dalz]

Yea its in the interest of the stakeholders to spread the word, I agree :)

[nonameslefttouse]

When people "spread the word" here, all they do is try to attract more content creators. Building a stadium, filling the stage with acts, then refusing to sell tickets and put butts in the seats. The role of the viewer/consumer/paying supporter is ignored 100% of the time.

And I've heard this story about there being no incentives to attract views. Then the "solution" offered is something like ad revenue. So they'll maybe place ads everywhere, not realizing that does nothing to attract viewers and acts more like a deterrent. "Good news consumers! We have ads now! So please come to our site and enjoy the content!" said nobody, ever.

Millions of people spend billions supporting content online each year. Millions can support content here with votes and watch their billions grow. Yet not one content creator here can see the value or feel incentivized to attract even one of those millions of people to their work? Generating buy pressure to outpace the sell pressure they create isn't appealing?

I'm a stakeholder. Will what I just said spread and click with people? Probably not. I've been pointing out the same problem and offering the same solution for nearly a decade, and now I give up.

[outwars]

It's always interesting to see Lazypanda up there and propped up by its massive HBD interest. I wonder if it will be overtaken by the others during the Bull market.

Seeing appreciator as the top curator is cool. I frequently see how high it curates some of the people I follow. But I still have no idea how to get on their radar. I don't think I've ever been curated by them haha.

[precab]

Thank you so much for this complete overview

[uyoho]

A motivating evaluation and analysis

[mukadder]

81 ❤️ thank you so much

[tuisada]

!ALIVE

[tuisada]

!ALIVE

[incublus]

I almost came under your last post to ask when you were going to post this post man haha. It's great that HiveSQL is back.

[djbravo]

All these people have reached here after a long hard work and your posts add a lot to our knowledge.

[lovinggirl]

these are some lucky guys

[biyimi]

It is interesting to see how this stats is getting performing as time passes by