this is an awesome post, well analysed and so well written. You are a coder, I dont code, you rock.
I did a post in the past that touched on 'controlling' power on steemit. this is an issue and distribution in the initial stages has created a very uneven system. To me this is one of the bigger problems steemit has to face moving forward.
So excited to see a data post like this, tagging #blockchianbi
Coming from you, this is high praise indeed! Thank you very much! I mean that.
To be fair, I haven't been a coder for many, many years. Though like a fish with a bicycle, you never forget the sweet, sweet sensation of finally getting something to work.
At this point I'm trying to decide if this is an artifact of the reward mechanics in the blockchain white paper and thus implemented or an inevitable result of any kind of reward-system which has few outlets and thus most of the ecological energy must be turned inward to generate more of itself. That is, largely, what we have in steem. There are a few ways to take the actual currency out of the system profitably and many ways to use the currency within the system to simply get more currency, whether it be self-voting, or engaging with bots, or lend/leasing delegation power – which can lead to just making more steem and thus more vests.
A lot of these really large accounts have existed since the primordial days, as far as I can tell.
It might also be interesting to poke at the Operations collection and simply get a list of accounts which have made any sort of operation in the last year, for instance, build a vests table out of that, and see what the distribution looks like. That would be one more lens to bring to bear on looking at how money is moving on the blockchain.
Like I said, I am no kind of business analyst. Never have been. But I do have some interesting questions from time to time.
Again, thank you for the praise. It's super effective!
if I had these coding skills I would be using them to analyse different blockchains. Might also be something that you could look at? DM me on discord if you are interested and I will tell you a little more
If it has a MongoDB back-end interface, I might could flail around at some things. If it's SQL -- well, that might be technically possible, but I've mentioned how much I dislike SQL, right? [grin]
oh this is not sql stuff :-) and not a DB either...how are you with API's?
A lot of stuff I cant get at cos I dont code, many blockchains have apis
check out this post I did a while back
https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@paulag/exploring-the-smartcash-api-with-steemit-blockchain-transfer-comparison
Huh. That just looks like an ugly but usable JSON file, which reduces to a fairly straightforward parsing problem. I'm pretty sure there are even easy-use Python libs for dealing with JSON on the regular.
Doesn't look too bad at first glance. Everything depends on what you want to do with it, of course.
like I said I dont do code, but these types of posts and analysis are in need. that post was my first attempt and from discussions with others, people want to see more of this. however with power BI I am too limited
I can probably do some grunt-work transformations of data from JSON into something more tabular, if that's the sort of thing you're looking for.
I like to start with the question I'm trying to answer, mind you, because -- er, well, even when I do, I can sometimes get obsessed with solving a problem that I don't need to and waste a good three hours wrestling and swearing with something I don't even need to touch.
Ah, not to say that happened or anything. [grin]
The code isn't even the hard part on things like this, truthfully. It's looking at the data you have and trying to figure out what you can do with it.