In this article, we'll be exploring (stalking) the STEEM blockchain for the most interesting transactions, delegations, currency holdings, and more!
We'll find out who the most rich users, the most influential bloggers, and the most popular witnesses are in the Steem Community. Let's get started!
Stalking the Witnesses
First, let's start out by gathering some data about the various witness who help operate and protect our beloved blockchain. Below is a graph of the top 50 STEEM Witnesses and their vote distributions.
The dark leather-blue seen at the leftmost bar of
and 
is user 
. This user holds over 7 million Steem Power and has likely the most power on the blockchain itself. However, almost all of 's Steem Power is delegated to various accounts.
Another interesting fact is that the light baby blue seen at the rightmost bar of every witness above is Smaller Voters, a bulk category for all voters with power less than the largest ones.
The thing to notice is that consistently for the top witnesses this category is the largest one. This shows that, for witnesses, attracting the votes of even minnows and smaller users matters as these can add up.
Additionally, users should not feel that they can only vote for the top 50 witnesses, as there are plenty more below that ranking who do a lot for the community. 
Exploring Delegations
Now, let's get into the world of STEEM Delegations! Delegating Steem Power allows another user to use your SP's vote worth when they vote.
To the right is a list of the biggest delegators on the blockchain. These are accounts and users who have delegated the most Steem Power to other users for various purposes.
Not so surprisingly, the top user on this list is the aptly-named 
For such large stakeholders in Steem,
In the former case, 
The Most Influential Steemians
In this last and final stalking adventure exploration, we'll find out who the most influential and largest Steemians are in many categories.
First up, the Steemians with the largest net worth or account value. Below is a list of the top 10 most valuable Steemians:
It's not so surprising that Steemit Inc's account 
Thankfully, the only whale on this list currently powering down is 
And for our final chart, we'll look at the most reputable accounts (the users with the highest reputation):
From this list, we see that the most reputable account is 
78 on the reputation scale (and almost halfway to 79)! Interestingly,
75. Reputation is logarithmic; this just means that it's about ten times harder to go from one reputation to the next. For example, it's ten times harder to get from 58 to 59 compared to getting from 57 to 58, though I am still persevering in this journey! š
Conclusions!
There exist many tools to help you stalk explore the intricacies of the blockchain, with the two I used being SteemReports and SteemWhales.
Through exploration, we can quickly figure out details and patterns in voting, delegation, and transactions and we can uncover interesting information about the most superlative users on STEEM. Thanks for being on STEEM!
image sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
witness: Though I don't run a witness myself, I will give out recommendations on who to vote! My current witness recommendations are 
