This is part of a series on how much delegators get from investing in bid-bots. See for more information. The @rocky1 bid-bot was created at the beginning of August 2017. It has currently a USD 118 vote

This is part of a series on how much delegators get from investing in bid-bots. See for more information. The @upme bid-bot was created at the end of August 2017. It has a very hight delegator concentration:

This is part of a series on how much delegators get from investing in bid-bots. See for more information. The visual and analytic exploration of the bid-bots funding and expenses continues today with the

@appreciator is the second biggest bid-bot by vote value at this moment. It is also hard to audit. As noted in the last post ( we can always verify with certainty what are the delegators to an account.

How much are delegators earning on their investment in bid-bots? The Steem blockchain has most of the data needed to make the calculations so let’s follow the numbers! But not so fast. First, we need some

A bid-bot sells votes to authors who want to get their posts in the “trending” and “hot” sections of web services like steemit.com or busy.org. It allows authors to show their work to a wider audience

In this post we discuss the data selection and the processing used to calculate the end of month delegation balances since delegations started in March 2017. Let's see the first month of delegation

There’s always two sides to a delegation: someone receives the Steem Power that another one gives. Last post was about the receiving parties ( Now to the ones that lend/give Steem Power. Here we can see

By suggestion of @miniature-tiger ( I put some different colors on the chart showing the main accounts receiving delegations ( Each color represents a different type of account, as shown by the legend.

After seeing how to get Steem aggregated data ( and how to connect to the database ( we’re finally going to make some data analysis and to draw a nice chart. Let’s get all the VESTS that all accounts across

As discussed in the previous post ( we’re going to use the SteemSQL service to get the Steem blockchain data. The connection to the database will be made using the R software ( It’s a widely used open

There’s some very good services to get information about individual accounts in the Steem blockchain (steemit.com, busy.org, steemd.com, and others listed in but it is more difficult to get Steem aggregated

It’s been more than a year since delegations started on Steem. There are 17.572 accounts that delegated Steem Power (delegators) and 867.578 accounts that received Steem Power (delegatees) since then.

Verodato is a crypto fund investing in the Steem ecosystem. We're studying all things Steem and we’re particularly interested at this moment in bid-bots and promotion services. Developing analytical and