@abh12345 nailed it. It would be almost impossible to find an "average" cost. There is so much variability between server configurations that the costs vary wildly.

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Glad this is helpful! Hoping to add some new reports to the mix, but (as you said) distractive work gets in the way!

Hi @sircork, it starts at 12:00 on Monday morning and goes until 11:59 on Sunday night.

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for the upvote!

Thanks for reading! The good news is that the SP you are holding and delegating to the community is still yours and will keep its value!

Thanks for reading!

What is the mechanism that this site uses for voting? I think users would be concerned about using a posting or active key on an unknown site.

It would be possible, to do that we would have to define dead users. That would be an interesting analytic to use for a number of things.

Yes, the witnesses do a lot of the heavy lifting behind the scenes. In addition, they are responsible for a lot of the third-party infrastructure as well. Things like SteemSQL, Steemdata, Utopian, etc.

Great suggestion! We are hoping to do that in the future. Unfortunately, that information will need to be manually aggregated as there is really no way to pull that data.

That is correct, because of the volume of transactions they process, their hardware has to be state of the art. The top 20 are the top witnesses that have been voted for and have the most cumulative votes.

Thank you for reading and supporting! Be sure to check out our new report on withdrawals!

That's the goal! We are still building up and have a new report coming soon!

Thanks for reading! We have some other reports coming soon as well!

No such thing as an insignificant witness. It's important to have witnesses outside of the top 20 to support the growth of the platform.

Thanks for the clarification! We will add this to future posts.

Great question! Take a look at @drakos comment. He explains the percentage, but the short answer is no, the witnesses are paid out of a separate pot from the reward pool.

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