I've caught a little break with flagging these accounts. It seems even bots have down time. The next post pays out 1/9/2018 18:26 and I'll be building VP as much as I can until then.

Pending Flag Queue for Dart

Hive account@dart Activity Increased Due to Delegations from Hive account@steem

I found the reason for the increased activity. It seems Hive account@steem has been delegating SP to accounts with less than 15 SP to enable them to perform transactions on the blockchain. This has fueled up accounts that were previously powered down or had their delegations removed by Hive account@steem for abuse (Hive account@ecoworld). The number of accounts I've identified is quite large - 1,633 accounts in October and 7,841 in December.

The chart above shows delegations from Hive account@steem to accounts older than 14 days. In October Hive account@steem delegated 48MVests (23k SP) and in December 227MVests (111k SP).

Hive account@steem Still Creating Accounts with Delegation

In the last 7 days Hive account@steem has created and delegated to 586 accounts that fit the pattern.

I've identified a total of 17,659 accounts associated with the account Hive account@dart or fitting known patterns so far. After spending 3 days crafting queries and looking at patterns I'm not sure how many more accounts could belong to this group. I know at one time they were attempting to use Hive account@minnowboosters vote bot and used exchanges for transfers.

I think there is probably a group of 2 or 3 individuals here, maybe more judging by the transactions.

If you think watching me flip through 50 accounts is boring try doing it for hours on end. It's worse when they have different voting patterns & I have to flip through images I have stored to find and compare them.

A quick check adds 185 accounts created by Hive account@steem within the last day in addition to the figures above. That adds another 5,180 SP to their voting pool brings the grand total on my list to 17,844 accounts and still growing.

They currently have delegations totaling 216.279k SP & 34.269k SP for a pool of 250.548k SP. At today's price that is $1.3M USD of STEEM delegated to a group of known scammers.

According to Weekly Steem Stats Report - First week of 2018 the first week of the year there were 5,180,640 votes. The group of dart accounts cast a total of 1,151,652 or 22% of those votes.

Witness Voting

You can vote for my witness here.

Wittnesses I vote for and support:


Hive account@abit	Hive account@guiltyparties	Hive account@someguy123
Hive account@aggroed	Hive account@jesta	Hive account@steemgigs
Hive account@anyx	Hive account@lukestokes.mhth	Hive account@swelker101
Hive account@arcange	Hive account@neoxian	Hive account@teamsteem
Hive account@ausbitbank	Hive account@netuoso	Hive account@themarkymark
Hive account@chitty	Hive account@nnnarvaez	Hive account@timcliff
Hive account@drakos	Hive account@pfunk	Hive account@wackou
Hive account@fubar-bdhr	Hive account@reggaemuffin	Hive account@good-karma
Hive account@ats-witness	Hive account@riverhead	Hive account@yehey
Hive account@gtg	Hive account@sircork	Hive account@followbtcnews

Image by Hive account@atopy

Current Projects:

Hive account@steemcleaners 🙝 Hive account@spaminator 🙝 Hive account@steemsugars

My Delegations:

Delegatee	Amount	Vesting Shares	Delegation Time
celestial	100.098 SP	0.205 MVests	2017-12-19, 00:11
healthy-home	100.108 SP	0.205 MVests	2017-12-17, 04:06
infinite-monkey	20.021 SP	0.041 MVests	2017-12-17, 23:16
mkmohit	50.055 SP	0.103 MVests	2018-01-15, 18:21
msp-creativebot	100.838 SP	0.207 MVests	2017-07-29, 23:24
pinkertonrya	100.559 SP	0.206 MVests	2017-12-16, 01:08
prowler	147.146 SP	0.301 MVests	2018-01-29, 22:01
reveur	103.368 SP	0.212 MVests	2017-11-10, 18:41
sariel	200.021 SP	0.410 MVests	2018-02-04, 17:13
smartsteem	100.006 SP	0.205 MVests	2018-01-06, 13:52

Steemit Dredge Report - 1/7/2018