The Most Voted Witnesses In The Last 3 & 6 Months! This Is What Witness Vote Expiry/Decay Would Look Like (Kinda)

Time for more fun Steem Stats! This time it's all about witness votes and who are the witnesses receiving the most witness votes in recent months.

This information is doubly useful, since not only does it show us which witnesses have attracted the most attention more recently, but it also shows us (roughly) what would happen if we activated a 'witness vote decay' feature.

Witness vote decay refers to the idea that witness votes could expire after a certain time period, ensuring that witness votes stay relevant and preventing, for example, whales using the blockchain, choosing witnesses and then never again returning. If whales make votes in this way and then, worst case scenario, actually die physically - then it is possible that their votes would last forever and regardless of what the witnesses do, they may stay in power!

This would be a huge problem as it would mean that the entire witness voting system would fail. There are other issues with having witness votes that never expire too. I covered some of them in previous posts about vote decay.

In any case, what we have below are two tables, each showing 100 Steem witnesses (only the 100 who last produced blocks at the time of generating the report are shown here). Each table orders the witnesses according to the value of the votes they have received ONLY during the previous 3 months (first table) and 6 months (second table). From this we get a sense of who has been active and engaging the community in some way recently vs. who has perhaps displeased the community recently or just not been so active and not received so many new votes.

Note on vote decay: If Witness vote decay were activated then this is what the witness tables might look like, but such a feature should not be enabled without giving us due notification that the votes were about to expire and allowing us to renew them in advance, so that they never actually expire if we don't want them to. Therefore, the actual final witness tables would be different to these as some percentage of the votes would be renewed. The actual end result would be somewhere in between the tables below and the current witness ranking tables visible on steemit.com and elsewhere.

Note on data: I put a couple of days of coding and testing into these tables, it is the first time I have worked with witness vote data and I found there are a few pitfalls involved with the data. I aimed to test my results by comparing them to the existing data available from @drakos' site steemian.info, however, I found a bug in the way his code was calculating the totals for proxy votes that slowed me down and caused me to scratch my head. He has now confirmed to me that this is a bug on his site and he is fixing it. I think therefore, that my data is accurate, but if you know differently then let me know in the comments and I will investigate. Thanks!

I'll be posting this data every so often and adding a page to Steem Ocean for it too if it is found to be useful.

These tables are better viewed in steempeak.com than in steemit.com as steempeak adds horizontal scrollbars to wide tables.

100 Most Voted Witnesses In The Last 3 Months

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#	User	Votes From Accounts (Mv)	Votes From Proxies (Mv)	Total Votes (Mv)	Steem Power From Accounts	Steem Power From Proxies	Total Steem Power	Number of Votes
1	@abit	7654.08	14334.89	21988.97	3789860.344	7097813.466	10887673.81	470
2	@wise-team	8232.351	9493.699	17726.05	4076186.958	4700734.068	8776921.026	114
3	@kevinwong	11765.562	4698.689	16464.251	5825630.164	2326520.904	8152151.068	463
4	@pharesim	7317.144	7816.571	15133.715	3623029.315	3870316.81	7493346.125	684
5	@steempress	9759.043	3932.746	13691.789	4832116.999	1947269.834	6779386.833	769
6	@jackmiller	6509.853	5568.753	12078.606	3223304.989	2757326.224	5980631.213	239
7	@helpie	8071.875	3742.751	11814.626	3996728.453	1853195.195	5849923.648	406
8	@themarkymark	6873.616	4915.196	11788.812	3403419.4	2433722.644	5837142.044	621
9	@firepower	4105.261	7617.47	11722.731	2032689.274	3771733.153	5804422.427	236
10	@yabapmatt	8222.452	3466.856	11689.308	4071285.58	1716587.889	5787873.469	1331
11	@therealwolf	6639.861	4976.703	11616.564	3287677.35	2464177.274	5751854.624	1222
12	@clayop	3550.225	8004.181	11554.406	1757867.366	3963210.346	5721077.712	653
13	@reggaemuffin	4989.517	5713.714	10703.231	2470522.06	2829102.703	5299624.763	444
14	@ausbitbank	5616.086	4659.855	10275.941	2780763.226	2307292.517	5088055.743	945
15	@arcange	4009.216	6145.926	10155.142	1985133.276	3043109.241	5028242.517	901
16	@drakos	5100.135	4276.129	9376.264	2525293.781	2117293.106	4642586.887	728
17	@timcliff	6906.448	2404.342	9310.79	3419675.836	1190491.982	4610167.818	1198
18	@fulltimegeek	6677.638	2258.238	8935.876	3306382.67	1118149.665	4424532.335	427
19	@lukestokes.mhth	4155.145	4314.413	8469.558	2057388.829	2136249.145	4193637.974	749
20	@someguy123	4070.787	4257.465	8328.252	2015619.858	2108052.2	4123672.058	797
21	@bukio	897.825	7361.313	8259.138	444551.271	3644899.251	4089450.522	59
22	@blocktrades	5027.657	3153.037	8180.694	2489406.606	1561202.747	4050609.353	1143
23	@cryptopassion	3356.17	4734.205	8090.375	1661782.404	2344106.365	4005888.769	141
24	@pfunk	5291.923	2761.971	8053.894	2620256.167	1367569.236	3987825.403	712
25	@utopian-io	6118.515	1029.322	7147.837	3029536.855	509661.118	3539197.973	1117
26	@cervantes	6177.25	881.034	7058.284	3058619.225	436237.371	3494856.596	912
27	@furion	2981.893	3833.734	6815.627	1476462.205	1898244.538	3374706.743	425
28	@aggroed	4511.927	2252.945	6764.872	2234046.891	1115528.918	3349575.809	1007
29	@stem.witness	5896.267	813.007	6709.274	2919492.36	402554.448	3322046.808	211
30	@gtg	5778.869	685.17	6464.039	2861363.644	339256.828	3200620.472	1630
31	@smooth.witness	3454.24	2826.122	6280.362	1710340.879	1399333.311	3109674.19	699
32	@anyx	2826.88	3334.434	6161.314	1399708.323	1651020.207	3050728.53	557
33	@blockbrothers	2838.914	3161.596	6000.51	1405666.871	1565440.78	2971107.651	270
34	@patrice	1486.648	4488.534	5975.182	736102.561	2222464.123	2958566.684	200
35	@teamsteem	2931.708	2674.538	5606.246	1451613.325	1324277.701	2775891.026	631
36	@holger80	3619.049	1904.473	5523.522	1791945.139	942985.441	2734930.58	231
37	@jesta	4030.819	1473.856	5504.675	1995829.647	729768.912	2725598.559	1027
38	@curie	4644.935	785.568	5430.503	2299904.671	388968.03	2688872.701	1246
39	@dragosroua	4625.739	630.155	5255.894	2290400.278	312016.636	2602416.914	258
40	@steemcommunity	2584.428	2651.871	5236.299	1279660.059	1313053.915	2592713.974	424
41	@followbtcnews	2916.166	2200.946	5117.112	1443917.96	1089782.101	2533700.061	736
42	@good-karma	2414.301	2515.18	4929.481	1195422.946	1245372.483	2440795.429	1470
43	@roelandp	4644.366	238.785	4883.151	2299622.922	118232.73	2417855.652	1135
44	@ura-soul	4048.314	825.495	4873.809	2004492.163	408737.862	2413230.025	165
45	@bhuz	3510.164	1245.321	4755.485	1738031.314	616611.352	2354642.666	407
46	@noblewitness	1251.175	3325.043	4576.218	619509.832	1646370.145	2265879.977	230
47	@partiko	2073.039	2423.42	4496.459	1026449.698	1199938.291	2226387.989	171
48	@busy.witness	1810.147	2645.172	4455.319	896280.763	1309737.018	2206017.781	793
49	@ats-witness	1368.367	2977.813	4346.18	677536.735	1474441.872	2151978.607	185
50	@ro-witness	3336.337	787.466	4123.803	1651962.513	389907.933	2041870.446	119
51	@krnel	3659.32	365.683	4025.003	1811884.943	181065.383	1992950.326	159
52	@fyrst-witness	897.96	3019.141	3917.101	444617.961	1494904.944	1939522.905	172
53	@rival	748.604	3024.37	3772.974	370665.553	1497494.25	1868159.803	135
54	@steem-bounty	710.657	2853.787	3564.444	351876.742	1413031.359	1764908.101	277
55	@justyy	2431.519	1113.768	3545.287	1203948.251	551473.808	1755422.059	213
56	@xeldal	1300.601	2215.167	3515.768	643983.064	1096823.388	1740806.452	552
57	@thecryptodrive	1112.338	2389.952	3502.29	550765.986	1183366.723	1734132.709	567
58	@netuoso	2717.932	585.764	3303.696	1345763.511	290036.803	1635800.314	434
59	@stoodkev	1739.952	1411.173	3151.125	861524.302	698731.586	1560255.888	265
60	@qurator	1390.537	1461.901	2852.438	688514.225	723849.271	1412363.496	485
61	@liondani	2514.154	255.438	2769.592	1244864.389	126478.095	1371342.484	458
62	@riverhead	1870.469	870.705	2741.174	926148.73	431123.202	1357271.932	523
63	@guiltyparties	1737.006	885.846	2622.852	860065.71	438619.814	1298685.524	313
64	@ocd-witness	2277.798	172.194	2449.992	1127834.563	85260.384	1213094.947	380
65	@markangeltrueman	1635.12	704.711	2339.831	809617.39	348932.487	1158549.877	136
66	@helo	1863.66	378.169	2241.829	922777.246	187247.546	1110024.792	35
67	@ihashfury	33.57	2201.649	2235.219	16621.79	1090130.091	1106751.881	74
68	@klye	2148.394	14.318	2162.712	1063761.133	7089.422	1070850.555	104
69	@delegate.lafona	2008.775	115.743	2124.518	994630.016	57309.414	1051939.43	71
70	@steemgigs	2028.517	58.901	2087.418	1004404.885	29164.575	1033569.46	476
71	@emrebeyler	1604.191	226.976	1831.167	794302.966	112385.701	906688.667	200
72	@bitrocker2020	838.688	957.828	1796.516	415269.886	474261.285	889531.171	190
73	@neoxian	1556.902	232.851	1789.753	770888.198	115294.336	886182.534	269
74	@mahdiyari	1609.68	150.729	1760.409	797021.051	74632.522	871653.573	412
75	@adsactly-witness	1502.15	248.212	1750.362	743778.185	122900.416	866678.601	337
76	@lux-witness	1504.248	190.459	1694.707	744816.988	94304.197	839121.185	55
77	@steemitboard	844.626	646.263	1490.889	418210.288	319992.084	738202.372	2344
78	@block-buster	1056.009	346.066	1402.075	522874.751	171352.072	694226.823	121
79	@steemed	1210.344	27.078	1237.422	599292.938	13407.585	612700.523	196
80	@enginewitty	865.513	311.584	1177.097	428552.118	154278.442	582830.56	252
81	@nextgencrypto	894.854	275.176	1170.03	443080.209	136251.421	579331.63	289
82	@comedyopenmic	829.837	36.981	866.818	410887.685	18310.754	429198.439	198
83	@chitty	822.277	32.381	854.658	407144.462	16033.079	423177.541	101
84	@joseph	726.87	100.744	827.614	359904.079	49882.567	409786.646	82
85	@jrswab	418.29	222.46	640.75	207113.263	110149.205	317262.468	73
86	@liberosist	507.217	4.758	511.975	251144.704	2355.917	253500.621	102
87	@b0y2k	454.68	24.673	479.353	225131.56	12216.638	237348.198	87
88	@felixxx	424.164	6.079	430.243	210021.4	3009.855	213031.255	135
89	@complexring	284.154	100.674	384.828	140696.606	49848.043	190544.649	62
90	@charlieshrem	333.545	7.155	340.7	165152.368	3542.947	168695.315	75
91	@fubar-bdhr	37.526	265.296	302.822	18580.921	131359.275	149940.196	4
92	@fbslo	143.558	44.077	187.635	71081.83	21824.632	92906.462	44
93	@ety001	101.014	80.621	181.635	50016.492	39918.849	89935.341	17
94	@bobdos	73.59	107.636	181.226	36437.538	53294.92	89732.458	34
95	@aizensou	141.765	5.284	147.049	70194.1	2616.171	72810.271	83
96	@danielsaori	103.726	5.945	109.671	51358.939	2943.784	54302.723	56
97	@jerrybanfield	72.445	24.218	96.663	35870.754	11991.55	47862.304	46
98	@steemychicken1	49.524	5.96	55.484	24521.643	2951.294	27472.937	92
99	@cryptohazard	31.808	4.483	36.291	15749.317	2219.761	17969.078	12
100	@sc-steemit	7.653	0	7.653	3789.473	0	3789.473	17

100 Most Voted Witnesses in The Last 6 Months

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#	User	Votes From Accounts (Mv)	Votes From Proxies (Mv)	Total Votes (Mv)	Steem Power From Accounts	Steem Power From Proxies	Total Steem Power	Number of Votes
1	@themarkymark	13733.599	12400.28	26133.879	6800107.094	6139922.713	12940029.807	1545
2	@abit	9033.265	14486.799	23520.064	4472765.913	7173049.745	11645815.658	844
3	@jackmiller	13752.557	7602.244	21354.801	6809493.935	3764204.329	10573698.264	454
4	@reggaemuffin	5945.176	13830.579	19775.755	2943717.23	6848126.212	9791843.442	1039
5	@cervantes	13817.55	4260.028	18077.578	6841675.263	2109326.914	8951002.177	2425
6	@wise-team	8232.655	9494.019	17726.674	4076348.798	4700905.102	8777253.9	114
7	@pharesim	8762.148	8837.332	17599.48	4338523.575	4375750.557	8714274.132	2436
8	@firepower	9063.294	8133.264	17196.558	4487634.201	4027135.681	8514769.882	305
9	@yabapmatt	12583.672	4182.605	16766.277	6230728.118	2070991.255	8301719.373	3200
10	@kevinwong	11765.799	4698.951	16464.75	5825762.929	2326656.687	8152419.616	463
11	@arcange	7985.195	7917.405	15902.6	3953820.216	3920254.524	7874074.74	1912
12	@timcliff	12265.906	3619.025	15884.931	6073388.035	1791938.152	7865326.187	2771
13	@drakos	8925.649	6713.838	15639.487	4419480.059	3324315.54	7743795.599	1784
14	@therealwolf	9596.265	5730.258	15326.523	4751531.534	2837302.013	7588833.547	1996
15	@curie	11400.875	3885.476	15286.351	5645073.49	1923869.67	7568943.16	3515
16	@utopian-io	12263.8	2754.773	15018.573	6072345.519	1364009.14	7436354.659	2710
17	@clayop	6068.433	8605.788	14674.221	3004747.42	4261103.188	7265850.608	1782
18	@steempress	9760.53	3932.824	13693.354	4832866.531	1947313.89	6780180.421	769
19	@ausbitbank	7972.007	5611.998	13584.005	3947290.319	2778746.266	6726036.585	2617
20	@bhuz	4664.07	8574.929	13238.999	2309385.647	4245823.341	6555208.988	989
21	@lukestokes.mhth	5878.816	6465.909	12344.725	2910859.726	3201555.015	6112414.741	1942
22	@helpie	8074.053	3742.984	11817.037	3997817.827	1853315.762	5851133.589	408
23	@blocktrades	6588.389	5065.505	11653.894	3262200.459	2508153.72	5770354.179	2897
24	@noblewitness	6885.94	4605.075	11491.015	3409530.779	2280174.418	5689705.197	550
25	@followbtcnews	7618.088	3679.906	11297.994	3772049.326	1822082.732	5594132.058	1781
26	@pfunk	6784.953	3748.421	10533.374	3359528.02	1856007.586	5215535.606	1868
27	@someguy123	4835.772	5557.897	10393.669	2394402.729	2751958.6	5146361.329	1963
28	@patrice	3307.565	6340.849	9648.414	1637720.359	3139632.549	4777352.908	735
29	@blockbrothers	4750.313	4723.577	9473.89	2352088.186	2338850.198	4690938.384	900
30	@smooth.witness	4598.05	4669.662	9267.712	2276696.305	2312154.453	4588850.758	1662
31	@fulltimegeek	6686.963	2258.094	8945.057	3311008.456	1118081.314	4429089.77	433
32	@gtg	7360.279	1582.209	8942.488	3644396.978	783420.943	4427817.921	3587
33	@aggroed	6146.617	2617.78	8764.397	3043459.532	1296177.613	4339637.145	2434
34	@roelandp	7849.796	705.788	8555.584	3886778.109	349466.389	4236244.498	2766
35	@bukio	898.084	7361.314	8259.398	444680.589	3644909.225	4089589.814	60
36	@good-karma	5156.83	3066.626	8223.456	2553372.926	1518421.071	4071793.997	4223
37	@cryptopassion	3356.186	4734.389	8090.575	1661794.892	2344203.876	4005998.768	141
38	@anyx	4615.099	3462.908	8078.007	2285137.746	1714637.562	3999775.308	1529
39	@steemcommunity	4305.318	3536.118	7841.436	2131751.627	1750887.019	3882638.646	662
40	@ro-witness	6203.198	1296.064	7499.262	3071475.646	641738.177	3713213.823	277
41	@holger80	4417.923	2856.186	7274.109	2187507.495	1414223.04	3601730.535	300
42	@furion	3382.505	3850.631	7233.136	1674826.515	1906616.38	3581442.895	1142
43	@ura-soul	6228.705	962.272	7190.977	3084105.099	476463.22	3560568.319	276
44	@jesta	4815.546	2360.705	7176.251	2384388.155	1168888.783	3553276.938	2988
45	@fyrst-witness	3352.298	3599.265	6951.563	1659869.965	1782153.821	3442023.786	589
46	@teamsteem	3792.008	3102.895	6894.903	1877589.311	1536379.414	3413968.725	1890
47	@riverhead	5335.185	1521.181	6856.366	2641684.109	753203.266	3394887.375	1217
48	@busy.witness	3746.944	3073.276	6820.22	1855276.496	1521713.874	3376990.37	2238
49	@stem.witness	5896.111	813.013	6709.124	2919423.377	402558.233	3321981.61	211
50	@xeldal	2928.951	3277.317	6206.268	1450252.004	1622743.238	3072995.242	1402
51	@ocd-witness	5081.009	1109.845	6190.854	2515830.209	549533.011	3065363.22	1406
52	@justyy	4033.465	1885.827	5919.292	1997145.532	933755.493	2930901.025	469
53	@guiltyparties	3098.329	2574.387	5672.716	1534118.538	1274691.797	2808810.335	569
54	@dragosroua	4904.983	729.953	5634.936	2428672.01	361431.531	2790103.541	498
55	@qurator	2652.435	2889.69	5542.125	1313336.965	1430812.162	2744149.127	737
56	@krnel	4504.379	811.874	5316.253	2230315.84	401994.586	2632310.426	298
57	@thecryptodrive	1971.427	3314.442	5285.869	976139.755	1641125.385	2617265.14	1581
58	@liondani	4864.491	348.984	5213.475	2408622.681	172797.409	2581420.09	1177
59	@stoodkev	2788.96	2389.228	5178.188	1380936.424	1183011.377	2563947.801	637
60	@ats-witness	1956.995	3163.564	5120.559	968993.854	1566419.136	2535412.99	257
61	@adsactly-witness	3648.201	1288.986	4937.187	1806384.563	638233.286	2444617.849	1138
62	@netuoso	3591.355	1227.639	4818.994	1778237.516	607858.013	2386095.529	1505
63	@partiko	2073.107	2423.427	4496.534	1026486.147	1199945.23	2226431.377	171
64	@emrebeyler	3800.321	376.5	4176.821	1881705.376	186421.772	2068127.148	482
65	@nextgencrypto	3084.559	1040.064	4124.623	1527300.402	514981.421	2042281.823	895
66	@neoxian	2335.06	1663.271	3998.331	1156190.679	823558.483	1979749.162	608
67	@ihashfury	1698.144	2284.082	3982.226	840825.459	1130949.368	1971774.827	281
68	@rival	865.142	3024.513	3889.655	428369.818	1497569.062	1925938.88	487
69	@yuriks2000	3066.706	569.937	3636.643	1518460.752	282200.857	1800661.609	269
70	@steemgigs	2805.828	703.781	3509.609	1389288.296	348473.076	1737761.372	1006
71	@enginewitty	2983.983	455.154	3439.137	1477500.642	225366.544	1702867.186	457
72	@mahdiyari	2853.93	455.725	3309.655	1413106.066	225649.251	1638755.317	1169
73	@comedyopenmic	1565.374	1636.387	3201.761	775085.382	810246.83	1585332.212	394
74	@blackwidow	888.182	2081.908	2970.09	439777.89	1030843.782	1470621.672	85
75	@bitrocker2020	1601.037	1325.807	2926.844	792743.851	656465.416	1449209.267	284
76	@lux-witness	2335.351	382.592	2717.943	1156334.88	189438.215	1345773.095	131
77	@klye	2446.802	87.802	2534.604	1211519.032	43474.835	1254993.867	523
78	@delegate.lafona	2083.162	293.944	2377.106	1031465.021	145544.494	1177009.515	386
79	@markangeltrueman	1635.131	704.717	2339.848	809624.994	348936.515	1158561.509	136
80	@noisy.witness	1810.993	277.837	2088.83	896702.08	137569.19	1034271.27	293
81	@steemcreative	1011.498	935.327	1946.825	500836.791	463121.493	963958.284	72
82	@blockchained	624.57	1179.549	1804.119	309252.2	584046.295	893298.495	127
83	@liberosist	1782.421	14.355	1796.776	882554.873	7107.967	889662.84	338
84	@steemed	1731.859	31.566	1763.425	857519.197	15629.638	873148.835	913
85	@ayogom	1444.312	256.113	1700.425	715142.417	126812.606	841955.023	77
86	@joseph	1449.708	100.777	1550.485	717813.786	49899.133	767712.919	450
87	@demotruk	923.306	514.18	1437.486	457169.419	254593.093	711762.512	21
88	@danielsaori	563.947	819.191	1383.138	279235.062	405617.592	684852.654	182
89	@felixxx	537.226	707.978	1245.204	266004.015	350550.951	616554.966	189
90	@chitty	935.208	32.7	967.908	463062.481	16191.068	479253.549	134
91	@jerrybanfield	855.316	24.254	879.57	423504.319	12009.201	435513.52	1297
92	@fbslo	742.64	44.788	787.428	367713.803	22176.374	389890.177	110
93	@b0y2k	755.523	24.673	780.196	374092.638	12216.671	386309.309	107
94	@fubar-bdhr	149.421	474.916	624.337	73985.117	235151.953	309137.07	8
95	@aizensou	341.808	110.949	452.757	169244.118	54935.564	224179.682	299
96	@complexring	344.257	100.674	444.931	170456.944	49848.178	220305.122	68
97	@charlieshrem	348.241	38.289	386.53	172429.509	18958.757	191388.266	179
98	@boatymcboatface	217.304	128.653	345.957	107596.871	63701.961	171298.832	51
99	@ety001	133.933	103.955	237.888	66316.022	51472.722	117788.744	34
100	@steemychicken1	88.317	6.026	94.343	43729.719	2983.492	46713.211	101

_{Data here was extracted by me using @steemsql from @arcange}


So there we have it - Some interesting results there, for sure! Let us know your comments below.

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