How many of the upvotes are done by paid voting bots?

I wanted to know how many of all upvotes on a daily basis are being done by paid voting services. So I dived into the Steem blockchain and counted all upvotes by all known paid voting bots.

I have made a list of all the known voting bots using https://steembottracker.com.

Here's the result...

Approximately 1.7% of all votes are done by a paid voting service. And as you can see in the chart, the paid votes are quite in line with the total number of votes.

Daily number of votes

Date	Votes	Paid bot votes
2018-03-13	745,468	11,803
2018-03-12	748,848	11,604
2018-03-11	711,500	11,283
2018-03-10	662,208	11,369
2018-03-09	640,175	11,726
2018-03-08	737,293	13,058
2018-03-07	777,449	13,716

2. Weekly number of votes

Date	Votes	Paid bot votes
201810	5,078,544	88,376
201809	4,935,492	89,606
201808	5,099,772	89,875
201807	5,083,608	86,787
201806	4,712,805	77,204
201805	4,931,440	86,818
201804	4,675,230	82,053

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