WITNESS MOVERS & PERFORMERS! The Biggest Changes In The Productivity of Steem Witnesses During The First Half of 2018!

Which Steem Witnesses have been making the biggest waves in the Steem Ocean so far in 2018? Some have come and gone from the top 20 positions.. Some newcomers are moving up fast - Let's take a look!

Overview

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I have split the list of witnesses into three bands:

• Produced over 20,000 blocks in any 1 month in Q1 and Q2 of 2018.
• Produced blocks within the range of 500 to 20,000 per month in Q1 and Q2 of 2018.
• Produced between 0 and 500 blocks in any 1 month in Q1 and Q2 of 2018.

I then removed all the witnesses from those bands who did not change their overall production levels much between January and June 2018.

This left only those witnesses who have significantly increased or decreased their production levels during the period.

_{Note: All data presented here has been taken from the witness pages provided by @drakos here. I did notice that some data appears to be inaccurate, such as @jerrybanfield being listed as creating blocks when inactive... But it's the best data I have for this research and analysis currently, so I'm going with it! ;)}

Band 1 - Top Level - Producing More than 20,000 Blocks Per Month

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@jerrybanfield came and went!
@riverhead all but disappeared and is now making a comeback.
@pfunk dropped a bit but is recovering.
@thecryptodrive showed some solid performance and growth too.
@furion dropped to almost nothing from his former glory!

Band 2 - Mid Level - Producing Between 500 & 20,000 Blocks Per Month

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@charlieshrem dropped down by around half.
@joseph dropped significantly.
@adsactly-witness rose fairly consistently. @rival grew from almost nothing to a decent size.
@fryst-witness lost some ground but still holds plenty.
@ocd-witness also grew well from small to medium sized!
@arcange had smaller but consistent growth.
@klye lost a bit of ground.
@prc grew at a nice rate.
@blockbrothers virtually doubled in production.
@wackou ceased production!
@patrice had steady growth.
@therealwolf gew quickly from nothing to a decent size.
@busy.witness took a big hit and dropped to around 1/3 his former production level.

Band 3 - Lower Level - Producing Between 0 & 500 Blocks Per Month

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@jacor-witness took some good ground, starting from nothing.
@b0y2k gained and lost but ended up doing ok.
@block-buster lost a lot of production along the way.
@stoodkev has had a strong start
@blackwidow had a strong start in a short period.
@yuriks2000 also had a strong start.
@guiltyparties made solid growth.
@emrebeyler grew well from nothing.
@jackmiller had great growth over a short period.
@firepower also had even greater growth.
@noisy.witness was another who had rapid growth.
@justyy too had good, quick growth.
@mahdiyari tripled his production.
@qurator grew from nothing quite well.
@ura-soul (yours truly) had a solid growth curve all the way.

Here's to a productive second half of the year!

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