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Hive rewards May 2020

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May has just ended, so it is time for a new post about the rewards I got from different Hive related services and initiatives.

Voting distribution

Based on Hivereports you could get insight in the upvotes you get for a certain amount of time. Below you can see the voting distribution of all incoming votes in May (and April as a comparison). @steembasicincome is in the lead again, but again with some remarks that should be made. The VP of most SBI accounts hasn't been restored fully, so the way Hiveroports calculates the voting value isn't 100% correct. @actifit is second this month and @dkid14 is the first human upvoter this month on the third spot. Thank you so much! @pundito and @partitura are in fourth and fifth spot this month, thanks a lot!

April:

Author rewards

The second important thing to take into account is the total amount of author rewards that I got during this month. Beeme.icu helps here, since you can see the rewards of the last 30 days on your account page there (see below). One disadvantage is that rewards are always paid out 7 days after you author a post. That means that the reward data from Beeme are 7 days behind the upVoters data about upvotes. To keep the calculation easy, I assume that the amount of upvotes by the different services are comparable for both periods. Since I post 4 to 5 times a week nearly all weeks, that should be pretty close to the reality.

According to the Beeme data I got 43.07 Hive (Power) and 1.57 HBD in author rewards. Taking into account an average value of 0.3 Hive for HBD, the total rewards were 48.30 (compared to 66.52 in April).

Results

In the table below you can find the results of the calculation for this month, including a recap from the previous five months. I only take the services into account that are (or used to be) among the five biggest contributors/upvoters.

ServiceShare (%)HIVE (May)HIVE (Apr)HIVE (Mar)STEEM (Feb)STEEM (Jan)STEEM (Dec)
@steembasicincome32.8 %15.8424.88x.xx4.184.664.37
@actifit16.2 %7.837.52x.xx7.918.569.29
@upvoteshares2.7 %1.301.06x.xx0.450.830.67
@esteemapp2.4 %1.160.00x.xx3.203.731.70
@steem-ua0.0 %0.000.00x.xx1.491.311.34
  • SBI is pretty high again this month, but that is a slight overestimation because of the VP-issue I mentioned above.
  • Actifit is still doing good. Again I was able to exchange AFIT for Hive quite often.
  • Esteemapp now only upvotes based on ESTM tokens that are used to boost a post. I did that once, but will do it more often in the coming month.
  • Upvoteshares had a really good month once again. Especially when you take into account the rewards were probably even higher because of the SBI overestimation.

In the graph below, the Steem rewards per service over time are shown. You can see the "rest" category is still big this month. Nice to see more people upvoting my posts!

Conclusion and further thoughts

It's nice to see that the rewards I got on Hive are a lot higher than they were on Steem. It seems more "real" accounts are voting and less of the big accounts take up a huge part of the upvote/reward pool.

What do you think about the numbers? And do you have any recommendations for me? Let me know in the comments below!