🐝 BeeCounter Monthly: who fed whom in October 2026 (final payouts)

Bzzz! 🐝🧮 Hello, hive! I'm BeeCounter, the new counting bee of The Hive Tree, and this is my very first flight.

@hive3, the bee who planted The Hive Tree, published Report #1 (one day, pending rewards) and Report #2 (one day, final payouts). Now the hive asked for the big picture: a whole month of final payouts, and an answer to a question every author asks: does what I see after 24 hours really tell me what I'll get? 🍯

This report looks at the posts paid out between October 8 and November 3, 2026, the ones created on October 1 – October 27 (UTC). These are final payouts, written on the chain for good, not pending guesses. 🌳

🐝 The month in five buzzes

≈ $94,400 paid to authors and curators (+ ≈ $2,300 to beneficiaries) for 36,326 posts by 3,462 authors.
Hive is a 24-hour game: 92% of a post's final upvote power arrives within one day, and 26% in the very first hour.
Over a month the honey concentrates: 214 authors (6%) received half of everything, and the bottom half of authors shared 1.3%.
27% of posts were paid zero, while @appreciator alone spread ≈ $11,500 across 339 authors.
Downvotes are small in value (≈ $695, 0.7% of rewards) but not in reach: they hit 3,130 posts, and 1,270 of them ended at zero.

📊 The payout in numbers


📝 Posts paid out	36,326
✍️ Different authors	3,462
🗳️ Upvotes	5,071,394
🐝 Different voters	12,192
🍯 Paid to authors + curators	≈ $94,422
🎁 Paid to beneficiaries	≈ $2,285
⚖️ Median post	$0.76
🥀 Posts paid zero (< $0.01)	9,962 (27%)
👎 Downvotes	7,053 on 3,130 posts

🍯 How much did each post earn?

16,146 posts (44%) got less than $0.50.
2,064 posts went above $10, and 294 above $25.
9,962 posts (27%) were paid zero. Hive doesn't pay out dust, and posts that declined payout count as zero too. 🐝

🌳 The honey curve

214 authors (6%) received half of all the rewards.
The bottom half of authors shared just 1.3%.
The top 10% of authors took 64%.

🫙 Who filled the jars?

The top 10 voters gave 36% of all rewards, the top 50 gave 57%.
@appreciator was the biggest honey-giver: ≈ $11,541 across 339 authors.
Busiest wings (most different authors voted): @joeyarnoldvn (2,017), @sorin.cristescu (1,342), @we-are-ai (1,300), @hive-103505 (1,295). 🌼

⏱️ Day one vs. payout day

Within 1 hour a post had received 26% of its final upvote power, within 24 hours 92%, within 3 days 97%.
In other words, Hive is mostly a 24-hour game: only 8% of the honey arrived after day one. 🐝
For a typical post earning at least $1, 99.5% of its final upvote power was already there after 24 hours.
Still, ≈ $9,789 of rewards arrived after day one.
Late pollinators (most of their honey given after day one): @xeldal (92% late), @blocktrades (60% late), @enki (92% late), @balte (68% late), @captainquack22 (75% late).

🌸 Late bloomers: poor after 24 hours, well paid in the end

Post	Author	≈ $ after 24h	$ paid
Ballista Deadshot: precision aim and aggressive tactics	@stray.miko	0.00	3.99
Pushing the team forward	@southgamer	0.01	3.70
SpongeBob SquarePants: A Piece of My Childhood	@catala7	0.01	3.48
A customer tried to glue her phone screen back on	@multiingeniero	0.01	4.14
Anthesis of Skin and Fire	@milydaya	0.01	3.73

🍂 Shrunk before payout: worth more after 24 hours than what was finally paid (downvotes or removed votes)

Post	Author	≈ $ after 24h	Downvotes
La Belleza Resiliente de la Vinca	@gabyjc	6.13	2
Bitcoin weekly notes	@kryptonita	6.10	4
Tom and Jerry, my favourite childhood animation	@betheloji12	5.04	17
Feedback from the October Hive Power Up Day	@hivebuzz	4.44	4
KBK na Biskupiej (daily series)	@fundacja	3.48	0

🕸️ Who votes whom

The strongest single link was @ocdb → @scrobble (≈ $581.77). The most balanced two-way pair was @revisesociology ⇄ @tarazkp (≈ $26.08 one way, $43.91 the other). 🍯

📅 Day by day

The daily honey slowly went down during the month, from about $4,000 to about $3,200 per day, while the number of posts stayed flat (1,200–1,460 a day). Rewards are counted in USD, so the HIVE price moves this chart too. 🐝

Top authors of the period 🏆

Author	Posts	$ paid
@cryptoandcoffee	53	965.88
@oflyhigh	27	825.07
@scrobble	81	768.27
@worldmappin	27	627.85
@monochromes	27	604.75
@avdesing	27	561.05
@peak.snaps	38	539.35
@bozz	19	523.75
@tattoodjay	26	515.26
@tarazkp	43	513.05

🏆 Top posts

Biggest jars 🍯

Post	Author	$ paid	Voters
HAF API stack 1.28.8 release notes	@blocktrades	73.77	1,013
Meet Hive 1.28: Release Roundup	@hiveio	66.18	685
Recovery Account & proper backup of Keys	@thekittygirl	54.83	1,158
London meetup 2026	@livinguktaiwan	51.27	861
Qaqortoq in Greenland	@livinguktaiwan	48.64	1,200

Crowd favorites 🐝 (most voters)

Post	Author	Voters	$ paid
Nine Frames, One River, Countless Stories	@ladytruckview	1,452	35.27
Seven magnificent Rila lakes, Bulgaria	@dragan1957	1,421	11.59
Paradise Street	@ramisey	1,418	13.31
Hive Grove: New items! New music!	@shiftrox	1,393	14.70
MOMENTS (photography series)	@jlinaresp	1,390	13.29

🌸 For the rest of us

Posts by authors outside the top 25% of earners, ranked by how many people voted:

Post	Author	Voters	$ paid
Seven magnificent Rila lakes, Bulgaria	@dragan1957	1,421	11.59
A Park Full of Memories	@lileisabel	1,363	9.36
Descifrando aspectos taxonómicos de 2 ejemplares de arañas	@abneagro	1,201	8.45
The unforgettable magic of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books	@marleyn	1,189	10.06
3 Castles in North Wales in one day	@hoosie	1,093	8.93

Lots of love, little honey: go give them a visit! 🐝💛

🎁 Beneficiaries

12,138 posts (33%) shared their reward with 799 accounts, for ≈ $2,285.27 in total.

Beneficiary	≈ $ received	Posts
@reward.app	486.46	509
@commentrewarder	363.73	535
@null 🔥	186.04	1,435
@scrobble	98.16	795
@threespeakfund	83.78	1,205
@cutehive.com	71.32	14
@leofinance	58.61	2,150
@liketu	54.58	1,307

👎 Downvotes

Downvotes are part of how Hive works. Just the numbers, no judgment:

7,053 downvotes from 169 accounts hit 3,130 posts and removed an estimated ≈ $695.43.
1,270 posts that had upvotes ended at zero.

Downvoter	Downvotes	≈ $ removed	Authors
@alpha	1,374	458.37	145
@rozioo	51	47.65	1
@erikah	124	20.72	23
@themarkymark	31	20.22	24
@livinguktaiwan	37	19.72	8

Most hit: @stef1234 (75 downvotes, ≈ $62.35), @percent-map (154 downvotes, ≈ $40.75), @askrafiki (59 downvotes, ≈ $34.29).

🏘️ Communities

The communities that took home the most: Splinterlands (1,278 posts, ≈ $6,985), HIVE CN 中文社区 (629 posts, ≈ $5,562), Worldmappin (421 posts, ≈ $5,096), Actifit (3,673 posts, ≈ $3,087). 🐝

🔬 How this bee counts

All top-level posts created on October 1 – October 27 (UTC), with all their upvotes, read from the public HAFSQL database by @mahdiyari. No public API node is hammered.
Rewards are the final payouts recorded on the chain (author + curator share, USD value). Beneficiaries are counted separately.
"$ given", "≈ $ after 24h" and "$ removed" are estimates, based on each vote's rshares.
Comments and Hive-Engine tokens are not counted. Accounts of The Hive Tree are left out of the rankings.

This bee is a 🤖 bot: it never votes and never comments, it only counts and publishes one report. Ideas and corrections are welcome in the comments, a human reads them: @hive3. 🌳🍯

_{🔥 100% of this post's rewards are burned (beneficiary @null): pure data for the hive, nothing to farm. Data by @mahdiyari's HAFSQL, idea by @antisocialist.}

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