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How Hive Power Is Spread Across the Network: A Look With HiveScan

Dima@dimante (59)4d

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Did you know that on Hive, the top 1% of accounts hold 95.7% of all the Hive Power? Or that just 25 accounts hold almost 42% of the entire chain between them?

Most people never get to see numbers like these. But you can, in a few seconds and for free, on HiveScan.

This is the next piece in my series about HiveScan, the Hive block explorer that turns the whole blockchain into clear, readable reports that anyone can use. Today I am looking at one report I find hard to look away from, HP Distribution, and it answers a question many of us quietly wonder about. How concentrated is Hive's wealth, really?

A quick reminder first. Hive Power (HP) is your stake. It is what gives your vote its weight and your account its influence. So looking at how HP is spread is really a way of seeing where the power on Hive sits. Let me show you what HiveScan reveals.

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Where to find it on HiveScan

On hivescan.info, HP Distribution comes ready on the Governance board, in the section called "Where the stake sits."

And if you want it on your own board, you can add it in seconds. Open the widget library (the add button on your dashboard), look for HP Distribution, and drop it wherever you like. That is the whole point of HiveScan, you keep the reports that matter to you in one place.

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What this report shows

At the time I looked, HiveScan counted 1,189,014 accounts on Hive. HP Distribution sorts all of them into brackets by how much HP they hold, and lets you read it three ways with one toggle:

  • % Accounts, how many accounts fall into each bracket
  • % HP, how much of all the Hive Power each bracket actually controls
  • Lorenz, the inequality curve

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The three numbers at the top, explained

HiveScan shows three quick figures above the chart. Here is what each one means.

  • Gini: 0.99. This is a single score for inequality. 0 would mean everyone holds exactly the same, and 1 would mean one account holds everything. At 0.99, Hive's stake is about as concentrated as it can get.
  • Top 1%: 95.7%. The top 1% of accounts hold 95.7% of all the Hive Power.
  • Top 10%: 99.3%. Widen it to the top 10% and you reach 99.3%. Which means everyone else, the other 90% of accounts, shares what is left.

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Reading the brackets

This is where it really comes alive, because the two views tell opposite sides of the same story.

In the % Accounts view:

  • 73.14% of all accounts hold 0-1 HP
  • 13.85% hold 1-10 HP
  • 10.43% hold 10-100 HP

So nearly 97 out of every 100 accounts are small.

Now flip to the % HP view and look at the big end:

  • The 1M+ HP bracket holds 41.83% of all Hive Power, and that is just 25 accounts, about 90.8M HP between them
  • 100K-1M HP holds another 27.09%
  • 10K-100K HP holds 17.10%

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So the smallest brackets are almost everyone but hold almost nothing, and a tiny handful of accounts hold most of the chain. HiveScan lets you see that flip in two clicks.

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Hover over any bar for the real numbers

HiveScan does not stop at percentages. Hover your mouse over any bar and it tells you exactly what sits behind it, the real account count, the total HP held, and both shares at once.

A couple that stopped me:

  • Hover the 0-1 HP bar and you see 869,699 accounts hold under 1 HP, and together that whole group is just 0.17% of all Hive Power, about 371.1K HP.
  • Hover the 10-100 HP bar and it is 124,026 accounts, holding 1.85% of all HP, around 4M HP between them. Seeing the actual counts, not just the bars, is what made the scale of it click for me.

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The Lorenz view

The Lorenz view draws it as a curve. The straight diagonal is perfect equality. The real line stays almost flat along the bottom and then shoots straight up at the very end. The further it bows away from the diagonal, the more concentrated things are, and on Hive it bows about as hard as a curve can.

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And where do you fit? The "You" badge

Here is the part I like most. When you are logged in, HiveScan marks a small "You" badge right on your own bracket.

I sit at 101.27 HP, which lands me in the 100-1K HP bracket. That bracket is only 1.92% of all accounts, and it holds 3.30% of all the HP. It is honestly a little humbling to see exactly where I stand on the whole map, and you can see yours the moment you log in.

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Click a bar to meet the accounts

You are not stuck with just the chart. On HiveScan, click any bar and it opens the Top Holders list, already filtered to that exact HP bracket. So if you are curious who sits at the very top, you are one click away from the names. When I looked, the top of the list was blocktrades, freedom, and alpha.

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Why I think this matters

Every community talks about fairness and distribution, but it is rare to actually see it laid out this clearly. HiveScan turns a vague feeling into a picture you can read in seconds, and it lets you check it yourself instead of taking anyone's word for it.

Go and open HP Distribution on hivescan.info. Were you surprised by how concentrated it is? And which bracket did you land in? Tell me in the comments, I would genuinely love to see where everyone sits.

Comments · 1

  • @miosha(68)· 3d

    There are over 2.6M accounts on Hive, so which ones were excluded?

    I don't think the comparison is fair. In real world rich people hold assets that appreciate in fiat value, they borrow against those assets to avoid taxation on gains and they benefit from inflation. Here accounts that are considered wealthy hold the asset that is direct subject of inflation and price fluctuations (historically a sharp drop). In other words it is not like 25 accounts control half of Hive, more like 25 accounts pay half of all the bills (not even counting the bills paid outside of Hive).