Are Top 20 Witnesses Voting Each Other? Introducing Witness-voti

  • 时间：2020-09-09 13:08:38
  • 分类：网络文摘
  • 阅读：132 次

Let’s introduce a concept i.e. witness-voting factor that represent the average witness voting each other in the TOP 20. The maximum value is 20, and the minimal is 0.

If the witness-voting factor is 20, it means that all top 20 witnesses are voting each other. This is not healthy as the gap (of votes) between TOP 20 and the rest will be always increasing. Also, since witnesses are voting each other, it is kinda controlled by a group of people who share the same interests – this is centralisation admit it or not.

SteemJs code to compute the witness-voting factor
The idea is to retrieve the list of the votes of the TOP 20, and group them, count the frequency and sort them. Compute the average. The witness-voting factor for Top 20 on STEEM blockchain is 4.5, compared to 12.65 on HIVE.

Run the following in SteemJs Editor.

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88

function getTotalWitnesses() {
    return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
      steem.api.getWitnessCount(function(err, result) {
          if (!err) {
              resolve(result);
          } else {
              reject(err);
          }
      });
    });
}
 
function getAllWitnessAccounts(total) {
    return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
          steem.api.getWitnesses([...Array(total).keys()], function(err, result) {
            if (!err) {
                resolve(result);
            } else {
                reject(err);
           }
        });
    });
}   
 
function getAccounts(accounts) {
    return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
          steem.api.getAccounts(accounts, function(err, result) {
            if (!err) {
                resolve(result);
            } else {
                reject(err);
           }
        });
    });
}   
 
(async function () {
    const totalWitnesses = await getTotalWitnesses();
    let data = await getAllWitnessAccounts(totalWitnesses);
    data = data.filter(x => {
        // reduce the noise
        return (x.votes > 0) && (x.running_version === "0.23.1");
    });
    // sort by votes
    data.sort((a, b) => {
        return b.votes - a.votes;
    });
    // only count TOP 20 witnesses
    data = data.slice(0, 20);
    let top = [];
    data.map((x) => {
        top.push(x.owner);
    });
    const accountData = await getAccounts(top);
    let votes = {};
    data.map((x) => {
        const account = accountData.filter(v => {
            return v.name === x.owner
        });
        // count the vote frequency for each witness
        for (let w of account[0].witness_votes) {
            if (typeof votes[w] === "undefined") {
                votes[w] = 1;
            } else {
                votes[w] ++;
            }
        }
    });    
    
    var items = Object.keys(votes).map(function(key) {
      return [key, votes[key]];
    });
    
    items.sort(function(first, second) {
      return second[1] - first[1];
    });
    
    let x = 0, cnt = 0;
    for (let w of items) {
        // TOP 20 witnesses only
        if (top.includes(w[0])) {
            log(w[0] + ", " + w[1]);
            x += w[1];
            cnt ++;
        }
    }
    log(x/cnt);
})();
function getTotalWitnesses() {
    return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
      steem.api.getWitnessCount(function(err, result) {
          if (!err) {
              resolve(result);
          } else {
              reject(err);
          }
      });
    });
}

function getAllWitnessAccounts(total) {
    return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
          steem.api.getWitnesses([...Array(total).keys()], function(err, result) {
            if (!err) {
                resolve(result);
            } else {
                reject(err);
           }
        });
    });
}   

function getAccounts(accounts) {
    return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
          steem.api.getAccounts(accounts, function(err, result) {
            if (!err) {
                resolve(result);
            } else {
                reject(err);
           }
        });
    });
}   

(async function () {
    const totalWitnesses = await getTotalWitnesses();
    let data = await getAllWitnessAccounts(totalWitnesses);
    data = data.filter(x => {
        // reduce the noise
        return (x.votes > 0) && (x.running_version === "0.23.1");
    });
    // sort by votes
    data.sort((a, b) => {
        return b.votes - a.votes;
    });
    // only count TOP 20 witnesses
    data = data.slice(0, 20);
    let top = [];
    data.map((x) => {
        top.push(x.owner);
    });
    const accountData = await getAccounts(top);
    let votes = {};
    data.map((x) => {
        const account = accountData.filter(v => {
            return v.name === x.owner
        });
        // count the vote frequency for each witness
        for (let w of account[0].witness_votes) {
            if (typeof votes[w] === "undefined") {
                votes[w] = 1;
            } else {
                votes[w] ++;
            }
        }
    });    
    
    var items = Object.keys(votes).map(function(key) {
      return [key, votes[key]];
    });
    
    items.sort(function(first, second) {
      return second[1] - first[1];
    });
    
    let x = 0, cnt = 0;
    for (let w of items) {
        // TOP 20 witnesses only
        if (top.includes(w[0])) {
            log(w[0] + ", " + w[1]);
            x += w[1];
            cnt ++;
        }
    }
    log(x/cnt);
})();

Here is the detail result:

future.witness, 7
justyy, 7
steem-agora, 7
steemchiller, 7
dev.supporters, 6
dlike, 6
maiyude, 6
steem-supporter, 6
symbionts, 6
steem-dragon, 4
scissor.sisters, 4
cryptoking777, 3
hivei0, 3
hoasen, 3
juddsmith079, 3
matreshka, 3
protoss20, 3
hinomaru-jp, 2
inwi, 2
rnt1, 2

–EOF (The Ultimate Computing & Technology Blog) —

推荐阅读：
三个学校共有多少人　 屏蔽后台无用模块 提升wordpress运行效率　 wordpress后台操作速度慢的原因及解决方法　 如何禁止非管理员收到wordpress更新通知　 Gravatar全球通用头像申请图文教程　 如何使用wordpress全屏可视化编辑器　 如何添加和删除wordpress用户角色　 如何使用 Velvet Blues Update URLs 插件更换wordpress站内链接　 Gravatar头像无法加载的三种解决方案　 为wordpress编辑器添加选择中文字体功能　
评论列表
添加评论