๐ BeeCounter Monthly Ledger: where every new HIVE went in October 2026
Bzzz! ๐๐งฎ BeeCounter here with the Monthly Ledger for October 2026: one report that follows every new HIVE from the moment the chain creates it to the wallet that receives it. ๐ฏ
Three parts: the flows (inflation, conversions, HBD), the 65% for content (who fed whom, the honey curve, beneficiaries, downvotes) and the chain's keepers (witnesses and DHF). Everything counts what was actually paid in the month, so the numbers add up. ๐ณ
๐งพ It all adds up: where every new HIVE went
In October Hive created about 3.41M HIVE of inflation. Here is where every drop ended up:
| Destination | HIVE | Share | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| โ๏ธ Post authors + curators + beneficiaries | 1,461,887 | 42.9% | posts paid out this month, analysed below |
| ๐ฌ Comments (authors + curators + beneficiaries) | 754,067 | 22.1% | everything paid to comments |
| ๐ HP stakers (est.) | 509,809 | 15.0% | added to the HP pool, for every HP holder |
| ๐๏ธ Witnesses | 339,873 | 10.0% | 87 block producers |
| ๐ฆ DHF treasury | 342,474 | 10.0% | paid as 17,616 HBD |
| Total inflation | 3,408,110 | 100% |
Outside the inflation, three more flows moved HIVE and HBD:
- ๐ HBD โ HIVE conversions created 8,171,665 HIVE (from 420,336 HBD).
- ๐ฅ The DHF burned 6,444,198 HIVE, turning it into 333,410 HBD.
- ๐ต HBD savings interest printed 48,828 HBD.
Inflation paid in HIVE/HP (3.07M) + conversions โ DHF burns = +4,793,103 HIVE. The HIVE supply actually changed by +4,744,132: the small gap (-48,972) is HIVE sent to null and fees. The books balance. โ
๐ Part 1 ยท The flows
๐ฏ The inflation pie
In October the chain created about 3.41M HIVE of inflation:
- 65% to content (2.22M HIVE): curators 1.11M, authors 711k, beneficiaries 398k.
- 15% to HP stakers (โ 510k HIVE, added to the HP pool for everyone who holds Hive Power).
- 10% to witnesses (340k HP for 889,274 blocks).
- 10% to the DHF, paid as 17,616 HBD.
Check: the content share, measured from the actual payouts, comes out at 65.0%, the protocol's 65%. The chain does what it promises. ๐
๐ The hidden mint: HBD conversions
The biggest source of new HIVE in October was not inflation:
- 1,315 HBD โ HIVE conversions turned 420,336 HBD into 8,171,665 new HIVE, about 2.7ร the HIVE paid by inflation.
- On the other side, the DHF burned 6,444,198 HIVE, converting it into 333,410 HBD.
- Net result: the HIVE supply grew by +4,744,132 HIVE (+0.81% in one month).
๐ต HBD: printed, burned, saved
- HBD savings interest (10% APR) created 48,828 HBD for 1,437 accounts. The top saver, lazy-panda, received 21,869 HBD (45% of all interest).
- Authors received 0 HBD this month: all author rewards were paid in HIVE and HP.
- The HBD supply changed by -20,478 HBD: what was printed and what was converted almost cancel out.
๐ฏ Part 2 ยท The 65% for content
๐ The 65%: the posts paid this month
| ๐ Posts paid out | 41,558 |
| โ๏ธ Different authors | 3,599 |
| ๐ณ๏ธ Upvotes | 5,854,228 |
| ๐ Different voters | 12,298 |
| ๐ฏ Paid to authors + curators | โ $72,491 |
| ๐ Paid to beneficiaries | โ $2,706 |
| โ๏ธ Median post | $0.51 |
| ๐ฅ Posts paid zero (< $0.02) | 11,338 (27%) |
| ๐ Downvotes | 9,399 on 4,413 posts |
๐ฏ How much did each post earn?
- 20,676 posts (50%) got less than $0.50.
- 949 posts went above $10, and 48 above $25.
- 11,338 posts (27%) were paid zero. Hive doesn't pay out dust (anything below โ 0.02 HBD rounds down to zero, because amounts have only 3 decimals), and posts that declined payout count as zero too. ๐
๐ณ The honey curve
- 219 authors (6%) received half of all the rewards.
- The bottom half of authors shared just 1.2%.
- The top 10% of authors took 64%.
๐ซ Who filled the jars?
- The top 10 voters gave 36% of all rewards, the top 50 gave 57%.
- appreciator was the biggest honey-giver: โ $9,156 across 368 authors.
- Busiest wings (most different authors voted): joeyarnoldvn (2,093), we-are-ai (1,397), hive-103505 (1,395), sorin.cristescu (1,377). ๐ผ
โฑ๏ธ 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. ๐
- For a typical post earning at least $1, 99.5% of its final upvote power was already there after 24 hours.
- Still, โ $7,967 of rewards arrived after day one.
๐ Late pollinators: the curators who vote after day one (idea by antisocialist)
Curation rewards are split by voting time: votes in the first 24 hours earn the full curation share, on days 2โ3 half, and from day 4 until the last 12 hours only an eighth; in the last 12 hours a vote can no longer raise the payout. The curation a late voter gives up goes back to the reward pool, while their vote still raises the post's payout for the author and for everyone who voted before. In short, late voters do a favor to the author and to every earlier curator. Here are the ones who gave the most honey after day one:
| Voter | โ $ given after 24h | Share of their votes after 24h |
|---|---|---|
| honey-swap | 1,416.51 | 41% |
| blocktrades | 278.29 | 60% |
| xeldal | 265.67 | 90% |
| enki | 178.15 | 91% |
| captainquack22 | 173.57 | 77% |
| ranchorelaxo | 172.07 | 11% |
| ocdb | 171.70 | 5% |
| balte | 168.79 | 64% |
| curangel | 146.62 | 7% |
| yabapmatt | 120.57 | 24% |
๐ธ Late bloomers: poor after 24 hours, well paid in the end
๐ Shrunk before payout: worth more after 24 hours than what was finally paid (downvotes or removed votes)
| Post | Author | โ $ after 24h | $ paid | Downvotes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ๐ธ La Belleza Resiliente de la Vinca: Colores que Alegran el Jardรญn // | gabyjc | 4.12 | 0.00 | 2 |
| ยฟNos movemos o recortamos? Bitcoin en $85.802 con el Fear clavado en 6 | kryptonita | 4.10 | 0.00 | 4 |
| Hive Power Up Day - October 1st 2026 | hivebuzz | 3.64 | 0.00 | 3 |
| (TV) TOM AND JERRY MY FAVOURITE CHILD HOOD ANIMATION | betheloji12 | 3.39 | 0.00 | 17 |
| 2693 dzieล KBK na Biskupiej (PL/ENG) | fundacja | 2.34 | 0.00 | 0 |
๐ธ๏ธ Who votes whom
The strongest single link was ocdb โ scrobble (โ $216.54). The most balanced two-way pair was revisesociology โ tarazkp (โ $19.31 one way, $37.89 the other). ๐ฏ
๐ Top posts
Biggest jars ๐ฏ
Crowd favorites ๐ (most voters)
๐ธ For the rest of us
Posts by authors outside the top 25% of earners, ranked by how many people voted:
Lots of love, little honey: go give them a visit! ๐๐
๐ Beneficiaries
14,075 posts (34%) shared their reward with 844 accounts, for โ $2,706.02 in total.
| Beneficiary | โ $ received | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| reward.app | 560.68 | 587 |
| commentrewarder | 410.02 | 597 |
| null ๐ฅ | 207.12 | 1,664 |
| scrobble | 141.35 | 1,030 |
| threespeakfund | 102.82 | 1,467 |
| cutehive.com | 77.19 | 15 |
| leofinance | 70.12 | 2,394 |
| liketu | 64.29 | 1,479 |
| actifit.pay | 58.64 | 3,432 |
| hive-105017 | 53.33 | 464 |
๐ Who uses reward.app the most? It is a service that pays post rewards out as liquid tokens right away, for a fee. In this period 49 authors set it as beneficiary on 587 posts, sending it โ $560.68. The top 10:
| Author | Posts | Avg. share | โ $ to reward.app |
|---|---|---|---|
| scrobble | 75 | 100% | 235.73 |
| flemingfarm | 31 | 100% | 95.14 |
| hivefpl | 3 | 95% | 24.40 |
| cieliss | 4 | 100% | 19.72 |
| vgalue | 23 | 100% | 18.56 |
| raj808 | 16 | 100% | 16.56 |
| lenonmc21 | 4 | 100% | 15.76 |
| prayzz | 9 | 100% | 13.02 |
| cocacolaron | 33 | 98% | 11.50 |
| justiceisalive | 8 | 100% | 10.54 |
๐ Downvotes
Downvotes are part of how Hive works. Just the numbers, no judgment:
- 9,399 downvotes from 224 accounts hit 4,413 posts and removed an estimated โ $572.35.
- 1,633 posts that had upvotes ended at zero.
| Downvoter | Downvotes | โ $ removed | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|
| alpha | 1,592 | 344.81 | 156 |
| themarkymark | 64 | 45.09 | 32 |
| rozioo | 47 | 28.87 | 1 |
| livinguktaiwan | 57 | 22.05 | 11 |
| solominer | 70 | 15.61 | 1 |
| erikah | 147 | 15.43 | 28 |
| davideownzall | 95 | 15.03 | 7 |
| azircon | 8 | 14.76 | 2 |
| buildawhale | 64 | 12.26 | 42 |
| smooth | 11 | 8.78 | 10 |
Most hit: percent-map (331 downvotes, โ $39.33), stef1234 (48 downvotes, โ $28.96), askrafiki (66 downvotes, โ $28.27).
๐๏ธ Communities
The communities that took home the most: Splinterlands (1,401 posts, โ $5,421), HIVE CN ไธญๆ็คพๅบ (724 posts, โ $4,246), Worldmappin (475 posts, โ $4,099), Scrobble.life (1,019 posts, โ $2,601). ๐
๐๏ธ Part 3 ยท The keepers
๐๏ธ Witnesses
- 87 witnesses produced 889,274 blocks and earned 339,873 HP.
- The top 20 earned 80% of it, about 13,808 HP each. The backup witnesses shared the rest.
- 3,526 blocks were missed. Most missed: anyx (719), vsc.network (691), threespeak (435), town-hall (352), patrice (233).
๐ฆ The DHF: money in, money out
- In: 17,616 HBD from inflation, plus 333,410 HBD from converting HIVE.
- Out: 409,896 HBD paid to 5 funded proposals. hbdstabilizer alone received 372,000 HBD (91%); it trades on the market to keep HBD near $1 and sends HIVE back to the fund.
- 6,789,024 HBD of daily budget went to the return proposal (steem.dao): it stays in the treasury, it is not spent.
- Other proposals paid: keychain (16,740 HBD), hdev.fund (12,865 HBD), worldmappin (5,192 HBD), ecency (3,100 HBD).
๐ฌ How this bee counts
- Flows: all operations of October 2026 (blocks 110,378,339โ111,267,613).
- Content: all top-level posts paid out in October (created September 24 โ October 24, paid 7 days later), with all their votes. Comments are counted only in the totals.
- Source: the public HAFSQL database by mahdiyari. HIVE/USD at the month's average conversion price (โ $0.0514).
- Checked against the blockchain: 150 random blocks of the month and the top 10 posts were re-read straight from Hive nodes and compared with the database. Result: HAFSQL matches the blockchain on every sample โ (verify.py).
- HP stakers has no operation of its own: estimated as 1.5ร the witness rewards (15% vs 10%). "$ given", "โ $ after 24h" and "$ removed" are estimates based on rshares.
- Accounts of The Hive Tree are left out of the rankings.
Disclaimer. This report is generated automatically by a bot, from code written with AI (Claude) and reviewed by a human (Ant, hive3), who also reads the draft before it goes out. The numbers come from public blockchain data and are cross-checked against the chain itself, but some figures (HP stakers, "$ given", "$ removed", exchange labels) are estimates, and a bee can still miscount. It is not financial advice, and it is not an accusation against anyone: naming an account only means describing what the chain shows. If you spot an error, tell me in the comments and I'll correct it. Ant ๐
This bee is a ๐ค bot, built with love ๐ by hive3 for every bee in the Hive ๐๐ผ๐ฏ. It never votes and never comments: it only counts, so the whole hive can see where the honey flows. Ideas and corrections are welcome in the comments, a human reads them: hive3. ๐ณ
๐งฉ Open source & AI-generated: every script that builds this report is public on GitHub (MIT license), written with an AI (Claude) and reviewed by a human. Anyone can check the numbers, run it, fork it or keep it alive. ๐
๐ฅ 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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