I've made some recent posts about determining where in the world our Hive users are. When looking at the Venezuelan community, I looked briefly into how much Hive, Hive Power etc. the community holds as a whole. Unsurprisingly, though they are the largest national community on the network, they collectively hold a relatively small portion of the stake.
If most Hive stake is not held by our largest demographic group, who exactly does hold it? In other words, how is Hive stake distributed across the world?
Tackling this question will take a somewhat different approach, because while Hive may have a relatively good distribution compared to crypto as a whole, a small number of accounts still hold the vast majority together. So instead of trying to look at the samples of known users, it's probably better to just look at the larger accounts and see which if any reveal their locations.
Setting a minimum of 1MV (548.135 Hive Power), there are 10,364 accounts which collectively hold 276117.8 MV, equal to 151,349,830.303 Hive Power. This represents 94.4% of all Hive Power, so pretty close to all of it.
Of those accounts, 5330 have set something for their location - although not necessarily something meaningful for this purpose. Those with location data set account for 50,031,249 Hive Power, or 31.2% of the total. It's still too many to organize into meaningful locations though, so increasing the threshold to 50MV reduces the number to 253 accounts representing 21.3% of all stake.
Among these, 140 accounts could be determined to have a meaningful location, with a combined stake of 11,094,374, representing now only 6.9% of overall stake.
In the end, here is the top 20 countries by stake, based on filtering down to that manageable dataset.
Here is the comparison of continents, with the same dataset above.
It came as a surprise to me that Europe is ahead of America in this chart. However it may not hold if the users who don't put their location in their profile are included. Some large accounts are not anonymous, they may not put their location in their profile but their home country is still publicly known. I don't plan to go to that level of depth, but it would be quite possible with publicly available data to have a fuller picture.
