The exchanges have to power down their Hive Power. That's still a lot each week.

Yes, previous high was 233,237 votes :-)

Maybe this post is helpful. It's a bit technical.

Good point!

Yes, maintenance on Hive.vote.

I wrote my own piece of software to collect the data and draw the charts :-)

Yeah, congrats! :-D

Here are 2 Hive block explorers:

Thank you for letting me know. I hadn't noticed, because it loaded from the cache in my browser.

Very bullish news! I hope he understands the 'not your keys, not your coins' principle. If he only bought Bitcoin futures, he is not a true Bitcoin hodler.

Rule #1: Never short Bitcoin!

@mxchive was created on april 16. After the hard fork, so there was no airdrop on this account.

Could be, but @mxchive is used for both deposits and withdrawals. Besides, I can't find any transactions between @mxchive and another possible MXC wallet. I also searched for other accounts with 'mxc'

Orderbooks are here: There's much more HIVE on the sell side than there is HIVE in their wallet. It seems there is HIVE being sold that is actually not on the exchange.

I doubt the trading volume on MXC. Their Hive wallet is not very active. Only a few deposits/withdrawals a day. Link:

@binance-hot and @huobi-withdrawal are the two largest accounts powering down. Here is a list:

I made a chart of the number of accounts that voted at least once. It's almost exactly the same as the total accounts transacting. The only difference is that the numbers are a bit lower. Conclusion: Almost

That is a good question. Maybe many voting bots on Steem that only do a small number of votes per day? I'm going to find out tomorrow.

Hive Now is already online:

Binance uses 3 Hive wallets: @deepcrypto8, @binance-hot and @binance6.