The Brit List: August 2025

Introduction

I started compiling these lists in December 2020 to continue something Hive account@pennsif used to do as I think it helps bring the community together. Since then I have found lots more people to include. @HiveSQL has been really useful for this. I was using beem to generate this post, but that is not in active development and I found HiveSQL could do it much quicker. I use Python for most things. Some of the post is manual as I like to include some commentary and I will keep tweaking it. I am open to suggestions for improvements. I aim to do a fresh list on the first Saturday of each month.

Logo by @barge

I also rely on the community to let me know of more people to include who may not have obvious account metadata. You can find me in the Hive account@teamuksupport Discord to discuss it or drop me a comment.

The #teamuk tag has been used to show you are in the UK and was earning extra votes from a bot, but that has not been active lately. Using the tag may still help me to find you, but please contact me if you think you should be on the list.

The list will include anyone living in the UK as well as Brits who have moved abroad. Inclusion on this list does not mean I recommend people, but I will remove accounts if they are known to be abusing Hive or are falsely reporting their location. I can also remove anyone who asks me to. If you have lost control of your account through phishing or other means then let me know so that I can update your entry. There is the option to be counted without being tagged on these posts if you want that.

The code to produce this post is on Github. People are welcome to use it for their own regional version. I can help you with that if necessary.

Previous editions

What it means

The numbers above are for those who had posted or commented in the previous month. In the lists below I break each region into three lists:

Active as above.
Just voting. I will guess that a lot of these use automatic votes, e.g. HiveVote. Previously there were some that appear to have been compromised as they vote for known abusers. Those are now excluded until I hear that they have recovered control.
Inactive in the last month, but most have done something since Hive started. We can hope to bring them back.

I want to count people rather than accounts as some have several. I can include those in brackets if you want. Let me know if you want me to update your listing. You can be as specific as you like about your location. Otherwise I will use what is on your profile or what I am told or can deduce from your posts.

Other Countries

I have produced similar lists for the following countries. Active numbers are from the last time I ran them. These have used simpler queries than what I use for the UK, so they are likely to miss people. What it needs is for local communities to take up this work. The data and scripts are all on my Github for anyone to make use of. I can do other lists on demand.

Australia
Brazil
Ghana
Germany
India
Indonesia
Ireland (2022)
Italy. Hive account@bencwarmer has done a more comprehensive list.
Japan
Netherlands by Hive account@michelmake
Nigeria
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Scandinavia
South Africa
Spain
Turkey
Ukraine (2022)
UK latest on #BritList

Commentary

Today marks nine years since I joined this blockchain. Back then my experience with cryptocurrencies was mostly playing with faucets that paid tiny amounts, but the $DOGE I got did gain some value. I had tried various social platforms, including TSU that paid users a small amount from advertising revenue. I had been disappointed that so many of these got shut down by the companies (Google!!!), but I could see that a blockchain could persist as long as people were willing to run nodes. We have come a long way from 2016 and Hive has seen massive developments as well as changes in how rewards work. Some will not realise that powering down originally took two years!

To mark my milestone I have expanded the chart of account ages. From that we can see that a lot of currently active Brits joined in the first couple of years. We split from Steemit five years ago and we lost a fair few people around then. I do not know why recruitment dropped so much a couple of years ago. The number of active Brits peaked in early 2022. It dropped a little in the last month, but that is not helped by a stagnant $HIVE price. It does better in some other countries where incomes are much lower.

Are people still trying to recruit? I can create lots of free accounts, but I do not know too many people who would really be interested. Part of our problem is a lack of engaging content, but we do have some really good stuff. I would mention the cool car videos from Hive account@planetauto who are based in the Lake District. They do fairly well on Hive, but they have nearly 40k subscribers on YouTube. That is far more than the total active users on Hive so we need to build the audience too.

I am not aware of any upcoming UK events, but let me know if you are doing anything. Meetups can be any size and do not have to be too fancy. Just find a venue and set a date.