The Brit List: March 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

I have to report that the active user count fell slightly again last month. That may be down to the $HIVE price not improving, but it is at least well ahead of the 'legacy crapcoin' now. Even their 'stablecoin' has slumped. I have said many times that we should be prepared to accept some people from over there coming over here, but I know that some who either got on the wrong side of the fork or who have been caught abusing the platform will not be welcome.

I know that part of the problem is a lack of audience here, but then we need people to give Hive a chance to remedy that and they may find that there is a lack of the content they want to see. We should support those who put out content with general appeal, especially if it is of a 'professional' standard. I know of a few Brits doing that, but I will refrain from singling them out here. You may see some examples on my semi-regular #FollowFriday posts.

I am always interested to hear the opinions of others on why Hive is not growing and what we can do to build up the Brit community. I think we have been lacking in meetups in the last few years. Those can help build the community spirit.

There is an effort to get some Hiveans to the London Dev Expo in July. If you would be interested then please stop by the Brits Discord in the Team UK channel. It would be great to have some people there representing this blockchain.

Otherwise anyone can set up a meetup. It really does not have to be anything fancy. If you can find a venue (can be a cafe or pub) and name a date then something can happen. You can use this list to find out who is nearby. I will publicise events I hear about.