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RE: Bid Bot Usage Report for 02/11/2018
It would be interesting to know how many percents of the total upvote volume in that period has been achieved by using the bots.
Do you have any figures about this?
Not off the top of my head. The bots shown in the chart above have a combined USD vote value of around $70k, so assuming their vote value is relatively constant day-to-day we could assume they're responsible for 7*70=$490k per week of votes. Steem.supply lists the USD value of the rewards fund as $2,900k which would make bots responsible for about 17% of all rewards dispersed on Steemit. Of course it's actually much more complex than that with reward shares and whale participation and a bunch of other things, but that seems like a reasonable ballpark figure.
One one hand this is not as much as I expected, on the other hand it is already a pretty big chunk of entire upvotes. I still have mixed feelings about using upvote-bots but it seems inevitable if you aim to be successful. I still consider myself as minnow. What is your position?