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Hi Blurtians,

In this post, we'll be taking a closer look at the Blurt blockchain data for the month of January 2023, compared to the months of December and November 2022, following the success of the previous similar analysis.

We'll start by looking at the big picture and exploring the general trends of the Blurt blockchain, something that I omitted in the last post on this topic.

Each month, the witnesses of the Blurt blockchain - the block producers - are responsible for creating 864,000 blocks. The witnesses are elected by the community through voting so you can show your support by casting your vote at https://beblurt.com/witnesses to give a better ranking to your favorite witness(es) ;)

In January, the witnesses' blocks recorded 281,238 transactions and 299,164 operations (with one transaction potentially containing multiple operations), as well as 5,212,443 virtual operations.

Virtual operations refer to operations generated by the blockchain itself, such as the distribution of rewards, the release of BLURT after a Power Down, the funding of DAO proposals, and so on.

I think we will find the answer to the contradiction between the increase in operations and the decrease in virtual operations by continuing our analysis.

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Posts & Replies

Let's get to the heart of the matter! Were there more or less posts this January 2023? Was there more or less engagement through comments?

In January 2023, we recorded 14,563 posts, a small increase from the numbers in December and November. Although this number is still below the 16,468 posts recorded in October, it's worth noting that a change in the functioning mode of the @blurtbooster account was expected to result in a sharp decrease. The fact that this didn't happen is a positive sign for the future!

It is pleasing to also see a rising engagement rate through comments with 14,389 comments, a thousand better than in December and a hundred more than in November. Once again, however, we remain below October and its 18,066 comments.

The low engagement rate in commenting on posts remains a major weakness of Blurt, both in terms of readers and some authors who do not even respond to the comments they receive.

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Authors

What about the number of unique authors on the Blurt blockchain? As the graph shows, the number has risen to 909, which is 48 more than last month and almost equivalent to November's 905. To recall, it was 1012 in October.

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Authors Rewards

Regarding the authors' rewards, there is a decrease of about 70,000 BLURT compared to the previous month.

This month's Top 5 authors (in rewards) are:

• 26,799.527 BLURT : [@]offgridlife with 404 posts & replies
• 20,759.225 BLURT : [@]hangin with 135 posts & replies
• 17,787.245 BLURT : [@]drutter with 160 posts & replies
• 16,661.814 BLURT : [@]andrianna with 68 posts & replies
• 14,446.374 BLURT : [@]cleanenergygarro with 259 posts & replies

[@]drutter gains 2 places while [@]cleanenergygarro enters the ranking.

For the results of the previous months you can consult them in the post: The data of the Blurt Blockchain | Part 2

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Curators Rewards

Regarding curation, we observe the same decrease in proportions as for authors, which is logical being related.

(New) This month's Top 5 curators (in rewards) are:

• 287,015.816 BLURT : [@]blurtbooster with 3904 upvotes
• 163,348.368 BLURT : [@]upvu with 1841 upvotes
• 128,056.998 BLURT : [@]ctime with 9282 upvotes
• 43,521.802 BLURT : [@]mmmmkkkk311 with 803 upvotes
• 24,957.198 BLURT : [@]saboin with 619 upvotes

[@]mariuszkarowski sticking [@]saboin with 500 BLURT difference.

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Beneficiaries Rewards

This graph shows an increase for Blurtribe but also for the amount of BLURT from the reward that is burned (sent to @null account).

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Frontends / dApps

Regarding frontends, Blurt, Actifit, and Dtube have no significant variation, Blurtlatam shows a nice improvement from 923 posts in November to 1358 posts this month and BeBlurt makes its debut. More info on the evolution of BeBlurt in January can be found in this post: The progress of BEBLURT application.

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New Accounts

As for the number of new accounts created on the Blurt blockchain, it continues its progression even compared to October when there were 74. For the month of January 114 new accounts have been created.

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Power Up / Down

While the amount of Power Down remains constant at 3,000,000 BLURT the amount of Powers Up has significantly decreased to 1,859,724 BLURT in January. Please note that the amount taken into consideration for the Power Down is the amount really received (virtual operation "fill_vesting_withdraw") and not the amount requested when asking to Power Down.

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Transfer from & to Exchanges

This month was marked by a strong imbalance between transfers from exchanges to Blurt accounts and vice versa on Hive-Engine with a negative Delta of 2,000,000 BLURT.

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Last word

This is finally the end of this post for which I would have spent way too much time, I'll let you draw your own conclusions.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask in the comments ;)

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Have fun on Blurt & BeBlurt
@nalexadre Witness (Blocks producer) on Blurt

_{dApp: https://beblurt.com}

_{Witnesses: https://beblurt.com/witnesses}

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_{Original background photo of this post by Choong Deng Xiang on Unsplash}