Who sells STEEM?

This post is purely informational in nature and is intended solely to satisfy my curiosity. No one is accusing anyone of anything here, and no names will be named here.

For several weeks now, I've been watching my friends struggle unsuccessfully to keep the platform clean. They find spammers and fraudsters, warn them, give them downvotes. The effect of this activity is limited, because the scale of spamming and fraud on the platform is impressive.

Why are my friends doing this? Because they believe in justice. They believe that rewards should go to those who put in the effort to create quality content, those who want to share something with their readers. In addition, milking the platform will sooner or later lead to its decline.

I don't help them much since I don't spend much time online these days. However, I believe that they are doing the right thing and it is desirable that more people are engaged in such activities. At the same time, I became interested in how large-scale withdrawals of money by fraudsters are. So I did a little research.

I chose a period of 5 days when the price of STEEM was high. This is from December 1 to 4, 2024. I analyzed all the transfers made during this period to exchange accounts and divided the users who made them into certain groups:

• bid bot user - people who receive profit thanks to the support of various bots;
• bot - accounts belonging to bots;
• drugwars - accounts that receive profit thanks to drugwars;
• inactive - users who have done Power Down and no longer show any activity;
• nice user - 🙂 users who write posts and support other authors;
• spammer - users who write low-quality posts, use AI, vote only for themselves, etc.;
• trading bot - the name speaks for itself;
• witness - here too.

So, let's see who was withdrawing STEEM on the exchanges between December 1 and 4, 2024:

These results are not representative and do not prove anything, but still give some information to think about.

I will not draw any conclusions, I will give you this opportunity. I will only say that 490 556.029 STEEM were withdrawn during the specified period.

And one more thing, if you single out symbionts from among the good users, the distribution will look like this:

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