EOS BP Global Distributed (We can do better)

by @controllinghand
7/25/2018

Looking at how the current Block Producers for EOS are distributed you can see a few major gaps.

Gap 1 Continent Africa
Gap 2 Continent Australia & Oceania

So how can we address this issue?

We have 2 options

Ask our current top 21 BP to place nodes in these areas. But, that doesn't really address the issue since the home office location wouldn't be on these continents.
Vote for BPs that are already located in these areas

Let's focus on option 2

Who are valid BP candidates that we should consider?
There are only 5 currently in these areas

EOS Nairobi *current rank 43
EOS Africa *current rank 38
GenerEOS *current rank 37
EOSphere *current rank 55
AlohaEOS *current rank 84

Before we just vote for these BPs lets do some validation

Here is a link to a list of validation tools I use
https://eosratings.com/bp-validation/

Let's Validate BP EOS Nairobi

Location

Validation Check 1

Validation Check 2

There are a few issues here but nothing that can't be fixed.
https://validate.eosnation.io/producers/eosnairobike.html

Lets Validate EOSAfrica

Location

Validation Check 1

Looks like the need to update the API SSL
Validation Check 2

There are a few issues here but nothing that can't be fixed.
https://validate.eosnation.io/producers/eosafricaone.html

Lets Validate GenerEOS

Location

Validation Check 1

Validation Check 2

There are a few issues here but nothing that can't be fixed.
https://validate.eosnation.io/producers/aus1genereos.html

Lets Validate EOSphere

Location

Validation Check 1

Validation Check 2

Lets Validate AlohaEOS

Location

Validation Check 1

Validation Check 2

Bonus Points

Please visit this site for more details
https://eosratings.com/vam/
GenerEOS has 4 Value Add Tools for the EOS Community
AlohaEOS has 3 Value Add Tools for the EOS Community

Summary

Based on these validation we all should be voting for these 5 BP. Here would be my order based on this data

AlohaEOS passes all validations and gets bonus points for being on the vam
EOSphere passes all validations
GenerEOS passed one validation and gets bonus points for being on the vam
EOSNairobi passes one validation
EOSAfrica

If you like this research but don't have the time to do the research and want to have someone proxy vote for you I maintain a proxy at truthseekers. Also, you might consider eoswatchdogs as I'm part of that team as well.