Dear Hivians,
I was interested if there was a correlation between the witness ranking position and the HP of the user running that witness. Grok did the analysis for me, based on two sources:
- https://hive.arcange.eu/witnesses/ for the witness ranking and
- https://hivebuzz.me/ranking for the HP value (I had to extract into an Excelsheet as Grok was not able to read the dynamic content😟)
Of note: I manually adjusted the HP values to reflect the actual user(s) behind them (as best as I could figure out) and removed inactive witnesses.
This was the outcome, calculating the Pearson correlation coefficient:
Scatter plot of witness rank vs. HP (as per Nov, 29th 2025)
This is a logarithmic scale of HP-values, so the differences look way smaller than they are!
I was surprised that the correlation is indeed that high. Well, I leave the interpretation up to you.
In any case, if you want to run a witness, having more HP definitely helps to climb the ranks.
Or is it the opposite? Does being a witness improve the HP over time? It does by definition (witness rewards), but witness rewards can be and are often sold over time as well, so the witness rewards can´t explain the huge differences (maybe with exception of some of the very early miners still in the top 20 witnesses).
What are your thoughts?
PS: I am not a Statistician, if you find a mistake, please let me know in the comments.
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Interesting, probably the top witnesses can accumulate more hive over time, because of the higher payouts for top witnesses?
This is mostly true for the top20, but the correlation goes beyond that. Also many witnesses are in permanent powerdown to pay the server costs. So overall I think the witness rewards are not the main driving factor.
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Hive Power is called power for a reason. It would be weird if top witnesses had just a little of it. The correlation does not surprise me :)
Aha. Denke es isz beides. Top Witnesse werden gewählt weil sie idR „skin in the game haben“ und akkumulieren durch ihre Tätigkeit dann noch mehr HP. Deshalb je höher der Rank desto mehr HP.
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