The cut that never reaches the author

in #hive • 2 days ago

Not every HBD in a payout reaches the person who wrote the post. Some of it is assigned away before it ever lands.

Part four of a series. Part one has the totals, part two the creators, part three the curators.

A post or a comment can name accounts that take a percentage of the author's half. Front ends set it by default, communities ask for it, curation projects earn it and some posts burn it outright. Each one of those is a comment_benefactor_reward operation. This is every one of them from the first Hive block on 20 March 2020 through 15 August 2026.

6,240,352 HBD was assigned away, which is 12.9% of everything the chain paid for content. It comes out of the author's half, so a post with a 10% beneficiary pays its author 10% less and pays its curators exactly the same.

One account is most of the number

4,346,461 HBD of that, 69.7% of it, went to @hbdstabilizer. It does not come from ordinary posts. @hbd.funder publishes short comments that say "the rewards for this comment are set to 100% beneficiary going to the @hbdstabilizer account", large stakeholders vote them and the payout lands at the stabilizer. 1,893,891 HBD is what everything else split between them, which is 3.9% of all content payouts.

Who takes it

#AccountWho or whatHBDPaymentsFirstLast
1@hbdstabilizerHBD stabilizer, a market operation4,346,46121,2942021-02-282026-08-15
2@nullburned351,72441,9792020-03-202026-08-15
3@reward.app281,020144,5992020-07-152026-08-15
4@spk.beneficiary3Speak131,344192,0592021-05-142026-05-07
5@nomnomnomnom48,44963,9662023-03-022026-08-14
6@ybanezkim26Kim Ybañez27,3944,6672020-05-142025-10-12
7@commentrewarderCommentRewarder25,65120,9552024-09-292026-08-15
8@taskmaster4450lepersonal account24,7392,3162020-04-112026-03-25
9@distriator.beneDistriator Beneficiary22,95415,2632024-07-032026-07-14
10@ph-fundProject #hope fund20,8269,7662020-03-202024-12-19
11@poshtokenPOSH Token18,2706,4712021-07-252026-08-12
12@castleberryCastleberry Crunch17,1421,1092020-10-062026-06-10
13@actifit.payActifit16,789426,2512020-03-202026-08-15
14@macchiataMac16,1134,4582020-03-262026-08-07
15@hive.fundthe DHF treasury16,0807,3792020-10-222026-08-15
16@dtubeDTube15,12060,8242020-03-202026-06-16
17@threespeakwallet3Speak Treasury Account14,71341,5162020-03-202026-02-26
18@hiveonboardHIVE Onboard14,183312,6042020-05-202026-08-15
19@liketuLiketu13,741209,9122021-12-262026-08-15
20@leofinanceINLEO12,87591,2882020-09-072026-08-15
21@edictededicted12,7235512020-03-212026-08-09
22@likwidLikwid12,7034,2432020-03-202021-05-12
23@peakdPeakD12,06884,7002020-03-272026-08-15
24@lmacLMAC11,27216,4372020-04-262026-08-14
25@traciyorkTraci York9,9158392020-03-212024-02-09
26@sps.daoSplinterlands DAO9,2437582022-11-112026-01-11
27@gleceriobertoGB8,9879312021-03-312024-03-16
28@anggreklestariAnggrek Lestari8,9747,3402020-04-272026-08-15
29@elizabeths14Elizabeth8,0301,8222020-09-292026-08-07
30@ua-promoter7,48228,1482020-08-242026-08-15
31@thegailleryGail Abad7,2285142021-04-242024-02-15
32@zing.fundZing Fund6,6819,8122024-02-092026-08-15
33@tiputipU6,360153,5222020-06-212026-08-15
34@pusen6,3167812021-03-142025-04-01
35@indayclara6,2621,4052021-05-092025-10-11
36@jcrodriguezJC Rodriguez6,0731,3262020-05-212026-08-12
37@threespeakleader3Speak5,86994,8112022-04-062025-04-02
38@ecoinstatsINCOME Synergy Facilitation5,8461,3942020-03-262026-07-26
39@lmac-operationsLMAC contest5,8351342021-09-152022-10-25
40@millycf1976Milly5,7992,2372020-08-072026-08-14

Where the posts themselves were published

The beneficiary cut is the small number. The big one is what a community's own posts earned for the people who wrote them. Matching every paid post to the category it was published in covers 99.3% of all author rewards. The leftover is mostly comments, which have no community of their own.

15,904,635 HBD of author rewards came from posts inside communities. 1,952,508 HBD came from posts published under a plain tag with no community at all.

#CommunityAccountTo authorsTo curatorsPosts paid
1LeoFinancehive-1679221,329,7961,413,139291,095
2GEMShive-148441804,319811,057219,208
3Worldmappinhive-163772698,894707,45162,934
4HIVE CN 中文社区hive-105017665,814670,626105,624
5Foodies Bee Hivehive-120586510,389519,57486,157
6Splinterlandshive-13323473,569510,509115,214
7Photography Lovershive-194913469,405481,456102,980
8Hive Gaminghive-140217402,741454,74279,579
9Actifithive-193552327,659346,852464,033
10Liketuhive-147010258,240262,04891,908
11Black And Whitehive-142159236,489234,56958,539
12Alien Art Hivehive-158694209,738227,58742,414
13OCDhive-174578198,917226,50356,114
14Olio di Balenahive-146620195,311199,13441,819
15Hive Learnershive-153850189,865199,21263,161
16Movies & TV Showshive-166847186,907203,23141,072
17MakeUp Powerhive-103678185,339186,40724,969
18Full Deporteshive-189157184,290198,07228,082
19Musichive-193816179,195197,30035,728
20Sketchbookhive-174301169,459170,69263,961
21Hive Open Michive-105786167,681189,62125,330
22DTubehive-196037155,390166,85266,608
23OnChainArthive-156509149,812148,42235,113
24ASEAN HIVE COMMUNITYhive-141359147,802159,87533,140
25Hive Diyhive-130560146,172149,30724,400

Built from Hive chain data on 16 August 2026 · blocks 41,818,753 to 109,070,000 · figures in HBD at payout time

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