Top Hive Earners in 2023 | A Yearly Report | Authors, Curators, Witnesses, DAO, HBD Interest

Happy new year Hivers! 2023 is behind us and it’s time to take a look at the top earners for the year. Unlike the other reports that are monthly this one will be a yearly one summarizing the whole year.
Hive has multiple methods to distribute inflation that helps its token distribution and stay decentralized. With the addition of the HBD savings interest there is now a total of six ways the inflation on Hive is distributed: authors, curators, staking, witness, DHF and HBD interest.

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Here we will be looking at the overall inflation distribution for HIVE, looking at the following

• Authors rewards
• Curators rewards
• Witnesses rewards
• DHF/DAO rewards
• HBD interest
• Cumulative rewards

Top Authors

Here is the chart for the top 20 Hive authors that earned the most in the month.

Note: These are not totally accurate numbers because there is a conversion on VESTS to HIVE, for simplification. Also some of the top beneficiaries like the hbdstabilizator, reward.app and 3Speak are excluded.

I have made a breakdown in the author and beneficiary rewards.
Author rewards are one of the most know in the blockchain as a lot of users are attract for them.

@oflyhigh is the top earning Hive author for 2023 with more than 30k HIVE equivalent earned in 2023. @erikah is on the second spot with close to 30k, followed by @tarazkp.

on the top followed by @erikah and @tarazkp.

There are around 18k accounts that have received at least one HIVE as reward in 2023. The median payout is 30 HIVE, while the average is 350.

Top Curators

Here is the chart for the top 20 Hive curators that earned the most in the month.

@appreciator is on the top here, close to 1M HIVE, followed by @ocdb with 700k and then @alpha with close to 650k.

The accounts above are the biggest curators on the Hive blockchain. Hope they will do a great job in curating and making this place grow.

Top Witnesses

The top witnesses’ earnings charts look like this.

I have included more than 20 accounts in this chart to show the drop in earnings after the 20th spot.

The top 20 are earning the same amount of HIVE (HP), around 133k HP per year.

There seems to be a healthy competition among witness now, especially around the 20th spot.

The DHF/DAO Payouts

Accounts that received funding from the DHF/DAO in the period.

DHF workers are paid in HBD, and the numbers above are in HBD.

A total of 26 accounts received funding in 2023.

The @valueplan account is on the top here with 1M HBD received in 2023. Its supports multiple projects and activities. Next is @peak.open with 235k and @keychain with 190k HBD. A few more accounts with more than 100k HBD earned in 2023 from the DHF. A total of 2.7M HBD was paid out to DHF workers in 2023.

Note on the special @hbdstabilizer. I have excluded this account from the here, since it is dominant on the top, but since technically it’s not keeping those funds, it is excluded from the list.

Top HBD Interest Earners

Here is the chart.

The @lazy-panda is on the top here with 200k HBD interest earned in 2023, followed by @newsflash with 90k HBD and @alpha.

Top Earners Cumulative

From the data above we can compile the payout for a single ranking on overall top earners on the Hive blockchain in 2023.

Here is the chart.

Note: These are not totally accurate numbers because there is a conversion on HBD to HIVE implemented, and VESTS to HIVE, for simplification.

I have separated the different earnings for the top accounts accordingly.

The @valueplan account is on the top for 2023 with 3M HIVE equivalent earner, followed by @appreciator with close to 1M. @blocktrades is in the third spot for the year, followed by @alpha.

In the top earners for 2023 most of the accounts are DHF workers and curation accounts on the top, with some HBD interest accounts as well.

All the best
@dalz

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P.S. Most of the Hivers want to check the author rewards so here is a longer table with the top 100.

Rank	Author	Total	Author rewards	Beneficiaries
1	hbdstabilizer	2,673,560	0	2,673,560
2	reward.app	118,465	0	118,465
3	poshtoken	65,454	44,925	20,529
4	spk.beneficiary	57,462	0	57,462
5	oflyhigh	31,206	31,206	0
6	erikah	29,766	23,694	6,072
7	tarazkp	28,805	28,802	4
8	taskmaster4450le	27,976	9,106	18,870
9	edicted	24,634	24,634	0
10	cryptoandcoffee	23,763	22,143	1,620
11	null	23,307	0	23,307
12	pinmapple	21,185	21,179	7
13	galenkp	21,015	21,006	9
14	alokkumar121	20,717	19,328	1,389
15	kkarenmp	19,589	19,589	0
16	taskmaster4450	19,533	17,420	2,114
17	tattoodjay	19,477	19,472	6
18	deanliu	19,187	19,187	0
19	mcsamm	18,865	18,766	99
20	bozz	17,402	17,275	128
21	teamukraine	17,157	17,098	59
22	ybanezkim26	16,533	3,538	12,994
23	acesontop	16,294	13,440	2,854
24	trumpman	16,094	15,996	98
25	mipiano	15,557	12,249	3,308
26	slobberchops	15,534	15,532	2
27	macchiata	15,007	7,430	7,578
28	castleberry	14,462	1,027	13,435
29	josediccus	14,185	14,184	1
30	mango-juice	13,927	13,626	301
31	underlock	13,912	13,892	20
32	elizabeths14	13,858	10,029	3,829
33	riverflows	13,855	13,651	204
34	alexa.art	13,680	13,680	0
35	leofinance	13,577	6,495	7,082
36	libertycrypto27	13,500	13,476	24
37	khaleelkazi	13,441	13,161	279
38	dalz	13,211	11,111	2,099
39	incublus	13,017	8,476	4,541
40	steemychicken1	12,972	10,140	2,833
41	sps.dao	12,923	167	12,757
42	revisesociology	12,752	12,751	1
43	papilloncharity	12,735	12,507	228
44	eddiespino	12,720	9,662	3,058
45	jongolson	12,608	12,607	0
46	belug	12,595	12,559	36
47	acidyo	12,545	12,148	397
48	anggreklestari	12,501	9,118	3,383
49	namiks	12,434	5,992	6,442
50	anomadsoul	11,908	11,023	886
51	bitcoinflood	11,738	11,693	44
52	collinz	11,673	11,591	82
53	josehany	11,651	11,651	0
54	anttn	11,572	11,479	94
55	daltono	11,312	11,311	1
56	lauramica	11,206	9,422	1,784
57	claudio83	10,834	10,834	0
58	irenenavarroart	10,754	10,667	88
59	fermionico	10,681	10,190	490
60	derangedvisions	10,679	10,128	551
61	geekgirl	10,601	10,592	9
62	burlarj	10,572	10,406	166
63	hive.fund	10,524	0	10,524
64	yolimarag	10,357	8,993	1,365
65	silversaver888	10,308	9,718	590
66	bala41288	10,234	10,233	0
67	lordbutterfly	10,155	10,138	17
68	merit.ahama	10,095	8,888	1,207
69	michupa	10,086	10,084	2
70	gungunkrishu	10,082	10,069	13
71	daveks	10,025	10,024	1
72	justinparke	9,990	8,092	1,898
73	lucianav	9,956	9,947	9
74	nomnomnomnom	9,678	0	9,678
75	nomnomnoodle	9,647	9,647	1
76	ifarmgirl	9,578	9,408	170
77	reeta0119	9,557	9,370	187
78	lunaticanto	9,436	9,092	344
79	mrspointm	9,375	8,860	515
80	rivalhw	9,344	9,344	0
81	nainaztengra	9,217	9,215	2
82	livinguktaiwan	9,176	8,881	294
83	zullyscott	9,162	8,670	492
84	borjan	9,105	9,082	22
85	bhattg	9,079	8,695	384
86	technicalside	8,928	8,901	28
87	lightcaptured	8,918	8,710	208
88	baibuaza	8,761	8,761	0
89	grindle	8,679	8,674	6
90	ganjafarmer	8,674	8,670	3
91	mypathtofire	8,635	8,504	131
92	nathyortiz	8,594	8,537	58
93	dojeda	8,572	8,572	0
94	kryptodenno	8,551	8,551	0
95	dbooster	8,394	7,882	512
96	rtonline	8,358	8,355	3
97	gooddream	8,320	7,934	386
98	marnaza	8,239	8,239	0
99	jane1289	8,163	8,141	23
100	phortun	8,057	8,035	21