Community tracking tool Hive.one has updated its algorithm to better reflect the biggest Bitcoin, and Ethereum, influencers on Twitter, it said in a post last week.
Today we launched a new version of our algorithm (v 2.0).
It is the biggest change to the algorithm yet. We believe that the new scores better reflect reality.
If you’ve spent a while searching "#bitcoin" or "#ethereum" on Twitter, the vastness of the social space and the seemingly infinite number of self-proclaimed “experts” may have dazzled you. But Hive.one aims to solve just that, by building out social ‘clusters’ and allotting trust metrics to popular users (who are followed by members of that cluster) for helping newcomers and veterans alike to better navigate the social space and know who to trust.
Hive.one calculates the influence scores using a Twitter account’s total “following.” This is similar to how search engine giant Google builds out its own word clusters, giving users faster and more accurate search results.
“The more influential your new follower is and the fewer other accounts it follows, the bigger the boost to your score,” Hive.one explained in a post.
A new, interactive map created by Blockchaincenter.net is taking a look at cryptocurrency search interest by country of 10 of the most popular cryptocurrencies—Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, IOTA, Monero, Tron, Dogecoin, and Cardano—with data sourced from Google Trends.
According to the data, by far the most searched for coin in all countries is Bitcoin, with a dominance of 80.8%. Ethereum falls far behind in second place, at 13.7%.
And the country where Bitcoin most domina...
The Hive.one system is now refined even further. The algorithm update last week—its ‘biggest’ one yet—builds on the various shortcomings of the previous versions, such as decreased accuracy and the use of manual intervention, and updates social clusters much faster than before.
The newer version of Hive.one can also quickly add a prominent individual who speaks about Bitcoin and allocate a trust score to them. This wasn't present in the previous version, which, for example, took several weeks to add enterprise software firm MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor, who holds nearly $800 worth of the asset across his company and personal accounts—and has become a true Bitcoin shaman.
#Bitcoin is a swarm of cyber hornets serving the goddess of wisdom, feeding on the fire of truth, exponentially growing ever smarter, faster, and stronger behind a wall of encrypted energy.
So which accounts take the cake for being the most trust, followed, and accurate? On the Bitcoin side, there’s Bitcoin technology firm Blockstream founder Adam Back, engineer Pieter Wuille, and developer Pierre Rochard (who caused the SupplyGate controversy earlier this year) as the top three.
Over the weekend, a mob of unruly Bitcoin Maximalists took to Twitter to assail Mike Dudas, the CEO of cryptocurrency trade publication The Block. Dudas had been singled out for his loose association with Twitter agitator Joshua Davis, a prolific “shitposter” and serial collector of galaxy-brained Maximalist inanities who had unfavorably compared a prominent Bitcoiner, Pierre Rochard, to an infant with “fetal alcohol syndrome.”
Obviously angered, Rochard tweeted: “Vile, disgusting people like Jo...
Some accounts have risen the ranks quite literally. For Bitcoin, the ranking of a pseudonymous profile called “Psychedelic Bart” has jumped 175 places to 102 (even above Monero maintainer Ricardo Spagni). On the other hand, lesser-known Ethereum developers Paul Hauner (now 61st) and Jacek Sieka (now 99th) have jumped 250 and 354 places respectively from their earlier rankings.
Meanwhile, Hive.one suggests to not take the rankings as a final word. “We do NOT tell you who to listen to and what to trust. Instead, we map various groups and show you who are their members, who they pay attention to and what information they consider credible” the firm cautions. So best to take with a pinch of salt then.
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