The trend continued this month with overall participation in the DAO less than the previous months. In the days leading up to the close of voting there were over 100 masternodes liquidated on various exchanges due to fear/capitulation selling and a massive margin call (liquidation) on the SALT platform which vaporised the Lion's share of the nodes, so of course their votes were erased from the system. Also, this month a new whale surfaced from the depths and decided to start voting with a whopping 194 nodes! During the course of the month he ended up voting with a hoard tallying 144 nodes. The difference of the nodes is 194 - 144 = 50 which are still running as masternodes, but voting in smaller groups. Luckily MNOwatch caught a glimpse of this magnificent creature on that day it surfaced in all its glory and we've able able to track its every move.
This is the first known sighting of this DASH Blue Whale
https://mnowatch.org/the_results_dashd_2019-11-17-00-52-50.html click on the VOTEHASH field and wait awhile for your browser to sort it and then search on this hash
94076565942430240210176243152973138582941065035 to reveal 194 matches. Then in another tab open the voting results at the time of the voting cut-off
https://mnowatch.org/the_results_dashd_2019-11-27-15-05-59.html and double click on the VOTEHASH column to sort it and this time search on the hash
571863126543619144053251637839553368573743327346 and notice the tally is only 144 votes. This hoard appears to be missing 50 nodes, where did they go? Go back to the first tab and search on this collateral
f44b0562ba7ab235419898dcddce8a7d4ee44f08d391acbd92a663efdfc167de then copy the corresponding VOTEHASH for this node and search on it in the same page to reveal 44 nodes that voted the same way, thus our blue whale broke off 44 nodes from the set of 194. I am still looking for the other 6 (144 + 44 + 6 = 194).
If we compare the voting of the 144 group and the 44 group we find. Neither group cast any ABSTAIN votes, nor any NO votes.
The 144 node group voted like so:
dash-core-group-premises dash-core-team-compensation-december---f dash-developer-program dashmallandparkingcontinuedgrowth dash-nexus-accelerated-development
and the 44 node group voted like so:
dash-core-team-compensation-december---f dash-developer-program dashmallandparkingcontinuedgrowth dash-nexus-accelerated-development dash-nexus-ongoing-development-sep-dec-2
Both groups voted for:
dash-core-team-compensation-december---f
dash-developer-program
dashmallandparkingcontinuedgrowth
dash-nexus-accelerated-development
The 144 group voted additionally for:
The 44 group voted additionally for:
dash-nexus-ongoing-development-sep-dec-2
In the first sighting the 194 group voted like so,
dash-core-team-compensation-december---f dash-developer-program dashmallandparkingcontinuedgrowth dash-nexus-accelerated-development
Which is all the votes both clusters have in common, thus 144 + 44 = the same blue whale. If you find the remaining 6, please let us know!
Summary of the changes over the last few months.
Code:
Number of Masternodes
1 1-5 >=50 Not Voted Uniquely Voted
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[2019]
November 201 304 3 3241 364
October 215 320 4 3329 381
September 248 358 5 3230 419
August 249 354 6 3241 414
July 230 349 5 3186 411
June 186 299 5 3219 362
May 146 248 4 3532 305
April* 121 209 4 3562 265
March 206 348 6 2765 434
February 193 326 8 2902 410
January 205 346 7 2832 429
[2018]
December 176 301 7 2983 384
November 166 269 6 3005 380
October 157 284 5 2994 371
September 183 306 6 2818 391
August 196 332 5 2631 442
July 248 398 6 2525 483
June 304 499 4 2456 576
May 345 506 5 2475 584
April 291 462 5 2378 553
* In April of 2019 the network hard forks to deterministic masternode lists and as consequence all previous votes were removed. It took a couple of months after this cycle to build up the votes particularly for multi-month proposals.
The data used to generate this data is available here
https://mnowatch.org/distr_2019-11-27-15-05-59.txt
