I saw an article pointing to the fact that here is a lot of alt volume happening in the Asian space right now. That likely has a lot to do with the STEEM price. I know they were doing some high volume TRON trading too.

Steem benefits from from activity. I think it’s more likely to also be impacted by pump and dumps consider the content is pretty lack luster. There are a few accounts farming massive amounts of steem. Hive struggles with name recognition and traffic. It feels like there is a pretty solid core group of us active users. We just need to drive more traffic like you stated.

The other chain will likely get more numbers always ... China has about the same population as U.S., Canada, and all of Europe COMBINED to work with, and Justin Sun and his supporters in high places in China are not about to lose face with those kinds of resources to pull from. But this is no competition: we easily excel in quality.

The price of Hive is actually more than the price of Steem it right now
I checked a few minutes ago

Steem and it's manipulated pumps, lol.

The problem we have with steem is that for everything published there before the fork still has priority in searches. If I search for an old post of mine the steemit version comes up. Very annoying

Una pregunta? en que beneficia a leofinance que haya cambiado el nombre..

That's right, the price went up a lot but it was only for a short time as it went up a bit, people started selling it and the price went back up to where it was once again.

That barcamp event sounds pretty cool man, and I'm contemplating going to it. I can get a ticket to London for 29 Euro, and I think it would be a cool weekend to hang out. Plus, I have a place to stay in London, so could be double. Are many other Hivers going to it? I'd love a chance to meet some people irl

If you run into any issues with the aiohivebot lib, or are missing things not (high) on my priorities list, please let me know. I noticed you work in jupyter notebook. I use jupyter a lot for data engineering and asyncio a lot for stuff that needs to be runnng 24/7, but never the combination of the two. I know it should (now) be possible, but I've never tried. If you run into any issues using the lib from jupyter, create an issue and I'll look into it asap.

Unrelated, regarding your bot, did you consider using fuzzywuzzy? I think it might be of use:

from fuzzywuzzy import fuzz

samples = ['proofofbrian', 'profofbrain', 'profofbrian', 'prooffbrain',
           'poofofbrain', 'proofofbran', 'roofofbrain', 'proofofbain',
           'prooofofbrain', 'proofofbrin', 'proofoofbrain', 'proofofbrai',
           'prufofbrain', 'proofofbrane', 'proofofrain']
distances = {x: fuzz.ratio(x, "proofofbrain") for x in samples}
print(json.dumps(distances, indent=2))

{
  "proofofbrian": 92,
  "profofbrain": 96,
  "profofbrian": 87,
  "prooffbrain": 96,
  "poofofbrain": 96,
  "proofofbran": 96,
  "roofofbrain": 96,
  "proofofbain": 96,
  "prooofofbrain": 96,
  "proofofbrin": 96,
  "proofoofbrain": 96,
  "proofofbrai": 96,
  "prufofbrain": 87,
  "proofofbrane": 92,
  "proofofrain": 96
}

A little aiohivebot script.

import asyncio
import json
from fuzzywuzzy import fuzz
from aiohivebot import BaseBot

class ProofOfBrainBot(BaseBot):
    """Example of an aiohivebot python bot without real utility"""
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()

    async def comment_operation(self, body, timestamp):
        if "author" in body and "json_metadata" in body:
           author = body["author"]
           try:
               meta = json.loads(body["json_metadata"])
           except Exception:
               meta = {}
           if "tags" in meta:
               for tag in meta["tags"]:
                   ratio = fuzz.ratio(tag, "proofofbrain")
                   if ratio > 40 and tag != "proofofbrain":
                       print(timestamp, author, "used tag", tag, "ratio is", ratio)


mybot = ProofOfBrainBot()
loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
loop.run_until_complete(mybot.run())

If you let it run for a day or so, maybe change it to write to a file and flush, you should get an idea of a decent ratio and if fuzzywuzzy is good enough to add to your bot.

I already saw 40 is way too low (it catches photography m orientation (43), and onboarding (45) and verifyyourbrain (59).

Here is 10 minutes of running the script:

2023-11-12 12:44:36 maulia12 used tag photography ratio is 43
2023-11-12 12:44:51 palomap3 used tag orientation ratio is 43
2023-11-12 12:44:51 palomap3 used tag onboarding ratio is 45
2023-11-12 12:47:18 furkanmamplam used tag photography ratio is 43
2023-11-12 12:47:27 naymhapz used tag orientation ratio is 43
2023-11-12 12:47:27 naymhapz used tag onboarding ratio is 45
2023-11-12 12:48:57 papilloncharity used tag verifyyourbrain ratio is 59
2023-11-12 12:49:09 usdt.p2p used tag photography ratio is 43
2023-11-12 12:49:48 gorayii used tag photography ratio is 43
2023-11-12 12:50:06 hiveredcarpet used tag fashion ratio is 42
2023-11-12 12:51:30 dsc-r2cornell used tag photography ratio is 43
2023-11-12 12:51:39 fizz0 used tag photography ratio is 43
2023-11-12 12:51:39 dsc-r2cornell used tag photography ratio is 43
2023-11-12 12:51:54 rafzat used tag cooking ratio is 42
2023-11-12 12:51:54 rafzat used tag photography ratio is 43
2023-11-12 12:51:57 palomap3 used tag photography ratio is 43
2023-11-12 12:52:39 yubaibai6 used tag photography ratio is 43
2023-11-12 12:52:39 teamukraine used tag ukraine ratio is 42
2023-11-12 12:53:54 manuvert used tag photography ratio is 43
2023-11-12 12:54:12 jrobe used tag personallife ratio is 42
2023-11-12 12:54:12 tarpanpaul used tag proposal ratio is 50
2023-11-12 12:54:18 roninrelax used tag photography ratio is 43
2023-11-12 12:54:27 rafzat used tag drawing ratio is 42
2023-11-12 12:54:27 rafzat used tag photography ratio is 43
2023-11-12 12:54:27 rafzat used tag pendrawing ratio is 45
2023-11-12 12:55:03 tarpanpaul used tag proposal ratio is 50