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Update: 2018/05/09
The tables below are updated to include the most recent transactions, while the graphs and numbers are kept as the original post.
Link to tables
Merit raw data is now available:
By using the data, I created a histogram of the distribution of the number of users who sent 1-50 sMerits:
https://i.imgur.com/tliiyaH
https://i.imgur.com/kLJYU5e
Clearly, 1 Merit is the most popular choice, but it is interesting to see that the histogram is not monotonically decreasing.
Top 10 amounts of sent merits are as follows:
On the other hand, no one sent 37, 46, 47 Merits, two of which are prime numbers, presumably implying that people un/consciously do not like big prime numbers and prefer good cut-off point.
In total 85524 sMerits have been sent.
This number is much larger than 11975 sMerits, which are currently created by 57 merit sources per month.
The sMerits created by 57 merit sources are not sufficient and most of used sMerits were initially assigned ones.
This fact suggests that we need more merit sources and/or more sMerits per source.
We see that there is a peak at the upper limit of 50 Merit, some of which may be abuse of merit.
For those who want to check them, I created a clickable table of all transactions more than 40 sMerits.
Update: 2018/05/09
50 Merit transactions
The tables below are updated to include the most recent transactions, while the graphs and numbers are kept as the original post.
Link to tables
- 50 Merit transactions
- 50 Merit transactions (continued)
- 49 Merit
- 48 Merit
- 46 Merit
- 45 Merit
- 44 Merit
- 43 Merit
- 42 Merit
- 41 Merit
- 40 Merit
Merit raw data is now available:
Here you go: https://bitcointalk.org/merit.txt.xz
Similar to trust.txt.xz, it'll be updated weekly. It will show only the last 120 days of data; someone else should archive the old ones if you want them.
I am especially interested in analyses of this data which could point to sub-communities where the initial sMerit is exhausted and new sources are necessary, and people who might be good merit sources.
Edit: Note that for a little while I had user_to and user_from as names, but I decided to change it to IDs.
Similar to trust.txt.xz, it'll be updated weekly. It will show only the last 120 days of data; someone else should archive the old ones if you want them.
I am especially interested in analyses of this data which could point to sub-communities where the initial sMerit is exhausted and new sources are necessary, and people who might be good merit sources.
Edit: Note that for a little while I had user_to and user_from as names, but I decided to change it to IDs.
By using the data, I created a histogram of the distribution of the number of users who sent 1-50 sMerits:
https://i.imgur.com/tliiyaH
https://i.imgur.com/kLJYU5e
Clearly, 1 Merit is the most popular choice, but it is interesting to see that the histogram is not monotonically decreasing.
Top 10 amounts of sent merits are as follows:
| Amount | # of Users |
| 1 | 26035 |
| 2 | 4939 |
| 5 | 2156 |
| 3 | 1485 |
| 10 | 866 |
| 4 | 750 |
| 6 | 245 |
| 20 | 216 |
| 7 | 138 |
| 50 | 102 |
On the other hand, no one sent 37, 46, 47 Merits, two of which are prime numbers, presumably implying that people un/consciously do not like big prime numbers and prefer good cut-off point.
In total 85524 sMerits have been sent.
This number is much larger than 11975 sMerits, which are currently created by 57 merit sources per month.
The sMerits created by 57 merit sources are not sufficient and most of used sMerits were initially assigned ones.
This fact suggests that we need more merit sources and/or more sMerits per source.
We see that there is a peak at the upper limit of 50 Merit, some of which may be abuse of merit.
For those who want to check them, I created a clickable table of all transactions more than 40 sMerits.
Update: 2018/05/09
50 Merit transactions