My analysis of all MOON transactions

TLDR: I analyzed MOON transaction data and made a visual of all MOON transactions that you can play around with. Made possible by https://ccmoons.com/

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Here is an unprocessed chart of all MOON transactions plotted logarithmically.

Moon transactions over time by amount

Let’s clean it up a bit. We will ignore any transactions less than 0.01 MOON and change the opacity of markers to 15% for visibility.

Moon transactions over time by amount, some outliers removed

Okay cool. Now we can see:

• the various MOON distribution events spaced about a month apart
• the reddit testnet transition at the end of July
• the disproportionate number of transactions of exactly 1000 MOON (premium membership?)

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Let’s make some assumptions and dig deeper into transaction types. Let’s create a label [TransactionType] as follows…

• “Mint” = where MOONs leave 0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
• “Burn” = where MOONs go to 0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
• “from Exchange” = where MOONs leave celesti.trade, MoonSwap, or the xDaiBridge
• “to Exchange” = where MOONs go to celesti.trade, MoonSwap, or the xDaiBridge
• “Tip” = where MOONs are transferred in an integer amount to an address listed in the distribution csv files
• “Transfer” = where MOONs are transferred to wallets without an associated username or in non-integer amounts

Note that this definition of “Tip” differs from that used by CCmoons.com

I want to be able to distinguish moderator transactions so let’s also create [SenderType] and [RecieverType] where:

• “Distribution Account” = u/TheMoonDistributor
• “Moderator” = any other moderator
• “Exchange” = celesti.trade, MoonSwap, or the xDaiBridge
• “User” = any wallet with an associated username
• “Other” = everything else

Finally, I am going to adjust the axis label a bit and exclude transactions over 1 million MOON since these are mostly associated with the reddit.testnet transition.

MOON transactions amounts by type, over time

Here is that same data but drilled down by [TransactionType]:

MOON transactions amounts by type, over time

Some takeaways:

• 1,001 addresses have received MOONs from an exchange
• 1,956 addresses have sent MOONs to an exchange
• 719 reddit users have received MOONs from an exchange
• 1,069 reddit users have sent MOONs to an exchange
• 4 Moderators have received MOONs from an exchange
• 5 Moderators have sent MOONs to an exchange
• MOON exchange transfers picked up significantly in May
• 1,380 distinct reddit users have been tipped by Moderators

I personally am curious about moderator behavior, so here are transactions by moderator:

Moderator MOON transactions

Count of moderator transactions by transaction type

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Sum of MOONs transferred by transaction type and moderator

Drilling down on tips, and distinguishing each tip recipient:

Sum of Moderator MOON tips

Some takeaways:

• LargeSnorlax, and jwinterm are the only moderators still paying for 1000 MOON premium membership
• LargeSnorlax’s tips are usually made in bursts.
• jwinterm, nanooverbtc, or mcgillby tips appear more randomly spaced in time.
• shtslaughterTV has given huge ‘tips’ but only to mellon98 (contest winner? Alt account?)
• shimmyjimmy97 has given huge ‘tips’ but mostly just to Xenc (contest winner? Alt account?)

Here are some other charts I made….

All Tips (across all users) by day of the week (count and total):

Transaction count and sum of MOON transferred by day of the week (all users)

Count of transactions over time:

Count of transactions over time

Transactions over time by transaction type

Thanks to ominous_anenome for making the data available.