Just for fun: Writing python code with ChatGPT to get a Steem account's current voting power

This morning I wanted to see if ChatGPT could tell us how to get an account's voting power on the Steem blockchain. It's an interesting conversation, so I thought I'd publish it.

Basically, what you need to do is get the account's current voting power - as reflected by the blockchain, and then adjust it at a rate of 20% per day by the amount of time that has passed since the account's last vote. Here is the conversation:

Q1. Write python code to get an account's voting power in the steem blockchain

A1

Commentary

This is a good start, but it doesn't make adjustments for regeneration after the most recent vote. On to question 2.

Q2. Write python code to get the last time and date that a steem account voted

A2

Commentary

Obviously, this doesn't solve the problem, but I just wanted to see if ChatGPT could answer the easy question before complicating it. (note that the answer is backwards here, it looks at an older vote, not the most recent... We'll come back to this point later.)

Q3. Write python code to calculate voting power regeneration at a rate of 20% per day from the last time a Steem account voted until now.

A3

Commentary

Making it slightly more complicated here, but we haven't put the pieces together yet. (Another "to-do" here is that it's calculating regeneration in terms of full days, not fractions of days.)

Q4. Write python code to get a Steem account's voting power and adjust it by 20% per day from the time of the last vote until now.

A4 (screen is getting tight, so I'm removing the additional commentary from here on - code only)

Commentary

Now we're getting there. This looked plausible - at first, but it needed refinement because it's got the dates sorted backwards and it's not looking at fractions of days.

Q5. get_account_history returns in chronological order, not reverse chronological order. Rewrite that code to use the last vote instead of the first.

A4. (code only, again)

Commentary

That was easy. I didn't really expect ChatGPT to understand the prompt, but I was wrong.

Q6. Rewrite that code to use seconds since last vote instead of days since last vote.

A6 (code only)

Commentary

And now we've got it regenerating in seconds, instead of days. This code is not fully tested, but it looks plausible. It seems like we got to the right answer in six questions (assuming that there's a vote in the last 101 transactions). Here's the same code in textual format.

import steem
import datetime

# Connect to the Steem blockchain
steem_client = steem.Steem()

# Get the account's voting power
account_name = '<YOUR ACCOUNT NAME HERE>'
account = steem_client.get_accounts([account_name])[0]
voting_power = account['voting_power']

# Get the account's history
history = steem_client.get_account_history(account_name, -1, 100)

# Find the last vote in the history
last_vote_time = None
for entry in history:
    if entry[1]['op'][0] == 'vote':
        last_vote_time = entry[1]['timestamp']

if last_vote_time is None:
    print(f'{account_name} has never voted')
else:
    # Convert the timestamp to a datetime object
    last_vote_datetime = datetime.datetime.strptime(last_vote_time, '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S')

    # Calculate the number of seconds that have passed since the last vote
    current_time = datetime.datetime.utcnow()
    seconds_since_last_vote = (current_time - last_vote_datetime).total_seconds()

    # Adjust the voting power by the number of seconds that have passed since the last vote
    # (assuming a regeneration rate of 20% per day)
    adjusted_voting_power = voting_power + (seconds_since_last_vote / 86400) * 20

    print(f'{account_name} has an adjusted voting power of {adjusted_voting_power}')

---

Visit the /promoted page and #burnsteem25 to support the inflation-fighters who are helping to enable decentralized regulation of Steem token supply growth.